If I want the saved files from a application to get special icons, how do I do that in VB? For a f ew years ago when I programmed to Mac, in RealBasic, it was just to add icons and associate them with the extension.
View 5 Repliesi have an old VB6 system that generates plain text files. When this old system writes "A" into the file, it writes (hex) "41". For an "ä" (a-umlaut, special gernam character), it writes (hex) "E4".
Now i have to process files like this in VB.Net. when i open such a file in the IDE, it displays correctly "ä" (But not always!). To see what i mean, please open a notepad and create a new file "ae.txt" with content: äöü. Now your file contains exactly 3 bytes: (hex) E4 F6 FC.
But when i write code like
Dim strTest As String
strTest = File.ReadAllText("ae.txt")
Debug.Print(InStr(strTest, "ä"))
i get 0 - so i cannot find back the "ä" - what do i need to do, to find it? And 2) for compatibility reasons, i have also to be able to create such files. How to do that? Seems the different encoding types do not work as i think.
i'm developing an application that extracts all the icons of a .exe file or a .ico file. the ExtractAssociatedIcon in System.Drawing.Icon only do this for the first icon which is 16x16. I would be able to extract the other formats like 64x64 or 128x128. I know that there is a Windows API that may help me, but i don't know how to call its methods or even how to use that.
View 2 RepliesI need a function to verify the files in a folder and if it find any file can separates the icon path and file name to be loaded by code: the name for a label and icon to a picturebox.
View 3 RepliesI want a form to search a directory (which i specify in the code) and then list all files with a file exstension that is .amxx .And that's not all, it should list them in a checked listbox.And of course a little + is that it only list the name of the file, not the hole directory + filename. But that feuture i don't really need, just for good looking.I looked into the problem and i tried something with DirectorySearcher but with no success.
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I want to add files with its icon to a listview control. So I used the below code.But the files names are with its full path. I want to get only the file name without full path and extention. How to modify this code?
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i want to be able to view files like window explorer does.. i have tried a webbrowser, except i don't like the left side menu in the windows explorer unless it shows folders. in my case, i would like to add folder icons. reply in detail if the code is complicated, on what actual toolbar items and imports do i need to do such.
View 7 RepliesI was able to extract icons from the current running processes and then put them into a ListView.
I am trying to do the same with files in a specified directory:
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When I use this code, I get an error stating: "'MainModule' is not a member of 'System.IO.FileInfo'." If I remove the very first line of the sub that specifies the directory, that error obviously goes away.
So, is there another method of extracting the icon? Or must I declare the directory in another way?
I'm getting ready to check MSDN to see if I can something withing the FileInfo Class,
My program takes screen shots and saves them but i want to incoorporate a function that allows a user to delete all the images in the file they choose to save them into [code] And its not working the program names each image after the frame that it was taken, ie the first frame is called 1 the second two etc..I want to delete all of the files and the folder that they were saved in but this way doesnt work and is not horribly efficient.filedir is a textbox on the form that the user inputs a save location so thats what i am using to determin files to delete.
View 2 Repliesi'm making a progam to study,but it has his own save file format. (*.lad)and it get a dirty icon , so i want if i save,or open a file with the progam, the file has his own icon.
View 18 RepliesI'm developing a command line application in Visual Basic .Net 2005 for converting RTF files into TXT. The application works perfect except for one thing. The files saved with MS Word containing some textbox make trouble. I'll explain it better with an example
1 - I open MS Word, I create a new document.
2 - I insert a texbox and i write some words inside.
3 - I save the file as RTF.
4 - I use my command line application for converting the RTF into TXT. The text inside the textbox doesn't appear anywhere.
The thing is that if I open the RTF file with wordpad it shows the text. It's not in a text box, but it shows it.The problem is that this application will read files uploaded by users automatically so I can't just leave it like this, I have to take into account that there is the possibility that some user will save an RTF file with a textbox inside so I need it to be able to get the contents of the textbox the same way wordpad does.
Here is the code
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Dim args(2) As String
args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs
Dim c As New System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
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I have a program where I'm trying to clone icons in a folder and represent the files in a listview on a form. I've tried using msdn, google and F1 help to figure this out, but I don't seem to be getting it.Here's the code I have so far, but I'm getting error that object not set to an instance of the object.
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I wanted to make a program in which multiple files could be saved into one and then unpacked later. I tried reading and then rewriting the exact strings but it made the files corrupt. I was able to do it with bytes but I'm not sure how I add mutiple files together.
View 3 Repliesrecover a program from published files saved on a website?
View 2 RepliesI cannot find a Backup Files folder and auto recover was turned on? I spent ages working on a project when the power went
View 6 Repliesi need to access to a special folder and operate there, but i don't have permission to do this, how i can set permission to access to special folder and delete/create files?
View 18 RepliesI'm trying to create a function to extract the filename and number from saved files where the filename and number is not known before hand. I successfully created this example but the file name in the example is hardcoded. My program creates backup files and numbers them starting a one. I want to extract the saved files and list them in a treelist by filename only.ie.. unknown filename 1, backup 1, saved file 1, saved file 2, here is what i have but it only retrieves the hardcoded filename.
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I have an icon file (32x32) and I added it as application icon in the properties and it is coming fine only if the view is set to "Medium Icons" else it is showing only the default icon. How can I add all sets of icons to an application so that my Icon will be visible in all modes?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to add to my application some icons via the code.When i run my executable from debug / release compilation folder it works good.But when I move my executable files to other folders it tells me that it doesn't find the icon files.Any idea how/where I should tell the compiler to add those files to my final executable version ,that they will be visible.[code]
View 2 RepliesI am doing an application in VB.NET 2005, I have created one ASP.NET Web Application. And I want to do a form with two buttons: browser and upload, and with one textbox. The idea is the next, I have to do click in browser and look for my document and later upload de document. I don't know if VB has a special button to browser or something like this.
View 4 Repliesi have a question regarding the icons for applications.Is there a way to set an icon for an application in .net installer and not include it sepparately in the application folder but rather embed it to the application ?I mean i saw in the registry for some applications the icon set to application.exe,0 What does ,0 mean ?
View 3 RepliesI need to get a list of installed program on local machine with application icons. Below is the code snippet that am using to get the list of installed program and installed directory path.[code]....
View 1 RepliesHow can i use my own created icons as a button in my windows application instead of using the windows application button?
View 3 RepliesTortoiseSVN and Dropbox both have Windows shell extensions that make file icons within Windows Explorer show a small icon beside the main one, showing the file's status - has it been synced, etc How can I make my application show icons beside files like that using the Windows API? Or is there some file attribute to do that?
View 1 RepliesSomeone gave me a link to a Multi-User TCP Chat application once, but, there is a flaw in it, where it wont do special characters, such as Alt+1 will become a different character to the server than the one that was sent. Even I tried to see if the output was usable but it sees it as multiple chars, when it is only 1, and I can't find a link between what it sends and what the character is, so I can't just tell it based on whats sent what the char is, because I see no relation, I would have to type it out for each and every special character.
View 2 RepliesI am building some context menus and the menus will contain a "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Sort A to Z" and "Sort Z to A" buttons just like the context menus in Microsoft Office. I would like to use the same images used in MS Office for these buttons in my context menus. Anyone know how to add these images to my contextmenus?For example,
Private CMS As New ContextMenuStrip
CMS.Items.Add("Cut", 'MS Office Cut Icon Here', Me.subCUT)
I am trying to make a telnet application to communicate with a special video player I have, I have gotten the telnet session to connect to the video player (server) but it won't respond back....I think the problem might be with the coding...the strData string below is supposed to be the replies I get back from the server, but it won't show any strings on the screen.
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Using Visual studio 2008, I have an application that its data can save to a binary file, using *.SDB extension, Moreover users can open this file from my application. I have 2 questions about this.
1-How can I assign an icon to this saved file with SDB extension when my application has been installed in other computer?
2-Similar to *.sln file (for Visual Studio project), How can I assign tow icon to single extension?
I want to save a Custom DateTimePicker.Value in my Application Settings. The custom format is : dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss, instead of dd/MM/yyyy The field i've created in the application settings parameters is LASTSAVE (DATE / APPLICATION)
When I try to link in the ApplicationSettings/PropertyBinding ... VALUE with my field LASTSAVE, i have an error :
The Value '01/01/0001 00:00:00' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' mustbe ... 'MinDate' et 'MaxDate'.
Name of the parameter : Value
I then entered the MIN and MAX date in the properties of my control DATETIMEPICKER.
I have also put into the properties Value a start date like 23/11/2011 12:00:00 ;
However, when i retry to link in the ApplicationSettings/PropertyBinding ... value to LASTSAVE / I have the same error (The Value '01/01/0001 00:00:00' is not valid for 'Value'. ). I've saved all, do a process that put a value in the datetimepicker.value, but it's not saved, cause not linked.
My application is suppose to save the information that I put in the application that is in a listbox in form2. All the information is in form1, but I got it to save it in the listbox in form2 and I can see it when I load up the form2. Im suppose to make 10 different list for it, (it says it should be in arrays, but I dont know how to do it) and I should be able to save them everytime I put a new one in, but when I put a new list in the listbox and close the application and then reopen it, its erased, how do I save it and keep it in the lstbox so it doesnt get erased?
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