How can I remove the actual file name from the path returned by the FileName property of an Open or Save File Dialog?
All I want is the path to the file without the file name.
How would I do that? Sample code is below that demonstrated that the file I opened contained the full path and file name.
I want to extract just the path and serialize that to the user.config file as a UserSetting value. Then next time the user opens the dialog box, it uses that saved path string to go immediately to the location previously used.
If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
Properties.Settings.Default.persistConnectionType = openFileDialog1.FileName
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
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I Have a folder in this path C:UsersXXXDesktopOriginalXXXinDebugBackup And when I save my project with "XXX" name the same time I need to change the Backup Folder using that save filedialog name and it shouldn't overwrite it.
Private Sub SaveProject_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveProject.Click
Using sfdlg As New Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog
sfdlg.OverwritePrompt = True
sfdlg.InitialDirectory = "C:"
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I suppose technically this isn't .NET specific but I suspect this is something to do with the registry and I'm using .NET!I'm trying to find out how to get the fully qualified path relating to a file type.For example, the system knows that to open a PDF file it needs to launch C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Reader 10.0Readeracrord32.exe
I've had a good long search through the registry and found a lot of references to the adobe path probably too many - and I've edited them to try and "break" the process so I can identify which one is used to discover the path but with no luck. I'm assuming this has something to do with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT?
I am trying to replace a string which is actually different from line to line in a text file. I want to end up with a filename but without the path. For example:
My text file contains:
C: est estingmorefilename.mpg
C: est estfiles1 estfile4.mpg
W: estinglocation estingmore estfiles9.mpg
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I have a site that has files that i want to list in a listbox.
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so i would like to take test.txt, and insert it into the listbox. how can i get that filename into the listbox without the full path of the file?
in my program, i use that code for getting the file path of a process, once it gets the path, it is put into a list view which has details like the task manager. the code works fine the first time, but with a little bug that is, when it reaches the vhost of my program. For some reason, it just copies the file path of my program even though the process has changed. After the code has gone through, i want it to refresh the list so as doing the same as when loaded...so I let it refresh and once again it copies the path of the vhost, but this time it has basically taken over every process' location. So in turn, I only get returned my programs location, for something like the task managers location, where it would be like "C:Windowssystem32skmgr.exe"
Here's the
VB
Private Sub frmmain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim Process As New Process()
Dim Count As Integer = 0
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The refresh code is frmmain_Load(Nothing, Nothing) just to make things easy for me right now, while i get that part of the program going. To me it seems to be working fine, but why it does that what it does, im not sure. as you can see, the process changes. and Ive even checked it through run time, and each and every time, the process.processname changes.
I use the followoing code to import an xlsx file into an Access 2007 table. It works fine when I enter the exact file name.However, part of the file name is a date which will change every week.The file location does not change,just the date in the file name.[code]I've tried using a wildcard but I get a Run-time error 3011.Db engine could not find the object. Make sure the object exists.
View 1 RepliesI have a textbox that the user must put the path and file name into like so
"E:configsserver2config.cfg"
I wrote and tested the code I did to grab the "E:configsserver2" part without the file name so that I could reference other files such as images within the same directory level. I will post only the code that is meant to grab the path as it's where the problem is. So don't worry if you don't see any dim statements for variables as they are there.
'Get file and path from textbox
fileV = loadTB.Text
'The starting index of the string counting back to the begining
countDown = fileV.Length - 1
'Get the path of the file so that we can find the images
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I am reading all files from a directory and writing them to a text file. This is working just fine.[url]...
How would i go about removing the file path from the list of file names in the text file.
im having a problem saving text.. this is the problem i have a textbox that a multiline... now when i click the save button it pop up a save file dialog.. now i want to do when the user click the ok button in a save file dialog it will save as a text file and their file name is the user input into the save file dialog..
i use the system.io.streamwriter but i dont how to save the text in the textbox..
how do you transform an address like "file:///d:filename.ext" in "d:filename.ext"
without dirty string manipulation??
I am trying to trim the path from a filename. With the following code, it returns "My Documents" where I should be getting "Test.txt". if I change the 1 to a 4 I get what I'm looking for, but that's not going to work if I'm working with a file deeper into subdirectories. I need it to display the name of the file regardless of location or file type.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to trim the path from a filename. With the following code, it returns "My Documents" where I should be getting "Test.txt". If I change the 1 to a 4 I get what I'm looking for, but that's not going to work if I'm working with a file deeper into subdirectories. I need it to display the name of the file regardless of location or file type.
Private Sub trimname()
Dim filelabel
split = current.Split("")
filelabel = Trim(split(1))
Elbow1.ButtonText = filelabel
End Sub
I got an easy one this time How can I get a file knowing the path and the name of it, but not knowing the extension which I need to get. You can see at the moment I use this silly code which finds and opens some main filetypes for me, but if I could get hold of the file extension just by using the filename and the path I could open any document or image...
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How to remove extension from a Filename
View 2 RepliesThis code works fine for returning the short name of path/file in XP x32, but in Windows 7 x64 it doesn't return anything.How do I get the short path/filename with vb.net 2008 in Windows 7 x64?
Dim RetVal
As
Integer
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Using vb.net 2008 I have a form with a PDFViewer control. I pass the filename and path to open the pdf. When the form is closed, AcroRd32.exe is not destroyed. It remains in Task Manager even after I've completely closed the application. The more pdf files I open, the more memory used. How can I destroy? I've tried setting the control = nothing, ctrl.dispose but neither is working. What am I doing wrong?
View 5 RepliesThis is the code I have set up to scan a directory of files:
Dim fileArray() As String
fileArray = Directory.GetFiles(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "help")
And it successfully gets all files in the directory, but it gets their absolute paths as well. For example, one of the entries in fileArray() is:
F:ProjectProjectinx86Debughelpook_troubleshoot.html
And I want it to just be:
book_troubleshoot.html
Is there a way to do this without parsing through all the array entries to trim off the path?
I am a new developer in general and decided on VB.NET for my first language. So, I decided that I should write a basic FTP client since the types of apps I plan on developing later on will incorporate file transfer. I imported the chilkat dll as a reference to my project since the FTP seems to work great. Anyhow, I've designed my program with separate interfaces for sending and getting files (see attached screenshot).
The problem here is that I use an openfiledialogbox to select the local file to transfer to an FTP server which this populates the textbox with "C: ext.txt", but chilkat wants the filename without the C:, or I receive an prohibited file name error when executing the send button. So basically I just need a way to store the filename text.txt without the C: extension so I can specify THAT name as the "remotefilename" which Chilkat will understand. The way I'd really like to do it is to have my send button remove the C: from the existing textbox and just leave the filename there - that would be fine.
I tried to research this and found that the path.Getfilename may be used for this, but I'm not totally sure how i should go about it. Here is the code of the Send button for my FTP Program so far. *By the way, this program works 100% if i just create another textbox, take the filename "test.text" and reference that as the remotefilename.
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I would like to use a SaveFileDialog to retrieve a path and filename.
Like for example: You choose a saving location and filename in the SaveFileDialog, and then when you press save the path and filename will be put in to a string as such: C:Folderfilename.txt
I have a Access program and I'm using VBA code in the background to run Winunzip using shell command. Well, the path of the .zip file has spaces in it and it's not recongizing the path as a valid path. Is there a another way to tackle this problem besides the shell?I can't us pkzip either. Has you can see I had to use progra~1 instead of Program Files.[code]
View 2 RepliesI am having a big problem with deleteing a file form the server. I have the filename for a image stored in my SQL database. the problem is i am getting an error of "Illegal characters in path. " Here is the code below:Everything is working fine until the delete command.
Protected Sub DeleteButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim tmpEquipID As String = Request("EquipID")
Dim tmpImageID As String = (CType(FormView1.FindControl("ImageIDLabel"), Label).Text)
Dim d As New equippicsDataContext
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I'm trying to upload a file via FTP from my local computer to an FTP server, which is also on my local computer at the moment. I've got this sub I'm calling:
Public Sub UploadFTPFile(ByVal ftpservername, ByVal fullfilepath, ByVal filename, ByVal username, ByVal password)Dim clsRequest As System.Net.FtpWebRequest = _
DirectCast(System.Net.WebRequest.Create("ftp://" & ftpservername & "/" & filename), System.Net.FtpWebRequest)
clsRequest.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password)
clsRequest.Method = System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile
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I'm running an FTP Server using Golder FTP Server, which is freeware. I think it's setup correctly because connecting to the FTP Server using the exact same string as above using Windows Explorer works great.
i need to put the file name into a textbox i am using a streamreader the file is a collection of numbers which i am importing in using a open file dialog into my program which i am then saving to a database however i need the file name to go along with and not the full path which i currently have,
View 1 RepliesQuick query...I'm trying to scan a long string and return any values that occur between the tags <FileName> and </FileName> I've got a bit of code here to use regular expressions to return the position of the occurunces of both substrings..Just wanted to find out if there is any way to scan for both substrings within one loop (as im currently doing 2, one for the first substring and one for the 2nd) so I can use something along these lines:
ringlist = Mid(XMLRESP, (startloc + 1), (endloc - 1))
MsgBox(ringlist)
to msg box the value between the substrings...either that or another approach to return the value between the 2 substrings (it can be of variable length)
Dim patternstart As String = "<FileName>"
Dim patternend As String = "</FileName>"
Dim matchesstart As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(XMLRESP, patternstart)
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Is it possible to add a icon to a certain data type that appears in a file dialog For example for a .html would be a icon of the World.Is this would show up in a open dialog?
View 1 RepliesAnybody knows how to detect that the user has pressed on the ESC key when in a FileSave or FileOpen Dialog, in VB.Net ?I have added KeyPreview to the form on which the FileDialog rests, but the key press is not seen and the FileDialog returns the file name I had given it as a suggestion to the user upon calling the FileDialog.
View 2 RepliesAnybody knows how to detect that the user has pressed on the ESC key when in a FileSave or FileOpen Dialog, in VB.Net ?have added KeyPreview to the form on which the FileDialog rests, but the key press is not seen and the FileDialog returns the file name I had given it as a suggestion to the user upon calling the FileDialog.
View 2 RepliesHow would I split Folderbrowserdialog1.selectedpath to remove the selected folder but keep the path to it, e.g C:Folder1Folder2Selectedfolder becomes C:Folder1Folder2
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