I'm working on a project in Visual Basic and it's going to store all the data in a folder in %appdata%. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 I already tried this:My.Computer.FileSystem. CreateDirectory(Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(%AppData est"))but it didn't work.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to write a small script that will copy a folder (named .minecraft) to a new folder (doesn't exist, but I want to create a new folder called .minecraft_backups). The current code I have is:
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory("%appdata%/.minecraft", "%appdata%/.minecraft_backups", True)
I get an error saying: Could not find directory '%appdata%/.minecraft'. I'm guessing it's because of the %appdata% shortcut. Is there any workaround to do this? The reason for this is because obviously if I don't enter %appdata% and enter the full route to the directory I need to enter the users username for the computer.
Is there anyway to change the default appdata program folder?
i have a class to serialize my settings, and i just want to save them to:
appdata/roaming/[programname]/settings.xml
but when i use the filesystem.specialdirectories.currentuserappdata(something like that) it give me appdata/roaming/[company]/[programName]/[Version]/
i don't want any of that extra stuff, especially since new versions won't be able to access the old settings.
I am creating a VB .NET app that uses the user's Application Data to store data. Can an unprivileged user create a folder in the top level of their Application Data directory? I am trying to create the app's folder if it doesn't already exist for that user.
View 3 Repliesdoes someone know if it is possible to build an application that store data in a folder locked by truecrypt where the application
1) create the encrypted folder
2) pass the password to read/write the data?
I have a third party referenced dll which I have set to 'copy local' in my project.
How can I make the location of that .dll not be in the same directory as the built exe, but in a folder called 'Resources' within that directory?
I want to store large files(over 100mb) in a sqlite database. I noticed, that its not good in performance.Do I have to store the files in a local folder, or do i have to rewrite my code?
Shared Sub BlobToFile(ByVal Blob As Byte(), ByVal file As String)
Dim MyData() As Byte = Blob
Dim K As Long[code].....
i am very new in programming. i have been doing a project for my college and currently im stuck. i couldn't find a way to store the pictures that are taken using webcam to a folder. its more like i want to store the picture and then encrypt
Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
Dim data As IDataObject
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How I can upload and store image to specific folder?
View 2 RepliesI have created an updater for our clients application. The way the updater works is to download all the updated files and store them in a temporary folder then check the file hashes. If everything is ok it will copy the files to the applications installation folder. Once this is been completed it will delete all the updated files in the temporary directory.
My problem: I am looking for a directory that will be available for XP, Vista, and Win7. I was thinking about the 'temp' directory.
I am coding a program that will allow the user to input 5 payrolls for Store 1, Store 2, and Store 3. The total of the 5 payrolls are then added together and shown in the respective Store's labels. A total label is also there to add up all the totals into one number. The numbers in the label must be in currency form. My problem is the numbers don't add correctly when I hit calculate. The first two numbers add together, but then after that the number just seems to subtract a random amount.
So far I have this --
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
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Im trying to delete a uneccary file from AppData Becuse i´m working on a DiskCleaner.And i´ve discovered that CCleaner deletes a file that is unneccesary.So i want to delete it ;D BUT it seems like the kill function dosent work.It says "A part of the Path could not be found" [code]
View 4 RepliesI Need to Store bunch of Jpeg files from local file system to a column with image datatype in databse.Can any one please provide me some code to do it?
View 6 RepliesHow can you access files in %appdata% through vb.net? e.g. C:UsersKuzonAppDataRoamingprogram. How would i access that file but on another windows 7 machine, also how would you do it on windows xp? I believe it is %Application Data%
View 1 RepliesHow do you use user specific folders like the appdata I was making a program that wooed back up folders on different computer without editing the code. So how use folders that you can get to by putting present shins around like %appdata%
View 1 Repliesim JTidler work for EBU. i need help making a program for vb that allows users to delete these files i need to delete the file MozillaControl is appdata and the file Graboid_inc in LOCALAPPDATA. I made a program in VB. here it is can i get this in VB.
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I am new to VB.net. I want to read and input file and store that data to an SQL Server database. Do you have an sample code that do such?
View 1 RepliesI have a modbus TCP device that I have managed to connected to through my VB source code.
I want to poll (continueously read) data from certain registers of the device, and store the polled data in a file (text,csv, excel).
I have an application that uses Dataset.WriteXML to create a small backup before data is syncronized to a data store (less than a meg).This application has worked well for 5 years now, and all of a sudden with the installation of XML 6.0 SP2 the XML document is not working correctly.I have multiple tables within a Dataset (Company, Contact, Notes, etc...)When WriteXML is called, the first table should be Company, however, the first table is being named Contact with the Company Data in it. The Notes table is being called Contact and so forth. In other words it's not giving the correct names to the tables in the XML File.This appears to be a bug, which is causing great distress on all the companies who have been using this program.
View 3 Repliesi just want to know how to get a template and store it in a data base without using data set
View 1 RepliesI am trying to access the "AppData" of a user on a remote computer. I have all the rights needed. I tried this:
r = RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive.Users, MachineName)
r.OpenSubKey(SIDValue & "SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders")
AppData = r.GetValue("AppData")
The fact is that it retrieves my own appdata folder...Actually the SID Value of the account on the distant computer and on mine is the same (I am under a domain). I don't know if it is the reason why I get my own appdata folder.How should I proceed?When I browse the HKEY_Local_Machine, I manage to have information about the remote computer..But not when browsing HKEY_USERS.
I have an xml file I parse to get a path to some other xml files that I then want to parse and read values from. I am fine to get the path from the first xml document and fine to parse the subsequent documents.Where I am struggling is implementing the path. It is being stored using system level variables like:
%appdata%my_appconfig
When I try open the file like this:
xmlConfig.Load(userConfigFile)
It tries to start in the application working directory - assume c:emp So the error message I get is:
Could not find a part of the path 'C:emp\%appdata%my_appconfighive.machine.xml'.
Is there a way I can use this pathing structure in my VB code or determine the actual fully qualified path programatically?
how do I do this properly:
vb
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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I would like to store some app data in a 'default system folder', so when I launch the program it will know where to look for it's own settings.As a matter of fact I only need to store there a path to the files used by the program. Users will be able to choose where to put them (simplified installation). The program has to know where to look for them.
Am I creating the folder properly? As you can see I'm referring to C:... The folder structure presented here comes from my laptop running on Windows 7 Ultimate. Maybe the C:... can be somehow defined by some sort of a system 'shortcut'. Following the above example the program would look for those in C:... , but maybe I can use something like ~~ default.app.settings.My Program Name ~~~. How does it work? Have no idea how to call it properly, but I'm sure you will know what I mean.
My application (vb.net) sometimes throws an "access denied" exception when attempting to delete files in the AppData folder and I'm not sure why.I confirm that the file exists before attempting to delete it and have not done anything to make it readonly, etcThe interesting thing is that it seems to go okay when I'm logged in with Admin rights
View 2 RepliesI have got two image folders namely a and b which consist of images of products. All images are save as there productid. how can can i find the images from a folder by passing there productid and save the images in a list.Dim AllImages As New List(Of String)
After saving it , how can i render those images one by one into string builder like
Dim imagecontainer As New StringBuilder
For Each image In AllImages
imagecontainer.Append("<img src="image" alt="" />") Next image
I need to scan either a drive are folder and search for .theme .VStyle and shellstyle.dll and there folder/subfolder names.The code scans for all .Theme files on the drive or in a folder, when it finds it it stores the folder name that file is in and also the name of the .theme .
View 4 RepliesTo improve performance, when one has many files to readwrite it is better to save them in smallergroup in different folders. Is there a magic number over which it is better to start splitting the folder? for example below "10.000" (invented number) files can be stored in one single folder, while above that it is better to start storing files in multiple folders.
View 16 RepliesI hope this is the correct place to obtain a little bit of advice for a program I am looking to produce in visual basic 2010.
I currently work as a design engineer designing press tools and a lot of our designs are similer just maybe a feature, length, diameter change etc. So the design principles are the same for each product.
What I am aiming to do is program the 3D design package so that 80% of the tool design can be done using the program etc.
Now the enquiry I have is where would the best place to hold the standard data be?
For instance each press has a maximum blank diameter, shutt height, bores diameters in the bed and likewise each product type has design features with the same calculations such as length, pierce etc.
I have done a bit of reading and I have found that data can be stored into text files, xml files and databases etc or hard coded into the program.
I am looking to allow new presses to be added so the user would need to add new shutt heuights, blank size etc but the tooling would have to be unqiue dependent on the typs of stage. So I am wondering to store this information would a database be the best option even though the data will not be continually updated more a place for it to be retrived from excpet under failry rare circumstances.
I was thinking about using an access database to store the data but I would like to know if there is a better way of storing data?
View 4 RepliesI'm writing an app in vb.net and was wondering wath the best way to store/retrieve data was?
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