I'm trying to create something that will intercept requests to open a file or folder in Windows Explorer. So far, the only thing I can come up with is that I need to make a file system filter driver.
View 4 RepliesAm looking for away to have an area in the application window to display the open files and folders basically what�s open on the task bar.Also if the above is possible is there away to have this clickable so if something is minimized it will open upon clicking it.
View 1 Repliesi am making a program to open multiple .exe files. However, i want to make it on a disk, but every computer the drive letter for the dvd drive is different. Is there a way to do a wild card? [code]however this might take a while to search. Is there a fast way of doing this?
View 2 RepliesI want it to show on click of a button on my windows forms application... I have not had any success in getting the dialog to show at all...
View 21 RepliesI have been searching everywhere for help and cant find anyone or place nice enough to work with me.I work for a bank, and support 40,000 users as an admin on a team of about 20 people.We are always having to force log off users out of SQL and always having to restart machines due to stuck files or folders open, or for troubleshooting purposes. So i am working on an application that will log off and shutdown users from the network.I have the log off from SQL completed.However i am having trouble with the line for restart.I started off trying the shell command Shell("cmd.exe") and now i have switched over to Process.Start("shutdown")
If you have any admin experience on a full blown network or wan, you know that when using cmd or run the syntax is:shutdown -m \computername -r -f -t 00 where m is for listing computer r is for reboot f is forcing apps closed and t is for timer.I have to pull the workstation from a textbox inside our tool. Or at the very least input the workstation to the command prompt So when i try and place this into vb i am using this:
Process.Start("shutdown", "-m \""" & TxtBoxWorkstation.Text & """-r -f -t 00")However the whacks(backward slashes) are not correct in the code.Im trying to figure out where the whacks go in the line of code.Im not getting any errors in vb, but when the cmd prompt loads it does not initiate the command correctly because the whacks are in the wrong location
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I need help with file enumeration. I'm trying to create a program that can list files, folders and sub folders locations in a log file for diagnostic purposes. After it searches it can open notepad and display the results. The problem I'm having is that I'm a beginner and not familiar with file enumeration.
View 14 Repliesthis is general to any operation calling an SQL server, or anything requiring an open connection at that.
Say I have anywhere from 20 to 1000 Select calls to make for each item in data being looped. For each step, I'll select from sql, store data locally in a struct, then proceed. This is not a very expensive call, so should I keep the connection open for the entire loop? Or should I open and close every step?
How expensive in run time is opening a connection? I would think it'd be better to keep the connection open, but would like to get the correct response for this.
I'm using the following code to get all of the files from a DVD drive and load them into a bindinglist and then a datagridview:
mAddBL.Clear()
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Try
Dim dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo(Form1.m_DVDdrive & ":")
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This shows all files and folder names on the disc. If I want it to show all files, regardless of the folder they're in, is there a built-in method to do that or do I need to take an entry, identify it as a directory and then use that as my source to read the files in it?
I am working in (client/server) application in Visual Basic 2008 Could any one help me how to browse files and folders in the server's computer ?
View 1 RepliesI would like to know how to delete all files and folders under a certain directory. For example if I wanted to delete all files and folders in C:est how would I do that?
View 6 RepliesI Know how to delete files permanently like this
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here is the code i use for adding folders to the treenode. it works great but i want a delete button for deleting both files and folders... and how can i make the treenode auto refreshing. or refreshing when exiting another form...
Private Sub PopulateTreeView(ByVal dir As String, ByVal parentNode As TreeNode)
Dim folder As String = String.Empty
Try
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Have built a project and associated it with a Setup&Deployment Project. The S&D project needs to contain 2 main folders (under User's Desktop) with various formats of files (xmls, txts, dlls) inside them and several subfolders. How can i copy/import these 2 folders and there sub-files/folders into my s&d project?
When adding them in the usual way, they are copied and defined a source path onto the current pc. You can understand what errors this might create when an another targeted pc does not contain those files to the exact location. Is there any way to copy them locally or somehow import them?
I'm currently working on an application that allows users to select picture files and then categorize them into folders. Now I'm having two issues that are probably simple to fix but I only have a year of experience with vb so I just don't know how to fix them. The first and biggest issue is that once the user has selected and categorized a file, I want the program to select the next file in the folder that the first file was moved from. This way the number of clicks required is minimized. However I have no clue what I would need to do in order to accomplish this. Also, my other problem is that I want to be able to find the indexof a quotation mark but whenever I put it in the parameter it just reads it as a quote.
View 4 RepliesI wrote windows app to upload files to different FTP sites by picking the files from different folders.A log is displayed by appending text to the textbox at every step.Textbox is ReadOnly.
Issue:When app is loading a bf file to FTP and if user tries to scroll the textbox,the form is hanging and going to Not Responding.?
Actually I want add some folders and files to MSI. Through custom action i want to copy that added folders and files to some destination/target folder.
View 1 Repliesim trying to split a folder of text files into several folders of no more then 12 files a piece, we have wedding photos 1-144 which would like to have um split into folders of 1-12,13-25 etc, found something that might work but it does it by files size
Code:
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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It appears that when IO.Directory.GetFiles tries to read a folder that it doesn't have access to it throws an exception & stops reading. Is there any way to have skip those folders & continue reading the rest of the folders?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to make buttons that will open each of the "special folders" in Windows Vista. Here's an example:
Private Sub Button5_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
Process.Start("explorer.exe", Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments))
End Sub
As you can see in the above code, the button will open the Documents folder. My problem is the only folders this method can open are the documents, pictures and music folders, while I also want to open these folders below:
Downloads
Videos
User folder (aka the folder that has the user name on it)
Computer (aka My Computer in XP)
how to do that?
I have a function that returns a value of the numbers of files, folders and subfolders in a directory. But i can't seem to handle the "UnauthorizedAccessException" which i get from certain read only files or folders. I tried to use both the DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories() and DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() methods. as you can see from the code below. This exception is thrown in start of the for each loop, so i'm not able to handel it with a try, Catch Ex As UnauthorizedAccessException to cintinue the loop.
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I'm new to visual basic, and need to make a simple program to create new folders on my server. is to connect my excisting SQL server database to this program. Should it be connected using macros, or using the data source-menu? My excisting SQL server has this placement on the server:
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I am having trouble opening these files on VB 2008. I basically need to open them so I can have a better idea of how to program i.e. look at the source code. I ended up looking at the code via note pad but I had to create the forms, buttons, etc. I then copied the code and I am getting errors all over the place, specifically "statement is not valid in a namespace.
View 1 RepliesI have this code to get files from a folder location on my hard drive.
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I am currently using the following to Get Path of all Open Explorer Windows:
foreach (SHDocVw.InternetExplorer j in new SHDocVw.ShellWindows()) {
if (j.Name == "Windows Explorer") {
ListView1.Items.Add(j.LocationURL);
}
}
But it doesn't return the location of special folders like Computer, Recycle Bin, Network etc. Is there a way to identify those folders so I can put the path on my own like shell:MyComputerFolder for Computer?
When I'm in VS2008, and I go to File > Open Project/Solution, it won't let me select a .vbp file type when I have it set to Objects of type "All Project Files (*.sln; *.dsw; *.vcw; *.rptproj; *.dwp" (it looks like it's cut off at that point). Why can't I open a .vbp file with Visual Studio 2008?
View 2 RepliesIam using a PDF file as 'n Manual. It opens perfectly on my machine , but it does not open on the client computer.I set the reference up and think it should work. Asyou can see in the picture.
Imports AcroPDFLib
Imports AxAcroPDFLib
Public Class RatingManual
Private Sub RatingManual_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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I have a bunch of images loaded in as resources then i added a mediaplayer.resx file so i could keep the images separate... only now i have just discovered it doesnt? It still puts all images together, so i cant add multiple images with the same name? (needs to be the same name - its a filename)
how to add folders and images right into the project explorer.How do I then reference the images? are they just like files? so it would be app pathfolderimage.png ? WIll it add to the distibution like this?
how I can search a directory (100 + folders) and see if each subfolder has files inside them?
Example:
root directory
- 123456789 (subfolder)
-------- image.tif
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I'm writing a little app that I can tell to delete files older than x amount of days.
You select a folder and click go and it does the job but it only does the files within that folder. What I want to do is also delete all the files in all the sub folders. [code]....
I'm new to VB.Net, i have a situation like,you have folder name "Arrange", inside this, it contains so many "txt" and "zip" files, you can rearrange it by right clicking and select "Arrange By , Last modified", i have to access this option through code and have to do this every time while i'm looping or entry of the function.
I can do this in program through forEach loop and get details like filename and creationDate, but i want to arrange it in "Arrange" Folder.