VS 2008 Textbox Refers User Specified Path - Retrieving Settings?
Jan 3, 2011
I have a textbox in my program which refers to the user specified path. Everytime the program is started it retrieve the setting :
Private Sub frmmain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If My.Settings.path <> "" And My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists(My.Settings.path) = True Then
txtpath.Text = My.Settings.path
ElseIf My.Settings.path = "" Then
When I try the program on my own system there is no problem. But the customers said that everytime they start the program the messagebox popups and they have to choose the path again and again.
I am rewritting my application to conform to ms standards. We used to save all settings to registry for user settings, servername, size and locations.so we are now saving them into My.Settings app.config the only problem is that each time there is an update clickonce will isntall the newupdate but now all settings are loist and user has to save everything all over again..
I am trying to follow the book here but it seems i keep getting stuck somewhere. registry has worked fine for years but i understand we must move on, but if stuff like this happens then i just wasted a long time converting all code to conform for it to not work..
I have a form with 72 buttons (YES nearly a hundred) kinda laid out like a grid, its to set up an alarm system so the form looks like the room the system is installed in and you just press on both buttons you want your alarm to check between.
THE GOAL: either, get all the buttons between the two that were pressed to become red, like the "line not to be crossed"... or get an image of a red line to stretch between both buttons (seems i lost all button co-ordinates when setting them in a tablepanellayout). here is what I have for the first solution so far:
Okay so i have a problem with saving the users settings. Okay i have about 50 check boxes on my frm1.So for example if the user clicks on check boxes 1 and 2 the next time when the user starts the program i want check box 1 and 2 to be checked
I am not sure what the heck I am doing wrong. I would like if when the user selects no, then the app setting is nothing. By nothing I mean nothing, I am using "Nothing" to test but its not working it returns whatever is in the richtextbox
This is in my formclosing event
Dim msg As String = "Do you want to save your comments?" MessageBox.Show(msg, "Save", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question) If DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Yes Then
I need to save some string settings at runtime and read them back. They will need to be changed at anytime during runtime also. The examples I have found says they are obsolete for vs2008. how to save and read some string settings? I found alot for the application settings that to me are ones you set once for the app like in an asp.net site. I need to change these anytime like you would in a registry.
This problem has frustrated me to the extent that I am now willing to make a one-time donation of GBP25 to the nominated charity of the person who provides what I consider to be the most helpful answer over the next 24 hours.
Let us say I have a VB 6 SP6 Standard EXE project called VB6EXE.vbp and I am working on this in the VB 6 design-time IDE.VB6EXE.vbp references a compiled VB 6 SP6 DLL project, let us call that VB6DLL.dll VB6DLL.dll references a .tlb which references a compiled VB 2008 library assembly, let's call that VB2008.dll So in abstract terms the arrangement looks something like this:
I have manage, to allow user to browse through their files and insert an image path into a local database. The program will then retrieve the image from the image path and will be stored into ImageList. The Listview1 will then add the pictures of Imagelist into the ListView1.Items. Now my question, how can i retrieve back the path of the image when the users click on the selected image from the ListView?
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Table = "ItemList"
1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
I've got a VB .NET application that has an auto-updater that updates the exe and manifest files of the application when it finds a new version. For some reason when I update those 2 files, it also clears the user settings, even though Im not replacing the exe.config file.
I know similar questions have been asked/answered, but after looking across the net for 2 days I still haven't really seen an answer to the following question.rst, background info: My application starts at windows start as a user checkbox option (by using the run key in the registry.) I don't know if it is usual or not, but when the app auto starts on windows start, no saved user settings show up on the form (but they do when starting the program manually after windows is already running). I've tried both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. In case anyone needs or wants it, my code for accessing the registry is:
Dim Reg As Object Reg = CreateObject("Wscript.shell") Reg.RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRUN" &
What is the correct way to handle saving user control settings on form close. I have a tabcontrol that a user can add tabpages during runtime. The user control has a few controls (listbox,combobox,textbox) How can I save the created tabpages and the data in each control in the usercontrol? Below is how I am calling my usercontrol
Code Public Class TabPageEx Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TabPage
[code]....
I seem to be a little lost as most documentation seems to suggest that I can not save usercontrol settings in the app.config. I have played around with the solution expl. settings tab without much success. But, then again I may be going about it all wrong. So, I am looking for a little direction on the best way to handle this on form close.
this is the errors when i try to compile my created report in vb2010: the value expression for the text box 'textbox1' refers to the field 'name'. report item expressions can only refer to fields within the current datase scope or, if inside an aggregate, the specified dataset scope. this is my dataset:
I have a app config file with a filewatch file path as a setting. This way the user can change that file path easily on site. My problem comes into play when the file path, usually to another computer on the network is not valid, then I will get a not so nice microsoft error. I would like to catch this error, and put in a friendly msgbox to tell the user it's just an invalid file path. But the file watch is on my first form on the program, and having the catch on the onload of the form is not soon enough. I can catch the error on the form1.designer.vb, but I don't think your suppose to modify that. Cause when I do, bad things happen, like i'm not able to get my form in design mode.
I am trying to save a path to my settings, it just dont want to work.
Private Sub BulletPathButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BulletPathButton.Click Dim OpenFileDialog As New OpenFileDialog If OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
how to reset user settings in My.Settings to the default value, because when i checked if the user settings works i have altered the settings so now i want the settings to go back to default, because i am going to distribute the software.
I am using My.Settings to store the path of my crystal reports. Now I wish to place my crystal reports within local execute path. So how do I set within My.Settings to detect the local run path?I tried putting application.localuserappdatapath in application settings which return back as a string.
I am attempting to create an application in an attempt so it could be run as the user and preserve individual settings, by this what i am trying to achieve is when the application is installed, it is installed once but each user has their own settings saved within their own profile - a bit like Office applications. How could i start with this?
I'm currently writing a program that needs to open a file specified by the user, replace a certain string of text with a different string of text, and save it to the user-specified path. Here's what I have so far:
Private Sub forceButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles forceButton.Click Dim writer As New IO.StreamWriter(OpenChart1.FileName) Replace("", "E *", "N 5 0") End Sub
I'm trying to save a collection of key/value settings in my application's "user settings" (they're column widths), but while I see no errors, when I run the code (in the IDE) my collection in "My.Settings" is always nothing at startup. I do a "My.Settings.Save" when the application exits, and barring the "serializers not found" errors in the IDE, no other errors occur. When I run my application as an exe, it behaves the same way..
how to change the default path of settings file for the application when installing??and where I need to change in application so that the application takes this file as setting file for itself (means it do not search in default location )
I'm looking for a way to specify the location for the User.config file that is used for storing the My.Settings object. It appears that this is not possible. The problem for me is, I don't want to be responsible for creating several different files on the users computer that really have no use and are difficult to find and clean once an update is released. For most users, this is not a serious problem, as many will probably never update the software, and most will probably only go through a couple of updates. On my system, there are config files for every build of the application, and the same to a lesser extent will be true for my beta testers.
I can understand that MS wants to make sure that no two applications will use the same location for storing application data, but a simple [UserData] [CompanyName][ApplicationName] for storing application data will probably suffice for 99.9999 percent of the legitimate applications in the world. Bogging a user's system down with erroneous files, no matter how small, is an unnecessary drain on system resources and a potential source of problems for the user. It's bad enough that most programs leave bits and pieces of themselves all over a user's system after De-installation - this to me seems only to exaggerate this problem.
Is the only way to get around this problem to write a whole new Settings Class? Is there a way to change the location of the UserConfig file to a more friendly (and more predictable) location that I am not finding for myself? It would seem that having at least the OPTION to specify a location for the User.Config file would be OBVIOUS and easy to implement, so why did they leave this out?
I have web service on server! This service is calling from the clients applications!Now how i can get user name and computer name of clients that using this service, for example if application from Clint1 calling this service i want to get computer name and user name of Clint1?
I Want to Display Content of Database Into TextBox,i.e. i have column named "Ename" in "EMP" table of database1 ,now i want to display "Ename" in TextBox of my form , so, how can i do this ?
I have created a settings-file for my plug-in-based app. When the mainApp writes the settings to the file, the pluginApp should read the settings from the settings-file (when opening or at runtime even better), but somehow it reads the settings from the app.config-file. This means that the pluginApp never will read the settings according the values of the file.
