Store HUGE Strings Without Using Settings?
Apr 21, 2012Is there a way I can store HUGE strings without using settings? Or storing it outside the program?
View 1 RepliesIs there a way I can store HUGE strings without using settings? Or storing it outside the program?
View 1 RepliesI store three items in My.Settings. One is a serialized string, and the other two are GUIDs. When the main form starts, those three items are loaded into various places. On rare, and so far unpredictable, occasions, one of these GUIDs is notably absent. The others may or may not be, I have yet to be able to check. Since it happens so infrequently (twice this month, though I have been working on the code every day), I'm having a very hard time tracking down the problem. However, it got me wondering where these values are stored. I see one of them showing up in App.Config, though without a value. Is there a place I can see the others?
View 13 RepliesFor my website I've just implemented tinyMCE for my site (just a word processor). Everything works fine except when i try to store the string variable input into a sql server database. I want to store a string and not have the html tags make me exceed the 8000 length limit(the html tags take up most of that space). My question is, is there a solution so I can store my document with the html tags without shortening my document? Create an if statement that will determine the length If > 8000 than split the string apart and insert into separate fields. Maybe their is a compression feature which I'm unaware of?
View 1 RepliesI have a text file called COUNTERS_SETTINGS.DAT having the following contents:
[USERID]<=>COUNTER_1
[PASSWORD]<=>ADMIN1
[CONNECT_STRING]<=>DATA SOURCE=RECAT;USER ID=PAYOPER;PASSWORD=PAYOPER
I'm Trying to have that entries in a Jagged array of Strings like this
Array Name is : Core (2,1)
Core
(0) (1)
(0) USERID | COUNTER_1
(1) PASSWORD | ADMIN1[code]........
I'm retrieving data from Active Directory(name,department,title,company,mail) into a string seperated by commas and I want to split the string and store them to array where i can export it in excel before updating it to my database. but i how do i store them to an array?
here's the code: I'm getting data from AD and storing it in list:
Dim formattedName As String = String.Format("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}", _
resEnt.Properties("name")(0).ToString(), _
resEnt.Properties("company")(0).ToString(), _
resEnt.Properties("department")(0).ToString(),
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In the past I've used a Singleton Pattern to load the connection string when the application starts via the global.asa file.
I have a project now where each user has a unique connection string to the database. I would like to load this connection string once. The issue is that the singleton pattern will not work for me since each user has there own connection string. Basically the connection string is created dynamically.
I do not want to store it is session. If anyway has a clever way of doing this in .NET let me know ?
I want to create the matched strings in vb.net and set them as private, so no one could read them when using ollydby. Here's the
Dim a As string = "ˆ"
Dim b As string = "%"
Dim c As string = "ÿ"
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I want to store a regular array in My.Settings. Not an ArrayList, not a StringCollection, just a string Array. Can this be done? If so, how is it done? I can't seem to find the string array datatype in the settings designer in Visual Studio.
View 3 RepliesHow I can store a bitmap in my.settings?
View 1 RepliesI have a structure like this[code]...
How can I store this in my.settings? When I select browse to find the type, or simply type in "Register", it does not work.
I am using an .ini file to store my settings, so they are editable. But the thing is, it wont redirect? I had it working some minutes ago, but now, it just gives me a white page.. It didnt do that some minutes ago Here is my whole code, as it would take time to split it all that has with .Ini file to do.
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My problem is storing multiple string in the my settings to clarify more on this ill try explaine as best as i can,
'I set my value like so
Dim strSettings As New My.MySettings
'On the form load i use this
Dim itemz As New ListViewItem
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I've came to the stage where i need to save strings and application settings for my application. The My.Settings have worked it out until now. Now i have to store so many settings it's hard to keep track of them. That is why i need something new. So i've been looking around in INI files which seems impressively simple - but not very flexible. I've also took a look at XML which seems to be something to dive in to. But what i need now is advice. How do you store settings?
View 11 RepliesIn .NET which data type do you use to store list of strings ?Currently I'm using List(Of String) because it's easier than Array to manage and add/remove stuff. I'm trying to understand what are the other options, when they become handy and when I should avoid List(Of String) usage.
View 4 RepliesStore order status strings in program?How will this be in VB?[code]...
View 5 RepliesDoes anyone know how to store settings/resources internally?I have this code (example).msgbox(my.settings.message)But this method generates a .resx file with the application.
View 3 RepliesI want to find out how I can store text from a textbox, close the form and next time when I start it again, I want to load the text into the textbox that was previous entered. I have created a new application setting thing as a string. then in the textbox1_textchanged event I wrote
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You know how using My.Settings.something to store persistent data is done only for user settings and not application settings. This information is stored in the registry on the local user section.My problem here is that even if it is in the same machine, when a user changes some setting it is not reflected on other users. This is desirable for some of them but there are a few I would like to keep for all users.Is there a way to do it with the settings? Do I need to write to the registry in the machine section? or do you just recomend I create a configuration file?
View 5 Repliesi need to store Application wide Settings in my Application like:
Connection to DB (Servername) Username/Password Registrar/Serial etc. I think there are basically two Options:
Store them in the Registry Store them in an Application Settings File Using one of the methods above is no problem, but under Windows 7 my Application running in normal user mode allows me only to store user specific data. For example inside UserAppDataRegistry, UserAppDataPath etc.
But when i want to use e.g. CommonAppDataRegistry to write my Data in, then i get no access to it, due to missing privileges.
Now my question:
Where and how to store Application Wide Data? How are others doing this? When i purchase an application and install it on my pc, it asks me for Uusername and Serial. When i insert it then it saves it somewhere without asking me for Administrative Privileges or something else.
I have a license form that i wish to save the information or just system wide information for that matter,I know about the my.Settings - however this will only save for a specific user and the aplpication scope you can not write to.Where is the best place or the normal practice of saving application wide information?
View 7 RepliesI am using VB 2008 & MS Access 2007 Databases for my Windows Forms Applications.The Problem is my Connection strings have been disappeared from DataSource Configuration Wizards & now i am unable to edit any Connection String in DataSet Designer.I had tried to create a Macro in MS Access Data File but didn't know how to create & so desided not to save any & just quit from Access and came back to Visual studio. Since then only this prob. has started. Earlier to this everything was just fine.I have tried to uninstall MS Office as well as Visual Studio then Re-installed Visual Studio but the problem is still there.
1] Error while trying to Reconfigure Data Adapter in Dataset
2] Disappeared options & Empty Connection Combo Box
3] Add Connection DialogBox with no DataSource property line in the Grid control
I am storing some user settings by the very handy My.Settings classes in VB.net and it seems to be taking a mixed case string (a file path and filename) and returns it in all upper case.
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a project right now that basically prints a string to the field that has focus in internet explorer and there's quite a bit of user specified information that needs to load when the vb program loads. Should I use a text file to store and retrieve the settings or a database? I'm a new programmer and I don't really have a clear idea on when I should use a text file compared to a database or the registry to store info. Also, if I use a database like access 2007 for example, wouldn't an end user run into an exception if they don't have that software installed on their comp? Is there a universal database format? I've linked some screenshots of the prog if you want to get an idea of how much info I need to store.
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I'm working on a program that generates random values for a byte array thats length is 16.I have already devised the generation method, but I want to use My.Settings to store this...but I haven't seem to have located Byte() for My.Settings.
View 2 RepliesI am developing an application, and i need to store some configuration settings, with time, i will need to add some more configuration settings. Am thinking of three alternative to implement that will me easy to access without much coding and efficient sqlite, xml, and application configuration file..But am concerned about security, because some personal data will be saved together.
View 2 RepliesI've written a windows service in VB.NET 2.0 and the service needs to know a few file paths and other settings when it starts in order to be able to do what its supposed to do. These are settings that users of my service need to be able to configure themselves so I cant hard code them in.At the moment I just have the service look for a file named Config.INI in the same directory that it is being run from and if this file exists it attempts to read the settings in from there... this works perfectly, but it just feels a bit clunky and old. If it was a normal windows app I would store the settings in an XML file in the user's application data folder or something but as this is a Service then thats not possible as it is not run by any one user (well technically it is, the Local System account). I then thought about using the registry but I seem to recall people saying that you should avoid storing settings in the registry if you can really, especially with the new security in Vista and Server 2008.
View 6 RepliesI'm wanting to store some settings for my program in an XML document. I've found plenty of places that allow you to write an XML document to somewhere on the hard drive although I'm wanting to link it in with the project so when the program installs it setups up the XML as well. This is also so when the program uninstalls it removes the XML.So I was wondering how I would go about writing to the XML document in my project, could it be done with Linq?
View 2 Replieshow to store the connection string to my Access mdb in my project's My.Settings ?
View 4 RepliesHow can i store unlimited multi-row strings without the need of extra files?Example: the user enter a multi-row string into a textbox and clicks save. Then the program should save that somewhere. And then the user enters another string and clicks save. And then there is a combobox where it can choose between those 2 strings to load.Can i save them in some sort of collection like My.Settings.Collection? Where each text also has a header.
View 5 RepliesI have created 3 classes which inherits from(System.Collections.Specialized.NameObjectCollectionBase)
The first class "SQLCommandsCollection" stores "SQLCommands" in a collection.
The second class "SQLTableNamesCollection" stores "SQLCommandsCollection" objects in its collection.The Third class "SQLDBNamesCollection" stores "SQLTableNamesCollection" objects in its collection.
Ultimately I will sit with a "SQLDBNamesCollection" collection which contains all Table names and its respective SQLCommand objects.
I would like to store this "SQLDBNamesCollection" object in my.settings("QueryViewerQueriesPerTableNamePerDBName")
at runtime but I am unsure what this settings type should be.
I have tried system.oject but this does not seem to work as I get an "Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'Fusion.SQLTableNamesCollection'" exception when I try to retrieve from settings. See below code.
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