I have written an vb.net application, named vbapp.exe. And I would like to use vbapp.exe to shell an external .exe file and this external .exe will create a file in the folder in which the external .exe file is located.However, the external .exe file will not recognize its own folder, on the contrary, it will think that its own folder is where the vb application, vbapp.exe, is located.
View 5 Replieswell I want it to look like this: [Textbox] [Browse] [Start] So you click browse, find the exe file, click ok(or something like that) and then click start I also want to make it so it saves the location of the last exe file it started, so you dont have to browse for it every time you use the program.
View 2 RepliesI have a country map in a picture box with provincial divisions. I can fill each province on mouse over by calling following floodfill function on my pictureBox MouseMove event[code]...
View 1 RepliesTo programming and have a question with sound files. I am trying to figure out the basics and here is what I did: I created a button that is supposed to play a sound.
My.Computer.Audio.Play("C:.......file.wav")
When I click this button in my .exe file it obviously plays because I am using the computer with the above location for the .wav file. When I use the .exe on another computer it doesn't play because it does not recognize that .wav location. How do I make this work for me? Do I need to embed the .wav with my .exe somehow?
I'd like to select my cases from an external location.[code]I want my users, when they click a button, to download a file from my Dropbox(a .txt file). Then, the file will read all of the code, and add it to the code..So for example if in the .txt it was something like.[code]
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to have location authorization nodes in a web.config be external?
Such that I could take all of the nodes simlar to
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And move them outside of the web.config or something simlar? I find these nodes at an extreme amount of noise to a web.config when they're relatively static. Normally my approach would be to config source something like this but since it falls under the root node I'm not sure of it's possible with these nodes.
I wam trying to create a application that will take a screenshot when the timer ticks over.What I need to find out is how do i Make a type of 'crosshair' system for the window that the screenshot will be taken.ike I will have my main VB app and the end-user will drag the crosshair over lets say, Their iTunes libary and the ap will get the height, width of the iTunes and then take a screenshot JUST OF THE ITUNES program, not the whole dekstop.
View 23 RepliesI have a PDF file with n pages, I need to split it to n files. On each page I have barcode, I need to recognize/read barcode. If I have two files with the same barcode I need to merge them.Can anyone recommend an .net component or exe or something else that will help me? It can be commercial.I have tried:itextsharp - only split and merge files dotimage/aspose/idautomation - only recognize barcodes and it very expensive a-pdf - not always recognize the barcode and not merge/split two files.
View 2 Replieswhich is the best way to recognize programmatically if a file is a video or a picture a part from the fil exstension?
View 1 RepliesI'm building an application in which a certain CSV schedule is read and searched for time and date values.
I want to read each cell in the CSV file with a streamreader and have VB determine if the contents of the cell represent a date (like 31-10-2011), a time (like 22:30) or random text data which is not formatted like a date or time.
How can I make VB recognize a string as either a date, a time or neither one, so I can use this string formatted as Date, Time or discard of it?
The contents of the CSV file will look something like this:
;Schedulename;text;text;31-10-2011;text;text;6-11-2011;text;;;text
Although the CSV file will never contain much data, the position of the date and time fields in a row may vary, so I cannot tell VB which cell to read as date/time. It has to recognize the value as date, time, or unusable text.
Dim CSVReadline As New System.IO.StreamReader(schedule.csv")
Cellcheck = CSVReadline.ReadLine()
String = Cellcheck.Split(";")
For i = 0 to 10
Scheduledate = String(i) ............ etc.
I've made an interface called ApprovalEvent in a separate file with the namespace myproject... I've also made a class called PurchaseOrder... it's also in the same namespace, just in a separate file. Whenever I try to make PurchaseOrder implement ApprovalEvent it always says that ApprovalEvent is undefined...
How can I make the class recognize that the interface exists but is in a different file?[code]...
I have a dll file which is reading a in.txt file and write a out.txt file. No need pass any variables to dll. Dll file runs alone.
I could not add this dll as referance. What I nned to do to just run this dll?
I'm creating an installer program. As part of the install process, I need to run/install the "AccessRuntime.exe" file.
How do I run this external EXE file from within my installer program?
how to add External dependencies .lib file in vb.net
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to unzip a file without having to use an external (not .NET default) resource?
View 1 RepliesI am quite new to programming so please bear with me if I am asking stupid questions. I have searched the forums but couldn't find a (comprehensible) answer.I am calling an external .exe file from VB, I do this with Shell.The external .exe opens a command window and asks for a file name. I am trying to make vb to input a file name into the command window but I m not sure how. The SendKeys command doesn't seem to work.
View 18 RepliesHow to get FileVersion from external exe in VB.net?
View 1 RepliesSo, i made a post earlier on how to loop through an external file looking for another process that is running, i have successfully done this last night, and the only problem i have now, is the placing of this code so it works correctly, in the following format:
Dim HackApp As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName(Cprog)
If Checker.ChkDone.Checked = True Then
Try
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Well i have developed VB code in which i want to call an external application.I know this can be done using shell command i.e.
" shell("C:\abc.exe") ". But when i execute this statement the file actually runs.This is not what i am looking for, I am looking for a piece of code which ensures that the file can run successfully without executing it
on my program i have an activation in it and in order to activate the program you need to enter a code that is stored in the settings. so i was looking through my computer and i found the programs config file. and so I opened it and i found all of the codes for the activation. I need to find out how to make the file so the user doesn't have access to it and then how to move it to a more hidden place in the C: drive.
View 3 Repliesi just want to ask how can i save the file location or directory of a file in mysql without deleting its slashes...i tried to save it directly.. for example: the original directory is c:folderimg.jpg and when i checked it on mysql it is save as c:folderimg.jpg
View 5 RepliesI'm looking for a way to specify the location for the User.config file that is used for storing the My.Settings object. It appears that this is not possible. The problem for me is, I don't want to be responsible for creating several different files on the users computer that really have no use and are difficult to find and clean once an update is released. For most users, this is not a serious problem, as many will probably never update the software, and most will probably only go through a couple of updates. On my system, there are config files for every build of the application, and the same to a lesser extent will be true for my beta testers.
I can understand that MS wants to make sure that no two applications will use the same location for storing application data, but a simple [UserData] [CompanyName][ApplicationName] for storing application data will probably suffice for 99.9999 percent of the legitimate applications in the world. Bogging a user's system down with erroneous files, no matter how small, is an unnecessary drain on system resources and a potential source of problems for the user. It's bad enough that most programs leave bits and pieces of themselves all over a user's system after De-installation - this to me seems only to exaggerate this problem.
Is the only way to get around this problem to write a whole new Settings Class? Is there a way to change the location of the UserConfig file to a more friendly (and more predictable) location that I am not finding for myself? It would seem that having at least the OPTION to specify a location for the User.Config file would be OBVIOUS and easy to implement, so why did they leave this out?
I have a simple extension which makes all chars in incoming string uppercase. I created this extension as DLL file (with namespace "Extensions"). But when I make reference to this DLL, then this namespace doesn't appear in Imports, hence I can't use my extension. Here's question: why I can't put extension into separate assembly?
View 2 RepliesHow can I grab details of an external EXE file? Like the CompanyName, the ProductName, etc.I know how to do this with the application itself, but no an external application
View 3 Repliesi am building a web application with VS2010 and framework 4
in the web.config i have defined the external file path
<appSettings file="\serverc$InetpubwwwrootConnectionsGlobal_Settings.config">
<add key="var_1" value="xpto" />
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From a VB.NET program i want to drop a file (c:example.txt) in an external application (Firefox). I found an example that construct a "databject" linking a file name. I also found programs on the side on the application that receive the drop. But not one that send to an external application.
View 7 RepliesI have a project need to reset the my.settings by external files, i have problem to get back the system.drawing.color
Frist I use the SaveConfigFromMySettingToFile() to get the config file,then i add the LoadConfigFromFileToMySetting() at the FormLoad action,But Nothing change! Why? without the LoadConfigFromFileToMySetting() at system load i got the correct color of the button from my.settings.
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Does anyone has some experience with calling a strings which includes the "Dim blabla As New MySQLCommand(SELECT *... etc." I'm not talking about the connectionstring itself, but the "SELECT" part. Really would like to know how to read it from an external file. I don't care what kind of file. (.text / .xml / ...)
View 2 RepliesI would like to include a text file for easy ediing of data that my app will read and pull data from. My external data file is a csv fileI want to display a checked list box that display this info and based on selections in the checked list box cand in a procedure later call commands based on those selections.
View 4 RepliesI need to get the extension part of a file path for example,
c:me.jpg
i need to return the ".jpg" to a string. Im sure this is easy enough, im guessing i need to get all the text after the last .