I was wondering how I would make a program identify the operating system?
--EDIT basically so that the program can access a certain part of a file system no matter what the user directory is called?
I've just developed my product, and I am wondering...How can I tell what operating systems it can run on,Obviously it works on Windows XP SP3, I assume Windows XP Home Edition will be fine also (32 BIT)
Will it work on Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Vista?
i was wondering how far back in the windows operating systems visual basic builds would run. like the exe you build at the end will it work on old windows 95 systems and would it work on other operating systems such as linux apple ect..
View 2 RepliesI have VS2010 and have targeted Framework 2.0 to work with SQL Server 2000 which works great. The problem seems to be when I go to my release folder, right mouse click on my test.exe file and click on Compatibility, then select 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' and then select Windows 2000 from the combobox. i get this error upon execution of text.exe:
The type initializer for 'WindowsApplication1.Module1' threw an exception.System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlPerformanceCounters' threw an exception. ---> System.PlatformNotSupportedException:
This operation is only supported on Windows 2000 SP3 or later operating systems.
I am facing an interesting problem: I compile an exe file on my computer with XP pack3. And then I gave it to several people. One people told me my application works well on her vista machine but cannot run on her XP machine. Another person told me my application does not work on her Win7.
View 3 RepliesI am working on a simple card game. I have done several in the past, but always by creating card images in a picturebox. I would like to call up the cards within the VISTA operating system. I get the following error:Unable to load DLL 'cards.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
I have made the following declarations:
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private w As Integer = 0
Private h As Integer = 0
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I am using VB EXPRESS 2008, (for the first time). As I recall, I did not have this problem in VB EXPRESS 2005.
Our product is built in vb6.0 and we support the localization. Recently we gave support for Japanese language. We have used the font MS UIGothic for Japanese. Font looks good on XP systems but it does not look proper on Windows 7 and Vista. There is difference in font version on XP and Vista/Windows 7. Is there any difference in typeface of the font on Vista and XP.
View 2 RepliesI have made an application that shared a folder for "everyone" on windows XP. I tried to run this application on a Vista PC, but when it tries to share , it fails. What's the different in sharing folder from vista to XP ? How i can fix my application for vista ?
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i compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
View 1 RepliesI develop applications in Visual Basic.NET (Visual Studio 2005) for a long time on Windows Vista without problem.
Now, I'm changing my laptop, and the new has installed the Windows 7. So, I reinstalled VS 2005, taking care to install the Vista compatibility. Thus, the version of my current VS 2005 is 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600) SP2. And that is my problem.
When I ran the application in debug mode (F5) on Windows Vista, a windows appeared whenever there was an error, like below:
Now, on Windows 7, the application just shows a exception message in the Immediate Windows, don't showing any error window, continuing the application execution, as below:
I develop applications in Visual Basic.NET (Visual Studio 2005) for a long time on Windows Vista without problem.Now, I'm changing my laptop, and the new has installed the Windows 7. So, I reinstalled VS 2005, taking care to install the Vista compatibility. Thus, the version of my current VS 2005 is 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600) SP2. And that is my problem.When I ran the application in debug mode (F5) on Windows Vista, a windows appeared whenever there was an error, like below: Now, on Windows 7, the application just shows a exception message in the Immediate Windows, don't showing any error window, continuing the application execution, as below [code]
View 2 RepliesI am been working on an a small app that has a Forms.Webbrowser control that navigates to a Adobe Flash program. I have developed the app on Vista 32bit platform and have had no problems. I have sent the app to a couple of people to test out and one is using Vista 64bit and is running into a problem. I know the webbrowser control just uses the underlying base framework of IE. The problem on the 64 bit machine is when the site is navigated to it says that it needs to have Flash installed. When the user goes to Adobe's site it says they need to use a 32bit browser.
As stated on Adobe site here:[URL] the Flash player need to be in a 32 bit browser. What options do I have to be able fix this problem? Is there another control that I can use that would be the same in a 32bit platform and 64bit platform? Besides navigating to the Flash program, the browser also goes to standard web pages.
I have designed an Application tracking details and I have deployed it. The records are updating the way I need. I want the same application to be used in other three different systems which do not have MS Visual Studio. How can I do it ? Is it enough that I create a similar table in the path I have designed in the other systems and run the Application ?
View 1 Repliesthat in the IDE on 64 bit systems, that the Load Event swallows exceptions. "Any error in the Load event will cause the event to end and the Form to be shown." J Wein@MSDN
View 17 RepliesI would like to close my program based on the system time. I have stuck a timer on my form and I want to set my timer to my systems time. if the timer = "8:00" pm or timer = 20:00 hrs then END Does any one have the code on this? If I could do it without the timer as in to check the systems time = 8:00 pm or 20:00 hrs then End
View 7 RepliesI just finished my program which has a refference to mysql.data thats a dll right? When i build the application its not working on my friend's computer why?...probably cause this dll is missing. (net framework matches its not the prob) How can make it work? do i place the dll at the same location as the executable ?where do i find this dll? I dont want to publish my application just the executable and some extra files probably no need to install on another system to work.
View 14 RepliesI have an application I made and I created a Setup Project so I can install it on other systems and it almost works perfectly. It doesn't install over older versions even though I have that option set to True. So I decided to look into publishing to a website since it seems you can have the application look for new updates which is what I want since I'm still in testing and the source code is changing frequently. I found the Build -> Publish Application option but it won't upload to the site. Also, is this the right approach to accomplishing what I want?
View 4 RepliesI'm still using ye ancient 32-bit machine with ye olde XP.Currently I'm writing some code to add binary content to files, and I need to know, if the same code can be applied on 64-bit systems.For example an integer variable added to a binary file with:
BinaryStream.Write(SomeNumberDeclaredAsInteger)
can be safely loaded with
MyInteger = BinaryStream.ReadInt32
on my system, but is this also the case on 64-bit systems or should I truncate it to Int32 before writing it to file?
I am coding a reversi game for my computer programming class and I need help with something. I have a list of all the systems.drawing.graphics brushes in a Combobox and I want the user to be able to pick their color. So I have the list of colors I just need to make it so I can set the color the user picks to the brush that is for his team I guess you would say.
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A few years ago I created an application using VB6. It works fine on all OS but considering vb6 is no longer supported and it lacks lots of features, I've decided to upgrade to VB.NET. Plus I also want my software to run on all future OS correctly. I was using the ADODC control on many of my forms. In VB.NET, if I go to Tools > Choose Toolbox Items, I see ADODC under the .NET framework components tab. Can I still use this or is it outdated/no longer supported? If I use it, will my software work on 32bits and 64bits systems? [code]But in VB.NET when I write this I get the error As Any is not supported in Declare statements. How should I write this in VB.NET?
View 3 RepliesI am trying to build an IVR and hook it up to my website, what are the different (inexpensive) ways that I can do it.
View 10 RepliesHow to customize a DateTimePicker to show dates in other calendars systems ?
View 2 RepliesAssignment Overview: Background: You have been approached by Learning for Life a locally based tuition company that teaches a small amount of courses (at least four) to a minimal amount of students (five to ten students per course). They currently utilise a paper based system and are looking to implement a computer based one as it has become difficult to store all the relevant information.
They are looking to implement two various systems, one to keep track of illnesses and the other as an enrolment system, keeping track of what courses the students are actually taking part in.
System Notes:
-Each student can only attend one course at a time
-There are only 6 lecturers in total
-There is approximately four to six courses running at one time
-There is normally five to ten students on each course
-They have included a system description as to the layout of the database required for the enrolments segment
-The enrolments program must have password based security where each user has a different password
Deliverables:
2 fully functional programs (fully annotated)
Class diagram
Report with the following headings:
-Introduction
-Inheritance
-Association
-Aggregation
-Evaluation of OO in SE
-Tasks
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I have web service which updates MS access database. Im using OleDB for Updating MS Access database
View 9 RepliesI developed a Visual Basic program in VS2005 that uses SQL2005 on a 32bit system, which runs perfectly on 32bit systems using Click Once deployment, but whenever I try to load or run same program on any 64bit system, it does not load or run. What do I need to do to make the program run on 64bit systems.
View 2 Repliesactually i have to develop a project to monitor EDI/Edifact data that are send between different EPR systems.Different erp systems means also different database systems. So i have to develop an app to monitor up to 5 tables.These tables can be stored in SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or DB2. What kind of data access do i have to use ? ODBC ? ADO.NET ?? I actually don't have an idea how to handle this.In the app (i have to write) there should be something like a "DB Configuration for EDI" and there i want to configure if it is SQL, MySQL or what ever that i have to access.In the different Databases all the tables have the same name (means in SQL there is a table called Actlog and in Mysql also a table called Actlog)How can i write my app that it is DB independent ??
View 1 RepliesDim wmins = ("//192.168.1.5/root/cimv2")
objOS = New ManagementObjectSearcher(wmins, "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem ")
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I am wanting to expand my programming knowledge base and the only way I know to do that is to actually do stuff. I am wanting to write an application that performs common systems tasks from a single location. Just simple things like deleting text files, maybe displaying drive space, etc. In order to even begin to do this I have to understand more about the my.computer class in VB. Does anyone have some good info that breaks this class (and possibly related classes) down hierarchically? MSDN offers a lot of info but doesn't really give a lot in the way of explaining how certain classes are interrelated.
View 5 RepliesHow can I get the operating system type (32 or 64-bit) using VB 2008?
View 2 RepliesI would like to know how to detect if a persons operating system is Windows 7, I'm a bit new and have no idea how to do this.
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