I have a program with the connection string to my database in the config , this file is in the main directory where the software is installed. My question is: Other people can edit or replace this config file with other for example to connect my program to his database? or edit other settings in the config ? so my program will work with a edited or replaced config file?
View 9 RepliesI'm attempting to update some values in the web.config file from code during an install process.So far I've found this for updating the connection string,[code]However I need to update another section and I'm not sure how. I have the settings for an email and I'm not sure how to update them. Relevant web.config section below, [code]
View 2 RepliesI have existing file named myapp.exe.config . What I would like to do is have a little app where user could specify path to app database. I know how to get file path but I dont know how to change existing line in myapp.exe.config file. No changes during runtime. Just simple app to change string in app.config file. I would like to enable user to select path to database and store that path in app.config file. Line which I would to change has a string "|DataDirectory|mydatabase.accdb" and i would like to change it with for ex. "C:Myappmydatabase.accdb" ( if it is selected file's path).
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Looking for unique term 'END' in file - want to delete the term as I will append text later in the routine and append a the same unique term 'END' later in the same routine. Here another poster's code to find the term:
Dim file As System.IO.File
Dim reader as System.IO.StreamReader
Dim line As String
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Im trying to make a program that works a bit like the log in on a computer. But i cant make it load a different .config file depending on what username is used. I want it to load a config file from different directories that match the username. eg if the username was bob then it could be: C:MyProgramLoginBobapp.config I've been teaching myself and this has had me stuck for ages.
View 16 RepliesAfter reading through a bunch of stuff, I was curious what production developers use for config files. I know that there is an app.config file that can be modified by the user of the program w/ settings. I also know I can create my own .xml file or .ini file to store settings as well. I wanted to know from the production side, what do you use and why?
View 1 RepliesI accidently excluded my app.config file so when ever i try to run the app, it fails. How can i get the app.config file back with having to reenter everything
View 2 RepliesI am trying to build a form that has a button on it that will open up a 2nd form that allows me to view and edit the connection string. I believe the connection string is also called app.config, and can see that in the Solution Explorer for the project.All I have managed to do is drag a button onto my main form and relabel it. I have no idea how to create code to access the connection string.
View 2 Repliesis there any tool to validate configuration file?
View 1 RepliesIs there a really simple way to save the app.config file to a location then load it again? I'm making a multiclient app. I was planning on having each user have a folder, and in that folder would be their personalized app.config file that would load when they log in. I don't really know any XML.
View 13 RepliesI'm trying to insert a couple of fields into a csv config file and then update all other rows in the file at the same index by copying the previous 2 entries. I'm reading through each row and converting the row into a list(of String) because it seems to be the most flexible way. Ine initial insert works fine, but the code below doesn't. The actual insert code is:
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pcIndex is the list index value from elsewhere in the code at the insertion of the 1st of a pair of values into one row. I need to update that index point and pcIndex +1 in all other rows. However it's not doing anything. Tried using lstSteps.Insert, InsertRange, etc. Am I using this right? Is there a better way? It seems to be over-writing the entry rather than inserting a new column and moving the others up, so it appears the list capacity value isn't updating - so I'm left with the initial row with 4 more entries than the others sticking out of the file.
what I need do is: I have an original file, it can be office word file, or pdf file. In the file, there are some words that are encrypted, so, it reads like: blah, blah, this is the word: xxxxx, blah, blah In my program, I decrpted the xxxxx, now, I want to put it back and generate the new file. How can I do it? for word file, I guess MS office library will work. how about pdf file?
View 2 RepliesI have a program that reads the version of a program off of a txt file in the program folder and off a txt file hosted off a site and compares them. If it's different it downloads the update, if not then you can use it. My problem is when I update it. It doesn't replace the version in the file. How would I update the version on the txt file in the program folder when it gets updated.
View 7 RepliesSomebody would know to show some function to solve my doubt?
View 12 RepliesI'm editing jpg metadata and when I'm finished the file is less than half the size but ok, IE I can see modified tags correctly via windows explorer. But if I edit the same file again its down to 16k and corrupted. The image being edited is the standard desert.jpg found in the picturessample pictures directory.
I'm using the following
Public Sub Put_FileMetadata(ByRef glb_UserArray() As String, ByRef glb_SecurityArray() As String, ByRef glb_InputParms() As String, ByRef glb_InError As Boolean, ByRef glb_ErrorNumArray() As Long, ByRef glb_ErrorDescArray() As String)
On Error GoTo error_handler
' Initialise Variables
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I want to edit the rows and columns of an excel file using vb 2010 express. NOTE : I dont want to open .exl file but want my program to read and edit them according to user. PS : I want to edit them according to cell number.
View 6 RepliesI need to read some information from a txt file and put all that info to a textbox (this is ready and done)but the textfile have some variables like %userName% that i need to replace programatically in vb.net?example of text file:hello %userName% , this is an automated report of the uses of your account. this is what the txt file have in it, when i read it to vb.net and put that info into a textbox is done right, but the question is how to replace the %userNams% for some text in another textbox and replaced when i press a button?
View 1 RepliesI am using replace function to replace a character in the file
sw.WriteLine(Regex.Replace(strLine, "\", Chr(13)))
This code is working fine, but now I want to replace two times and I want to use the replace function twice. Something like this, but it is not working . Can anyone tell me how to use Replace function multiple times?
sw.WriteLine(Regex.Replace(strLine, "\", Chr(13)).Replace(strLine, Chr(13), ""))
Dim accConn As New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Access") & "")
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
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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 need to read binary file and in this file found the string and replace it with other one and save the file afterwords. I found many example to read binary, but to find and replace is for me mistery.
View 3 RepliesWhenever I change a user setting in app.config (via running the program) the change doesn't appear in the app.config file (it stays the same). When re-running the program, however, the change is reflected in the program's behaviour. How can this happen if app.config wasn't altered when the program was last run?
View 2 RepliesI have this pretty simple application, it uses a webService to transfer data to my servers DataBase. Now it is very important for me to keep this application as one single file, and not having some XML files needed for it to work, but this is the case. I think the XML file holds the information to this webService, so without it the application crashes. Is there a way to get the application to work without this XML file, or a way to put the XML inside the exe archive?
View 1 RepliesI have a class library (Named ADI), that needs some configuration settings from the project using it (like connectionstring, filesystem locations etc).
I want to define these settings in my Windows Forms/Web Projects App.Config or Web.Config, like other settings.
Here is part of my app.config for my windows forms application:
<applicationSettings>
<PhotoImportRobot.My.MySettings>
<setting name="ADIImageRoot" serializeAs="String">
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I want to save a datatable to the app.config file (My.Settings) and what i have understand is that you can use the Datatable.WriteXML to convert it to XML and then save that string to the settings.
But how do i rebuild it from the xml? Do i have to create my own code to do that or is there a method?
What i want to do is use a config file to save the value that a user sets in a Folder browser dialog so that i can use the directory they select to write to files in that directory
View 4 RepliesI just found out that I have a bigger problem than i thought.. anyway.. it's with my app.config. It started with my main program that im almost done with but now its acting up and now it's everything.
View 1 RepliesI need some guidence to determine how to use DPAPI to encrypt passwords and server entries in the app.config. All examples I came across seem to refer to 3.5 and earlier, VS 2008, platforms. Does anyone have an example that will work for VS2010 in 4.0?
View 2 RepliesHow do you write config files for vb programs? Like .xml files, Seen some examples but didn't fully grasp them. Say I had a program that launched programs and I wanted it to save the:Program Name, Program Location, Program Site, etc..So I am guessing the xml would looking something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Configuration>
<Path>
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how to load the settings from these configs. The reason I want to write it to an external config is because I plan to add an updating feature and I want the configs outside of the program.
I have tested my code in a windows form project and it works great. so now I want it to run as a service.The problem i have is referring to "name" in my configuration string which is in app.config.
Dim settings As ConnectionStringSettings = _
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings(Name)
(Name) is under-squiggled and message name is not declared, file IO functionality is available in the microsoft.visualbasic namespace.