When using VB6 I could use (Windows Explorer, Programs), and find my installed program. I need to get to the database as I have entered a lot of data into it via my not quite finished program.
View 2 RepliesI want to make a program which first of all check whether a serie of programs is installed, if a program is installed I would like to find the installation path, so I will be able to work with it further..My first though was to check in the registry, there is theinstallation path also mentioned right?Another possible way was to search all the harddrives for a specific .exe fil. If then the file is found, the program is installed, and you should be able to find the path to the found .exe file. This is more "secure", right? - Because not all program is registred in the registry right? (E.g. if you move it from another location, and doesn't install it).
View 7 RepliesI have build an application in Visual Studio en publisched it so dat people can install the program. Now I would like to access the installation on the client computer from an other application so that the user can start the application from a menu item within an other application. But in what folder is the application installed of how can I refer to the exe?
View 4 RepliesHow I can find path for installed application from VB.net if i know the name of application exe file?
View 6 Repliesi installed Mysql Connecter Net 5.2.5... but i cant't find it in Data base Explorer
View 15 RepliesI just installed Lucida Grande font on my computer and I am unable to find this font when I add a label or text box control. I can see the font in the control panel and MS Word. What is the right step to see this font?
View 1 RepliesI have been trying for days now how to create a process to the user to easily create a connection to any installed data types they have installed. I have found an example right inside vb2008. I never use this because I code my own connections, but this would be real nice if I could include it or duplicate it.
View 1 RepliesI have started working on the module based application (plugin based architecture) and client want setup of module that can be run later and added automatically in main application. So, what I am thinking to apply in module setup project is to find the installation directory of main application and then paste dll of module in specific sub-directory.
Is it possible? Is there any other way to add feature in main application later using setup?
I installed my application on another PC but it denies to work properly ! Once it is started , an error message appears saying that there is an error : "Class is not registered" . I have registered various References that up to now were reported through that error message , but at this time I can't understand what exactly is missing . By pressing the Details button I get the following message :
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System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))
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This code gets all software that has an Uninstall Entry and it app path. However, given I have the app path, I do not know the name of the main .exe of the software. What ways are there to find the main .exe of a found application?
'Declare the string to hold the list:
Dim Software As String = Nothing
'The registry key:
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I'm making a program that will patch a program with a new Exe. Its all working with this code
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles patch.Click
patching = True
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I get an "Could not find file 'System.Byte[]'." error.
I currently have a property in my program which returns a true/false depending on if the program is "portable" or not. I need this to know if I should do a certain thing or not.
It checks if it is by checking if the registrykey the installer creates exists, here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MyProgram
(And under the Wow node if the OS is 64 bit)
The problem is, I am trying to get rid of the need for admin rights, and this is the last function that needs to be fixed. But I don't have a clue on how.
Why I want this property is because then I don't need two separate versions of my program (like a set property in My.Settings which I set before I build).
The only files that differ using the portable vs the installer is one file, but the reason why I don't want to base the result on the existence of that file is because I want to warn the user if it's not there (if the program is not in Portable mode), so he can reinstall the program.
how I can check if the program is installed by an installer, without using admin
I'm using VB.Net 2005 Pro and want to be able to check if a particular program is installed. I've seen lots of ideas about checking files in the program files folder or scanning the registry for keywords but none of these seem particularly foolproof. Is there a way to get a definitive answer to if an app is installed?
View 2 Repliesive been making my own programs but i want to know how to make the file being installed
View 10 Repliesi have been searching around trying to figure out how to copy the same idea a few programs have done in the past. However I Can't remember every program that did this but a PC MMO Hunting game Called: The Hunter does this technique.Their entire system is MySQL on a server, and displayed through a website You pick your options on the website and then click "Start" and it opens the installed program from your computer up with the given parameters Quick Example In case i managed to confused you guys.
I have a Program that's just has a text box on it From a website on a server: you can Type in Your username and then click "Start" as an example of a button, which would open up my program explained above with the users name in the text box. i figure there is some type of word for this, but i can't seem to figure it out i looked into web services to see if its what i need, but i couldn't seem to figure out if it was or not.
how can i view my installed program list and uninstall program from the list using vb.net 2008.
View 1 RepliesI`m a beginning programmer, and I`m trying to build my first 100% object. The object would be a USER object, representing rekords from users table in database. The table in the database has 5 columns ->
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I am trying to build a program for a PC Business to check and see if an antivirus is installed, if not suggest some that are available, but im lost when it comes to trying to get my program to check and see if one is installed.
View 2 RepliesI'm wondering how I would go about creating a program that once installed was a windows toolbar. What I'm trying to do is similar to the clipboard, but I want to customize it to my own style. I work in a data entry job and many of the bills we enter have similar information that I'd like to be able to enter without repeated typing. I'd like the toolbar to be docked to the top of the screen, and have several buttons on it. Clicking a button, while having a focus in my data entry program, would paste the button's text (or the full text of what the button caption represented) into the selected field. Alternately, if focus between multiple applications is too difficult to try, then clicking the button would highlight the text and copy it to the windows clipboard, so I could then click back into my data entry program and hit ctrl-v. I dont need help on the program itself...just on how to make it as a windows toolbar, if possible.
View 1 Repliesi have a way to get all IP addresses on the local network, however I just want to get a list of computers on the local network who also have the program installed.Code I have to find local IP addresses:
Private Sub GetLocalIP()
Dim strHostName As New String("")
Dim Address As String = ""
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I am using Visual Basic 2008 express and I have created a simple database application for my y6 pupils. The program will eventually be installed on the school system but, i want to know how I can ask vb to find which folder the application was installed in and get it to return a string. Does anyone know how to do this??
View 5 RepliesI created a program using visual basic. For some functions the program accesses a dll which was created using visual c++. When the program is run on a computer that does not have visual studio installed, functions which make calls to the dll generate an error: Unable to load DLL 'filename.dll': This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1).Reinstalling the application does not help, and when the program is run on a computer that does have visual studio installed, calls to the dll work as expected without generating any type of error.Is there some component that is installed with Visual Studio that I need to attach to my program installation? Is there some way I can create or access the dll such that it does not need this component?
View 10 Repliesi have a audio program that will play some mp3 files from a folder. but the audio files together take up about 1 gb. it is possible to let my program download the files from the internet after it is installed on a computer. to a specific folder..?
View 3 Repliesi want to make a simple program where i can add/edit or delete a shortcut from an installed programs in my computer.
let say c:program filesmicrosoft officeoffice11winword.exe.
the purpose of this is i want some of my selected programs to be in a single window where i can click to open so i don't need to go to start then programs and open that specific program.
i want to run that program in startup so everytime i start my computer the shell or the program is already running and i could click the program that i want on that window.
I need to create a setup project, the main project can't be installed without a program called infragistic.
How can I do ask for infragistic program before to install the main project? If infragistic is not installed, the setup project must install it, I mean execute the infragistic installer before the main installer.
I have a VB project that I created a simple setup project to deploy. It installs fine except for one problem. It crashes because it can't read its own application directory. Included with the program are an xml and schema file that it needs to read when starting.dditionally it may create a log file, also in its application directory. Either of these will return errors under the default install. This was not an issue when running the program in VS and if modify the program to work with another directly like C:Temp. I have a workaround in which I change the permissions of Users group to Full Control for the application directory
View 7 RepliesI am trying to kill my program when a new version is being installed through the installer using a custom action.
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I have recently published a simple text editor(just as an exercise). the editor has been published using Microsoft Visual Basic Express. Once the program is installed i wanted to make it a default opener for .txt files, so i clicked openwith ->Choose default program and then i was asked to show the location of the .exe. It seems like the .exe of my installed program doesn't exist. where the .exe is on a windows7 or tell me of another way of makeing that program the default opener.
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I am deploying my application on a 64 bit windows 7 system (setting the platform property to x86) , after the installation process the app needs to set its connection string in the config file; and this is where I am having issues, the app is not able to write to the config file if/when its located under the program files directory (no admin privileges??), the app works fine when installed on a public folder.Please let me know how to give admin or write access to my app when its installed to the default program files directory
View 2 RepliesSo I have this error.
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So I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that I don't have office loaded on my computer. Now I have another laptop, with office that I loaded this project on, and it works fine. So do I have to load office on this computer, or can I just reference something?
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