VS 2008 Save/get A File In User Folder?
Jun 8, 2010How to get the User (Username) folder? I mean C:/Users/Username, D:/Users/Username or C:/Documents and Settings/Username ...Don't remeber exactly
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View 2 RepliesHow would I go about forcing a file to download from the web browser control so that instead of a file dialog box showing it will automatically download to a set folder?
View 4 RepliesVisual Basic 2008/2010 - Save Page As, create a Folder, upload the folder to a specific ftp site I am working on this vb app that will goto a specific site, click on a button(i am still working on the button process) do a save page as, create a folder, save those files to a folder and then upload that folder to a ftp site.
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I want to have a dialog box like SaveFileDialog that will enable the user to choose a folder name and the save it. How I can achieve this?
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to make it so the the images will save to the folder that you selected in the textbox1.text from the folderbrowser this is the code's I have tried
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I have a folder named player models and my program is going to be used by multiple people, the problem is that the user can save images. I want the program to save the images in a folder named Player Models, the only problem is I don't know how to make it save in that folder on other users. How can I do something like this?
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Im trying to save a file in XML and offer the user a save dialog to appear so they can name the file. The file will save using a custom file extention. The problem is I keep getting off the wall suggestions and Im looking for a simple solution. Here is what I have, please only show examples using my syntax based code. Im still a bit new to Vb so posting off the wall examples
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in vb.net i am trying to save application settings but for USER but i cannot find the user.config file
when does this file get created?
i searched my entire hardrive. i also searched the entire project.
I managed to create a folder in the my documents folder by typing the path name and the variable from which the folder must be named. So for example the folder variable1 was created. I want to save a file in that folder and i want the filename to be the date. I managed to do that as well but instead of saving the file into variable1 it is being saved into the my documents folder with filename: variable1(date).
View 8 RepliesI have a case where the user or client attaches the document and the document is saved in the data base as byte stream.Now I need to get that binary data and convert it to the corresponding format and save the file in the temp folder in client system using VB.net and then I want to get the path where it was saved so that I can send it to the data base for sending DB email.
View 1 RepliesI would like to load a file from www and save it to folder. I am using Visual studio 2008 an VB in form aplication. So how to load a file from example www.test.gg and saving it to c:/myfolder/
View 3 RepliesThis seems almost to easy to ask, but I must be missing something simple.I've added a folder in the project explorer, by right clicking>add>new folderBut when I run under debug, I am unable to save to that folder as it's not in the debug folder, I get:"A Generic error occurred in GDI+"In this code, the first line saves the bitmap fine (in the debug folder), the second line fails with the above alarm..
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If Not value Is Nothing Then value.Save(Application.StartupPath & "Image.bmp")
If Not value Is Nothing Then value.Save(Application.StartupPath & "ImageImage.bmp")
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based on the title, I want my textfile created can save at any location folder .
View 19 RepliesHow do I save my settings in the same folder of my application is in .INI file.[code]And how do I delete the app.config folder in the AppData Local dir?Because what I noticed is.. It creates new folders everytime I release a new version of my application.It doesn't consume much space though but still it creates new folder corresponding to the application version.
View 5 Repliesi have loaded my application settings into 3 text boxes. now if the user changes these, how do i save the new file/folder paths to my.settings? i tried my.settings.save but it does not seem to work.
'Load the current options
Dim MyConnectionString As String = My.Settings.PrimaryConnectionString
Dim MyDefaultImportFolder As String = My.Settings.DefaultImportFolder
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I am confused on saving a file to a certain folder. I know how to save files and what not but what I can't figure out is this:I right clicked my project name in VS2010 -->New Folder and added a new folder. Now this folder shows up in my Solution Explorer. How to I reference this folders location?
View 5 RepliesSave file attachment to folder on search then writing its path to DB? I would like to save the file attachment to a folder on the website.
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I have a simple program that opens up a text file and changes it and then what I want to do is save a text file when you click the "convert" button to the directory that the exe exists in e.g. "C:UsersBeaudeanDesktop--Distro--" etc. so say I have a richtextbox with the text in it I want to save and a button called "convert", when I click convert it will save it in the programs root folder with the name "main.html" and I also want it to overwrite any file with the same name.
View 3 RepliesI have used the following code too save a notepad file; [Code] The code saves files but only in the 'Application.StartupPath' folder, the save dialogue starts in the correct place a quizzes folder inside the debug folder but files can't be saved here or in folders inside it, even though you can browse them in the dialogue. I want it saving where navigated to in the dialogue.
View 2 RepliesI'm using the FileSaveAs dialog control to allow the user to select a filename to save a file either as a doc file, an rtf file or a pdf file (that part was easy).However, after a bit of testing, it seems that the file extension doesn't automatically change when selecting the different file types.If the filename in the dialog is Foo.doc and I select FileType *.pdf and click "Save", my app still tries to save the file as a doc type.Virtually every other MS app automatically changes the extension to match a selected file type from the Office Suite to Paint. here's my code:
Dim dlg As New SaveFileDialog
dlg.InitialDirectory = m_sReportFolder
dlg.FileName = sProjectName & ".docx"[code]......
I want my app to load a .exe file specified by the user, crypt it then save the crypted .exe file on a path also specified by the user. I need some guidance on this. First of all, I am currently using IO.filestream to store the .exe file. When I save the completed file (so far in development, that means a copy of the file as I haven't added encryption yet) the .exe file appear there alright, but without the icon (it has the standard/no icon instead) and it does not work. I tried outputting it to a .txt for examination and it was a bunch of tokens as one would expect. Here is the statements:
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im currently doing my special project in software development
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How would I get the current user's folder?Example:"C:Documents and SettingsOwner"
View 1 Repliesi created a form with a combobox that lists out Assignments ( assignment 1, assignment 2, etc...)......what i need to do is let the user choose an assignment, then the program should look for the matching text file in a folder, ex: user picks assignment 1, and the program will read from assignment1.txt and display the result in a listbox. I have everything except the coding to match what the user chooses and the text file to streamread.
View 10 RepliesThe specific features I want to produce is it doesn't place on the form, it places in the little box at the bottom and when CustomUserControl.Show() is called it shows as a dialog boxI'm sorry if I misspelled something or my grammar is wrong, I've never done well in those subjects.
View 1 RepliesI create an xml file from a csv file that a user uploads. What I want to do is display a link that says click here to download and have it pop up a box where they can save the specific file I just created. I can't seem to find any examples on this.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to save user preferences in a file, when the account is made, an XML file is created with default values:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<NewDataSet>
<accountPrefs>
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So basically i'm trying to set the colour of fonts and split containers, using the names of the colours which are stored within an XML file that each use has. ( the values are read in correctly as i set labels to test them out. )
I have a script that checks a version table from one mdb (server) and compares it to the same table in another mdb (user folder), if the version number is mismatched it needs to replace that file from the server, to the user folder. The problem is, how to get the OLEDB connection to the user folder since, the folder destination is
E:Configurator & UserName & Detail2004.mdb
How to set this up?
Here is my code:
Dim UserName As String = Environment.UserName.Substring(Environment.UserName.LastIndexOf("") + 1)
Dim connectionString2 As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=C:Configurator" & UserName & "Detail2004.mdb"
Dim con2 As New Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString2)
Dim cmd2 As Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
I am creating a VB .NET app that uses the user's Application Data to store data. Can an unprivileged user create a folder in the top level of their Application Data directory? I am trying to create the app's folder if it doesn't already exist for that user.
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