I'm writing a program and it's got a textbox for the user to enter values. Since the textbox text property should only be a "number", my program need to detect invalid charaters like "*/&()$" and tell the user to only enter a number. Does anyone have an idea how to do that?
View 6 RepliesOk, so I got everything working except for one thing. My program stores text in a settings files (which it saves to and encrypts to wonderfully), but it will only work once. For example, I type in an author, title and body, and click Publish, it publishes and is labeled with a "1.". Restarting the application, you get the desired effect, a decrypted string from the encrypted settings file, now publish another entry, this makes a new line with "vbNewLine" and then encrypts it, fine and dandy. Now apon opening the application again, you get an error stating "Invalid character in a Base-64 string.". What do I do?
Encryption Code:
Public Function psEncrypt(ByVal sInputVal As String) As String
Dim loCryptoClass As New TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider
[code].....
I am getting the following error:
' ', hexadecimal value 0x1F, is an invalid character
Here is my function. I get this error when it hits "reader.MoveToContent()" for the first time. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Public Function GetSyndicationFeedData(ByVal urlFeedLocation As String) As SyndicationFeed
Dim settings As New XmlReaderSettings() With { _
.IgnoreWhitespace = True, _
[code]....
I'm performing an XML.save(filename), but when an invalid character is present, it fails with this error:{"'', hexadecimal value 0x07, is an invalid character."} [code]I've tried playing around with the XML encoding but nothing seems to help.I need to have this data saved, even though its a bunch of odd characters.
View 2 RepliesI have a TextBox with a list of filenames in it. The user is able to change these file names, but I don't want them to enter invalid characters, such as slashes or question marks.
I've tried two approaches, but they are not satisfactory:
1. Detect the key pressed with the KeyDown event:
Use e.KeyValue to detect keys like Keys.Oem5 (= backslash), then use 'e.SuppressKeyPress = True' to suppress the key.Problem is, with different Keyboard layouts, The Oem5-key isn't always a backslash.
2. Filter the text:
Use the TextChanged event and do a Replace("", "") on the text for every invalid character (there's 9 of them).Of course this will create 'lag' with every keystroke, especially if there's a lot of text. Also the text-cursor and scrollbar will jump back to the top-left when using Replace.
In short: I'm looking for a way to detect the character that is being entered and suppress or remove it when invalid.
Public Shared Function GetData(ByVal id As Integer) As List(Of SomeClass)
Dim command As New OracleCommand
Dim conn As New OracleConnection(WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ToString)
Dim param As New OracleParameter
[code]....
This function is giving an ORA-00911 invalid character error. I have other methods of the same style and these are functioning correctly.
I am having a problem writing a string like a word "Zürich" the output became "Z�rich"
I am using StreamReader and StreamWriter.
Code: below
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Module Module1
[CODE]...
I'm using WMI code and VB 2008 to see NIC status. So far the queries are working, but the methods aren't. For example, I'm trying to set a network card to use DHCP, I get invalid function with this code:
Dim classInstance As New ManagementObject("rootCIMV2", "Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration.Index='7'", Nothing)
Dim outParams As ManagementBaseObject = classInstance.InvokeMethod("EnableDHCP", Nothing, Nothing)
I've written up the following code (please note i only started to learn VB yesterday)
CODE:
And what I want it to do is when a letter, or character, is entered, i want to have Label1 display "invalid" but i cant seem to figure out how...
so in a program I'm working on in VB.NET I'm trying to make it so I can take in a list of strings (each on a different line). For each line I want to take in the line, and break it up into three parts. The first part goes from the beginning of the string to the first colon in the string, the second part goes from the first colon to the at symbol, and the last part goes from the at symbol to the end of the string.
For example, I'd take in a line of the series of lines: hello:world@yay
I'd want to break it into three separate strings of "hello", "world", and "yay".
How would I do such a thing in VB.NET?
I need to get the last Character in a text string and to decide if it is an equals sign or not.
View 5 RepliesAnybody knows how to detect that the user has pressed on the ESC key when in a FileSave or FileOpen Dialog, in VB.Net ?I have added KeyPreview to the form on which the FileDialog rests, but the key press is not seen and the FileDialog returns the file name I had given it as a suggestion to the user upon calling the FileDialog.
View 2 RepliesAnybody knows how to detect that the user has pressed on the ESC key when in a FileSave or FileOpen Dialog, in VB.Net ?have added KeyPreview to the form on which the FileDialog rests, but the key press is not seen and the FileDialog returns the file name I had given it as a suggestion to the user upon calling the FileDialog.
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to detect a Chinese character in a string which is build like this:
dim test as string = "letters ä¸åœ‹çš„"
Now I want to substring only the Chinese characters. But my code is database driven, so I can't substring it, because the length is always different. So is there a way I can split the string, from the moment I detect a Chinese character?
How do I make a regex that can detect a certain character string that is either all by its self in a line, or separated by white space.
If I have the line:
"ot"
Or the line
"sdf gdfg dv ewrsef fvdf ot sdfsd sdot"
I want to be able to detect the 'ot', except for the one that is 'sdot'
The string is coming from this [url]...
View 2 RepliesBelow is the code i am using for user input which works fine apart from one thing that i can not work out how to do.I want to detect if a user had inputed a character in the wrong place. The correct input is:
D:Folder name
The incorrect input is:
D:Folder name
How would i detect the extra '' at the end?
Private Sub OK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OK.Click
Select Case Doc.Text
Case ""
MsgBox("Invalid Path")
[code].....
I've done some searching on these forums as well as on the Web in general, and while I've found some posts about the error above, I haven't seen anything specific to what I'm experiencing
View 4 RepliesI have a .dat file with base64 encoding. I am trying to decode it with this:
Code:
Dim b As Byte() = Convert.FromBase64String(System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(Application.StartupPath & "libdata emplatelua.dat").ToString)
finalize:
Code:
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(b)
but it give me an error. "Invalid character in a Base-64 string."
base64 code:
[code]...
what am i doing wrong?
[Code]...
For each character of this string I want a new character out of the string and then remove the character from the list of characters that still maybe used for other characters. It may not get the same character, you could basically just call this encryption, but it's not what I am making. I don't want to waste my time doing this one hour while VB can do this for me in <1 second.
Almost each letter of my mother tongue (Arabic) has two or more forms to be written with, due to its position (At the beginning, middle or end of a word) and what are the two letters before and after it, however, I've been trying to figure why when I type something in a textbox and use the AscW method to get the character code, it returns a code for the same character but not of the same form, which means:
If I type a word starting with the letter above, the letter would be in the initial form (its Unicode is &HFED3 = 65235) , but when I use the AscW to get the code of the first character it returns the code (&H641 = 1601) of the same letter in actually none of the previous forms but apparently in the isolated form (&HFED1 = 65233).I've also tried to convert the default encoding to the Unicode's but had no accepted result and no solution through reading the two Unicode bytes (which had to be [211, 254]).
P.S. I tried something else:
TextBox1.Text = ChrW(&HFED3)
Msgbox(AscW(TextBox1.Text(0)))
to check if the problem is the AscW method, but it worked just fine, I have another idea running through my mind but I'm still not sure about it .So, is there any way to detect the actual form of a Unicode character?
My console errors out when I enter anything other than a number or operators in the designated (input). I stink at this stuff but I have been t this for about 8 hrs. still not there. I have included a text file for the task at hand
[Code]...
I'm getting Invalid column name 'CHARLES'. Invalid column name 'CHARLYN'. Invalid column name 'SMITH'.what's wrong with my code, it's been a long time since I used SQL dataset. I'm into LINQ but I'm having problems with this kind of LINQ query so I'm reverting to SQL dataset.here's my code:
'Set up a data set command object.
Dim sSelectColumn As String = ("SELECT * FROM tblScanned WHERE LastName=" & sLastName & " AND FirstName =" & sFirstName & " AND MiddleName =" & sMiddleName)[code].....
Trying to run the following
treeval = e.Node.Text
Dim strVal As String = New String("LDAP://10.22.67.21:389/OU=Linkway,OU=Desktops,OU=Devices,DC=domain,DC=suffix")
Dim domain As New DirectoryEntry(strVal & "'DOMAINusername', 'password'")
[code]....
I get an error saying "Invalid dn syntax"
I have a program that parses INI files (yes yes, I know, but I'm stuck with using them, not my own request), and it downloads external images (if the INI contains the path) to the program and cache's them.
Recently, I've run into a snag with the system. Most of the images use Imageshack for storage, but one of them has suddenly 404'd, and whenever I set it to the picturebox to the downloaded image, I get an out of memory error rather quickly (and the file itself is 1kb).
I guess I need to implement a checking system offline to find out if the image is actually an image or just a '404' text...but is there a way to not have to implement this clientside, and have it be checked when I download it?
[Code]...
where I was encrypting the string and passing it to another web page to decrypt and get the ids to be displayed as a pdf back to the page. I kept getting an invalid "Invalid length for a Base-64 char array". It was then I realised that the string was getting truncated and that the IE Explorer had a size limit for the number of charaters being passes as a querystring.So I think I need to go the route of posting it.But not sure how to go about it.
Private Sub GetReport()
Try
Dim hawbs As String = String.Empty[code]....
The retrieve document then does: the decrpytion gets the data(ids) and pulls the pdfs.
Before I explain, the connection string I am trying to use is copied directly from elsewhere in the application that has always worked and still does.
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;
Data Source=|DataDirectory|cdb.rmd;
Persist Security Info=False;
My problem is that no matter if I go to "Server Explorer", "Data Sources", or any other option it will not let me add a datasource/database. Up to this point I have done everything at runtime but now due to reporting issues I need to create a dataset in design view.
This is what happens:
I click "Add connection..."
I choose "Microsoft Access Database File" (Which it is...)
I click "Continue"
Form shows up with a field for my connection string, which I insert (shown above).
I click "Ok"
I get the following error:
Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0.
The "Test Connection" button is apparently useless as the connection passes even if the field is blank.
I have attempted reducing the connection string to only what is absolutely necessary.
I have copied the string directly from connectionstrings.com replacing my filename.
I have renamed the file to an .mdb extension.
I have used the full path from C: all the way to the file.
I have declared two variables as strings strDob and strCurrentDate, Both Variables are for storing dates. StrDob is for storing Date of Birth and second is for Present date. and am executing the following code
If DateValue(strDOB) > DateValue(Date.Today) Then
and getting the error like
Invalid CastException was unhandled
Conversion from string "19/09/1987" to type 'Date' is not valid.
Error in the following code also:
iAge = (CInt(Abs(DateDiff("d", strCurrentDate, strDOB)) / 365))
Invalid CastException was unhandled
Argument 'Date1' cannot be converted to type 'Date'.
Here I need both variables as string itself. because the Dateofbirth is getting from three comboboxes.
I am running the same program on two workstations. One reveals no errors while the other shows a "COM exception error: invalid parameter." The offending line of code is shown below.Is there an explanation for the inconsistency?
.SeriesCollection(iRet).Name = "=""Q" & Str(iRet) & """"
Well I've recently discovered that trying to create a file with so-called 'illegal characters' will cause your application to crash.. How do I find these characters in a string and replace them with nothing?
The invalid characters are / : * ? " < > | if that helps.