We use a 3rd party engineering application that does not expose an automation model. We can 'automate' it after a fashion by using low level Win32 API calls. I can get the Process by iterating the GetProcesses method. Is there a way to attach to the app by using the NativeWindow class?
View 4 RepliesThis is all VB2008. I'm working on a plugin for an app which expects it's plugin dlls to be named something other than "dll" (in this case, it wants them named with a ".plugin" extension. I can compile my .net dll just file, copy it and rename it to *.plugin and move it over to the application folder, Run the app and everything works just fine.
But I can't debug the dll in VS. VS doesn't know that I copied it so it can't load that DLL and attach to it's process for debugging. I've searched for ways to change the default extension of files that VS builds, but so far haven't turned up anything. Even just a way to attach to the process once it's renamed to *.plugin.
I have a VB.NET project (main.exe) and include an additional .exe application as internal resource. Now I do not want to run the extra .exe as a separate process but want to attach it to the process of main.exe so I have just 1 process overall and not 2.
View 1 RepliesI'm using Visual Studio 2003, and I have a macro similar to this:
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The first time use the macro, it works fine. Each subsequent time, even after I detach from the process, the .Attach() doesn't seem to do anything. The same thing happens as I step through the macro... the proc.Attach() gets called on the correct process, but nothing happens. One note: when viewing the process in the Processes window, the Type column for my process shows ".NET, Win32".
I would like some code that would make a Vb.net Form EXACTLY like it should be a control (label) of an external window.This means that when the external window jumps in foreground the Form must be visible on the external window, but WITHOUT to take out it focus.If a third window covers partially the window and the Form, the form must be displayed only in it the visible part: in short, like it should be a control of the external window.
I can't use ShowWindow because also if I use the _NOACTIVATE constant, the external window loses the focus, and if I click on the external window my form disappears until the timer routine put it again on the top: no good.
I can't use TopMost because if a third window covers partially or totally the Form, it don't hides partially or totally the form itself: is the form that hides part of the third window:
There are tons of examples of how to access the process environment block (PEB) from C++ code but I'm wanting to do it from VB.NET and am seriously struggling.I call NtQueryInformationProcess and get a Process_Basic_Information structure back from that which has a member named PebBaseAddress and this holds a pointer to the PEB (I have verified that this member does hold a valid pointer at runtime). The problem is that when I try to read data from the address that this pointer references I just get nothing. One important thing to mention is that it works fine if I try to use it on my own process, its just when I try and read the PEB for an external process that it gives me no data. I've enabled the SeDebugPrivilege (and confirmed it is enabled for my process in Process Explorer) but this made no difference. I've also tested it on Windows XP x86 as I'm currently testing on Windows 7 x64 but XP had the exact same issue, only sometimes the XP one would just crash completely with a memory access violation and thats the other thing, I am getting fairly inconsistent results - even on the Windows 7 machine sometimes I end up with no data but other times I get memory access violation errors, and other times I get the data for my process even when I have passed in the handle of a different process..
View 2 RepliesI am working on Visual Studio 2008. I have this problem with Windows XP. I have no problems debugging when the process starts but after a while it just disconnects then I need to attach to the process manually and after a longer while it again disconnects.I am seriously frustrated with this ,I had uninstalled the VS 2008 and re-installed my IIS and intalled the VS 2008 again but still the same problem.Initially VS will automatically attach, it will continue to do so on successive debug commands, but eventually after a while it stops attaching and it must be done manually. Hitting debug does everything, builds, starts the development server, opens the page and simply fails to attach.
View 1 Replieshow can i allow resizing of window that doesnt allow resizing,.
View 2 RepliesConstant monitor for process, if process not running execute this()
VB.NET
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class Form1
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So i want to start an application with my vb.net app and it should start as a hidden process, meaning no window and nothing in the task bar, only in the task manager ofcourse.
This is what i do
Dim fov As New Process
If CheckBox2.Checked = True Then
RichTextBox1.Text = RichTextBox1.Text & vbCrLf & "* - Launching"
fov.StartInfo.FileName = ("test.exe")
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This does not work.. I have also tried the "fov.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True" command which does not work either. I can live with a solution that would start the window minimized instead of totally hidden.
I am currently working in a very large solution (120+ projects). Very often, we need to find a particular form in a large desktop application, consisting of hundreds of forms. For example, we might have a requirement to edit some controls on a certain form.We don't know the form name, but we know how to navigate to the form when running the application.
In order to identify a form, we currently try to find some unique text on the form, and then search all the source files for this string. That's not very cool.Instead, I'd like to make a little tool that can identify the source file for a form, or at least the name property of the form object. We can't add code to the solution itself, so we will have to make an external exe.
Is it possible to run a external program/process example notepad in thread of you vb application?
View 2 RepliesI'm using .Net Framework 2.0 with VS2005. I want to create a form associated to an external program (Microsoft Word, for instance). I want it to stay in front of this external program, but I don't want it to be modal.
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I am using a class derived from NativeWindow to get access to WndProc for various text boxes on my form. I am trapping the WM_CONTEXTMENU message. I assign the handle in the Enter event and release it in the Leave event. Everything is working as expected except for one situation. If the user right clicks to select a new textbox, the first WM_CONTEXTMENU message is either skipped or is fired before the handle is assigned in my code. If I set a break point in the Enter event, the issue described above does not occur.
In all other cases, tabbing into the textbox, setting the focus to the textbox in code or left clicking in the textbox to select it, everything works as expected. To test the above, I also trapped WM_RBUTTONUP and display a message box. In all of the cases noted above except for selecting the textbox by right clicking it, the message boxes are displayed and then the context menu is displayed. When selecting a textbox by right clicking it, the message boxes are not displayed and the context menu is. Could this possibly be a bug in the NativeWindow class?
what is the use of "Attach to Process" in VS2008. How can i use it and what it do.
View 2 RepliesI'm using VS 2008 SP1 on a Vista x64 system (UAC enabled).I've created a Windows Service and installed it successfully. I start the service and then go back to VS 2008 and under Tools I selecte Attach to Process but I don't see my service running? I tried "Show Processes from all users", and I tried "Show processes in all sessions" but the service is not listed.I've tested this on another Vista x64 computer that has UAC disabled, and I'm able to attach to the process (windows service). It would appear UAC is causing this problem? Event Viewer shows no errors.I did see that Windows Defender reported a 3004 in the System.Log but it's action taken was "Permit" so I don't think the Service is being "blocked". Vista's unintelligent security processing and VS 2008 and attaching to a process that happens to be a Windows Service running under Local System account??It's bad enough that the "Allow interaction with Desktop" checkbox is there but not functional under Vista.
View 1 RepliesI have a client/server application using the .Net 2.0 Framework. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 to build and manage code.When I run either a Debug or Release version of the application simply by starting the .exe, I get an insert statement on the database that tries to insert a "0" for the foreign key of a table, triggering an error because the primary key of the other table is not 0.When I run the application by hitting the play buttton ("Start Debugging"), the insert statement uses the correct foreign key.In the first case, this happens even when I "Attach to Process" to the Debug version after it's started. My question: what's the difference between attaching to the debug version of the application after it has started and starting the application from the debugger?
View 6 RepliesI'm using Process.Start to start an external command line application and using the StartInfo.Arguments method to send parameters to the application. I imagine I'll need to use a loop... but I can't figure out exactly how yet.I need to send anywhere from 1 - an infinite number of files names to this application. Each file has to be sent one after the other. So once the first one is done, I need to loop back around and past the second one.I can probably use the Directory.GetFiles method to get all of the files, but I don't know how to assign them.
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to run the "Shell" command in a VB.NET project, to execute an external file. For example: Shell("c: empmyfile.txt").
For some reason this throwing a "file not found" exception, yet the file is there. Now I've looked around and found that others recommend using the "System.Diagnostics.Process" method, which does work, however I don't want the file to run in-process, which is what that does.
I want to run the file out of process, so that when my program ends, the executed program keeps running independently. Hence my attempt to use Shell() but it refuses to work.
Is there another way besides Shell() to run a file out of process?
I have written a windows service that is meant to launch a notepad when a specific action happens. The problem i have is that even though the service launches notepad, the actual notepad it self is NOT visible. I know that it has been launced because i can see the process in the task manager. By the way the process is listed as a SYSTEM process rather than a process under my user name (i believe that is because my process is a "LocalSystem" one).
View 4 RepliesI wanted to know if it is possible to Zip a folder without any external dll nor any external references - just with native features.I've been able to Zip files with System.IO.Packaging, but it does not include folders and I cannot tell it to Zip the parent folder.I know there are external dll and so, but I'd like to know if it's possible to make it from a native way.
View 1 RepliesUsing ASP.Net, VB.Net In my web page, i want to attach the file.
How to attach the file
I'm trying to attach an IP camera to vb form but i do not have any idea about ho to start and the classes or component that i should use. I searched on net but i didnot find goood results.
View 3 RepliesI want to attach .net framework 2.0 file in wix.how can i?so whenever client want to install the msi then it will install the framework directly.so how can i bind the framework in msi package?
View 1 Replieshow we can attach MDI form to another
View 2 RepliesHow do I attach a stylesheet? I've tried the usual way:
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="../../Content/Site.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=screen>
with various file paths. I've also tried with vb url.content scripts.For some reason nothing I try is displayed in the browser.I get various results:
stylesheet cannot be found
sometimes firebug only shows the html written
What else could be the problem?
Its attached to the master file, so i dont know what else is wrong here.
How to AttacH files in .net!
View 2 RepliesI have created an asp.net form in vb.net that sends an activation email after it is filled out and I was wondering how to attach a file(s) to the activation email sent out after the form is submitted. The function I believe to use after the 'mail.body' portion is: [Code] The portion that is confusing me is what parts above need to be filled in with an actual value. Also, do I need to store the files in a location such as an FTP client or db (at the moment they are on my hard drive).
View 3 RepliesI installed 2010 and am trying to attach to VB 6.0 project that has some COM exposed calls. In 2008 I just used Tools, attach to process, selected the running VB 6.0 app, and it would hit the .Net breakpoints. Right now it appears to be running some other version of the .Net program. It must be picking up something registered other the my code open in developemnt.
Is there something else I need to do to attach for 2010 IDE?
I'm running the VB 6.0 app from IDE also.
im currently working on a project for a warranty company. I need to be able to attach pdf files using a browse button that will save them to the file, so that later if the contract is reviewed we can pull of the scan of the contract without say having
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