I want to make a vb application that downloads stuff off of the internet such as pictures, etc. Does anyone know how I can do this? P.S. If anyone knows how I can implement a progress bar into this .
View 3 RepliesI have a program that downloads a text file from the internet. Inside the file, is: 4.5.0.0
I need a way to remove the '.', and delete them, leaving me with 4500, but I've never used Regex and the tutorials on the internet are confusing.
i am trying to make an application that loads images from the internet (from my FTP Server).The problem is that when i want to change the image by selecting another image from a ComboBox control my application becomes non-respondive.When the image is loaded the application works properly again.
I tried to move that in a separate thread so instead
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When I make an application using an HTTPWebRequest to connect to the internet, the GUI freezes whenever it's doing something. When I run the WebRequest on another thread, it still freezes a bit. Is there a way to completely stop the freezing?
View 3 Repliesi am trying to make a program that downloads a text file from the internet, the program display/edits it and then it saves it, lastly it uploads it. How can i make it that it downloads a text file and displays and then uploads it.
View 5 RepliesIs there a better way to make a form with multiple buttons opening different things than having a form that has lots group boxes for each tab. So in the begining each box will be invisible and when you click the button the corresponding group box will become visible. Is there any other way?It will be like a background image and it'll have buttons that will mask it with invisible buttons. when the button is clicked it will open the corresponding group box.
View 5 RepliesHow to make program cuts Internet connection without appearing in the taskbar,I used the following methods, but did not succeed
1. shell("net stop dhcp") appear in taskbar
2. shell("ipconfig /release") appear in taskbar
I've been trying to make a program which access the internet and takes the source code from the webpage. I've copied this code from the internet:
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I'm writing a small application that downloads some files over ftp, the incoming directory is monitored by FileSystemWatcher_Created, on creation I want to extract some text from the file and call another application with the text as parameters the problem I have is the FileSystemWatcher_Created procedure is triggered before the file has finished downloading, I could download it elsewhere and move into the monitored directory but some of the files may be quite large and Im wondering if there is an efficient way of waiting until the file is ready? along the same lines what is the best way to queue the tasks as there can be many files coming it at one time, I've looked at threading but would that be suitable for such a task as there will still be a bottleneck at the application called by FileSystemWatcher_Created ?
heres an outline of what im doing:
Private Sub FileSystemWatcher1_Created(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs) Handles FileSystemWatcher1.Created
'read text file
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I've been looking for a way to do this for like two days now, and no luck.
What I want to do is get into the temporary internet files, find a certain file....
(^^^ I can do that just fine (using specialfolders, etc) ^^^)
and get the internet address associated with it.
See the attachment if you don't get my meaning.
I have searched a lot on Google about Pausing and Resuming Downloads and I find the examples with background workers but I don't understand them and that is why I can't change the code according to my app.Is there an easy way of doing this or do I have to do it the hard way?
View 5 RepliesWhat I want is to be able to add things from the textbox into code by clicking a button. For example
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
add->" If VideoList.SelectedItem = TextBoxName.Text Then
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I'd like a redist package (full single download) instead of the web installer (tiny single download, massive multiple at-runtime downloads). Anybody know where to get one?It never hurts to try. In a worst case scenario, you'll learn from it.
View 3 RepliesIf NewEntryName.Text = "" And OpenFileDialog1.FileName = Nothing Then MsgBox("Please choose a name for your game.", vbExclamation) MsgBox("Please find your game.", vbExclamation) Else Button1.Text = NewEntryName.Text
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Dont be afraid to spam the thread with things you can create.The more the better!
View 2 RepliesI want to make a pretty easy program which repeat some easy things for me
STEP 1: on the first picture I want it will wrote a URL in the form + example [url].....
STEP2: thenI want then the program press on the link Get video
STEP3: and after that will the program "Right click here to download the video"and copy link location
STEP4: finally I want the program will paste paste URL into a new form? is this hard to made?
STEP5: if its possible I want also have a button example name "generate" which add a number of the URL from [url]...10000 to [url]....10001 and the repeat the things and paste into the form>is this hard to wrote a program which made this steps?
I would like to make a program that will automate a couple things on a webpage. Here is the things I would like to automate:
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I want to do is make a notification system, kind of like aim were a new little box will show up to alert the user of a couple different things.
This is how far i have gotten :
Dim popups As ArrayList
Public Sub newEvent(ByVal title As String, ByVal description As String)
popups.Add(New Form())
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I use an arraylist because i dont know how many messages will come around the same time, but i could switch to an array if i must. this is the form that i made as kind of a template :
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Its just got a couple text boxes for now. how can i make these new forms every time i have a new message to display and the clean up after them when they are done.
im making a game in vb 2010. but im new to 2010 so i dont know how it works (because i used 6.0 before).I have a form, where the graphics should be drawn on. "frmMainGame".I have a module where I want to put all Graphic things in.so I have in my module Graphics.vb [code].....
now I have a button what calls the sub "Call DrawPlayerCoordinates()".but now it gives an error because it don't know where to draw the string. So how do the code above know it should draw it on "frmMainGame" and not in a module what isn't possible?
VS 2010 is rather annoying in that its sub windows always seem to be moving about and I have to put them back where they belong. It seems that I've completely lost one window now however- its the one that should go below solution explorer/to the right of the error reporter where all the information for the highlighted entry is displayed. How do I get this back/restore defaults of the way things are displayed?
View 2 RepliesOk so on my project it seems the timer is not working correctly, the interval is set to 5000 (which is 5 seconds... right?) so every 5 seconds it would display a MsgBox telling me the current date/time and then a time in a list.
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Ok. So, how do i save things. Ive made a Checked Item Box. But i can't get any of the things to Save that i have Checked?
View 9 RepliesWondering if there is a way I can duplicate controls and have them work properly? basically, i have a datagridview with code in it plus buttons that do various things to it etc etc. ideally, i'd like to be able to have two of these datagridviews on show. So, user presses button, second datagridview shows. Note that I don't want them to both display the same data - they should both be independetly editable..
View 3 RepliesWhat it will do:It will go to the penndot website.Fill in those two forms with what the user inputed in the textboxes. Click login Then tick either reschedule, unless there isn't a reschedule then it would tick schedule Click Continue Tick the right DMV(Not going to post this because of my location If there's an error at the top It won't do anything.If there are available choices.Then it would send an email to the email in the email textboxSo.. after writing all this out...
View 2 Repliesim trying to make a game in visual basic in which your character can move around, jump, and kill things. I can get the picture box with the character to move and everything is fine. but i did run into one problem. when the character moves over a tree (or something) you can see the gray backround of the character as i made in paint. how do i make the backround of the picturebox transparent?
View 4 RepliesI would like to find out how I can make a complete copy of an existing project.The purpose of this is not for backup but rather to be able to resue some of what I already designed/coded in VB and turn it into a new or different application.
View 5 RepliesI am trying to learn and make a small application to print from VB.net 2010 to my usb label printer.
View 3 Replieshow can i make a trial period application in visual basic 2010
View 3 RepliesVisual Basic 2010. For a school assignment i had to make a application with XAML in it. I made the tutorial Math Quiz when starting up Visual Basic 2010. This was a Windows Form application that only needed VB programming language. Now i made the Math Quiz and finished it but there is no XAML included or what so ever. Can I still convert this to XAML or just see any XAML language somewhere. Cause I need to proove to my Teacher the application I made includes XAML.
View 1 RepliesI want to make a login for my application, not using a database, for now.
I figured something like this:
Private Sub OK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OK.Click
If UsernameTextBox.Text = "Josh" & PasswordTextBox.Text = "mypass1" Then
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