I've just about scrambled my brain on this, searching and trying things, so I'm hoping someone sees something that I'm missing or can explain it to me. I'm new to .NET, used to do a lot of programming in VB but that was many years ago.
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i want to delete some files but only if they aren't in use. What i did was a try/catch:
Try
My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(fileInfo.FullName)
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
but it seems that this method is very slow if i try to delete some files over network.
Is there an faster way to delete files? Is it faster to check first if an file is open? If yes, how can i check if an file is open?
I have about 10 settings in my app which are set during coding, but the user can change them during the running of the app. They should then be saved so the same settings are there the next time the program is run.
View 1 RepliesHow many times have we seen this type of selector:
I was just about to start creating this in a WinForms app, when I thought that others may have some ideas for doing this better. We need it to sort - so the right hand list will need up/down buttons. But this seems so old school. I love devexpress components, and was thinking of asking them if they would consider adding a component that handles this functionality with a slick UI.
I am thinking that a graphical representation of the objects, and a graphical representation of the listboxes - that would be a more intuitive way to move items around. Has anyone seen an open source project like this?
I have two textbox in my application.
Textbox1.Text="19-Jan-2010"
Textbox2.Text="Jan 2010"
May I know how can I compare that Textbox1 and Textbox2 text is within same month and same year?
I don't know how to get my asp code to work on windows 7. I ran my project, it works correctly.
But for some pages I'm getting an HTTP 401.5 error.
Given that a typical coding mantra is "Don't induce side effects in method calls." and that the only reason (that I know off - please enlighten me if I'm wrong) to not use short circuited operators is when you depend on the side effects of a method call in subsequent code. Why isn't the default operator in languages like C# and VB.NET not a short circuited version?
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Right now I'm trying to make an alarm clock program.I know my coding is correct and I'm not geting errors. Also my sound is a .Wav and was properly inserted into the resources folder. I was wondering if there is just some dumb setting that needs to be changed or if I'm forgeting something in the code.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI found some code on the internet as below (slightly modified).It simply requests the content of a webpage.However I get two warnings:
Warning 1 Variable 'srRead' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime.
Warning 2 Variable 'Str' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime.
I know I can simply forget about the Finally and add the code to the try block.Will that be the way to go or can I prevent the warnings using a different approach?
I'm using BitBlt and GetDC to capture windows and save them to a bitmap, but a window that is covered or overlapped by another window appears with that window showing over top of it. Is there a way to stop this from happening? I have the window handle available, the graphics context, and a Process object.
View 5 RepliesIf you make a Control's BackgroundColor Transparent and put it in front of another control, the other control doesn't show through. Why not? GDI+ makes this easy, doesn't it? Why don't Windows Forms use it?
View 10 RepliesI'm refactoring VB.NET code where methods routinely run five hundred lines and the references are so tightly coupled that the code defies simple refactoring such as method extraction. And that's why I thought I would try regions within a method body. I just wanted to organize the code for the short term. But the IDE didn't let me (resulted in a compiler error.) I'm just curious as to why? Seems like code regions shouldn't impact the compiler, intellisense etc. Am I missing something? (Still using VS 2005 btw.)
Interesting: This seems to be language specific. It's OK in C# (I didn't check that initially) but not in VB.NET.
public module MyModule
Sub RunSnippet()
dim a as A = new A (Int32.MaxValue )
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that gets a compiler error but the C# version is ok.
I'm developing a Windows Service, but for some reason, the changes I'm making to my code file aren't taking effect. I clean, build, and rebuild the solution as well as all the files that I'm changing, but nothing's happening.Is this a problem with the installation of the service, or something wrong with my IDE? I just now thought that maybe I shouldn't be rebuilding the files...
View 11 RepliesI am building an application that accepts input entered into textboxes, then checks the input for negative values, etc. before writing it to a file. If the data does not meet the conditions, a message box pops up letting the user know. The problem I am having is that after it checks the data and displays the message box, it continues to save the input to the file anyway. How do I make it only write to the file if all the data meets my conditions?
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Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Partial Public Class _Default
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I am getting error in the sheets and iffset liness.. it says
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell)Offset(1, 1).End(xlToLeft).PasteSpecial(xlPasteValues), underlined words aren't declared
So I've been working with DotNET for a few years now; long enough to establish solid preferences for one available element over another, one available logic over another, and then to develop preferences for aspects of elements and logics.
The one that conflicts me the most is the stock Settings construct. It's a great idea - I mean everybody needs basic data persistence that isn't worthy of databasing, right? It's implemented in a way that anybody - and I mean anybody from flat beginner to highly advanced - can benefit from it. It does some heinously stupid stuff, though; for example, it angers me (and I mean full-on, where's my crowbar-OK-now where's the silly @#*! who came up with the idea anger) that the only way to save it is the way that's hardcoded in. The .SAVE method takes no parameters, there's absolutely zero exposure for the save-path to provide a more deliberate location, so the only place any settings ever get saved is in a ridiculously long (and literally arbitrarily designated) user-profile-based path.
So what happens if/when a user is ready to upgrade their OS (or just reformat and reinstall their OS, which the kinds of people who end up on my client list are prone to do just as part of quarterly maintenance), and they want to save their personal application settings to load in the next time around? They either have to hunt out that moronically obfuscatory save location or I have to write special (and I mean riding the short-short-short bus special) code which is more or less a whole new settings class identical to the settings classes implemented in the application to begin with, just to allow them to export their settings to a known location for transfer.
And what happens if a specific setting needs special treatment beyond the basic 'changing' and 'changed' events provided by the stock class? Since any change to the Settings Designer rewrites the whole code-behind property declarations, I can't do it in that code file; I either have to extend the Settings class or get back on the short-short-short bus and write that special 'mirror-class' again.
I'm not much for just general whining though, so some time back I wrote my own serializable classes (designed for specific data persistence, like generic/universal application settings and then also MySQL server connections/credentials and then also form properties and then also application-specific settings) along with shared save and load methods which give me more control over where settings get saved. These classes have evolved over the last year or so until they're actually pretty awesome (even if that's
just my opinion)... I've even implemented full on-disk and in-memory encryption functions for applications that need different privilege levels, to prevent any tampering at any time.
And then a multi-user application project comes along and suddenly each individual settings class needs multi-user support based on the Windows user logged in, and suddenly the stock Settings class is the best option again even though it's still the worst possible option in settings persistence.
So what I want to know from this discussion is this:
How do YOU handle application and user-settings persistence? Is there something really key that I've been missing all this time that makes the stock Settings class more than absolutely worthless (which has been my opinion since about the first time I ever had to work with it)?It never hurts to try. In a worst case scenario, you'll learn from it.
My DataGridView1 does not show the data on my testdb.mdb i need to fix this first before i continue on adding records on my db.
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Public Class Customer
Dim con As OleDbConnection
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I'm working on a project to replace ADO.NET data access logic using NHibernate where we're not able to map the entire domain model at once. This means we'll have domain classes with property mappings to other domain classes that aren't yet mapped with NHibernate.
Consider a Person class with an Address property (Address being a domain object without an NH mapping and Person being the class I'm mapping). How can I include Address in the Person mapping without creating an entire mapping for Address? Is it possible to call legacy (ADO.NET) data access logic from a custom PropertyAccessor? If so, is it reasonable?
*I asked this within another question here but didn't get a response. I'm hoping to get one in a more concise question.
MS released the new MSChart for .net 3.5 sp1. I'm trying to get the hang of it in VS2008. One big issue I have is that if I have no data plotted the chart area axis's aren't drawn. Does anyone know a way around that? That seems like a pretty basic/common issue.
View 6 RepliesMost of my check boxes look like these (on the left of the picture) (ignore the checked check box in the upper left corner , I am not talking about tat one) :However , ONLY on tab 2 the check boxes look differently in both cases the check boxes are Disabled , but they don't look the same . Why is that ? I even tried copying the check boxes from tab 3 to tab 2 but to my surprise they once again looked differently ! This only happens on tab 2 . How is this possible ?
View 20 RepliesWhat is the difference in the two blocks of code below? I expected them to return the same result, but they don't.
In the case where xml.@Type = "null", I want PatientMetricTypeID (a nullable Integer) to end up being Nothing.
Block #1: If()
In this case, it ends up as 0. It looks like Nothing is being treated as an Integer and converted to 0. I can sort of see why this might happen but not fully... I would like to understand exactly how this works, and if there is a workaround.
Dim PatientMetricTypeID As Integer? = If(xml.@Type = "null",
Nothing,
CType([Enum].Parse(GetType(PatientMetricTypes), xml.@Type), Integer))
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In this case, it ends up as Nothing -- expected behavior.
Dim PatientMetricTypeID As Integer?
If xml.@Type = "null" Then
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Are these two vb methods identical in function
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1. This is probably really easy and I'm just missing it. I have 4 tabs in a controller. The contents in all four tabs will be identical (pictures, text boxes etc.) the end user would then add whatever to it. Whenever I try to copy the contents from tab 1 to any other tabs using ctrl+c and ctrl+v they get all out of alignment. Is there a way to duplicate a tab in the editor so that when flipping through the tabs all the text and pictures are in the exact same spot? I'm going out of mind on something that seams so simple.I don't want to have to write down the location of a couple of hundred controls and then retype them all 3 more times.
2. I can also only select text boxes, labels, and pictures at the same time. It will not let me select text boxes, labels, pictures and drawn lines all at the same time. So I can't really copy and paste everything at the same time I have to do it twice which makes the alignment get even more screwed up.
i have n-Strings. Something about 100. But most of them are identical. How could i remove these multiple string and have only each string one time?
View 7 Repliesis there any listindex property is available like vb6 in vs.net ? .because i want in the combo box .when it loads at least very first item needs to be selected .so let me know any way to do it
View 3 RepliesI made a program with Visual Studio Express 2008, compiled for .Net Framework 3.5
I transferred the .exe and the other 2 files to my brothers laptop who also uses Windows 7, .Net Framework 3.5.
Every time I run the file it says "Windows Application has stopped working..."
However, I run it fine on my PC and it is also Windows 7, .Net Framework 3.5
Can anyone else think of a reason the program won't work on my brothers laptop?
How can I copy form and make identical form
say want to copy the style of one form & coding and make identicel form 2
I have 8 comboBoxes and 8 identical items in each comboBox.If I select one of the items in comboBox1, how can make this item to disappear from all other comboBoxes ?
View 8 RepliesI'm on Windows Vista Home Premium, using Visual Express 2010, working on a visual basic program.
View 2 RepliesI have an application which has a tabcontrol that contains two tabpages. I have a custom made usercontrol docked to fill up each of those tabs. When I resize my main form to the minimum size allowed one tab resizes accordingly while the other seems to overflow the area and a couple ui items slip out of access/view.
One usercontrol was quite literally copied from the other and renamed and fields adjusted. The usercontrol size is the same between the two. Within the usercontrols there is a datagridview and a large panel full of textboxes and they have identical sizes and identical anchoring properties and even the same location coordinates.
I'm struggling to find a difference between the two but I really would like the resize behavior to match between the two usercontrols. I was wondering if anyone would have ideas of other things to check I did not mention here?
