Does Anyone know a Way of reading from a Shortcut File (.lnk) ? or Does anyone know the Format of shortcuts (.lnk). I have Tried the windows script host object model COM Component But I can't Get It To Work.
View 9 RepliesHow to create a shortcut of application (C:MyApp.exe) to desktop with icon?
EDIT: I've find the solution..
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I'm trying to extract the icon from a shortcut (lnk file), but I end up with the shortcut symbol in the lower-left hand corner of the image. How can I extract a shortcut's icon without this symbol?
Here's the code I'm using:
Dim ico As System.Drawing.Icon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon("C:shortcut.lnk")
I want to press for ex: "F12" and will show for ex: "msgbox".I know how to that with keydown but I can't use this outsite my application..
View 6 RepliesI've encountered another minor problem with using vs 2010...how do you assign shortcut keys? I've read you just click in the shortcut keys option then press the buttons you want to be your shortcuts- this however just acts like I'm pressing the shortcut keys for vs. for instance alt x, which I want to be exit, takes me to debug. Typing alt + x in manually gives me an error saying what I've put in is invalid.
View 8 RepliesI'm writing a vb.net (2010) app to extract a zip file in XP to a specific folder. That part works fine. Now I want to create a desktop shortcut to an application (if it exists I need to delete it first)
This should be an easy to find answer but I believe my eye is beginning to twitch!2 error messages: First Error: "Type expected" On Dim shortCut As IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut = DirectCast(WshShell.CreateShortcut(FileName, IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut), == this is a simple syntax error but I thought the type was the IWshShortcut ==
Second Error: On "With Shortcut" it fusses: " cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method or shared member initalizer without an explicit instance of the class."
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I'm having problems to create a shortcut key to show another form.
For example, If i will click F1 another form will pop up. Kindly check the codes that I used.
Private Sub Form6_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
txtDate.Text = CDate(Date.Today)
End Sub
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I use the following code to get the shortcut files in a folder and to list them in a Listview control. But is there a way to extract the path of the EXE to which this shortcut is referring to ?
vb.net
Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo("C: est")
Dim aryFi As IO.FileInfo() = di.GetFiles()
Dim fi As IO.FileInfo
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I've written a service in VB and a config app for the service which has a service start/stop button. In order to start and stop the service you need admin rights, under Windows 7 you right click on the exe and "run as administrator". This works ok, I've used the Visual Studio Installer to also create a desktop shortcut, but if you right click on the shortcut there is no way to run as administrator.
The question therefore is, how to run the shortcut as an admin user? Edit, if you hold shift down whilst right clicking you get the "Run as administrator" option, but you still can't change the advanced property to tick the box as its grayed out.
I know there is a way to remove it for the system, but I don't want to remove the little arrow from the desktop icons, I only want to remove it in my application window I am making. Adding the registry hack removes it from my app as well as the desktop, yet I want to keep those on the desktop. Is there something I can add in my app that will allow me to remove them in my application only? I am showing the icons in a lsitview
View 4 RepliesScenario:I am attempting to perform some work on files (rename/delete) in folder, usually in a network location. Because the location of products folder is not critical, it's rarely ever in the same place on different networks. A simple shortcut on the client machine is all that's required from the client perspective and the rest of the product is self contained on the server somewhere. To run the 'fix' my small application will perform quickly and easily, I need to parse the path held in the target box of the .lnk. Then perform ifexists for a specific file and then do my renaming/deleting.
To keep it as simple as possible, the end user should just 'drop' the shortcut onto my form then click 'fix'.The problem: How in the heavens can I retrieve the target location from the .lnk into a string without windows scripting host?
Im trying to create a program that will be using a shortcut key in displaying a form. But im having problems on how to know if the cursor is on the textbox or datagrid.For example, If I clicked the textbox, and i clicked f1, Customer List Form should appear. No problem with this. I used the following
If txtCustomerName.Focused = True Then
If e.KeyData = Keys.F1 Then
Form9.ShowDialog()
End If
End If
But when I Clicked the cell on the datagrid, and click F1, Product List Form should appear. This is my problem, the form is not appearing when i click f1.Here is my
If dgvSalesEntry.Focused = True Then
If e.KeyData = Keys.F1 Then
Form8.ShowDialog()
End If
End If
I was wondering if there is any way to make a program recognize a keyboard shortcut while its not the active program
View 1 Replieswhen I publish my app and run the setiup it places the shortcut under a folder in the start menu called Microsoft
View 1 RepliesI'm having a little trouble trying to read a word document in vb. how to get the text out of the word document would be great.
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to create a shortcut which expands or collapses my treeview using the ctrl+alt+up-arrow or ctrl+alt+down-arrow:
If Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.Alt And e.KeyCode = Keys.Down Then
mytreeview.ExpandAll()
End If
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="plugin.video.stagevu"
name="StageVU"
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I am trying to loop through a key to get all values. For some reason this returns nothing
Dim RegKey2 As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SoftwareCompanyStartup")
Dim subname() = RegKey2.GetSubKeyNames
MsgBox(subname.Length)
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Vb.net
rivate Sub CPU_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CPU.Tick
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Coding in VB.net in VS 2010. I have:Imports System.Configuration and I added a reference to System.Configuration.
When
**MsgBox(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("sDBName").ToString)**
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I am trying to search for snippet for reading and writing ini files in visual basic .net.
View 3 RepliesI'm reading a cell value from a Datagridview, and this works fine in other projects, but not here?
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Dim OldGUID() As String = Nothing
Dim X as Integer = -1
For X = 0 To Me.DGView.RowCount - 1
If Me.DGView.Rows(X).Cells(0).Value.ToString IsNot String.Empty Then
OldGUID(X) = Me.DGView.Rows(X).Cells(0).Value
End If
Next
It fails on the line: OldGUID(X) = Me.DGView.Rows(X).Cells(0).Value
with: NullReferenceException was unhandled - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
The Cell has a string value and during debug I see the value, but it fails anyway.
How do you read the data from a file on the computer? I have an mp3 stored on my root folder and I want the form to read the raw data from it so I can do some encryption etc.
Dim fileOpen As New IO.StreamReader("C:file.mp3")
Dim stream As String = fileOpen.ReadToEnd
TextBox1.Text = stream
I have come up with this 2 methods of reading all records on a database table. Both work nice but I would like your expert opinion on which delivers best performance and why.We are reading table "DATA" and filling an array called lstData with the contents of the "Data" field.
1) Method one is using the bindingsourse to go through all the records.
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My guess is that the first method, while simpler to the eye could use more overhead. What I really would like to know is if the second method really delivers better performance and if it is worth doing all the manual SQL queries.
I figured a fix using if statements which lets me click the button without issues, except just 1; it doesn't read from the listbox. here's the code i'm working with
Private Sub Button5_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
Dim a As New Random
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I need it to be able to read from the listbox while it is closed, instead it just thinks that nothing is in the listbox, but when the form with the listbox is open, it reads from it perfectly, what shall I do?
I'm trying to read a file with my following sub:
Public Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString& Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal AppName$, ByVal KeyName$, ByVal keydefault$, ByVal ReturnedString$, ByVal RSSize&, ByVal FileName$)
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I have the following code under my button: [code] It is supposed to open "Database.bin", search the file for whatever the user types into SearchBox (a text box), and add to DisplayBox (a list box) every line of that file that contains the string the user searched. [code]
View 3 Repliesheres the problem lets assume i have a label1 which its text is "(y+1)"i defined an integer, lets assume its x i made some operations up and lets say there can be diffrent results and i want to replace y with that math ops result and then define x as it writes in label1..
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My app has a series of parameters that is to be stored in an external files. Eventhough the "parameter" file could be edited by the end user, I really don't care that much about what the user does to them.
So my two questions are, what is the most effeicent means of reading and writing a file and in what format should the file be in? When I say effeicent I mean, what utilizes the least amount of memory during the process, is fast, and disposable.
Example: XML, Text, something else. StreamReader / StreamWriter or what ever.
still pretty new to programming in general, but I have most of the basics figured out.I stumbled across this problem today, though. I wanted to try making a simple encoder/decoder. However, I am having trouble getting characters from a string.
I have a list(of char) to separate the individual letters in the message (letterList), and textToConvert is the text that the user types in to be encoded. Here's the section of code my problem exists in:
For i = 0 To textToConvert.Length - 1
letterList(i) = textToConvert.Chars(i)
Next i
Upon running my program, I get an out of range exception for the middle line above. Am I doing something wrong?