I cannot find a way to make a program that I write make a shortcut in the start menu for all users.My final goal is to make an MSI and deploy it in group policy to all users on a computers OU. Is this possible?
View 5 RepliesIn my program I am trying to make a button that would add a shortcut to activate a running application by a process ID. In a form I have 2 text-boxes 1 for the name of the shortcut that would be shown in the tool-strip-menu-item. Then the other for the process name. Then when the user presses a button I would like the text of the text-box for the name to be added to a tool-strip-menu-item, then the other text-box used for the Process ID to be added to the fallowing code: (the tool-strip-menu-item is in another form)
Dim processID As Integer
processID = Shell("Process ID
", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)
I cannot figure out how to get this call to work.I have searched EVERYWHERE.MSDN is no help at all and the only thing I can find is this vb6 code that doesn't work in .net.I tried to convert it over but I've had no luck.Specifically I'm trying to get the path of the "All Users" Desktop and the "All Users" Start Menu.It would rock if anyone could help me out with this one.
View 5 RepliesIn my app, I have an option to install another app (that I don't have any control over).
Once this second app is installed, I want to be able to remove the Start Menu items that it creates - how easy would this be to do?
I know the names of the menu items.
I'm running into this one very specific issue:
- I have a VB.Net 2005 Project for which I've created a Setup Project.
- In my Setup Project, I've added a shortcut on my Start Menu, that points to my Application.
- After deploying it, all works great.
- One of my users chooses to *copy* the shortcut from the Start Menu into their Desktop.
- I then create an upgrade for this Application. Again, the deployment works great. They can start my application from the Start menu.
- They double-click on their icon in the Desktop and they get a popup: Title of the message box: Problem with Shortcut Description of the message box: (X) The parameter is incorrect.
The shortcut's Target, is blank ( which I believe is the problem ).I'd love to be able to specify an actual [TARGETDIR]myApp.exe type of string as the shortcut's target in my Setup Project, but I can't do this.Instead I have to point it via UI, to my Target Application ( which I'm assuming is resolved at install-time ). The problem with this is that it appears that the shortcuts get re-evaluated every time you re-install / upgrade the application. Since my previous version is technically not installed anymore, my shortcut gets invalidaded, even though the target path is still the same and I haven't changed my executable's file name.
How can I make it so when a button is clicked it will make the program start on start-up but only if the checkbox is checked?
View 9 RepliesI have created a Form, added a MenuStrip to it and inserted the standard Items. My question is that I know some of the options won't work like 'Save' and 'Save As' but how do you make ones like 'Open' 'Exit' 'Undo' and Redo' work when start debugging?
View 9 RepliesI have a vb.net application and want it to start at Windows start up only if the user checks checkbox1 the procedures on how to do this and the code
View 1 RepliesI'm making a really complex program that will run only on windows XP (it will synchronize more 100 computers just like a net cafe). How can i make the executable run at startup? For every user not only e.g. Administrator...
1. This is the path for the application startup: Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup) Does the same path exists but for all the users ?
2. Is this possible through modifying the registry ?
when I publish my app and run the setiup it places the shortcut under a folder in the start menu called Microsoft
View 1 RepliesI have made an app and I want to add it to " open with menu" sub menu which appears when user make right click on any file ie I made photo viewer app and I want to add it to "open with menu" so user when make right click on any photo and go to "open with menu" sub menu will find my app name to chose it to open the photo with it
View 7 RepliesIs it possible to create a custom start menu shortcut link?
The only possibilities I see in the setup project are shortcuts to folders or primary output.
Update:
What I ended up doing is creating a custom action on commit that dynamically creates the link using Windows Scripting Host. Then on uninstall, removing the link.
Im trying to make a program which would check for users from text file on a certain website I can populate the list box, and loop through it's items here is the code i came up with so far and it doesnt work properly, it pops out first item in the listbox, and last item only, even though that they shouldnt be popped out
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
If Not ListBox1.Items.Count < 2 Then
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(this is supposed to check every user, and if user doesnt exist, website will return page not found, else user exists and his name is added to listbox2)
i was wondering if you can make a program run at start up auto
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View 1 Repliesvb 2008, How do I get my VB 2008 application to start automatically when a user logs into Windows?
View 6 Repliesi want to make my program to where when you install it, it will automatically start up with your computer everytime, but will start up in the background to where you can't see it....is this possible?
View 3 Replieshow can i make my program start with windows?
View 3 RepliesI want to make live search form like when user enter 1 char then it ll find all data start with or contain letter.i have use the sql like query with textbox textchanged event but it is too slow any other method to make it fast?
View 4 Replieshow i can write a program to create a shortcut in the startup folder of a different program. So i have one program on my computer that should run at startup, i just need another program to create a shortcut to it, and then copy this shortcut into the startup folder.
View 20 RepliesI was wondering if there is any way to make a program recognize a keyboard shortcut while its not the active program
View 1 RepliesYeah, I want to make the program find a certain word, such as 10.5, in a textbox. It will have multiple lines. textbox5 is the textbox and a word, like 10.5 or longer such as 10.10.10.10.10.10. an IP.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to make a program intercept and stop certain write requests? I need it to stop viruses from tampering with an antivirus database. If you can, how do you do it? If not, is there another way to stop viruses from changing the database?
View 39 RepliesI am trying to make a program to find some text on a website and fill a text box in the program with that website text.
The website is Generate a Random Name - Fake Name Generator
I would like to take the info generated on that site and fill in text boxes in visual basic.
WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/")
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
Dim theElementCollection As HtmlElementCollection
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[code]How i can make The Program to find Numbers On Form and Do That without making So Many "Same" Codes?Its Pretty Annoying To Make Big Program nad only Copying and Pasting Text.
View 3 RepliesHow do I make a menu item on a menu strip link to another windows form (like a menu item that links to an about page already created in the project). I know that every coder knows how to do this, but i've read most of the instructions in the world for Visual Basic coding, but can't find ANYTHING I know coding fairly well, so I can modify it, but I can't create it my self.
View 4 RepliesI want to run specific code through shortcuts defined for my specific program. For example if I click F1 or ctrl+C then I want my program to show customers list. I have tried form's keydown event with following code
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how to make a button in VB10 that opens a program like Skype, or something when you press it? :)
View 3 RepliesI'm currently making a bot that points and clicks. It works great! The only problem I have is stopping the bot.How could I make a shortcut key that stops the bot while it's running?
View 14 Repliesi am writing an application in vb5 and i need to make an invisible shortcut button for the esc function...
how might i code this????