VB Express Code To Run External Application?
Nov 25, 2009How can I write codes to run an external application like PowerDVD9 in Background.
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Application Version Code Not Work In VB 2008 Express Edition?
Oct 19, 2009I create a new Windows Forms application and add an AboutBox form which is built-in into Visual Studio. I add a button to Form1 to show the AboutBox when clicked.The AboutBox form has a label with the text "Version" on it. The following code is supposed to add the application's version to that label at run-time:
Me.LabelVersion.Text = String.Format("Version {0}", My.Application.Info.Version.ToString)When the application version is changed in the Publish tab of the My Project form to 2-0-3-6, the version on the AboutBox at run-time stays at 1.0.0.0 (of course after rebuilding).
Even when the application is published to the desktop, it still does not work. It does, however, reflect the correct version number in the title of a subfolder in the Applications folder that is created when the application is published.
MS VS(vb) '08 Express Include External Files For Read/write Access?
Dec 2, 2009I am using Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. Some of the programs I am writing make extensive use of External files (saved games, data, item lists, etc.) I could use an easy way to get these files to ride allong during deployment (cd mostly). adding them to the resources works for some static pictures, but custom structures into lists of info to read and write from are beond that features abilities, same with the settings feature. I have found in other help referance to "MageUI.exe" so is downloading a .net SDK my solution or is there a better trick I can use?
View 2 RepliesProper Update And Delete Code For SQL Express In 2008 Express Edition?
Oct 3, 2011I'm just using the default SQL Server Express in my vb 2008 express edition as my database server for my database operation. When I tried to update the records on my table I got a runtime error which indicates the error on this line 'myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()'and it highlights a yellow background on it. The runtime error says "SqlException was unhandled: An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near 'Number'. ".
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
Dim myConnection As New SqlConnection
Dim myCommand As New SqlCommand
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Call External Windows Application Form From Application?
Aug 17, 2011I Have one Windows Application in which i have one MDI Form (Say App1). And I too have another Windows Application in which I have a Child Form (Say App2). So now i want to Call App2 from App1 .. And want to Display App2 form As MDIChild in App1 MDI Form . I am Able to open the Form of App2 , But how to set It As App1' Child .
View 2 RepliesMake An External Application 'child' Of Main .Net Application
Jan 23, 2010I use SetParent to make an external application a "child" of my Main .Net application. This works fine.What I need to know is why can't I use Me.MDIChildren(0)I thought that using SetParent would increase the number of children by 1, thus allowing me to reference it with the above code, but it shows there are no children in the array.I have been trying, without luck, for 2 days to try to maximize an external app being displayed in my app. I can get it to display, but I would love it if it could Dock to the same size as its container (a panel)
View 3 RepliesIE With External Application?
Oct 3, 2009I have a quick, yet simple (i think?) question. How can i use the address bar to send commands to a external application?
Example:
AOL Instant Messenger I havent used this application in a long time. But i remembered if you wanted to add a friend to AIM from their online profile it directed them to a link such as:
aim:addfriend=contactID and AIM would pick this up and add it the contactID to the application. The link i posted is more than likely not the correct link they use but it shows what im trying to accomplish.
Im looking to achieve something along the lines of: myApplication:command=commandValue
Use Shell To Have Application Call An External Application But Its Not Working - Error: 'System.windows.shell'
Jun 3, 2011I'm trying to use the Shell to have my application call an external application but its not working...I don't understand why. I get the following error: 'System.windows.shell' is a namespace and cannot be used as an expression!
Heres my code....any ideas what I'm doing wrong. Its got to be a simple...stupid error.
Private Sub mnuUpgrade_Click(ByVal Ctrl As Microsoft.Expression.Web.Interop.Legacy.CommandBarButton, ByRef CancelDefault As Boolean) Handles mnuUpgrade.Click
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Center An External Application Using .net?
Mar 23, 2012how to center an external app on the screen, an example would be Adobe Reader, using either Process.Start or Shell. I've 'attempted' both but haven't found anything to control the position. I've also found some code using Api32 functions, FindWindow, MoveWindow, etc, but have not been successful at those either.
View 3 RepliesControlling An External Application
Aug 15, 2009I am currently working on making a macro in visual basic that will control an external application. I need to know how I can click the menu options in this program. Here is the code I have so far, which makes the application window active.[code]
View 3 RepliesCopy From An External Application?
Mar 17, 2009I have looked all over for an answer to this question and have failed to find one. I have two applications. App1: I have no control over anything in this application aside from standard user inteface options. (Enter text, apply, ok) Someone else has created this program and I have no direct access to the database or any code. I can not make any changes to this application.App2: This is the application that I am currently creating. All changes will need to be made here.I currently have a program set up to copy information from App2 to App1. A user clicks a button in App2 and then goes to App1 and hits F8. App2 is waiting to get F8 and when it does it proceeds to use a series of sendkeys to enter the information from App2 into App1.Question 1: Is there a better way to get info from App2 into App1?I am trying to "smarten" my program up a bit. I would like it to read fields from App1 and compare them to certain variables and then do an action. I have tried to use sendkeys to copy from App1. This sometimes works, and other times the clipboard says object not collected it is not a valid format. So this method is obviously not reliable enough for me.Question 2: How do I copy data from a text box in App1? Sendkeys seems to not work. Again, keep in mind that I don't know textbox names in App1 so as far as I know, I can't do anything like textbox1.copy.
View 2 RepliesMove An External Application?
May 1, 2012How can I move an external application. For example, notepad.location = 200, 200
how would I tell the program what notepad is?
Referencing/managing/code For Different Versions Of The Same External Assemblies?
Aug 16, 2011In a VB.NET (3.5) Windows Forms application that, among other things, creates Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Packages, we want to be able to support the creation of packages both for SQL Server 2005 and 2008. To create packages compatible with SQL Server 2005, functionality from external Microsoft assemblies with the specific version of 9.0.242.0 are needed, and to create packages compatible with SQL Server 2008 the same assemblies need to be referenced, but with another version number, 10.0.0.0. There does not, unfortunately, seem to be backwards compatibility in that SQL-2005 packages could be created using functionality in the newer 10.0.0.0-assemblies.
Today, we have a very inefficient way of handling this. For each new release of the app, we have to: Build two different versions of the app, one "2005-compatible .exe" and one "2008-compatible .exe", by: Manually add/remove the specific 2005/2008-references at project level (properties).Comment/uncomment respective code that is not common between the two versions of the same assemblies.At installation time of the application, figure out if the machine runs SQL Server 2005 or 2008 and then install the corresponding build/version of the app.We do not ship or install any assemblies with our application but instead rely/pre-requisite on that the machine on which we install our software has either the 2005 or 2008 assemblies installed in its GAC (depending on whether SQL Server 2005 or 2008 is installed there).
I have learned that with a few tricks it is possible to reference and use identically named assemblies with different version-numbers in the very same project. But even then if we manage to do this, since the client machine always will only have only one set of the assemblies installed in its GAC (9.0.242.0 or 10.0.0.0 versions depending on which SQL Server version it has installed), and we need to reference both sets in the project to have "full support" for both 2005 and 2008, how can we avoid potential "missing dll-messages" when the client runs the app? We do not feel very excited about having to ship/install 2005-assemblies on a 2008-server and vice-versa, that would never be used by the application, even if this would constitute a solution to the above problem.
Activate Application Through External Link
May 19, 2012I want to be able to activate my application through my website. Like AIM, they have a protocol "aim?.." what ever, I was wondering how I might go about that? My application is standalone, I wonder if this would reduce the chances of this being possible.
View 2 RepliesC# - Maximize/Minimize External Application?
May 1, 2011I have got Skype configured to launch minimized on windows starts.Now I need to bring Skype to front from a button from my full screen application button. I have got this code:
For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("skype")
ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_WINDOW.SW_NORMAL)
Next p
C# - Setting External Application Focus?
Dec 17, 2009In VB.NET, you can set focus to an external application using
AppActivate("Windows Name")
or
AppActivate(processID As Integer)
Now this works fine if you do for example:
Dim intNotePad As Integer = Shell("C:WINNTNotepad.exe",
AppWinStyle.MinimizedNoFocus)
AppActivate(intNotePad)
But when I do:
For Each theprocess As Process In processlist
If InStr(theprocess.ProcessName, "DWG") Then
strProcessList += String.Format("Process: {0} ID: {1}", theprocess.ProcessName, theprocess.Id) + vbCrLf
AppActivate(theprocess.ID)
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then it doesn't find the window, even if it's open and even if it finds the window using the window title.But I need it by process ID.How can I do that?I need it to set focus on a 3rd party installer in a windows installer setup project.
Determine An Event From An External Application
Jun 6, 2011I am developing a program where I will save the information from a "Log file" from an external application..I have a biometrics system that reads and saves the log file to disk,once the user logs to the system, the system will save the file to a log file after that the system that i will develop will read the data from the "log file"(probably a text file) and send it to sql server.
View 3 RepliesDetermine An Event From An External Application?
Oct 21, 2009I am developing a program where I will save the information from a "Log file" from an external application..example: I have a biometrics system that reads and saves the log file to disk,once the user logs to the system, the system will save the file to a log file after that the system that i will develop will read the data from the "log file"(probably a text file) and send it to sql server what event should I use?
View 2 RepliesExecuting An External Application In A Form?
Apr 23, 2010i'm working on visual basic with an external program and want to lunch this program from visual basic like withe the shell but what i need the most is to make him incorporated into the form means that the executable is lunched within the form included into it in order to make them like one part for the user is there any way to make it with any version of VB or .net or visual studio even the 2010 ?
View 12 RepliesExit An External Batch Application?
Aug 9, 2009I'm wondering if there is any way to exit an external batch application. My project is to make a server auto Restarting program, and the application that runs the server is titled runserver.bat I am using Visual Basic 2010 Beta 1 (with .NET 4.0 framework),
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External Application Screen Position
Nov 3, 2010how can I make load "DXSETUP.exe" at center screen position using this code?
Private Sub Panel3_MouseClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Panel3.MouseClick
Try
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External Application Window Position?
Aug 5, 2010how can I make start my external application "DXSETUP.exe" at center screen position using this code?
Private Sub Panel3_MouseClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Panel3.MouseClick
Try
Me.Hide()
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
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Get Reference To An Object From External Application?
May 30, 2011I have handle of a usercontrol on external application in vb.net.I know class type of that user control.I want to get refrence to that object to check some properties of that object
View 2 RepliesGetting Visual Basic To Run External Application?
Dec 10, 2009I'm a complete beginner to Visual Basic & am hoping to get a solution here.(VB version = Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition)I'm trying to use VB to construct a GUI that runs an external application w/ arguments. The actual app is a DB builder that takes 3 arguments:
- a working directory ( flag = -d )
- an output directory ( flag = -o )
- an input text file
When I run the application from a DOS window it works fine as follows:
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How To Copy Web Text From External Application
Aug 9, 2009I use SendMessage(hWnd, WM_COPY, 0, 0) to send copy message to web(internet explorer,mozilla ,etc),but it didn't work,it's my main phrases in VB.
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How To Drop Any File In External Application
Sep 6, 2011From a VB.NET program i want to drop a file (c:example.txt) in an external application (Firefox). I found an example that construct a "databject" linking a file name. I also found programs on the side on the application that receive the drop. But not one that send to an external application.
View 7 RepliesOpen External Application In MDI Container?
Sep 5, 2009Is it possible to get an external application like Windows Live Messenger inside a MDI Container in my application?
View 4 RepliesSendKeys To Dialog Box In External Application
Jan 20, 2012I am automating 3rd party simulation software. The simulation is contained in a DLL. The DLL is programmed to interface though Excel. (Yes I have tried to use the dll outside of Excel, but other factors don't allow it. I have also asked the author to capture the error and recompile the dll)
VB.NET Application
- Excel.exe
-- Simulation.dll
Sometimes a runtime error occurs in the DLL and a dialgo box is created. "On Resume Next" in excel does not bypass the error, nor can I trap this error in the VB.NET application. Currently, if the simulation does not complete in 5 seconds (the DLL error has been thrown and a dialog box is present), I terminate excel application in the following pseudo code manner:
1) Excel.Quit (quit method of the Excel application object model; does not close excel, no error thrown)
2) FinalReleaseComObject() (for all the object references to Excel, workbooks, ranges, etc) <- a
3) Set all excel references to nothing
4) System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(MyClass.procID).Kill()
A RaceOnRCWCleanup is detected (An attempt has been made to free an RCW that is in use. The RCW is in use on the active thread or another thread. Attempting to free an in-use RCW can cause corruption or data loss.) when releasing the Excel application (the other object references do not cause this warning). Is this caused by Excel still being open? I have tried to "find" the error dialog box and close it with some SendKeys, but the an System.InvalidOperationException is thrown: SendKeys cannot run inside this application because the application is not handling Windows messages. Either change the application to handle messages, or use the SendKeys.SendWait method.
I have tried:
1) MyClass.xla.Dialogs.Application.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
2) MyClass.xla.Application.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
3) MyClass.xla.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
4) System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("{ESCAPE}")
5) My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}", True)
6) sending keystrokes to buffer: [URL]
7) Creating a VBS file to send the escape character (doesn't work becuase of the path lenght)
This is what I know about the dialog box from Spy++:
Caption: run-time error
Class Name: #32770 (Dialog)
This program will be running un-attended so I want all debug errors and messages accounted for in code before this goes into production.
Set Position And Size Of An External Application
Apr 23, 2009I am trying to reposition and resize an application I have launched. The hwnd is extracted from the process that is returned from the application start. The call to the Windows API MoveWindow() call moves the window to the top of my screen and collapses it to the height of the title bar.
The x position appears to be correct and the width appears to be correct, but the y position and the height are not correct. I may have the wrong signature (but I don't think so) or there is something I don't understand about the call.[code...]
Setting Focus On An External Application?
Jun 12, 2009I have an application which calls an external process. I would like this process to be open as soon as it is called. i.e. with no user interaction.This is because I would like to send Keys to it to interact.I know how crude this is but this is a thrid party application that my boss has promised will open is a specific way. Dim procSungard As System.Diagnostics.Process = _
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