I am running an application from my desktop as you see on the picture,and I don't know how to run File Save command on active form without mouse click,only with vb.application?
View 10 Replieswhat is the vb.net command to activate copy on an external(non vb.net) program (such as IE) ? also what is the vb.net command to activate paste, delete on an external(non vb.net) program (such as IE) ?
View 8 RepliesThe fact is I'm making an application, which users can install by using a Setup file...once installed the data in the database can be updated by a centralized server. To do this, they can insert a DVD/CD-ROM and export the necessary data towards it. I need to do it that way, because some of the users who really need this data will be using stand alone computers.The application gets it's data from a mdb-file and the connection remains open as long a person works with the application (maybe not the best way to do, but I know :-) )...when the user uses the application, he can perform an export...this exports the .ini-file and pictures (which works fine), but he also needs to export the mdb behind the application...I already tried connection.close() before and connection.open() after the System.IO.File.Copy...but that doesn't seems to work.
View 2 RepliesI am very new to programming In Visual Basic 2005, and programming in general. I have been working on a snake game for my programming class. I have working version of the game that uses four buttons (up,down,left,right) to control the snake. What I want to do is make it so you can control the snake with the arrow keys on the keyboard instead of having to click the buttons.
View 6 RepliesI work in an engineering design house and programming is not my actual profession. And I am relatively new to VB .net (previous i had worked in vb 6)
I am working on an in house application. I am coding a simple application in vb .net. This applications takes a few inputs from user and calculates a result. Now I want to implement a simple functionality that user should be able to save the input and results just like most of the windows programs can in a new file format. And user should be able to open the save file when desired.
I created a Right-Click Menu option for files. When the user clicks the menu option it will copy all of the file paths to the clipboard.The following function I have will retrieve all of the filepaths to the clipboard. The problem lies in adding the filepaths to the listbox. If I turn single instance application off the result is multiple instance of the application for each filepath. Say for example I selected 2 files and clicked my right-click menu, I wind up with 2 instance of my exe with each file path added to the listbox, 1 in one listbox, the other file path in the second instance listbox.
Public Sub getthepath()
Try
Dim thefilepath As String
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Is there a way to loop through each file path from the clipboard and add them to the listbox through a loop?Several times I have tried different ideas I had that I thought would do it and I got odd results but never a good result.
I want to copy the txt file from one location to another location.
textbox1.text = Source file directory
textbox2.text = destination file directory
For Example
textbox1.text = "C:1.txt"
textbox2.text = "d:"
I want to copy 1.txt to d drive.
I have been trying to fix this and make this work for pretty much three days now. I already solved one problem being, I can't use the shell on one HDD and create another file onto a different drive other then the drive that the directory of the application is running in.
EX:
If I run a program that is on the C: drive and using a working directory that is on the C: drive, I can not create a file onto the F: drive.
I got this problem when I was just using Shell(Environ$("Comspec") & " /c then the command")
So I decided to use Process()
Dim p = New Process()
p.StartInfo.FileName = "F:Visual Basic ProjectsCode TestingCode TestinginDebugToolsMediaInfoMediaInfo.exe"
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In the Windows Shell, there is a command that looks like this: copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpg..Is there any equivalent function in VB.NET? I already know this works: [code] But I would much rather have a built-in function to work with. Here is what I am trying to do: url...Also, this doesn't just work for pictures. It works for any binary file. Is there any way in VB.NET to tell if a file is binary or text?
View 3 Replies1.) I dragged my detail view over to the form window to create a bindingnavigator, fields, etc.When I press save on the form, the database is temporairly saved.However, if I save my visual basic project, I lose all the changes I have made to my database.Is there a specific save command that updates the access file permanently?The default command added by dragging over the dataset does not work.
2. My database is accessed with the following string:[code]However, doesn't this mean that the database MUST be placed in that specific folder on any PC? Is there a way to simply build the database into the compile so the program automatically generates the database when installed on anyones computer?
3.) This might be fixed by fixing the previous two issues, but if I compile my program and try to install it, I get an error message "Could not download the application.The application is missing required files."
I have 2 save buttons on my form, 1 which saves all textbox contents to a .txt file, and 1 which saves a image capture of the active window to a jpg. Both work fine, on the same form i have 2 picture boxes which the images are loaded into based of a list box like so:
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I'm now working on a domainchecking application for about 2 weeks and it is in the final developement phase.There is a my.settings that is, by default 1 to indicate that it is the first time starting the application. If it is the first time, the settingsform will show up to activate the application with a serialcode. This works fine. If I start up the app again, it doesn't show the settingsform again because my.settings.firsttime was set to 0.
After 1 cycle of the timer, which checks all the domains,the line: application.restart is being executed. Then **** happens...It shows up the welcome-message again and asks for activation.By check,I put a button on the settingsform which shows you the value of my.settings. firsttime. and ***... It is 1, like magic, it changed itself from 0 to 1. The same problem is with the indicator of the activation.Is the problem caused by application.restart? Is there alternative code for restarting an application?
i wan to active start button in other app, i use spy ++ to check the button styles, i c bs_pushbutton. i try to use win api to do it.i tried WM_SETFOCUS and enter key to do it, but fail
these is my code
Dim hwnd As Int32 = apiFindWindowEx(HWND_DESKTOP, 0, Nothing, "Open File - Security Warning")
Dim cwnd As Int32 = apiFindWindowEx(hwnd, 0, Nothing, "&Run")
[Code]....
how to save data (for example some text that user type [as password etc]) and save that password on same location where is application. After saving I want to have also Load option so we can load saved data.
View 7 Replieshow to find data using search command in my form application like searching a name in my database?
View 1 RepliesI want to be able to activate my application through my website. Like AIM, they have a protocol "aim?.." what ever, I was wondering how I might go about that? My application is standalone, I wonder if this would reduce the chances of this being possible.
View 2 RepliesI need to activate SSL when my application logs on to a ftp server. I'm searching the net and I can't find some piece of code to work, the username and the password are in plaintext, they are visible
I use this for now but it doesn't work:
Dim request As FtpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(ftp://ftpwt.com), FtpWebRequest)
request.Credentials = New NetworkCredential("user", "password")
request.EnableSsl = True
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory
request.KeepAlive = False
backing up an excel database in my application i used...This..
Dim partdb As String = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath
FileCopy(partdb & "part.accdb", "part.bak")
this copies the backup file to the root of my c:.Whats the correct way to file copy within the application directory?
I have a form with a listbox that when the form is opened I need it to display info from a file. I don't know what would be easier to work with Excel or a txt file, but it is in this format:
Phillip Frank
3/19/1990
3
999-555-8618[code].......
I would like it to populate the list box when the form is loaded, but if I have to use a button to tell it to load that is fine also.On the same form I have 4 textboxes that ask for each of the above items (name, DOB, Level, PH#) and a button that when pushed I want it to save it to the same file where the above info was pulled from in the same format.The Show Contacts button doesn't have to be used if it is not needed.
I am actually using Powerbuilder, but can convert easily from VB.net.
We would like users to be able to copy outlook message files to the clipboard (ctrl-V) and paste as a file into a
powerbuilder application. We have dragdrop working really well, but we have many users working through multiple citrix sessions where only copy - paste works.
Windows explorer gives a perfect example of being able to paste the message just as I would like. But what does it use under the bonnet to do this?[cod]e....
I have created an application in VB.NET 2008 with SQL Server 2005 edition and having a probelm to take the backup of database namely Burakhe.mdf I want to copy the file Burakhe.mdf to the selected folder when this file is still used by other application ie.during running the program ..
View 5 RepliesI'm using VB.NET in Visual Studio 2008 in a Vista 64-bit OS. I'm trying to find an easy way (there must be one) to quickly retrieve from the registry the application file name and path to use in a Shell command to open a particular file. Specifically, I want the user in my app to be able to click on a PDF file and have the app open that PDF file using the application associated with PDF file types - Acrobat Reader, for example. Anyone have any suggestions as to proper coding & syntax for the following sequence?:
(1) Get name of .exe file associated with .pdf file type (most likely from the HKey Root Classes hive)
(2) Get path for the .exe file
(3) Shell("[pathname]appname.exe filename.pdf")
I've spent a couple of hours looking through the forums and haven't found what I'm looking for.
I have searched for an answer for a long time now, both generally ont he web and in several forums including this one. There are many people who asks this or similar qusetions, but the answers are often hard to understand, and quite often are answers to something other than what was asked from the beginning.I know that there are many skilled programmers out there, but most are not great teachers. So here is what I need: I have constructed a program in which the user can write values in textboxes, choose from lists (comboboxes) and make some choices by checking checkboxes. The data in the lists comes from a database, but I don't think that is really relevant here. What I want is, when all the choices are made and when the textboxes, comboboxes and so on have data (text or numbers) in them, I want the user to be able to save this to a file (XML perhaps?).
To speak plainly and visualize this to you, think of a roleplaying game (RPG), and that you fill out a character form with details about your character. Of course you want to save all this, and at some point retrieve it to make changes when you level up. I am not all that stupid when it comes to programming, but I have never tried to do something like this. My applications have had a database engin behind the GUI, and all the saving was done in tables at the far end of everything. Now I want to save data to a file instead. I have tried to find books (or a good tutorial here on the web), but most answers are for C (++. #, etc), or else they are hard to understand.
Is there anyone here who can help me or point me in the right direction? I'm not asking you to do my work for me, but som examples that are valid and that will help me understand the process whould be nice. So far I have recieved good help here on this forum from nice people.
I am trying to send a command to the external command line (cmd.exe) from the Windows form application that I'm writing in VB.NET (using VS2008).
I can only access the external program thru the command line (its not my program) and I must do so from a form app.
I am trying to use the following code. I am able to call a cmd.exe window, but I can't pass the command line my command.
Using mp As New Process
With mp.StartInfo
.FileName = "cmd.exe"
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In the Windows Shell, there is a command that looks like this:copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpgIs there any equivalent function in VB.NET? I already know this works:Shell("cmd copy /b fileA.zip + fileB.jpg fileC.jpg")
View 5 RepliesI am trying to create an application where you can browse to a folder, press install button and it will copy some files to the directory of your choosing? I found some example code but how do i go on with my code from here? Cant figure out how to copy the files. You can see at last in the code i tried to copy files but its not really working, how do i use the function? I want the files to come from the application directory. And copy to the browsed folder.
Public Class Installer
Private Sub Installer_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
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I'm trying to get a save file dialogue to overwrite a file with the same name.
Private Sub Button6_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
If RadioButton16.Checked Then
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I keep getting an error saying "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application." Then the next paragraph says "The process cannot access the file 'E:Copy of Release+Fontsob.txt' because it is being used by another process."
I am using this code to copy data in a textbox to a text file. I have several forms to copy data from. Can this be done or do I need to do each form separately?[code]...
View 1 Repliesi gave input text file. now i should copy the contents of the text file.need code.
View 3 RepliesI am returning to VB building, first time since HighSchool. I am creating a program that has many fields of data that you type into. When you click Generate Button it then writes all that data a .txt file and opens it in notepad.
From that point you copy everything in notepad and paste it into a ConnectWise HelpDesk Ticket.
My goal is to automatically get the data when clicking Generate to populate into the Clipboard, or let it write to the .txt file and then copy all the data from the .txt file into the clipboard. So all you have to do is Ctrl + V after Clicking "Generate"