Problem 1: I am running into a problem with my program that when UAC is active on Vistaaccess to C: and Program Files is not allowed. My program writes text files as a user types. Is there a safe place to write files to that may be some sort of standard instead of throwing files all over the place? Like maybe somewhere in the user's default folder's or something?
View 10 RepliesI was having trouble before editing the registry on a WPF application I'm working on, in order to get autostart to work, so I ended up creating a shortcut in the startup folder to automatically start the application. My problem is, that this not working on Windows 7 (and Im guessing Vista too). Here's my code. Does Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup not work on Windows 7?
Dim PathToStartupFolder As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup)
If File.Exists(PathToStartupFolder & "Application.Exe.LNK") = False Then
Dim ShellObject As New IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShell
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I'm getting a problem when writing text files using StreamWriter. The files read fine and they write fine if I'm not overwriting an existing file. They also write ok as long as I'm not writing over a file that only has one digit at the end of the name. For some reason when there are 2 digits at the end it crashes when I'm trying to save over an already existing text file. Here's my code.
StringForTextFile = "C:" & Folder4PS & "" & IDCodewDashOrN & "Series" & Series & "ScreenNumber" & ScreenNumber & ".txt"
LblTesting.Visible = True ' Testing
LblTesting.Text = "StringForTextFile = " & StringForTextFile
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above but 've tried all the different Encoding possibilites. Unicode, UTF32, UTF8, UTF7 as well as without those parameters listed where the close parentheses is right after StringForTextFile. I get the same result. If I'm writing a new text file that doesn't exist, then no problem or if I'm writing over an existing text file but it has 0 to 9 at the end then I'm ok but if I'm writing over an existing file and there is 10 or above(haven't tried triple digits or all values) then my application crashes. You see the test label in the code above because I was looking at exactly what file it was trying to overwrite and it is just as it should be.
Should I be using a different procedure? An example of a string that would cause a crash for the string StringForTextFile would be:
C:Name of My AppSeries1ScreenNumber10.txt
If it was being written for the first time then no problem or if the 10 at the end was 0 to 9 then no problem also. I've also tried and originally had it set up where there wasn't an If File.Exists(StringForTextFile) = True Then statement. It just always used the same code whether writing or overwriting and I wasn't having a problem that I remember. For some reason I started having a problem recently and I put the alternate methods of writing in.
I'm working on my very first VB 2008 Express program, having a little bit of experience with VB 6.For my first VB 2008 program, I'm starting out simple. I have two text boxes, named Title and Director.You input text into each text box.I also have a button named GENERATE, which generates a text file named c.est.txt and stores the text box material.[cod]I know how to do this with VB 6, but not with VB 2008, and my research hasn't come up with an explanation of how to format this correctly.So how do I revise this code so that there is a line for each text box string, how do I get rid of the System.Windows.Forms.TextBox stuff and replace it with my own headers, and how do I double-space between lines?
View 13 RepliesI'm running Windows Vista with admin privilege and UAC is disabled but still unable to write to windows registry!
My.Computer.Registry.SetValue _
("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun", _
"Test", "C:Test.exe", Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.String)
I'm getting error "Unauthorized Access Exception was unhandled."
"Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE....' is denied."
I've googled the net and found that registry permission elevation is required for admin tasks, Is there away to take registry key ownership through VB.Net code??
I'm having some problems with people saving text files using my program, but only people using Vista. Since I don't use Vista myself, I'm not sure what this is but it's not a problem on any machine running XP.
Note that my file saves just using the standard Savedialog box and Filestream/Writeline commands.
From what my customers are telling me, the save dialog comes up fine and there is no error as the file appears to save, but when they look for the completed text file, there's nothing there.
I'm working on a program where i need to create a text file and write in it. I created the file and I'm capable to write in it but my problem is that i'm not able to write text on the same line. Imagine you have 2 textboxes, the first is tb1 and the second is tb2. how can i write then content of the 2 textboxes on the same line in the text file?
View 4 RepliesInput File to read:
SAMPLE NO: 10S-02013
Moisture 10.1
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I am not getting the right output I need, as whenever it reads a line, it looses my sample numeber.
so i have it so that the user input three initials and presses an enter button. Then it goes into a listbox where theusers initials and game score enter. I then have it transfer to a text file. all this works but i need some code toun through the text file and arrange them from highest to lowestheres my current "HighScore" codei know its going to be a for loop but im a beginner in vb and it would be so much easier in java button1 is the enter buttonbutton2 is the save button that saves to a text file
Imports System.IO
Public Class HighScore
Dim objStreamWriter As StreamWriter
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I am having difficulty writing to cvs files. My application is a text parser that scans a txt file, removes punctuation, and then stores the individual words in another txt file for later analysis. My end aim is to process txt for semantic similarities. I'm very new to this so my code is very chunky But I'd really like to pull each sentence from txt file, put into an array, and then place each array item into a CSV file with commas between words. [Code]
View 2 RepliesHow can I add application to startup of VISTA or Win7, using Setup and Deployment package?
View 1 RepliesI am witting an app that will generate batch files to do an unattended installation of a share point 2007 farm. I already have a batch file I use and it's pretty big. I copied and pasted the content into my application, and I'm using the System.IO.StreamWriter to write to the batch file from the winform. [code]As you can probably guess, I'm doing all of this in my mainform code window. There are maybe 3 or 4 batch files that will be generated based on the selections made on the form. For example, I'm generating a batch file to create the OU, Group and service accounts the farm will use in active directory, I'm creating a batch file for all of the variables that will be used for the additional batch files created, etc. How can I split this up? is there a way to create the batch files without having to actually copy, paste my existing batch file content into the mainform code window? I'm using file.writeline on each line of the pasted content by the way.
View 7 RepliesI have seen a few different ways of Reading/Writing Text files. What i am trying to achieve is a simple debug file in the most efficient way possible. Currently I have....
If System.IO.File.Exists(debugpath) = True Then
Dim Debugwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(debugpath, True)
Debugwriter.WriteLine(debugwrite)
Debugwriter.Close()
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1. Do I have to close and reopen the file each time I want to write to it.
2. In vbscript I would simply open the the file at the start of the script and close at the end is the same possible here.
i compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
View 1 RepliesI have an application that should run every time when boot windows(xp/vista). I currently added this app to all programs and startup. How can I do in code. Is the best way to use registry and put the key in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft Windows CurrentVersion Run. It is very important to start every time when windows start.
View 1 Repliesi have started programming a diary sort of program. i have a home form which takes you to other features. im not sure if there is an easier way to do this but the view is week by week with a new week on a new form. and on each form i have a separate text box for each day. using the code:
'In the form load event:
txtMonday.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("DayMonth.txt")
'In the text-changed & form closing event:
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("DayMonth.txt",
Monday.Text, False)
I have created a code in VB.NET to read data from text files. Data is read from a list of files, where each file is changed using a for loop. Data is written to a new text files. Each file is read one by one and written in the same way. Now, my speed of execution is very slow. I am using a Quadcore processor with only 20-30% of CPU utilization when my code runs. Is there anyway I can increase the speed of reading and writing? To read only 125 files it takes 10 minutes or more, which is very slow indeed, because in the end I need to read thousands of files and write them. Each file is approxiamately 30-50kb.
Here is my code.
Public Sub ReadRMRDataFileIntoTextFiles()
'Read in the customerids once up front
Dim customerids As Collections.Generic.List(Of String)
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so I want to make a button in one of my programs that writes text to a file. I know how to do that part. I use:
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Im working on an AutoUpdate class for a small application I've been working on, and with Windows 7 and Vista machines I get a permissions error when trying to replace some of the files in the Application folder. The only way to get it work is to run the application as an administrator. Is there a way I can either attempt to automatically run the app as administrator, or a way of replacing the files that won't be blocked by Vista/7's permission gatekeepers?
View 1 RepliesI've made sort of a "Game"
I want to add an Item to all accounts. I know HOW to write into files and add the item but it's adding it to ALL accounts.
Accounts Dir: C:DatabaseAccounts"Username"Items.txt
Without adding EVERY Account file as a streamwriter how would I make the streamwriter do all available directorys for the account's name.
I want my program to be able to edit a values within a registry key that resides in 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE'
My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREXYZ", "MyValue", "MyData")
The above works fine in Windows XP, but throws an UnauthorizedAccessException in Vista.
My application creates a file by writing to System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "data/" & filename...Now this works fine usually, but I just added a setup utility to the app, so now it installs to the program files directory. It installs correctly and creates the data folder, however when it tries to write the file it gets an exception "unauthorized access".
View 3 RepliesI have a problem when writing some text to txt files.Here is my My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("test.txt", tekst, False)where tekst is a string variable.
When opened in some HEX editor, test.txt begins with 3 unwanted characters - ASCII values: EF BB BF. Notepad isn't showing them.
Can I have Two basic Questions about Setup Project deploying -
1, After I put company's logo at startup installation, there was still text shown up "Welcome xxxx setup.." together with the logo, how to remove it and display company's logo only? Also, if using text display and the text is too long, how to return to next line?
2, If I setup more than once, I was told to remove the first one using Add/Remove program in Control Panel before setting up new program. How can I use a dialog like "Overwrite the existing program"?
Have you ever seen the whitish glow around the titlebar text in Vista? You know, the feathering around the text that makes it stand out from the Aero glass? Well if you haven't, look at the picture in the attachment. Does anyone have an idea as to how I may reproduce it, specifically draw it around some text on the Aero glass? I already know that the Aero glass can be implemented using some APIs in dwmapi.dll. Are APIs for the glow also in that dll? I'm unable to find any info on how to do this in the official documentation.
View 11 Replies[2008] Reproduce Vista Aero text glow effect
View 8 RepliesFor writing to a Text file and saving it somewhere like my C: drive, Should the following work?
Dim 1 As NewStreamWriter ("C: est.txt")
I want to put this code into the On btn click section so it outputs the content of my listbox into a .txt file ready for printing if needed
writing a text file, If LineData(1) = "ABCDE" then I need the file to look like this when the text file is opened:$mov "ABCD" D10 No other quotes or spaces are allowed. Now I have opening and closing quotes on the entire line no quotes on the ABCD section
DRegister = 10
FileName = "C:PLC Print2.txt"
FileOpen(ff, FileName, OpenMode.Output)
For K = 1 To I
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Ok I know this question has been asked to death but I still have not seen a good answer. I have created an application in VS2010 using VB.NET. In my application I have an error log that is an XML file located in the Public gstLocalErrorLogLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "ErrorLog"that gets written to in the event of an error so I can trouble shoot application easier. My application also downloads files from our FTP site and puts the files in Public gstLocalDownloadLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "download"So I have files that get read and written to as well and created and deleted all in the Application.StartupPath which is either "c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" or "c:Program Files (x86)(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" depending on 32bit or 64bit Windows 7.
After creating the setup I install it on my test machine that have both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit.Everything in the application works great till I have to write to, delete or creat a file in those directories above. I know it is an access issue and the UAC. This will get installed on numerous systems so the options I have seen to change file or folder permission on the computers manually is not an option.What has to happen is after I install the application it just works like when you install it on XP. Some post have suggested that you us a user with administrator privilages or group which is all fine and dandy but the user I have used to test the application has all of that.
So what I am asking is how do you create an application with VS2010 in VB.NET that after creating a setup package and installing on Windows 7 will just work with out "Access to the path c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File) is denied." If I have to install this on 100 Windows 7 computers it has to be a concreate no manually doing anything just install and work like when we installed on XP.
i read a text file and i need to overwrite the first line of the text file this is my code
Private Sub readProvisionOrder()
'Loads ProvisionOrder from text file
Dim sFileName As String ' name of file in the directory
Dim sr_ProductsFile As StreamReader 'file reading variable
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