String Variable From My.settings?
Apr 21, 2011
I'm going to describe what I'm trying to do and then what I'm doing in hopes of making this as clear as possible.I'm trying to create a way of having data avaialble to the application that could be changed in the future and not have to recompile the code.Normally I do this for my connection strings incase something changes, this way I can just change the file and I'm good.however in this case I'm trying to store a long string variable that contains something like(including all " in the string) "Dear " + emailRecp + vbCrLf + "Thank you for buying our product...."
Now when I do this as part of the code with something like strMessage = "Dear " + emailRecp + vbCrLf + "Thank you for buying our product...."when I look at the output from this it looks like (which is what I want):
Dear Mr Smith
Thank you for buying our product....
however when I do strMessage = My.Settings.purchaseMessage (even with .ToString()) the output looks like Dear " + emailRecp + vbCrLf "Thank you for buying our product....how to do this in another manner that won't affect performance.I have also tried to trim the " from the first and last char positions and no luck.
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Nov 18, 2009
I'm looking for a way to search a string variable for two words and copy the text in between them into another variable. This needs to be done as many times as the match occurs.
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Aug 9, 2010
This is a quite strange problem. I have set a setting variable in Application settings with following data:
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Yet when I reference it with this statement: MsgBox(My.MySettings.Default.county) It alerts 1. Despite being the first to be executed as soon as form loads.
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Aug 13, 2009
i want to save a variable to application settings and i dont want it to be in my invisible textbox1.text. i just want a plain old variable that i can manipulate during runtime and then have it save it after i reload the application. what do i do instead of attaching my.settings to textbox1.text?
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Aug 12, 2011
this website seems great and this is my first post. Sorry if this has already been answered but I have been searching for a long time. I have a program with a list view in details mode. I have it load column settings (visibility, display index, width, etc.) when the form is opened and save them when closed. There are many columns...about ten so far...like folder, file, size, etc. Is there a way to access variable names from the values of other variables?
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Jun 2, 2011
Say I have something like this
Dim Level1 as Integer = 83
Dim Goal as String
Goal = InputBox(" What level is your goal?")
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Jan 21, 2012
the code below is for creating controls at runtiem, but i have realised even tho i remove the controls and then add controls, they are keeping their settings and more so the Data, eg the checked list boxes are keeping their data so if i do some work with 1 of the 3 pannels then when i change the pannel im working on it still has its lists, how would i go about using a 'frest template' as in a clear all previous settings just so their isn't any possable errors.
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Apr 4, 2009
I am trying to insert a string variable inside of two strings, and make a combined string. Public Sub Page_Load() Dim Id As String Id = Trim (Request.QueryString("Id")) End Sub Dim mp3text as string url... & Id & ".mp3" My goal is to make the mp3text variable have a string that is: url...(If Id is 7) It is for some reason not connecting up correctly. I checked what string it is outputting and this is what it is giving: url...It is missing the Id content.
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Feb 9, 2011
The code below works for the class that I hard coded "XCCustomers" in my RetrieveIDandName method where I use CType. However, I would like to be able to pass in various classes and property names to get the integer and string LIST returned. For example, in my code below, I would like to also pass in "XCEmployees" to my RetrieveIDandName method. I feel so close... I was hoping someone knew how to use CType where I can pass in the class name as a string variable.
Note, all the other examples I have seen and tried fail because we are using Option Strict On which disallows late binding. That is why I need to use CType.I also studied the "Activator.CreateInstance" code examples to try to get the class reference instance by string name but I was unable to get CType to work with that.When I use obj.GetType.Name or obj.GetType.FullName in place of the "XCCustomers" in CType(obj, XCCustomers)(i)I get the error "Type 'obj.GetType.Name' is not defined" or "Type 'obj.GetType.FullName' is not defined"
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Imports DataLaasXC.Business
Imports DataLaasXC.Utilities
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Dec 5, 2011
These is the content of my txt file which is saved in D drive in my pc abc,1,2,3..I tried the flowing but it didn't work:[code]I am getting error on this line.. data = line.Split(","c)...it says this line isn't in use anymore or something and that I rather use LineInput but thats asks for filenumber and i don't know what that is. I am sorry but I am a complete beginner. what else can I try? [code]ok that error is gone now but now if I want to add these values to a list box..how can i do that?
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May 30, 2012
I have a List(of String()). I have written a custom comparer (implements IComparer(of string)) to do an alphanumeric sort.Is there a way to sort the List using a given index to determine which position in the String() to sort by? In other words one time I might sort by Index = 0 and another time by Index = 3. The length of all String() in the list is the same.For reference this question is similar to Sort List<String[]> except I am using VB.net and that question is hardwired to Index=0.
EDIT from OP's comments:I started simple with the non custom comparer but I am getting an error: expression does not produce a value. Not sure what I am doing wrong.Here is the code:
Public Shared Function SortListOfStringArray(ByVal ListOfStringArray As List(Of String()), ByVal SortByIndex As Integer) As List(Of String())
Return ListOfStringArray.Sort(Function(x, y) x(SortByIndex).CompareTo(y(SortByIndex)))
End Function
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Aug 10, 2011
For Each i In web
web(i) = My.Settings.sweb(i)
name(i) = My.Settings.sname(i)
Next
This code doesn't work, it is what I want to do. How do I make it so that I can change the name in my.settings without hard coding it?Basically I want to be able to change the name of the input to my.settings How can I make the "sweb" part of My.Setting a variable so I can change it.
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Aug 17, 2011
i have an app, and i want to add a string into a collection in my.settings.'there is a collection: My.Settings.items
My.settings.items.add("string")
'this gives a nullreferenceexception
Dim selected() as string = {"string")
My.settings.items.addrange(selected)
'also a nullreferenceexception so, it turns out you can't do anything.how do I add the "string" into "items"?
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Jan 14, 2010
I'm trying to give my users the option to move their database to a different location, currently the datasource is set as an (Application Connection String) in the Project Settings, I know that when the scope is set to "Application" it cannot be modified but I'd like to know if there's a way for me to edit the location through code of my database in the application settings without crashing the program, can this be done? The purpose is to give whoever uses my application the freedom to choose where the database should be.
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Jun 4, 2011
Here's the code i've used in the past to save an integer array to settings (The setting being listed as a String on the dropdown):
Save:
vb
sec0string = String.Join(";", Array.ConvertAll(sec0, Function(n) n.ToString()))
Load:
vb
sec0string = My.Settings.sec0
sec0 = Array.ConvertAll(sec0string.Split(";"c), Function(s) Convert.ToInt32(s))
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Oct 2, 2009
just found out that replace(string does not do the same as string.replace when my string variable was an empty str the first one returns "nothing" and the second returns an empty string (as expected).just sloppy coding anyhow, it was a function that was converted from classic asp and never rewritten properly. [code]
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Mar 26, 2009
How to save all combox items in my settings string.... Without.....IO.StreamWriter..
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Feb 26, 2009
I'm trying to create a favorite box in my web browser using this code in Favorites.vb
Public Class favorites
Private Sub btnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click
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Now I have it so when you click the add button it will put the URL in the string FavList, and place the URL in Listbox1 however I have no idea how to save it, and load it.
So the next time the user opens it, it will have the URL in the string and URL box, so when they click the URL in listbox1 it will redirect the WebBrowser. I think it works like that already I just need to know how to save it, and load it.
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Feb 24, 2012
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HumanName (the variable, not the setting) in this code is a 1-Dimensional string array. HumanLevel is a 1-dimensional integer array. There is no error in this code, but for some reason despite the fact that the integer array actually saves to settings exactly as it is supposed to, the string array causes the program to crash.
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Mar 2, 2006
This is regarding a windows app in Visual Studio 2005, a VB Windows application.'ve stored a connection string called strSQLConn in My.Settings. I'm trying to change the Server in code. I set a string variable called strConn to a new Connection string. My.Settings.Profile2006sql = strConn
This produces an error saying that My.Settings is readonly. I'm missing something basic here.
I don't know if this is the best way to change a connection string to toggle between a development server and a production server. My understanding is that if the setting Connection string is changed it will be used as the default for all the table adapters in a strongly typed dataset. Is that the case?
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Jul 29, 2011
To use StringCollections instead of String Arrays for My.Settings. I've opened a file and have this:
CODE:
But I error on line 2, saying "Object Reference not set in Instance of an Object". So then, I try to use New before I go Into the loop: My.Settings.Trunk = New System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection
But then i get "index outside bounds of array" still on line 2. This is weird to me. Is it because my StringCollection doesn't have an array size? If so how do i declare an array size for this? Or is this just so totally different from String Arrays?
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Jan 12, 2009
how to store the connection string to my Access mdb in my project's My.Settings ?
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Aug 2, 2009
I want to hear some discussion regarding what is the best way to persist program parameter and variable settings from one run of the program to the next. I used to often use the ubiquitous INI type file in VB6 programs but I am aware that these are not formally supported in .Net programs. I also have a major aversion to adding to the already overwhelming bloat of the Windows registry by using that to store values.
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Jan 30, 2012
I am writting an application and I used Wizard to create DataSets which auto-created their own xml code. This code uses the saved in My.Settings Connection String. Being a setting with an unchangable 'Application' scope i cannot change its value at runtime.
The problem is that when I install the Application to my customer the Connection String will have to change (maybe more than once). So is there a way to change the Connection String used by these objects at runtime ?
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Mar 4, 2011
I've always used this approach while implementing data layer DLL for web application:
1) put datasets into the dll project
2) use a helper class with a method like this:
public shared sub settCnnStr(strconnhere as string)
My.Settings.Item("connectionString") = strconnhere
end sub
3) when I need to use the dll I call a method like this (usually into global.asax):
xxxxxxx.helper.setCnnStr("yyyyyyyyyyyyyy")
This method always worked for me nicely but I'd like to know if this method could have serious drawback or if there's a better solution.
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Apr 20, 2010
I am storing my connection string in my app.config file. I am using sql server express 2005. The connection string on my dev machine is different from the ones at the clients. so each time I update I open the config file and edit the connection string setting. This is quite a pain.also I have now published my app to an ftp folder so that the clients can get the updates each time I make changes. saves me the hassle of going to them each time i update. so now i need it to be so that I won't have to change the setting all the time.Would the best way be to store the connection string in a settings table in the database?
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Apr 12, 2009
I am using the MODI DLL (Microsoft Office Document Imaging) because it has an OCR engine. That's working fine, but I'm having trouble capturing the resulting text into my own string variable (weird, huh). Modi has the result stored in the following Modi string variable:
img.Layout.Text
I've tried three ways to capture this value, only one of them works (not the one that I need to work)
(1) Dim txt as string = img.Layout.Text 'fails
(2) MsgBox(img.Layout.Text) 'fails
(3) M = new Msg(img.Layout.Text) 'succeeds
Method 3 (the only one working) is a custom msgbox I built in VB.Net, and it accepts a regular .Net string variable. I need Method-1 to work. The error thrown is this:
"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." I even tried it like this:
(1) Dim txt as string = img.Layout.Text.ToString.Trim
Here's the complete code:
Dim doc As New MODI.Document
doc.Create("C:VCR.tif")
Dim img As MODI.Image
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Apr 18, 2011
how can I replace all string in string variable like
dim str = "I am testing and testing and testing"
After replace with "and"
ReplaceAll(str,"and","or")
How can I replace all with case insentive not case sensative?
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Aug 25, 2009
How do I assign a My.Settings.Item connection string to cmd.Connection connection string value?
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand()
cmd.Connection = My.Settings.Item("csStaffHoursWorked")
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
cmd.CommandText = "spSaveDeltekImport"
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Sep 29, 2009
I am not sure how I would do this or if it is possible. I am looking to manipulate a variable.For example if myVariable = " Apples" I would like to take a user input and make it "Apples and Bananas" or whatever the user entry is.
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