I am aware that if you wish to run a program at a specific time, the best way is to add it to the windows task scheduler. I have a forms application that accepts as input a text file and some button selections before the actual main runs.
Can this kind of program be scheduled? I realize I would have to hard code the inputs but does .net have any features to access the task scheduler?
how to start a VB.NET program at a specific time of the day, but I simply cannot find it. I've found an example that shuts down the computer at a specific time of the day, but having no experience with the Timer function, I wouldn't know where to start when hacking the code.As an example, I'd like the program to run at say 2:00PM and display a message. The displaying the message won't be hard (MessageBox.Show("Stuff")), it's just the starting .
View 8 RepliesI have a program that allows a user to select a program to run at a certain time for a specific amount of time all choosen by the user. Everything works with the exception of if my program has launched the other program, my program become non-responsive. Meaning I am not able to look at that window again. Not that one really needs too, because when time is up my program closes the program it opened, then closes itself. I just want to be able to see my program when the other program is running. how to do this and perhaps drop me some links, that would be wonderful. This is what I have coded, but like I stated there are no code errors.
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I want to verify if the current system time falls within the specified time range between 7:30pm - 9:00pm. If it falls within the specified time range then display a message.
View 7 RepliesHow does one check to see if the system time is equal or not equal to a specific time? So, say I want to perform an action if your system time is between 6pm and 6am. Or something similar?
View 1 RepliesHow can I get time for specific ?[code]...
View 9 RepliesI have an app that relies on a database. Basically, users are checking in and checking out items and the database keeps track of all that.My boss wants a notification system to email us when a item is overdue. I already have most of this figured out.I was able to create a service and have it read registry values that the app sets and then it reads the check outdate from the database. If it's overdue, an email is sent out.
But, I've only done testing for 10 seconds at a time. I'm currently using a System.Threading.Timer to run every 10 seconds. That was only a test, it won't actually be that way.Instead, I want the task to run once every day. I was thinking to just have it run every hour, but if it runs every hour, then we'll be constantly bombarded by emails when an item is overdue. And sending it every "x" hours brings it's own issues and isn't ideal.Normally, I'd run a task via the Windows Task Scheduler, but the app has to read the database. I guess I could create a separate app and launch it via the task scheduler, have it complete the tasks and then close when done.
I wonder is there a way to set a timer for a specific time interval? Lets say everyday between 23:00 and 23:10.
View 6 RepliesHow to send mail at Specify time automatically in vb.net 2003
View 1 RepliesI have been trying to find out of the last hour how to do something proberbly very simple ?
I have a button, when I click on it, I want to loop the code inside this button for 60 seconds.
I am writing a small app to automatically connect my PC to the internet at a certain time and I am using rasdial.exe for it...
Private Sub SetIt_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SetIt.Click
Dim windir As String = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WINDIR")
Shell(windir & "system32
asdial.exe", AppWinStyle.NormalNoFocus)
End Sub
My question is how to make the shell function run at a specified time or after a certain interval?Also how to wake up my PC from hibernation using vb and winresume.exe
I have a simple WinForm that is using a Tab Control to simplify data entry. The very last page has a text box that allows the user to "set a name" for the file. I really want to simplify this and suggest how the file should be named. What I want
is for when the tab page is entered (consider that generically) that the text box is pre-populted with a name.
This code will do what I want, but only the first time the tab page is entered. what I am apparently missing or a better way to do this?
Private Sub TabPage6_Focus(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TabPage6.Enter
' This should simulate a load event
modGeneralInfo.docProductNaming()
modDocGen.docNameShorten()
End Sub
I just decided to recode my personal alarm program from scratch, new functions, ui etc and optimize it but I'm stuck on a part.
I have the option to start an alarm and set it to expire at a specific time, say in 2 days 5 hours 18 mins 10 secs. I was wondering what would be the best way (performance wise) to achieve this.
how trigger an event on specific time of day?
View 2 RepliesRecently in a couple of my current projects I have found that I have the need to 'schedule' events in my applications. For example, I would like something to happen in my program at 11 PM every day (and no I dont want to use Windows Scheduled Tasks) but I cant think of a good way to do this... The only method I can think of is to just have my app check every minute to see if the current system time is 11 PM but obviously that is pretty rubbish. I considered using Windows WorkFlow but that seems very overkill just to do this one thing...
Oh and if it makes any difference, I would like the user to be able to modify these times that certain events occur.
I have read on methods to set alarm and reminder. Any suggestion how to set a reminder to send an sms automatically?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to figure out how VB can focus a specific program and then send commands to the program only. The focus would only be for the commands and would not make the program you are currently in lose focus. Simply, what it is controlling is a Windows Application called GOM Player. I use it to study my material for school. I plays movies in it and don�t have to click out of the application I am working in to pause, play or rewind. The keypad and the company who make it actually have it built into iTunes and it does exactly what I want GOM Player to do.
The reason I dont just use iTunes is because I can�t get my video files to play in iTunes. After pulling teeth with the manufacture I finally to tell me that the iTunes functionality is accessible via plugins built into iTunes. So trying to mimic what is being done there does not help. I believe that a knowledgeable VB programmer could answer my question in seconds, but having some experience with coding and programing I know it also could be a lot more than what I think. [URL]
The question is: What is way that VB can send the key for the macro only to the GOM Player Application even if it is not focused or even If it is minimized.
I need to convert the current date to unix but if I run my app in europe or in the US, I need to get the same unix time.To converto to Unix is not a problem, what I can't get it working is how to set the convert the curretn date and time to a specific timezone before converting to unix.
View 1 RepliesI have 2 buttons on the form, Button A and button B.
I want to enable button A from 6am till 6pm from Monday to Friday and to disable button B during 6am until 6pm.
And I want to disable button A from 6.01pm till 11.59pm.
During saturday, only button B is enabled for the whole day.
does vb.net have the component to display the time only with the specific AM,PM? i know that VS 2008 got datetimepicker as choose the date and time but does it can display in term of the AM and PM? if got any better solution and component about display and set the time,
View 8 RepliesI'm wanting to create a small application that will allow me to schedule a machine to shutdown at a specific time. Any suggestions on how I can make this .exe run at a specific time besides using the Task Scheduler?
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to shut down windows say if the time is around 6:00 pm using the VB.net code. has any one done that. I have the code to kill my program when it is after say 6:00 pm, I would like to shut down windows along with it. I can post the code for killing my program (actually I got it from here) if anyone wants it.
View 13 RepliesI have a form which contains the following :
1. Textbox1
2. Button1
3. Label1
Label1.Text = "Updated Successfully"
Label1.Visible = False
Now what I want to do is, when I Enter something on Textbox1 and click Button1, Label1 should be visible and blinking.
Label1.Visible = True
But, when I type something on Textbox1 again (before even hitting Button1), Label1 should not be visible anymore and continues this way.Another way is to make Label1 visible for a specific time, say 5 seconds (blinking) and goes invisible. I prefer the first one though I would love to learn both?
How can we schedule a windows service to run at specific time ( lets say every day morning at 6:00 AM )
For this i had a timer thread to sleep for 24 hours like below and start the service exactly at 6:00 AM ( but the requirement is.... no matter when the service starts, but it should run at 6:00 AM .... So how to do this )
Bottom Line : How to schedule Windows Service to run at specific time ?
How I can use a messagebox to show for a specific amount of time only? So if I place this in maintimer, MessageBox will show and will auto close and I set how long it must display for. If messagebox is up, then Timer is paused. I did research around these lines but couldn't find what I'm looking for.
View 1 RepliesWith a Time value in my program. Basically, I am importing a travel Time from a database e.g. 3:45 so it takes 3 hrs and 45 minutes to get from a to b. I then want to double this - 3:45 * 2 = 7:30, and then want to multiply it by a cost e.g. travel is charged at 25 per hour. so it would be total travel time = 7:30. Travel cost = 25. Total Travel Cost = 7:30 * 25. In the access db, it is stored as a text field, and then imported in vb as a string.
View 1 Repliesi'm trying to make a program that searches for a specific file in a specific file, so when the program loads it "writes" in checked list box the names of the drives installed to the computer, but what i want to do is: when the user checks the box, i want it to search for the file in that drive, but i don't know how to do it...
I'm using:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Public Class Form1
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how to make it search in the other drives using the checked listbox?
If a Form contains 2 Group Boxes each containing 3 Radio Buttons and the Form itself contains 5 Radio Buttons not in either of the Group Boxes how many Radio Buttons can be checked at any one time?
View 2 RepliesI am making an application and i require a labels text to change between specific times. For example between 11pm and 5pm i want the label's text to be "closed" and then between 5pm and 11pm for the text to be "open".
View 6 RepliesI need some help working out the logic when retrieving specific times from a userform I have created. In my userform, users are required to input a start and a end time in 24 hour time format. I am struggling to work out how best to analyze the selected times in order to multiply them by a set of rates, the rates are quite simple:
DayHours rate (day time is between 07:00 - 22:59)
NightHours rate (night time is between 23:00 - 06:59)
I cannot workout the logic to ascertain how many hours have been selected for which rate in an elegant manner, my best attempts so far are clunky and not quite there.