WritePrivateProfileString Writing INI File In Windows Directory
May 13, 2008
I am using WritePrivateProfileString for writing INI file in Windows directory and GetPrivateProfileString for reading INI file from Windows directory. In one of my system, I found that writing is not working but reading is working fine. On further investigation, I surprised to find another another Windows folder in C:document and Settings<username>windows. And WritePrivateProfileString is writing INI File in that folder, but reading from C:windows. Any Idea why it is happening? More information Windir Environment variable is returning C:windows and I am passing only file name not full path in the API function. This thing is working fine in all other systems.
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Sep 19, 2009
I need to write a small program that monitors a group of file directories for files being written to them and them move them as quickly as possible to a different process directory.I was very happy to find FileSystemWatcher in .NET. The event fires immediately. Unfortunately it fires when the very frist byte hits the directory.I'm using the following event:[code]My problem with this is, I am following up with code to move this file and if the file is big enough I will get the error:"process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".That make sense to me but I'm struggling with finding a "file complete" event or some other programmatic indication that the file has completly arrived and can be "moved".I don't want to set an arbitrary timer.These files are on their way to a printer and I don't want to stick delays in a process that the users will notice and complain about.
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Jul 4, 2011
I am having a windows application. That downloads files from server and write into the local directory. It works fine. When we try the same appliication in Windows 7. IT shows an error Access to the path denied (While writing to the local directory).
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Jan 18, 2011
What I am trying to do is I have a .dat file that I cannot read but can at the same time. What I mean is I know how to decipher it by hand (alas takes minutes per 6 parts and there are thousands.) I am trying to make an application that can read this and allow me to edit it from my computer. I can open this with a hex program such as hex editor neo. I am currently trying to get it so I can read the file and have it place corresponding parts in to text boxes that I can alter to suit my needs.
I am new to visual basic and know a tiny bit about C++ if you think I would be better off trying in C# I can try that as well I do know some since learning c++. There are 41 parts to each item listed in the file and each one would need to go in its own text box. In hex there are 348 blocks that need to be arranged in corresponding order. Also the beginning of the file has 6 block followed by a code for each item. I need to find a way to put all the correct code in the correct text box and have it make sense.
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Jan 31, 2009
I'm writing a windows service (MacTimeFix.exe) to fix the Windows time on a Macintosh (it's like this: i live in Moscow (GMT+03:00), and Mac OS thinks that the system time is GMT+00:00 and adds 03:00 to it< and Windows thinks that system time is the local time).I need to execute my code when my VB app is closed. (it happens with the shutdown of Windows) The form is invisible (hidden), and the user mustn't click anything except windws shutdown button. It is a service. When i write a Form1_FormClosing sub, it works only on Alt+F4 or CloseButton and doesn't work when the app is stopped from Windows Task Manager or whatever also.I need a way to execute sub when app is closed with taskkill (without /force) or a way to execute a several app on Winshutdown.
Here is my code:
Public Class Form1
Dim SystemMary As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
SystemMary = Mid(TimeString, 1, 2)
[code].....
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Jul 12, 2009
My application creates a file by writing to System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "data/" & filename...Now this works fine usually, but I just added a setup utility to the app, so now it installs to the program files directory. It installs correctly and creates the data folder, however when it tries to write the file it gets an exception "unauthorized access".
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Jul 20, 2010
I'm creating a simple .NET console application where I want to save a file in a folder that's part of the root project, like so: SolutionName.ProjectNameTestData. I want to put test.xml into the TestData folder. However, when I go to save my XDocument, it saves it to SolutionName.ProjectNameinx86Debug Console est.xml.
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Feb 9, 2012
copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.Example:
Source path: C: emp est1.txt
destination path: C:Data
if C:Data doesn't contains "temp" or "test" folder, it should create the folder before copy the 1.txt.[code]....
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Jun 30, 2009
I'll tell you what I'd like to do which is to create a directory listing of every file inside a specified directory and then use a loop to upload each file in this directory to a remote folder via FTP.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am attempting to compare two directory trees. I have the program map the network drive and copy a directory. I need it to verify that the files copied successfully by comparing the source to the destination. If comparison returns equal then perform action1, if comparison returns unequal then perform action2.
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Apr 22, 2010
I have an ASP website with a SQL Server database. I would like to write a windows service, that once a day reads data out of the database. how to connect to the database.
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Oct 8, 2010
I'm using the following code to open and then write a subkey in the registry
Private Sub RegSubKeyCreates(ByVal sKeyPath As String)
Dim RegKey As RegistryKey
Dim SubKeyParam() As String = Nothing
[code]....
When i'm trying to create the subkey i'm geting the error System.NullReferenceException Object reference not set to an instance of an object?
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Mar 24, 2012
How can you write a VB.NET Windows Forms Application via CodeDom? I have tried everything, the closest i got to it is the code below, which first of all shows command prompt window which is not good, and then shows the form for like a second and everything disappears.
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Apr 15, 2009
What is the best way to handle resolution issues on the monitor when writing a windows app from VB.Net.I developed an app on my laptop, it's widescreen and res is set to 1440 x 900. When I take my app and run it on a machine with an older Analog monitor and the res is 1024 x 768, all of the forms on the right and bottom are cut off.
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Mar 11, 2011
Does anyone have experience writing data to the parallel port (printer port) in Windows 7 64-bit. I have been trying inpout32.dll, inpoutx64.dll and following all the info on http://www.highrez.co.uk/ and www.logix4u.net but can't get anything to work. I have an on-board parallel port at &H378 - not an add-on card - and have tried various modes in the BIOS (standard, ECP etc). I have a background in electronics so I am confident my testing methods are sound; I just cannot get a data bit to change state under program control. I need to send data to an 8-bit port on some 20th Century electronics so serial/USB interfaces are not really an option. There must be a way to control those 8 data bits in Windows 7, mustn't there?
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May 21, 2009
I have a windows project with an MDI interface.
I want to add a menu item called "Help" and when clicked load a HTML document I will create with another application.
Can I do that in a windows .NET 2008 program?
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Aug 17, 2011
Is there any simple way to copy a single file out of one directory to a new one?
I tried this:
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Jan 10, 2012
My Windows Forms app collects data from user input and mathematical calculation and outputs a set of results to an Excel spreadsheet.
Here's my code (for convenience, I've included only the code that seems relevant to the problem):
Dim exc As New Excel.Application
Dim book As Excel.Workbook
Dim sheet As Excel.Worksheet
[Code]....
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Sep 9, 2010
I want to write one text character to a textbox control on a Windows Form application. I have tried this and it doesn't work.TextBox13.Text = "5"
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Jan 23, 2012
I have created a windows service in VB in visual studio 2008. The purpose of this service is to copy files from one network drive to the UNC path for a sharepoint file location. It works properly on a Windows XP machine, however when I installed it on Windows 7, I am now getting Access Denied error messages. In troubleshooting, I tried to simplify things to see if I can see the directory that I'm trying to write to, and the System.IO.Directory.Exists is returning false. I am able to see other netowrk shared drives, just not this particular one, and it appears to only be an issue from my Windows 7 machine, as I can do this with a Windows XP box.
I have also tested this code in a Windows forms application and it will work as expected. It appears only when I move to the service.
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Feb 2, 2012
I'm trying to write a user defined filepath to my app.config file. When i enter c: as the filepath it writes it to my xml file but adds and extra /
Im not too sure why its happening? i have all the correct custom actions set up and my install method is as follows:
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Oct 11, 2009
I'm writing a program which plays audio using a windows media player control. It's quite basic but I'm running into a problem.
Soundplayer.Ctlcontrols.play()
Sleep(3000)
For some reason when this appears in my code, the sound doesn't start playing until AFTER the sleep. I have music running in the background, using another windows media player control, that continues playing just fine.
Basically, I want nothing else to happen for the duration of the sound, hence the sleep, so how can I make it so my sound starts playing BEFORE the sleep?
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Feb 9, 2012
I have some problem with copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.
Example:
Source path: C: emp est1.txt
destination path: C:Data
[code].....
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Dec 15, 2009
For some reason the Current Directory of my windows service is C:WindowsSystem32
and when I schedule my service I get this error Access is Denied.
In one of the blogs I saw this peice to change the current directory. But I am not sure where to place this code.
System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory)
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Jan 30, 2012
I wrote a program that runs in the background and waits for me to hit a predefined key combination.
When I hit this key combination I want it to do the following
Check and verify that Windows Explorer is up If IE open, I want it to get the current/active windows explorer screen directory.
So lets say I had windows explorer opened to "c:\program files(x86)\my Folder"
Then when I press my key combination "shift+t" my program will get the directory of my windows explorer.
So it should display a message saying something like "Active Directory: c:\program files(x86)\my Folder"
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Feb 27, 2010
Does anyone know how to create a directory junction in Vista or Windows 7 from VB.NET? I need to produce the same results as this command:
MKLINK /J C:Dest C:Source I know I could start a command process (cmd.exe /c) but that's a bit
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Jul 30, 2010
I'm getting an error trying to open a file. The error is due to Windows 7 virtual X86 path. Does this make sense to anyone one? How to solve?
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Mar 29, 2010
I've got an application that has a bug right now, but we're unable to update the end-user to get the fix out. What a possible workaround would be is to change the working directory to the application's install directory, but from what I can tell, there's no way to do that outside of the program itself.
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Jul 5, 2009
So I need to write out an object to a text file as well as read in objects from text files.How do I accomplish this? This is the code i've used to read and write just simple lines of text. Is there a small modification to this or just a different function i use to read in an entire object?
Code:
Dim path As String
path = "Security.txt"
[code].....
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Jul 17, 2010
I have just recently been using VB 2010 after using VB5. I have noticed a lot of changes. The problem I have is that I wish to open and save text files to and from arrays in the background. I've attached what I would do in VB5. I have searched around, but all the examples I find use a Textbox instead of an array. Can anyone show me how I can do this with VB 2010?
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