I have an application, where i want users to be update the folder content (i.e., files or folders with in it) through a vb application rather than directly.In my scenario i will create a separate user with full permission in the particular path to do this task.
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View 2 RepliesI have a small problem that I am sure is due mostly to my inexperience with threading. I have used simple entirely self-contained threads before, but not to a great extent. I understand the basic laws that surround them, such as how a thread cannot access another thread's member directly, and must use delegates.
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how to close application root folder or sub root folder at the time when application is in running mode?
View 7 RepliesI have a dll. Instead of referencing it, I would like to be able to import its functions directly into my application. Anyone have a code to get started?
View 7 RepliesUsing OpenFiledialog I can access a file. Is there a way that I can include a specific file in the code? This would allow me to access the file directly without the selection process and the application would always use that same file.
View 14 RepliesI need to display a toolstrip directly beneath a menustrip in my application, but setting RenderMode = Professional for each does not give identical results. They both show a background gradient, but not the same one.
Is there some way to use menustrip rendering for the toolstrip, or vice versa? Or can someone advise how best to implement a gradient myself, that I can perform in a sub-classed renderer?
There's just one more issue -- if I base my custom renderer on the ToolStripProfessionalRenderer and override OnRenderToolstripBackground, I still get curved right-hand corners on my ToolStrip but not on my MenuStrip. Is there some internal logic that provides a different Region for filling by the background renderer? I've turned off (overridden with a do-nothing function) the border renderer.
Was a new project. Most questions can be answered with a little self research. Runs in the back ground; Registered key ALT-Q This was used since it does not directly interfere inside visual studio.
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My next version plans to move from using a textfile saved data to XML. Maybe Only activate(hotkey) if VS opens...
I want the user to have the option to choose between a lot of pictures in a project folder. So I made a new project folder called: Images.
And when the user presses a certain button this folder should be opened.I want to achieve this like this:
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I need my application to update as it is on multiple computers. Will the program update and work if I just replaced the files in the application startup folder with the files from the newer version's application startup folder?
View 6 RepliesUsing Office automation in Word 2007, I view the Document Information Panel, showing me properties of a document that resides in a SharePoint location. Using VS 2008, I interrogate the following in the Immediate Window:
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but I don't see a corresponding change to the screen. I do however see that, on Advanced Properties/Custom Tab that a Custom Property by the name of "Process Name" has been recorded with the value "New Value"There seems to be some kind of one way mapping going on between "server" and "custom" properties, but the really strange part is:I can update SOME server properties, others I cannot.I don't know a darn thing about SharePoint, other than as a dumb user. And getting any help from a SharePoint admin in my company is probably a very long shot...I checked all of Word's Built-in Properties and Custom Properties, I decided that none of them can be used to update the "Process Name" "server" property.How can I update this stubborn property? Most of the server properties I can update, a few I cannot.I see some articles referring to using what looks like "SharePoint objects." Do I need to download an SDK just to populate these properties? So far I've used Office automation, because I am running locally on the user's PC and pre-filling documents using the Word object model. All that is left is to finish populating the last couple of server properties after I copied the doc to a Sharepoint folder.
I would like to have App_LocalResources folder outside web application folder, so that I could deploy updated resx files and web app. independent of each other.
View 1 Repliesi have been using many dll and ocx in my vb.net application. When I run my exe from the same folder it works fine. It does not work if I remove the exe from the application folder and put in some other folder. My intension is to keep my dll and ocx in system32 folder and exe in application folder.
View 2 Replieshow should i copy a file in system32 folder from resources folder .resx file of my windows application?
View 1 Replieshow to create a uninstall command for a Windows-based application in the Application Folder when creating a new setup project in visual studio 2008.
View 4 RepliesI am trying to use Setup project. Want my setup to create a desktop shortcut with my application.I donot understand how to do it. Clicked on User's desktop, I created Shortcut to User's desktop, changed the properties Target and Working Folder as 'Application Folder'But it does not connect with MyApplication.exe When I ran the setup and tested Desktop short cut, it took me to the folder where application was installed, instead of running the application.How to make the application run using this shortcut?
View 1 Repliesi'm tying to send email in my application directly by the smtp server but the server doesn't allow me to do that.The application its used by everyone in the company, so i set the smtp client UseDefaultCredentials to True, but the server replies with this when i try to send an email:[code].....If i set the credentials by hand, the server sends the email. So my problem is how to make this work to everyone? I don't want to have one public/friend var all time in the application with the credentials of the current user?
View 9 RepliesI published an application and copied the Application Files Folder ,setup.exe and .application file to a network folder for others to install on their machines. What causes this message to appear. Should'nt the new version over write any previously installed version on a machine. Although in this case no other version has been installed. You cannot start application...from this location because it is installed from a different location
View 1 Repliesi have published my website...its a dynamic site..so i have database connectivity..now i want to make an application in VB to update my database using my application..i mean i do not want to login to the site and update my database rather update it using my application..i want to connect my application to the database of the published site and update it from anywhere i want using the application...is it possible??
How can i do it??Please point me to the right direction...its urgent.
've written a desktop application in VB.net which gets data from numerous serial devices and graphs it in a windows form. What I'd like to do enable remote users to view this data remotely from a web browser.
So, is it possible to add a webpage to a desktop application which could be dynamically updated from from my windows app or do I have to rewrite the entire application in asp, flex or silverlight so it can be viewed remotely via a web browser?I'm not familiar with asp flex or silverlight and have only developed desktop apps using vb.net 2010 on win7 and XP.
I have a windows Forms app that displays data as it scans.Once you alt-tab or remove "focus" from the app and doing something else (open word) it stops updating. In otherwords it looks like the app has locked up.But it will finish the scanning as normal.But any updates from the scans being shown on the app window are not shown, that is until the app is finished and catches up.
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i was playing around with the visual basic 2008's project settings. I have 2 goals in mind
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Now I have my application and an installer project, which can install my application. how to make my application auto-update (from my web server) like a smart client. I've looked into ClickOnce, but it does not appear to be suitable as I cannot do any custom installation steps. My application needs to create folders and copy other files from the CD to the hard drive, which I don't believe ClickOnce supports. On the other hand, the Windows Installer does not natively support any sort of auto-updating. So what do I do?
I have read that it is possible to combine both technologies, but all my research into this has turned up nothing of use.
I've looked into the Updater Application Block (Version 2.0), but I'm not sure if this is what I'm looking for? I'm using Visual Basic 2005 and I'm not sure if the Updater Application Block supports .NET v2.0. In fact, when I tried to install the Enterprise Library, it said I need .NET v1.1??? Even if this is a possible path, I'm really quite lost when reading through the documentation as nothing seems to point towards practical examples, especially in Visual Basic.
I've also had a look at the System.Deployment.ApplicationDeployment class, but it seems as though this only works with ClickOnce applications. However, since I can't seems to use ClickOnce in my situation, this does not seem like a viable option. Is it possible to use System.Deployment.ApplicationDeployment outside of a ClickOnce application?
I'm really quite lost as to how other people produce custom installing applications that have auto-updating features. Virtually every modern piece of software does it, but I cannot seem to find anything on the web that points me in the right direction of how to achieve this with Visual Basic 2005.
I'm looking for a way for copying a VS application files via HTTP and TCP? I mean I have published my application and now I am trying to find something like ClickOnce application that copies my updated files from my website to the clients' centers through HTTP and then locally to end users through FTP. I need to a source code or something like that.
View 2 RepliesFor school i have made an application in VB (Express 2010, .net v4) and when i try to run it at school it says that the .net framework needs to be updated.
IS there anyway of not updating the framework but still allowing the application to run?
I need to calculate in hours how much time has elapsed from when a record was created to the current time. The hard part is I need to exclude weekend times from this. I have been working on this for quite a while and I am just lost. Here is what I have so far.
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What algorithm in VB.NET would best suit this calculation?
I have a problem when updating an entity (User) in my application.
The entity is located in session when the user has been logged. So I made it:
Dim u as User = (From x in ctx.Users).First()
Session("user") = u
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I got the follow error:
An object with a key that matches the key of the supplied object could not be found in the ObjectState Manager.Verify that the key values of the supplied object match the key values of the object to which changes must be applied.
I am working on a program using VB.Net 2010 which will enable me to setup groups of files & folders for back up with syncing capabilities etc. I have a concept program which is based on some sample code I found out in one of the VB.Net forums. I have modified it from a command line based program to a form based program. At the moment I consider this code to be a "concept" program which once I have the various copy/sync routines developed and debugged will be integrated in to another program I wrote for
creating "Back Up" groups to automate the process. There are some 3rd party programs that do similar things that I want to do such as Microsofts Sync Toy, but none of them offer the grouping and exclusions options that I am going to program in to this backup/sync program.
So here is my problem, I have the included code taking two folders, a source and a destination, and copying everything from the source to the destination. It will skip over any unchanged files/folders and will delete anything found in the destination folder that is not found in the source folder and it will update all files in the destination folder that have a newer version in the source folder. In other words it will mirror image the source to the destination but will be smart enough not to copy unchanged items from the source to the destination thereby saving a lot of time. The sync part of the program is working fine, the displaying of the progress and results is not.
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First of all, I hope my intention is not missconcept.I would like to add an update from the internet mechanism for my newly VB.NET application.The idea is simple. That is, I ZIP all of the binary that need to be changed, upload it in my own hosting site, and download it using my Update Application, extract and overwrite the existing binary.
It works, quite well. But the problem is, the size of the binary itself is quite big (around 36MB). I am thinking of patches. That is, can we upload only the patch file, it surely make the download small isn't?
I'm wondering, is there a way to update databases of a windows application that is distributed on several computers all at the same time? is it done by using sql server? because I'm developing an examination system that will be distributed on several computers for students to take exams and I'm just wondering if an admin updates a questions database will the changes be applied to all other computers as well or should it be done manually? sorry if I sound stupid but I can't seem to understand this part of my work, I was thinking about switching to a web app since it seems easier, but again this data updating issue is giving me hard time. by the way I might link the application to an internal network, will this have anything to do with updating the databases?
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