VS 2010 - Stick An App To The Desktop Background?
Jan 7, 2011
I would like to have my application basically appear as if it was part of the desktop background, I've removed the form border etc and made the background colour of the form the same as our standard company background so it all blends in nicely. I have also made it so the app does not appear in the toolbar and it is set to launch on startup so it appears as soon as the user logs in - so all works fine and looks fine because any new apps that the user opens will open on top of my app. The only problem is that if they press the Show Desktop button (or use Windows Key + D) to minimize all apps, mine gets minimized as well and disappears. Its easy enough to get the user to make it appear again as it has a system tray icon that they can interact with, but it would be better if it just didn't vanish when they did this.Now I know the best thing for this on Windows 7 would be a Gadget but the problem is that Gadget's annoyingly have to be HTML/javascript and a) I'm not great with web coding and b) I don't think it is even possible to do what my app does from a HTML/javascript page... oh and c) I can't find any way to deploy gadgets in a business network (there is no way we are installing it manually on all 300 of our PCs), so the gadget idea is not looking very promising.I'm wondering if there is some window message I can capture and ignore in the WndProc event handler
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Aug 27, 2011
I am trying to write a simple standalone windows forms project that basically contains various buttons which run external application setup files. The problem is I want to be able to run it from a USB stick. I have created a folder inside the project with all the files I need to call in it. I am using Process.start but the paths are obviously going to be wrong when the project is running from the stick as the drive letter may be different each time. How do I over come this.
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Feb 17, 2010
Is it possible to change desktop background using VB.NET?I'd like to change the icons too plan on making a VB.NET program that can automatically make Windows XP look like Mac in just one click.
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Aug 29, 2010
I have enabled windows dreamscene on my windows 7 x64 system and would can right click on a media file and click "set as desktop background".
My question is: how can i/is it possible, to do this programmatically? I know how to handle the images files and set them as the background but I just cant get the damn video files such as .wmv!
I am using visual studio 2010 and am coding in visual basic.
PS: I had to install a .dll file for the dreamscene to work and have tried adding references to it but with no luck.
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Oct 5, 2009
How to change the desktop background picture using vb.net"? ie , i want to change my desktop background through my vb.net code?
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Dec 5, 2009
Set contents of picturebox as desktop background?
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Oct 21, 2010
I have a program made in vb 2010. The problem is it uses my files on the computer such as different cursors and pictures and I really want to be able to make it portable and stick it on a memory stick and run it on other computers. Is this possible?
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Jan 23, 2010
I'm using this code to set a picture as the desktop background:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
SetDesktopWallpaper("C:\image.jpg")
End Sub
Private Shared Sub SetDesktopWallpaper(ByVal fileName As String)
[Code] .....
It works well, except the wallpaper is always centered. How can I have the ability to choose Fill, tile or center with separate buttons?
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Apr 9, 2011
Then I ran into problem #1 - I wanted to call the methods in another sub but they were shared so I received the error:"Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method without an explicit instance of a class"o, I took out shared since I didn't know how to fix it, and put in the Following as Global Variables:
Public listener As System.Net.Sockets.Socket
Public handler As System.Net.Sockets.Socket
Public client As System.Net.Sockets.Socket
[code].....
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Dec 5, 2009
I'm trying to create a Radio Desktop player for my Radio @ [URL], i got most of it built already as you see here : [URL] what i want to know is how do i get my radio stats (Song name and the bit rate of the stream eg, 128kb/s) so it should say something like Playing 'Calvin Harris - Flashback": 128 K Bits /Second (this is a shoutcast server)
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Jan 23, 2010
Short I want to write an application that loads a swf file (or html file containing the swf), and uses it as desktop wallpaper.
First off, is this even possible? Second, how can I do something like this (If its possible)?
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May 11, 2011
I bought myself a TV tuner USB stick, and the supplied software does not do what I want. I looked around for some software examples, but everything I've seen uses DirectShow which was apparently part of DirectX-9, but does not seem to be in DirectX-10. I've found AxMSVidCtlLib, but have not been able to work out how to use it.
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Jan 26, 2009
In my WPF application I want to display items on a map, but since the map is rather large, it is scrollable.My questions are:* How do I display an image on top of my map?
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Jun 11, 2012
We have a Windows Forms VB.NET application running on Windows Server 2008. Users access this app using Remote desktop.The app displays information in Excel, but Excel opens on the server.Is there a way for the .NET app to launch Excel on the users local desktop?
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Sep 5, 2011
Some of u already know I'm making a 'virtual desktop'- thing.Only one problem. When switching to a new desktop it starts a new instance of my app in that desktop (works) and on the form load event it says process.start("explorer.exe") <- here is the problem. It only shows a window not the actually bar.Also this may be important it shows the window, but when I navigate to explorer.exe 'C:Windowsexplorer.exe' and open it there. The explorer bar does show up.
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Aug 28, 2010
I'm creating a desktop application that will update my IPv6 tunnel with my current IPv4 address. I've coded a couple of POST and GET statements years ago, but honestly I don't know how to do this in VB2010. The url is [URL] (I broke the url, so it would show in it's entirety). and I know that I'll have to create a string with the information in it. I just don't know what I need to use to code the POST to the website, or retrieve the server response (and place it into a label).
[Code]...
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Jan 12, 2011
procedure or program codes in creating a remote desktop application using visual studio, vb.net with the tool Winsock. I've heard in blogs and forums that Winsock can be a good tool in creating a remote desktop.
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Mar 24, 2011
I'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."
[Code]...
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Oct 10, 2011
I've got a borderless form that I'm handling the MouseDown, MouseMove & MouseUp events to do the dragging and re-sizing which I have working just fine but I started thinking how neat it would be if I could have the borderless windows snap to each other and to the edges of the screen(s), this part I'm stuck on. I've got them snapping together just but and I've got it snapping to the edge of the screen but I have a dual monitor set up at home and I can't move it to my right side secondary screen with the code I have now. I'm attaching a sample VS2010 project with only the relevant code for this.Eventually I might add in the snapping to the desktop edge or to another note window's edge when resizing too, but that's not my focus right now.
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Dec 2, 2011
I am creating a toolbar for the desktop. The only problem I have is that all though I have the windows above all others windows I need to have the other programs (not created by me) to snap or max to below my program etc. I have tried to search but have not found anything to help me or explain how to do it..
I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultmate (visual basic 2010)..
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Aug 24, 2010
this code works in every other version of windows, why not 7?
[Code]...
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Oct 15, 2011
i am creating one application and i want it to stick to screen edge/corner when dragged near to the edge of the screen.i want it be like in WINAMP.
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Feb 14, 2010
My whole project consists of:
1. an electronic product
2. a memory stick (USB mass storage device) and
3. CD thast includes the Windows user interface program
The electronic product acts as a host controller that write data to a file (.wcs), which is in the memory stick whenever the user plug it to the USB connector. After this the user disconnect the memory stick from the electronic product and plug it to a PC that run the user interface program. Untill now the user searches for the .wcs file manually using an OpenFileDialog.
My question is:Is it possible for the program to automatic detect almost plaged or new plaged USB flash memory sticks in order to load open the needed .wcs file? If this is possible then how can I do it?
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Jul 12, 2012
I can zip files to a memory stick and transfer to another computer without any difficuly but how do you zip an entire VB project so that it can be put on another computer, unzipped and used in Visual Studio? The part that I seem to getting confused with are the folders bin, My Project and obj.
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Aug 13, 2010
1. Can I include a database in an exe file? - I am trying to create a small launcher application which contain 10-20 IP addresses with name, addresses, phone and email for people I help out on a regular basis. I would prefer if I could have the DB containing this info included in my launcher app, so I could carry it around on a USB stick.
2. How do I get mstsc.exe (remote desktop) to launch with an IP address from my DB above?- In my small app I am trying to add a launch button for each person. So if I am helping "person1", then I click the button next to him, and it launches my remote desktop of PC Anywhere to his IP address....
My initial thought was to use an ini file with my exe file, and modify the ini file with data through the app, but I want to be sure that there is no way I can include this information in the exe file.As I want to be able to change the connection information through my app interface I reckon I am forced to use either a SQL DB or some sort of file DB right?
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Mar 18, 2012
I am trying to come up with something that will let me obtain a unique ID of some sort for most types of storage devices. These can be USB thumb drives, SD cards, external hard drives, etc.
I have run across this:[code..]
But I can't find anything similar within .NET. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
My end goal is to be able to define specific hardware storage devices, and then have my application auto-detect them when they are plugged in.
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Mar 19, 2009
I have tried to do some research on my own but I haven't found anything substantial. I was wondering if it is possible to pull low-level hardware information off of a HDD or stick of RAM using the latest visual basic.net. Mostly curious in pulling serial number and model number.
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Mar 7, 2011
I am using a WPF richtextbox to create a syntax highlighter for code provided in a textbox. I want to have it automatically adjust the rich textbox as I am typing, using a thread timer I reset the contents of the rich textbox. I am trying to keep the cursor where it is suppose to be. I don't loose any text characters during the parse (except line breaks).
I don't know how to keep the caret position where the user has left it in the text. It defaults to the end of the document. I attempt to store the current caret position in the text and then set it to the document after I make my changes, however the error I receive is "Cannot set CaretPosition to be outside of RichTextBox." So I set the caret position to the bottom of the document.
WPF, VB.net, .net Framework 4.0
Here is the code.
Public Sub FormatText()
If IsNothing(rtfContent.Document) Then
Exit Sub
End If
Me.rtfContent.IsEnabled = False
[Code] .....
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May 13, 2011
Does anybody know the code to refresh and reload desktop icons, you know how after installations of programs it sometimes refreshes the desktop? That is exactly what I need and what I am looking for. Someone please help me out here because I tried searching on google and could not find any proper code.
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May 26, 2009
I want to have a stick figure kind of person who moves around with the arrow keys, and i want to have him move in different positions depending on what key is pressed. What is the best way to acomplish this without using pictureboxes?
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