VB 2010 - Thumb Drive - Formatting, Partitioning, And Copying The Image
Oct 24, 2010
I have to create a program to manage a large number of USB Thumbdrives. In short, the drives will contain corporate images used by technicians to prep machines in the field. I do not have to create the images as they are already provided. Since I have to create 50 plus of these at one time, I am looking at writing a program to automate the process. As it stands now, formatting, partitioning, and copying the image to each key individually is, as you can understand, not efficient time wise. I have already purchased two industrial quality 7 port powered hubs.
The plan is to be able to: Fill all 14 slots in the hubs with USB ThumbdrivesUse the program to select the drives to prepareHave the program format and partition the drives (bootable)Copy the contents of the image folder provided to the USB keys. The idea is to do the above by filling all the slots and hitting one button, then walking away to do other work. When done, the drives would be ejected, and the next set of 14 installed.
I have already created the User Interface. It consists of: 5 buttons (Scan For Drives, Format Drives, Build Drives, Build And Format Drives, Exit).One "Select Source" entry field to select the source of the Image Files.One Checked Entry List. This is where all available drives will be listed, and the one's desired to be checked.
Now, it has been 20 years since I did any coding, and all of that was done in languages that are pretty much dead today (Turbo Pascal, Clarion Professional Developer and R:Base), so to say I'm behind the curve is an understatement. While I was never a real fan of Basic, I have some experience with it. But today's VB.Net ain't your daddy's basic, and there's no way I have time to learn C or C++. I have the Express version of Visual Studio 2010, which should be fine for this project.
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Aug 21, 2010
I'm a student developer and currently working on USB disk partitioning with VB.net.. Is partitioning usb disk with Vb.net possible?
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Feb 26, 2009
I routinely make backups of my VB 2008 projects, using Windows Explorer, copying the entire project file to a thumb drive. For some obscure reason, a couple of days ago it suddenly stopped working. Specifically, the project is fine on the harddrive, can be copied to a backup area of the harddrive, but when I copy it to the thumb drive, I get an error message indicating the file can't be found. This is not a new process--I have been backing up projects for several years and never encountered anything like this.
When I click on the project folder, it shows the typical files. When I doubleclick on the .sln file, nothing happens (meaning the file does not open as it does on the harddrive). Solution Explorer shows a .vb file. When I click that, I get the "Can't find the file" error. Other projects on the thumb drive open with no problem, but I am hesitant to overwrite those with "new" versions that may not work.
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Oct 11, 2011
I have a client who is causing my software application to "hang" whenever he plugs in a thumb-drive and copies files. My software is using none of these files... can anyone hazard a guess at what's going on?
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Apr 27, 2010
We are trying to rename a volume label on a thumb drive using a visual basic program, but the operation doesn't work. We are not getting any error messages, it just doesn't work. The user account being used does not have any special privileges. I suspect the user may have to be an administrator, but that is not an option. Any ideas on how to accomplish without elevating the users privileges?
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May 26, 2010
formatting a USB Drive?
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.IO
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Jun 30, 2009
I read about the UNC path, but that doesn't seem to be making much difference, it may be that I need a user name and password for the connection, can anyone demonstrate code that allows username and password entry so that a file can copy to and from a mapped network drive or the UNC is "\serverarchiveJune"
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Jul 1, 2011
I have a column 'A' in worksheet 'two' and another column 'B' in worksheet 'one' !I want to copy the conditional formatting of Column A in two to Column B in one !Basically, I want to copy everything from Column A in two to Column B in one except the data
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Feb 5, 2011
How to copy the text in a RichTextBox along with its formatting to a wordpad or webbrowser?
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Apr 24, 2009
It's not a coding problem. I can't seem to copy my coding in to word without it losing all of the colour. Is there any easy way that I can copy and paste this code in to word without it losing all of the formatting?
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Jun 7, 2011
I am very new to programming and I am having trouble getting my code to work properly.I am trying to write what I thought was a simple program, but I everything I have tried has not worked properly.I am creating a utility that will take installation and database files from one computer and copy those files to a flash drive so the flash drive will have the new version. The flash drives in question would either have one of two previous versions of the software on it or it will be blank. I decided to do this in two steps. First I check the computer for the new database and the flash drive for the old ones. I do this with the following code. [code] Next, I am deleting files from the flash drive if the old database is there and copying the files from the computer to the flash drive and showing progress on the progressbar. Here is where I am going all wrong. I have tried it a number of different ways, and unfortunatly (I'm kicking myself right now), I have not saved the code from the other methods I have tried.I have not been able to figure out how to get the background worker to work with what I am trying to do, though I have seen a lot of code over the past few weeks with examples of how to use it. It is a little above my head in terms of figuring it out by myself. So what I have used is the following code: [code]
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Mar 31, 2010
I am trying to write what I thought was a simple program, but I everything I have tried has not worked properly.Here is what I am trying to do... am creating a utility that will take installation and database files from one computer and copy those files to a flash drive so the flash drive will have the new version. The flash drives in question would either have one of two previous versions of the software on it or it will be blank. I decided to do this in two steps. First I check the computer for the new database and the flash drive for the old ones. I do this with the following code.
Private Sub VerifyButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles VerifyButton.Click
VerifyButton.Enabled = False
[code]......
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Aug 5, 2009
I want to make an application that allows you to format a drive.My application consists of a combo box (so user can select drive) and a format button to format the selected drive.
I would like to know is this possible and if so how?
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Jul 3, 2010
I've been searching for hours tonight searching existing posts, other websites and all i can find are examples of how to capture a image from a webcam.Does anyone have any code that simple talks to the camera device via WIA, and then saves every image found on the device to a hard drive?I found this code below. Credit i cant tell you as i have a bunch of different flavors of code, but this only saves the file as a tmp file, and not the actual image file i expected after selecting?
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports WIALib
[code].....
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Aug 29, 2009
can we make code which can make copying a file in a particular drive invalid/access denied?
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Dec 23, 2009
[code] objExcelAppDataSheet is the excel application's object and strTemplatePath is the path of the excel file.This excel file is like a template that i am using in my application. In this file some cells are merged. After copying to the new sheet the formatting of the sheet does not remain same. Columns sizes are changing. Why this problems occurs? Is this MS office versions issue??
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Oct 28, 2009
Public Function imgToFile(ByRef img As mshtml.HTMLImg) As String
Dim ocr As mshtml.IHTMLControlRange
Dim theFile As String
Dim trying As Integer
[Code]....
The only problem is once in a while it fails. If it fails, we'll wait 5 seconds and try again. Well, it doesn't help. Once it fails it keep failing.
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Jul 8, 2009
I've just started VB.net and I don't understand the graphics system at all. (accustomed to vb6)
I'm trying to draw a bookcase in my form (or picturebox. I don't really care. Whatever works!). I have images called
top.bmp
bookspace.bmp
shelf.bmp
bottom.bmp.
I'd like to create the bookshelf from those images like so
(top) - 40px high
(bookspace) - 200px high
(shelf) - 40px high
(bookspace) - 200px high
(bottom) - 40px high
All 880px across.
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Apr 20, 2009
below is my code for copying an image from a form to send it to the printer.it works but it tends to be a little blurry. is there anyway to make it sharper?
Bmp = New Bitmap(Me.ClientSize.Width, Me.ClientSize.Height)
Bmp = New Bitmap(800, 500)
Dim G As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(Bmp)
G.CopyFromScreen(Me.PointToScreen(Me.ClientRectangle.Location), New Point(0, 0), Me.ClientSize)
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Jan 18, 2012
how can i create thumb for my xxx type file as jpeg files or psd files in windows because they have a separate thumb for ever a file
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Oct 18, 2009
Dear members please guide me how thumb scanner use to take attendance of employees using vb.net and oracle 9i.
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May 7, 2012
I have a SQL database, with some "status" strings. For every status I need to display a .bmp image .
I'm displaying the data from the database via DataGridView with LINQ. In order to display the DGV I have this code:
Me.MyTableAdapter.Fill(Me.TestdbDataSet.MyStatusList)
I was thinking to add another column named "Symbol" and based on the "Status" column to format the cells of the "Symbol" column to display an image.
I edited the DGV, and add a new image column.
I created a directory in my solution called "references" where I put all the .bmp files
I don't know how to do this. My first thought was to put an expression in the DataTable Properties, but I didn't manage to make that work. Another way is to format the cells in the "Symbol" column, and again I don't know how to do that. I tried with "Select Case ... Case ... End Select" with no success.
LE: Should I Insert the .bmp files into SQL database (varbinary(MAX)) If yes, how?
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Jun 8, 2009
making an application for thumb recognition in vb.net 2005 as soon as possible.
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Apr 22, 2009
I have a copying error with my program. I am trying to copy the internet cache folder, and the error states that some files cannont be copied (read only maybe?) How can i make it copy, or just skip the uncopyable files?
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Internet Cache), "d:My Documents")
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Feb 21, 2012
I have an array of the following structure:
<Serializable()> Public Structure Piece
Dim id As Integer
Dim pos As Point
[code]....
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Jul 16, 2011
on my form i have a button and five textboxes... when i click the button it takes me to a website. on this website is a list of five items. i want to take these five items and place them in the 5 textboxes. up to now what i have been doing is highlighting the first item in the list on the website, right clicking and using the copy feature, then going back to the vb form and pasting the first item in textbox1... then go back to the website and highlight item two... return to the form and paste in textbox2.. then the same procedure for the next three items
is there a way to highlight all five items from the website, right click, select copy and then paste the information into the 5 textboxes on the form... one in each of the textboxes provided without doing it one at a time
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Mar 30, 2012
I am trying to show a list of folders then copy only the selected folders.It displays the folders correctly but copies only the contents not the folder itself, how can I correct this?
Display files
Private Sub ListDirs()
SrcFolder = (("\" & (OldPCTxtBx.Text) & "" & "C$"))
Dim dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo(SrcFolder)
For Each subFolders As IO.DirectoryInfo In dir.GetDirectories
[code]....
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Apr 5, 2011
I have been using VB a fair bit in the past developing a Access Database, recently I wanted to give my front end interface a bit more power so I have started learning VS 2010.
Anyways, I am still using Access for my databases and i am having a bit of trouble working with the data in VS 2010, what i would like is the following:
A way to form a string or integer from a SQL query (from a single field or multiple on that row) assuming the query will always return one row.
Then a way to write string or integer variables back in to db fields.
example:
Dim cn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|ItemRegisterDB.mdb")
Dim cmd As New OleDb.OleDbCommand With {.Connection = cn, .CommandText = "select * from tblItemregister where ItemID = 1"}
[Code]....
Example = ??? 'What would i need here to copy fields from that row to string?
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Jun 6, 2011
I googled some code that takes listview contents and puts it into the clipboard, but it doesn't work, when I paste the contents into Excel it looks weird!Here's the code that copies listview contents to clipboard:
Public Sub CopyListViewToClipboard(ByVal lv As ListView)
Dim buffer As New StringBuilder
For i As Integer = 0 To lv.Items.Count - 1
[code]....
The code makes sense to me when I'm trying to see what it's doing but why in the world when I paste the contents into Excel it looks like this:I don't understand...everything is fine when I'm adding new items to the listview and all, but when I click "copy" and then paste it into ms excel this is it how it looks like...
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Jul 20, 2011
I have to periodically (2-3x/wk) copy a file or two to approximately 70 remote computers. I have full control of the remote computers and they all follow the same directory structure and security permissions. I have asked in the General PC forum to see
[Code]...
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