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
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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 have a form (in visual studio 2008 vb.net) with 1 listview and i want to see a arrow when i make sort. I have finhsed with the sort code but i am unable to see the up or down arrow. I have try the
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I have an vb.net application. For this application there are 4 users. so for this 4 users different user names will be there Also users will have the different shortcut icons(from the base exe they created 4 shortcut and renames themselves.) As soon as they click on ok button in login form i am storing the details in registry. if they restared the application, login form will show the last user name(which is stored in registry). Here the requirement is user1 should not get user2 username when he login. Here I have to store the login information of every users in registry separately and if user1 is clicking the shorcut of my application(i.e clicking on shortcut of MyApp.exe) then he should get his details. Here i can differentiate by using which shortcut icon is clicked. Based on that name i can say this user is trying to log and i have to show his user name in login form username textbox.[code]...
View 20 RepliesI have an application in vb.net. after building i will be getting the exe. once i create the shortcur for this exe consider shortcur of myexe.exe in desktop, how can i get the name of the shortcur icon (i.e "shortcur of myexe.exe") through my vb.net application. Here i have below scenario.I have three shortcut(my1.exe,my2.exe,my3.exe) for an exe named as "My.exe" if i click on my1.exe i should get the shortcut icon name as my1.exe if i click on my2.exe i should get the shortcut icon name as my2.exe if i click on my3.exe i should get the shortcut icon name as my3.exe So based on shortcut name i am proceeding different thinks withing the application.
View 3 RepliesI added the icon in my forms project etc. But when i go to view the project after build, when i click on it the icon does not appear. and the shortcut doesn't have the icon.
View 2 RepliesI'm a VB beginner and trying to create a Setup installer for my first freeware titleThe installer is almost complete.If I execute it, and it will install the application with a Desktop shortcut and a Startup shortcut.
View 12 RepliesI am working in VB.NET 2003. I have one exe file in a particular folder. I want to create desktop shortcut icon for that exe file. How can I do this?
View 1 RepliesI've just created a game program in VBE2008.Who do I add the shortcut Icon to the project file?When I build my program into a .exe file I want it to include a small custom icon that will automatically display when you hotlink from the desktop to the .exe file.
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and I have encountered the exact same problem, that the desktop shortcut icon created by the Setup program does not work when dragging and dropping a file (in this case an Access-database) onto it,
while a shortcut manually created works just fine.
I do not understand the answer in the above thread. But, anyway I would like to find a way to solve the problem directly, preferably through the Setup program itself.
I just created a game program out of VBE2008 and did the build process to turn it into a .exe file.When I did the build function I apparently missed the step of attaching an icon to the project.Now when I do a desktop shortcut to the .exe file there is no pretty icon - just an ordinary looking window box.How do I add a desktop shortcut icon to inside the project settings?
View 1 Repliesthe thing is i'm a .net programmer at varsity but i cant figure out how to program or insert shortcut/icon keys on the web browser application e.g back,refresh,stop,go. i'm only able to do this using command buttoms. so i want to use simple icons like those on some web browsers.
View 1 RepliesHow can I get all the names of the shortcuts icons in the desktop into a String?
Like: Computer, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Internet Explorer....etz.
I tried to use "My.Computer.FileSystem..." , but didn't find a way.
I am noticing a discrepancy between a full path specified for a VBScript Shortcut IconLocation and the subsequent mangled result that only becomes noticeable when I wish to manually change the Shortcut's Icon. Somewhere after the oShortcut.save call, the mangling occurs.
The icon is always properly displayed on the Shortcut. However, programs that exist only in the 32-bit "C:Program Files (x86)" location result in an error message that states, "Windows can't find the file %ProgramFiles%<etc>." (where <etc> is the remainder of the path).
The Visual Basic Script as well as my Command Prompt both show %ProgramFiles% as "C:Program Files (x86)", yet the Shortcut/Windows Explorer dialog always interpret it as the 64-bit Program directory. This may indicate a low level flawed interaction, a contention of definitions.
Input/Output examples:
IN: Hard coded to the call to oShortcut.IconLocation = "<Full Path>,0"
OUT: The text shown in the error message after I click "Change Icon...".
These ONLY exist in "C:Program Files (x86)":
IN: C:Program Files (x86)AdobeReader 10.0ReaderAcroRd32.exe
OUT: %ProgramFiles%AdobeReader 10.0ReaderAcroRd32.exe
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Note the %SystemDrive% adds a further insane mangling of the 64-bit path. This one luckily seems to be a benign error for the moment. The errors are not even consistent. Has anyone at Microsoft ever heard of quality control?
In VB.NET I used wscript.shell to add a shortcut to the desktop. I didn't realize it created the shortcut on the "All Users" desktop, which means I can't delete it. I don't have admin rights as this is my work computer, and asking for admin isn't an option. WScript.Shell has a createshortcut method but not a remove shortcut method! I've been googling for days with no luck. Windows XP Pro 2002, SP3.
View 1 Repliesof field with working in the registry and shell but I figured I would ask this question. I want to learn how to make a shell context menu associated with my program for a given filetype or any filetype
View 6 Repliesworking in the registry and shell but I figured I would ask this question. I want to learn how to make a shell context menu associated with my program for a given filetype or any filetype. But I want to know how I can add it and remove it.
View 3 Repliesi am new to wpf and i try out navigation but i want some help when we navigate to a page other than the main page then its gonna have a back arrow in the top corner visible allowing to go back but i want that it should be hidden
View 11 RepliesI am having an issue with my msgbox calls in vb.net 2010. See attachment. Notice the form icon in the top left of the titlebar. Is there a way to replace this icon with my application's icon? I have my app icon already set through the project properties. Barring that, is there a way to remove the icon completely? I've seen of VB.net msgboxs don't have an icon, so I'm not sure how it got there in the first place.
View 3 Replieswhat is the simplest way to add/remove app icon to startup folder...so much work to do and so many choices to choose from...
View 6 RepliesTo restore an application from "minimize to system tray" mode to "Normal" mode (visible) from another application, I am using "Showwindow" method of "user32.dll". The API is working as expected i.e. displaying the application on Normal mode. Moreover, I want to remove that application's System tray icon as soon as its mode changes from "minimize to system tray" to "Normal".I had tried using "Shell_NotifyIcon" method of "shell32.dll" by passing "NIM_DELETE" & reference of "NOTIFYICONDATA" but no luck.The API method declaration is as follows: Shared Function Shell_NotifyIcon(ByVal dwMessage As UInteger, ByRef pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean.
View 2 RepliesTo restore an application from "minimize to system tray" mode to "Normal" mode (visible) from another application, I am using "Showwindow" method of "user32.dll". The API is working as expected i.e. displaying the application on Normal mode. Moreover, I want to remove that application's System tray icon as soon as its mode changes from "minimize to system tray" to "Normal".
I had tried using "Shell_NotifyIcon" method of "shell32.dll" by passing "NIM_DELETE" & reference of "NOTIFYICONDATA" but no luck. The API method declaration is as follows: Shared Function Shell_NotifyIcon(ByVal dwMessage As UInteger, ByRef pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean
To restore an application from "minimize to system tray" mode to "Normal" mode (visible) from another application, I am using "Showwindow" method of "user32.dll". The API is working as expected i.e. displaying the application on Normal modeMoreover, I want to remove that application's System tray icon as soon as its mode changes from "minimize to system tray" to "Normal".I had tried using "Shell_NotifyIcon" method of "shell32.dll" by passing "NIM_DELETE" & reference of "NOTIFYICONDATA" but no luck.
View 1 Repliesdoes anyone know how to remove another application's taskbar icon from the taskbar but leaving the window still visible on the desktop for the user to use? I need to do this during runtime using the window handle if that is possible,
View 1 RepliesI'm using a listview in my application.(view=details) when user try to sort the listview by clicking the column header i use the imageindex property to set an icon for that column header, but I don't know how to remove that icon from that column header when user clicks another column header. How should I remove the icon(picture) from the previous column header?
View 20 RepliesI'm setting my application up for use with ClickOnce. I've got my own icon that I made myself that is associated with the application for the desktop or programs list but a default icon shows in the add remove programs list. If I'm using ClickOnce is there a way I can change the add remove programs icon to the one I want?
Alll the information about changing the add remove programs icon that I've found talks about dealing with the properties of your setup project. With ClickOnce you don't have a Set Up project like you do if you're using Windows Installer so I'm not sure how you change the add remove programs icon.
The form is a dialog, with KeyPreview = True and AcceptButton = (none)Handling Me.KeyDown, and Me.KeyPress do not trigger when I press either the Up, Down, or Enter buttons. Me.KeyUp will fire on up and down, but not enter.I put a breakpoint on the procedure declaration and the first line of the procedure (the Me.KeyPress and Me.KeyDown event handler procedures), and they never fire.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a program for my HTPC that will launch applications. What I'm having problems with is adding keyboard navigation.
View 7 RepliesHow would I go about doing this? I was thinking I could possibly use Tab index?
View 4 Repliesthere is this picture on the form How would you make arrow keys move the object around the screen?Also how would you make buttons correspond to arrow keys?
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