Turn On/Off Windows Features programmatically in Vista using .Net Can I turn on/off Windows Features like Windows Fax and Scan programmatically using VB.Net? I want to enable Windows Fax and Scan feature thru unattended installation.
View 5 RepliesI using vs2008/vb. I want to provide my users with the ability view files in a specified directory and allow them to drag-drop to e-mail. I don't want to allow them to delete files in the directory or to even change directories. Is there a way to restrict the filedialog boxes to not allow deletes and directory changes?
View 3 Replieshow to Programmatically use the " Photo Print Wizard" to print sets of pictures and set properties like picture style, printer name, number of copies, etc, without displaying the " Photo Print Wizard" interface
Dim dialog As Object = CreateObject("WIA.CommonDialog")
Dim docnam As String = ""
Dim i As Integer = 0[code]....
what the above code block does is to open the " Photo Print Wizard" with the list of all the selected pictures......., but I can't set the " Photo Print Wizard" properties "Programmatically
How to Programmatically use the " Photo Print Wizard" to print sets of pictures and set properties like picture style, printer name, number of copies, etc, without displaying the " Photo Print Wizard" interface[code]..
View 1 RepliesIm using the Windows Media Player OCX in a program runned on hundreds of computers (dedicated).I have found out that when video acceleration is turned on to "full", on some computers it will cause the video to fail to play correct, with green squares between movies and so on. Turn the acceleration to "None" and everything is fine. This program is runned on ~800 computers that will autoupdate my program. So I want to add to the startup to my program that it turns off the video acceleration.
how do I turn off video Acceleration Programatically?All computers are running XP and at least the second service pack.It would take me ages to manually logg in to all those computers and change that setting so thats why I want the program to be able to do it automagically for me.
1st. I want to programatically turn on/off the backlight on my laptop. I believe it can be done with the user32.dll, but I can't find the exact code.
2nd I want to programatically turn on/off my WiFi adaptor, just to interupt my internet connection for a few seconds.
I need connect remote registry in xp to vista system in vb.net code.
View 2 RepliesCould anyone provide me with sample code for using a WAV file as the input to the Windows speech recognition software on my machine (Windows Vista)?
View 3 RepliesHow can I change the background of my form to look like that of Windows Mobility Center in Windows Vista?
View 2 Replieswill an program built on windows 7 using vs 2008 or 2005 have the compatibility with windows xp or vista
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View 2 Repliesi have created some shareware applications. I implemented the following mechanism for piracy protection. Before Windows Vista and Windows 7 i did write a dll file to the System32 folder with an encrypted license key. Also in the Registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE i inserted a registry key.
The problem is that with Windows Vista and Windows 7 due to the User Account Control (UAC) this is denied.
I want to ask : what other mechanism can be implemented ? Where should i store the encrypted key file and the registry key.
I want that the application can be installed for all users of a computer only once.
If i stored the key in the user's application data directory then another user could easily just install it under another user account. Also i do not want to put the key file in the application directory because that would be too obvious.
note that i create the registry key with my application and not with the installer.
I'm trying to make a quick app that changes a few settings on PC which I need to be able to run a piece of software and I want these services on when I'm not using it.I've managed to get the Windows Services I need to act as I want but can't find a way of programmatically turning off Windows Network Discovery.
View 1 RepliesI'm printing pdf files via the below code in a service. In Windows 7 this works really well, In Windows Vista, nothing happens at all? What am I doing wrong?
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My current code: Server: Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Threading
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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:
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 have a program that works in Windows XP Pro, Visual Basic 2005 and Excel 2007 that does not work in Windows Vista, Visual Basic 2005 and Excel 2007.The program takes Excel data from an already opened Workbook on the desktop and moves it to the Visual Basic program.The error occurs when I try to open the Excel Application in Visual Basic:[code]Is there a different code to define an Application in Vista?The "Open" Application will not work on a Excel App already on the desktop.
View 1 RepliesI am programming in Windows Mobile SDK 6 using Visual Basic, i would like to know how to make a button open the smartphone browser with a specific website path (make a link)
I got to the next piece of code so far:
Public Class GuitarHelperPage
Public link As New WebBrowser
Public adress As Uri
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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I Trying to make my own fast steam client but I wonder how I turn of the windows style so it looks like the real steam window
View 7 Repliesi 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've been whining for several months about the way Windows 7 prevents application exceptions from actually occurring, and arbitrarily assigns "compatibility settings" without actually detailing what those settings are, even during Visual Studio Debugging operations. Am I just completely ignorant to some setting I can toggle to turn all that garbage off and make Win7 act like an operating system that wasn't designed for a 2 year old? It never hurts to try. In a worst case scenario,
View 15 RepliesRight now I can add background music in my program by using this code
My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Music_3, AudioPlayMode.Background)
I can also turn it off and change the music by using this code
My.Computer.Audio.Stop()
My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Another_Music, AudioPlayMode.BackgroundLoop)
Is it possible to pause the music then if I resume the music it will just continue the flow? I mean if I pause the background music in 33 seconds and the music has 50 seconds and I resume it will just continue playing in 33,34,35 etc.. seconds?
I was wondering if their was a way to for me to turn off events and then turn them back on in my program or just queue them up until i am ready for them to be excuted. Kinda like how a OS turns on and off interupts. Is this one of those general programming no-nos?
View 1 RepliesCannot upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7
View 1 RepliesI have recently developed an aplication in XP that it works on XP nice but in vista or seven don't work at all. It gives a message when I try to enter the application like " The program cannot run.."
View 9 RepliesHow to check if windows being run is Vista or XP
View 1 RepliesI'm retrieving Windows XP license key with this function but it does not work for Vista and Seven. How can I get the license key at both of these Windows versions?
Public Function sGetXPKey() As String
Dim result As String = String.Empty
Dim RegKey As RegistryKey = _
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I have an application that works fine on Windows XP. However I have taken the same application and made some modifications to it to run on vista the app loads fine etc.
the problem stems from trying to change a service in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesDiagnostic Service Host
Start = 4 instead of 3 (which is what it is currently set to)
when the program tries to change it I get a dialog box with the information below. How can I makes the changes to the registry without getting these kinds of errors. I tried to get the Framework configuration tool but it talks about XP and Windows 2000 for VB.Net 2005 so I am not sure what to do... I should mention I have only been programming for a month...
Error details:
"Application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the reuired permission contact your system administrator or use the Microsoft .NET Framework configuration tool. [code]...
I created an app that connects to an SqlCe database. it runs fine on my computer (xp) but when i try to run it on other computers, it crashes (on xp machine, the error is : OS error: the OS storage system is not responding, on windows 7 the error is: Access to the database file is not allowed).
On windows 7, if i right click the exe and run as administrator, it runs fine. But, i can't expect my users to do this every time they want to run my app.