VS 2008 Get File Contents To Make Program Do Certain Stuff?
Nov 7, 2009
1)How can I make my program get the contents of a .txt file on my website to tell the program to run or not?Here is and example of what I want:Say the file says "Running", the program would run without problems.If the file was to say "Unavailable", a pop up would appear saying "The program is currently unavailable, try again later." Then once the person clicked OK, the program would close.
2)How can I make the program get contents from a .txt file to get the latest version of the program, then if there is a newer version, there would be a pop up saying there is a newer version and they need to update. Then when they clicked OK, the program would close and it would open their default web browser or Internet Explorer to the update page.
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Apr 12, 2011
I am making a customizable launcher for a game.I have already made the launcher. now I want to make a program that can edit stuff on my launcher. A method that Im thinking is make the editor produce a file that the launcher can read.Are you getting what I mean?
There are 2 buttons in the launcher,1 webbrowser and 1 progress bar.The 2 button are links for the users personal website the webbrowser is for the news panel where they can put there news about the game and 1 progress bar for auto updating of the game.
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Nov 12, 2008
about a week since I started. Now I'll just ask my questions straight away:I want to make a program which allows the User to create stuff, say a survey. What I want them to be able to do is,
1. Decide the headline
2. Decide the layout of the survey
3. Import pictures
4. create new pages, like a form.
And then save this survey to a file which can be opened either by itself or by using some sort of viewer program. And I want the user to be able to put in answers to questions in the survey which wont be visible when you open the file in the viewer program. Now I dont expect you to write the program for me, just give me ideas on how to solve them, where I can learn about methods to get there and so on.
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Dec 23, 2009
I have this Quiz software that lets you create online multiple choice quizzes which are great for studying (I am in grad school and I'm trying to use everything I can to learn). So the Quiz software is great but it only lets you input questions by hand, one by one. I took a look at the .xml file that the quiz program spits out and came up with the idea to try and make a converter so that I can import many questions at once. I was hoping to try and solve this limitation by doing the following:
Take a .doc that say a tutor gives us with a bunch of practice questions, and then take that into Crimson Editor, and then format it so the question is on line 1, the multiple choice answers are on lines 3,4,5, and 6, (for the next question, the question would be on line 11, and the answers on lines 13, 14, 15, and 16, and so on) and then take that saved .txt file into my program, hit the generate button, and it will spit out the .xml file, and then import that into the quiz software to generate the online quiz.
Here is an attached screenshot of my program layout so far:
I figured out how to open a text file by watching simple youtube tutorials, but I don't know how to have it generate the stuff and have it show up in the bottom text box. I know how to do the coding to convert the txt to proper xml code but I don't know how to be able to save the contents of the bottom text window to an xml file.
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Oct 31, 2008
Is it possible to make a preview window that show contents of a file using the default windows program supporting the file format?
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Aug 26, 2009
I have to make a program that reads a txt file after reading it, show it in a richtext box and in another tab make the average of the grades the input received sort it by the student id and then in the same rtb sort it by the average of their grades, and finally save it on a new text file.
The text file input is something like this
12 3 10.0 6.9 7.3
19 2 6.7 9.3
10 3 4.5 9.3 4.5
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As you noticed in the input the first number is the student ID, the second number is the number of tests made by the student, and the other 3 numbers are grades, in the output the first number is the student ID, the second number is the average of the tests, and the other 3 numbers are grades, I don't have a problem opening and saving a text file and neither creating a tab with 2 RTB , my problem is how do I tokenize or read the input line by line, i guess that i need to use the split function but I don't know how to implement it into the program.
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Apr 1, 2010
how to make program for hooking/inject .dll file into main.exe I want to make 1 program to inject/hook .dll file to main.exe fast . Its about the game MU Online.
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Sep 6, 2010
I want to make a program that compiles dll files to a prebuilt exe in the same directory of the file exe file:iPhodroid.exe.I wan to compile about 15 dll files to it here is the link for the source code and dll files.I want to compile the files when the users press FIX IPHODROID button.
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Jul 5, 2010
Im trying to make a program which would check for users from text file on a certain website I can populate the list box, and loop through it's items here is the code i came up with so far and it doesnt work properly, it pops out first item in the listbox, and last item only, even though that they shouldnt be popped out
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
If Not ListBox1.Items.Count < 2 Then
[code].....
(this is supposed to check every user, and if user doesnt exist, website will return page not found, else user exists and his name is added to listbox2)
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Nov 15, 2009
i have sql 2005 and i want to develop a small program that can access the database and amend a few rows of data. in sql database, i have 1 table and it consist of 3 columns = datetime, type & price. below is example:
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Mar 22, 2009
What i am trying to do is open a save file dialog and write to a .txt firl the contents of my listview. so far:
[Code]...
i have this, but i'm not to sure how to write to the .txt file i know i need to use a for each to loop the contents of the list view
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Apr 4, 2009
Where should I go to leanr to program stuff like getting keystrokes, locking keyvoards, changing desktop backgrounds, opening CD trays, changing IE homepage, etc.... Basically everything windows... I'm using VB.NET right now. Is there an api or something to learn for this kind of stuff?
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Jun 21, 2010
I'm creating a program for my workplace which stores hours worked, calculates pay and all that stuff.Problem being, the database will be accessed through the network and i want to be able to select the database from an openfile dialog on first use to locate the database. On every program start up it then would have the database location stored within the program itself.
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May 8, 2009
I am writing a text editor application which uses an advanced third party text editor. This editor allows the user to set Bookmarks and use Outlining, just like the editor in Visual Studio. The output of my application is a ".script" file, which is basically just a text file. This file is read later by a game, and I can therefore not change anything to the layout of the file. It must be a simple text file.
When the user saves any document, I would like my application to also store the Bookmarks in that document, and the state of any Outlining ranges (collapsed or expanded). The editor allows me to do this by using a special Save feature, which saves the contents of the editor (the text), along with its properties, bookmarks, outline ranges, etc to an XML file. I can also load this XML file back. Now there is one obvious problem: my application should still output its documents as ".script" files, which are just normal text files as said above. Therefore, I cannot use the XML files that also hold the properties/bookmarks etc directly, since the game cannot read those!
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Mar 19, 2010
i have my program and it does what i need it to do but when i export the contents of the text file it does not show the new line characters. it displays it in the text file like this all on one line
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May 25, 2009
I'd like to use a dictionary to store the contents of an ini file. Now I know you can simply say
myArray.add("key1","value1")
myArray.add("key2","value2")
etc...
But Id like to store more information with a specific key, not just a single value, so id like to associate other values with key1 eg firstname,surname,address.
So by knowing the value of 'key1' I could retrieve the firstname, surname or address associated with it.
I know in PERL, hash arrays work in this manner
eg
$hash{'key1}{'firstname'} = 'john';
$hash{'key1}{'surname'} = 'smith';
etc....
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Mar 10, 2010
i have 6 text boxes on a form the contents of which changes depending on a list box, i also have a button which will be used to create a log file, my question is how do i write the contents of the 6 textboxes to a new text file, and on separate lines in the txt file when the log button is pressed.
EDIT: preferably also needs to use the save file dialog so user can choose file name and location to save to.
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Feb 11, 2009
I saw this thread and think that this is something I could use [URL]. I'd like to be able to pass stuff to and from a PHP file.
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Mar 5, 2009
I need my program to 'take a peek' into a ZIP file and see if it contains a certain file. I need it to do this many times for a large number of files, so I would prefer it without having to unzip the entire zip-file each time, as that would take far too much time (it's a fairly large zip-file of about 250 MB).Also, I don't need the actual file at all. All I need to know is if it exists inside the zip file.
vb.net
If IO.File.Exists("C:FolderIPFile.zipfolder_in_zipfile.jpg") Then
' "file.jpg" exists inside zip-file!
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Aug 26, 2009
How do I make a program that opens a file in the folder the program is stored?
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May 22, 2009
About publishing my program. there's a lot of files made after publishing unlike in vb6 when i converted it to exe file theres only one file. hmm how can i make just one exe file in vb9 is it possible? another question do i have to install the program after publishing?
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Sep 24, 2008
It keeps throwing an exception like this "Cannot create a file when that file already exists" at this line:
Code:
Directory.Move(contentDirectory, archiveDirectory)
I have checked, and the directory that I am moving, does exist at the source, but does not exist at the destination. I have tried including some console.writelines to make sure my variables are correct, and they look good. The first bit of code works where it creates the new directory, but fails when I try to move anything over to that directory.
Code:
Sub Main()
Dim Guid As String = "test"
Dim archiveName As String = "scripttestone"
Dim contentDirectory As String = "C:content" & Guid
Dim archiveDirectory As String = "C:archive" & archiveName
Dim TodaysDate As Date = Now()
[Code] .....
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Aug 23, 2009
How do i make my button open a program and make it windows size?
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Apr 23, 2009
I'm working a project I can't discuss on here, but could someone tell me if it's possible to make a webBrowser control to have its contents wrapped like you can wrap the text in a textBox control?
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Apr 13, 2010
I am trying to polish up a program a program that I have converted from a Windows Form in to an ASP.NET Web Application. I have several questions:
1.) I have a drop down box where users can select their variables, but users can also enter their variables manually into various text fields. What I want is for the drop down box to show a string like "Choose Variables" when ever the user enters their variables manually. I want this to happen without having to reload the page.
2.) In the Windows Form version of this application I had a RichTextBox that populated with data (line by line) after a calculation was made. I used "AppendText" in my Windows Form, but that is not available in ASP.NET, and neither is the RichTextBox. I tried to use just a text box but that isn't working right.
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Jul 9, 2011
I am trying to move from the old ADO to the new ADO .NET . However , no matter how many tutorials I read over the internet , I still can't find a way to do something which , as I believe , has to be very simple I tried to mimic the way the graphic control did but I am missing some things ... I noticed that , in the graphic way , the wizard created 4 controls :- a DataGridView control- a DataSet control- a BindingSource control- a TableAdapter controlI recreated all of them and filled their correspondent properties , but yet I can't make it work . I think what I am missing is the connection itself . I looked on the internet and I think a connection can be made and opened like this :
Dim DataBaseConnectionMY As New OleDb.OleDbConnection
DataBaseConnectionMY.ConnectionString = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = C:ProsoData.mdb"
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Jun 12, 2011
VS 2008 [RESOLVED] Delete stuff at runtime
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Aug 17, 2009
Last night 3 updates automatically installed from VS 2008 on my comp KB952241, KB971091 and KB973674 Today intellisence was not working for .net - I uninstalled the updates and everything is, once again, working fine I dont know what update did it ... But I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this - I would rather not have the updates if they stuff things up.
Oh - and before anyone asks - I tried resetting the visual studio settings
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Apr 3, 2010
I want to make a program that searches for a RGB color and clicks on it, WITHIN the program.
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Mar 23, 2009
In games such as Warcraft III, you can play against players on LAN, and it can show a list of games being hosted by people on LAN. There is no central server that holds the entire list, so how does it get the list of games? And also, how would I code something that creates a game on LAN, like a bot?
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