I'm trying to write a program that opens a folder from the CD disk when a button is clicked. The program will be run from a CD, and aims to open a certain folder. However, I can't use "shell "explorer...."" because the drive letter will change between different computers. Is there a way to open the folder straight from the CD in VB.NET
View 3 RepliesI design photo viewer app using this code
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now how to make my photo viewer open when user open drive C and get all photo in the drive to be shown in it ?
I have a program that creates a root folder and sub-folder in the users C-drive.I unfortunatley did not think this through propaly. Senario = if a user does not have access to the C-drive and just has an account to thier 'My Documents' then they cannot use this program.How i achieve the C-drive root-folder, sub-folder, and eventually text file creation is as follows;
If
My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists("C:AMSFTAMSFT_RunnersDetails"
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I do not what to change the format of this code too much as it is embedded heavily in my code, what i want to do is instead of checking and creating these folders and text files in the C-drive, i would like to change the location to a potentially unrestricted area, eg; 'my Documents'. how to alter this code to achieve this?
First off a short background of the project I am working on- I am developing a program that will be run off removable media (i.e. USB Flash drive). This will be a �virtual desktop� which you will be able to take with you and have the same �desktop� on any system. As we know drive letters can change with each host system the drive is plugged into, I need to be able to determine the path for the flash drive and access a specific folder ( i.e. My Documents)
I have an picture box(representing the icon) placed on my form (form1) and when I click the icon I want to be able to open and view the a specific folder from the portable drive. I need a click event that will determine a dynamic drive letter for a directory on the removable drive and then open that directory in an explorer window.
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how to open an .exe file from a that is in a certain file, what i am trying to do is create a program that will be portable-via jump drive or cd drive, the reason i feel stupid is that I did not realize that visual basic and vb.net are two different animals- I was trying to use app.path for days- then came across a post that set me straight that I can not use it.[code]
View 4 RepliesMy school has this stupid virus and it infects flash drives. I build a program that locates this files and what not and removes it... I guess you can say it's some sort of anti virus.[code]...
View 10 RepliesHow can I get VB.NET to find the folder that begins with "17014 -"? The actual Folder is called "17014 - Mr John Smith", but I want it to search only upto the "-" (hyphen) point.
I will then use this to check if the folder exists or not.
I want to know what rights the user has for a given folder on a network drive. But I can't find anything that does just this.
I have used DirectoryInfo.GetAccessControl and DirectorySecurity.GetAccessRules, etc. to get a collection (AuthorizationRuleCollection) of rules. But that gives me all the access groups and their rights. I don't need that (I guess I can see if I can find code that gets which returns the security groups for the current user and then compare those to the collection, but this seems awkward.)
Or I can write code that tries to create a file, delete it, etc. which is easy to do, but not quite accurate (if the user can't create a file, how can I see if the user can delete one, if the user has create, but not delete rights, I get a bunch of temp files, etc.)
All I need to know is if the current user has read write, read only, create, and/or delete rights to a given folder (and I guess file might also be nice - I would assume similar code.)
I have to believe that its a really simple thing. But Googling it and searching on the forums here didn't turn up much (unless I want code to change the users rights - which I don't.)
To create a dynamic folder in local drive it was generating, if suppose we need to create a folder in network path means error say that cannot access to the path is denied, how to resolve this issue , i m working on vb.net
View 1 RepliesThis is probably simple, but the answer has eluded me. How can I move a folder from one drive to another drive. System.IO's MoveTo won't let me move a folder to another volume. Any thoughts?[URL]..
View 2 RepliesA form that will display the contents of a folder? I have my forms set up, I want the user to then click on a button that will load up a nw form which will contain a window that is a folder in one of my drives. There may be folders inside this main folder which the user can go into, but they can't go back frrom the original main folder and look at the other contents. First up, Is an explorer form the one I am looking for? Making one of those, it seems to be the right path but where to from there?
Another thing I need to be able to do is have the user double click on the files inside of the folder. When double clicked the folder still maintains its current state, as the files that will be clicked will do the work in the background. I have all the forms set up and linked together, I just need to know how to get this folder into a form..
I want to copy a file in resources folder to C drive and run it?
View 1 RepliesI'm making a program which will open .rtf files into a rich text box by pressing a button. I can't seem to make it work. I'm trying to make the Go Button on Form 1 open the selected rtf file and put it into the rich text box on form 2.
Dim file As String = (destination)
ReadFrm.ShowDialog()
My.Forms.ReadFrm.bookrtb.Text = file
Nothing seems to happen It's trying to read from the C:\Program Files directory.
I have a folder that contains master copies of about 50 txt files.
Is there a way to open each of those text files and save them under the same name but in a new folder?[code]....
I am having trouble trying to accomplish a search for a folder with a wildcard within a directory.
The folder will look sort of like this: [2008][560909][Market Change] or [year][number][name]
Thus far this is what I have:
Function searching()
Dim choice, input
Dim strPatheServices
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I am uncertain where to go from this other than add the wild card to the exist so like:
System.IO.Directory.Exists(strPatheServicesinput + "*")
I currently have a program that I made which opens other apps packaged with an installer. I have set the installer to install everything to the Program Files folder. However, not all computers have a C: hard drive. I have a way in which they can enter their drive letter in one form then in the next form it remembers the drive and will take them to the program. The problem is my program stores the drive letter in an xml file. On the startup of the program it looks in the xml file to find the drive letter, if there is no drive letter the form opens then lets the user set his drive letter. The xml file is stored in the folder "Math Wizard" in the Program Files folder. But if not all computers have C:Program Files I need a shortcut to the program files folder. I have been trying to use %ProgramFiles% (%Program Files% + "Math Wizardconfig.xml") but vb is saying that the % is an invalid character. Here's my code:
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What is the best and fastest way to find the exact location(Drive/Folder) of a specific file, without scanning the whole drive. Right now, I am using those two instructions to locate EXCEL.EXE so I can properly call it with a shell command.[code]It is quite a long process, and I have to deal with some access denied folder like System Volume Information. I am quite new to VB programming.
View 3 RepliesI have been trying to figure out how to open an .exe file from a that is in a certain file, what i am trying to do is create a program that will be portable-via jump drive or cd drive, the reason i feel stupid is that I did not realize that visual basic and vb.net are two different animals- I was trying to use app.path for days- then came across a post that set me straight that I can not use ituch for what I need
system.diagnostics.process.start("C:
od.exe")
as long as nod.exe is in my c: -then it works
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i was wondering if there is any way to read from a file in the application directory without specifying the drive letter. Here's what i have:Dim var var = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("c:appdirectoryfilename")
If i leave off 'c:' it looks for it in system 32 or something. why can't i just say
ReadAllText("filename")
I want my code to open cmd and then change to an other hard drive. But instead bends lots of cmd come up.
I don't know what the problem is, but here is the code.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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now i have folder call help in("D:help1.jpg")in this folder files download fom another program and save. now i want that i have pen drive .i want to make such command that when click button it copy the files from ("D:heelp..") and copy to the pen drive.
In .Net Setup Wizard , While Installing Application Wizard shows ' Folder where to Install' but I want to show only Drive Letter like C, D etc Not to give option of folder
View 1 RepliesI have a 'SrcDirectoryTextBox' which stores a folder nameThis folder name is read in from the .ini file I have created and works okI also have a srclistbox which is filtered by a *.fil (filetype)I can read in the ini file and display it, but how do I make the srclistbox trigger after the ini file has been read, so that it displays the filenames.
View 2 Repliesi am currently using this code to open and close my drive in VB. However i want to make a single button to open the drive if its close and to close it if its open.
Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" (ByVal command As String, ByVal buffer As String, ByVal bufferSize As Int32, ByVal hwndCallback As IntPtr) As Int32
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim lRet As Long lRet = mciSendString("set CDAudio door open", vbNullString, 0, 0)
End Sub Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)HandlesButton2.Click
Dim lRet As Long lRet = mciSendString("set CDAudio door closed", vbNullString, 0, 0)
i am in need a script to open and close cd drive in a loop i already got this :
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But i need to start it with a button in visual basic 2008
I can't open an Access database on a mapped drive. However it works if I use the UNC path. how I can get this to work? See the code below for an example of what works and what doesn't...
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mConnString = "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\tiger-2000dvb_mt7MTrackBE.mdb" ' This works
mConnString = "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=T:vb_mt7MTrackBE.mdb" ' this does not work
Dim objConn As New OleDbConnection(mConnString)
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The error message I receive is...'T:vb_mt7MTrackBE.mdb' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides.I've done the obvious and verified that t:vb_mt7MtrackBE.mdb is a valid path.
I have use vb.net 2005, I open a folder withof command line usind (explorer.exe ,/e,/root, D:ew,folder) but my fodler name have
View 2 RepliesI am doing setup project in VS 2008. I used custom action to select file from local drives.On the button click of custom action form, I am launching Open file dialog...asofdGetNetPath.ShowDialogWhen I run the setup on Vista, and click the button to open the openFileDialog, it hanged, form becomes non responsive and I have to cancel the setup.on debugging I got following error"Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your main function has STAThreadAttribute marked in it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process."
View 2 RepliesI am a beginner using Visual Basic 2008 express and trying to get a folder to open if it isn't already, and if not then maximise it. Here's my
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I am working with VB 2008. I want to be able to run this program say in N: and it will show me in an excel sheet the following:
Folder Path Size(GB) Count of Files
N:Clients 0.53 308
where clients contains subfolders and files and the size is the total of all those files within each folder and the count is the total within each folder also.
This works fine as it is but i have to select one by one the top level folders and some of them are huge so it takes forever to give me an answer.
1) I would like to see in my spreadsheet the following by only select the network drive n:
Folder Path Size(GB) Count of Files
N:Clients 0.53 308
N:Software 10.7 15430
N:Billing 0.98 105
2) I would also like to know if this is the faster method.
3) I tried adding a progress bar so that the user can have an idea of how much this will take but i had to remove because it was not working.
4) I would like to see the folder name, size of folder and count of files in the listview.
Here is the code:
Imports Microsoft
Imports Microsoft.Win32
Imports Microsoft.Win32.Registry
Imports System.Collections
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