My goal is to control an application from VB.NET. There is no API, and I do not have the source, only the compiled EXE file. Is there a way to find the opened application, find a button within the application, click a button and know it was clicked? Is there a way to read the contents of a textbox within the application?
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I am working with dev ex controls and on a menu bar item there isnt a property for setting the button to Visible or not Not Visible. Can you add properties like this to pre made controls? If so how would you do it?
View 2 RepliesDo i need to add a reference to a third party control(DLL) before i can use it.When i go to project->add refernece ,i select the control but it didn't becomeavailable in toolbox to use it.Do i need to install that control?I just placed it inwindows/system32 dir.
View 6 RepliesI migrated applcation form vb6 to vb.net. Tabpro third party controls are used in vb6.Tabpro have multiple tabs while I convert only first tab get all controls rest of all tabs are blanked. Please suggest what is problem Is Tabpro table control not compatablewith vb.net or is there any solution
View 1 Repliesi have 3rd party custom tab control , that does not have RTL support also no source code so i sub classed it and mirrored it like below
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Within VB.NET, trying to find an easy way to in a sense check the check-box "Use Windows to configure my Wireless Network Settings". This is an option that forces windows to use your wireless over third-party programs that may try to steal control. I am aware this requires to have WZC enabled within services and that's something that can be easily accomplished one way or another.
I doubt or rather cannot find a proper registry value or API call to check or initiate such a task.
I have a third-party .dll file provided to me by the manufacturer. I have never worked with .dll files before, so I am wondering:
How can I add the file to my project?How can I utilize intellisense to use the methods in the dll?
is there is any 3 rd party library to play an mp3 file other than media player control....
View 2 RepliesI am writing the code using vb.net for file transfer from remote machine to local machine with out using any third party tools
This my code
Dim reqFTP As FtpWebRequest
Dim filepath As String
Dim filename As String
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how can I unzip a file in vb.net without using third party software as I am not allowed to?
View 2 RepliesI need to update an ini file from a 3rd party application (From within my VB.net app)
The ini file does not have any [Section]'s, what method should I use to readwrite values to this file?
+----------------------------+
| SERVER |
+----------------------------+
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I have a self-hosted WCF service (VB) residing on a server. This service has a method, which I call from another application, that is supposed to kick off a .cmd file which calls a 3rd party program.
My WCF has used both the old Shell() command and the Process() object. Both can call the .cmd file (located on the server's local drive). The .cmd file looks like this:
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Now I know the .cmd file (saved as Letter.cmd) is firing because when I check the txt file after testing my app, the before/after statements have been written. However, the 3rd party application does not start.
Now the weird part -- if I double click the cmd file from explorer, the test statements are written to the text file AND the 3rd party application kicks off. Runs great.
I've double-checked the application and corresponding files to make sure NETWORK_SERVICE has permissions and my service is running under that account.
I've completed projects similar to this in the past but this one has me stumped. Trying to retrieve text from a text box in a third party application. Using SPY++ I found that this control is the second control in the list so I coded the following: Dim parentWindow as integer = windows.ReturnWindowHandle({windowname})
If parentWindow > 0 then
Dim childWindow as integer = FindWindowEx(parentWindow, 0, Nothing, {child window name})
Dim field as integer = 0
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This worked great. Closed the app, came back the next day and this same code did not work. Used spy++ and found that the control had moved to the 4th position. Closed it, reopened it, this time it moved to the first. What is the best way to find this control each time when there are are 50+ controls on the screen and they all appear in spy++ like this:
Window 0022063A "" Edit
Window 00270652 "" Edit
Window 001A0630 "" Edit
and they continue to rearrange themselves each time the application is closed and reopened?
I am having a problem with my program that is desinged to read a 3rd party text file database. I posted previosuly about a problem inserting an item in a new row and the column was expectig a different data type. It appears that sometimes the column is being determined to be of decimal value, I dont understand why. the fields contain information such as
Col1
F123456
CLW-12321 etc....
So my column fills with
123456
12321 the letters just get chopped off
So I added MaxScanRows = 0 to my schema file and that took care of the problem
Except now several of my columns that contain Date Values are coming back
9/24/2010 00:00:00
without the setting MaxScanRows = 0
The date returned 9/24/2010
Here is the code for my schema ini file I am creating:
HTML
Dim fs As New FileStream("Schema.ini", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
Dim writer As New StreamWriter(fs)
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I have been trying different settings hence the dimmed out lines
Here is the code to fill the datatable:
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I am thinking that without the MaxScanRows = 0 setting the datatype for Col1 is being incorrectly determined
I am not sure what is happening with other columns that contain date values. Apparently If i use MaxScan Rows=0 all columns are being pulled over as string value which creates numerous problems. If I dont use maxscanrows then all columns appear to be correct except Col21 MLSNUM which is being pulled in as a decimal. Can I change that in the schema file?
I've spent the best part of the week learning about TCP/IP and sockets but it's really draining my enthusiasm for my project. The basics are simple enough and the MSDN examples are fine and I can put together a simple server/client easily now, but once I start getting into asynchronous connections, threading and all the other stuff, I'm getting bogged down and frustrated. I've followed a dozen tutorials and examples now and they're all too confusing and half of them simply don't work.
I think what's most frustrating is that I really don't wish to become an expert on sockets or TCP, which seems to be the advice on most forum replies. I really want to be getting on with my project which has ground to a halt since I started looking into this. Yes, I know the world isn't always that simple.
So, what I'm looking for is a 3rd party app or some working code that will let me set up a server and multiple clients. All I really want them to be able to do is to send strings to each other, without blocking the application. Really, that's it, just the ability to pass strings back and forth between server and client, preferably in as simple a format as possible - e.g SendMessage(Client,String).
I am trying to use some 3rd party web service for which i hv sample file which is writen in C# and same I am trying to rewrite in vb.net for implement till last line I hv understood and implemented , but I am not able to understand last line in this code so pls help me to understand the last line of this code how to write same line in VB.net
AgentWS = new AgentWebRef.AgentWebServiceService();
EventWS = new EventWebRef.EventServiceService();
//The client application will receive a unique SessionId from the Agent
//Web Service upon issuing its first request. The application must
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I have a third party dll that contain a class, SampleClass1
Public Class SampleClass1
Public SomeValue As Double
Public Function Test() As Double
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My intention is if the dll is found, use it. Else ignore it. However, if the dll is not found, the program throw an Invalid OperationException.
I am writing a small application that will display some info to my end user. I have another program that the end user will have open while running my appplication. What I am trying to do is have my application launch itself (and maintain positioning if other app location changes) and "tether" itself to the other application.Ideally the top left of my application would attach to the top right of the other application.I have tried for countless hours working with the GetWindowPos API but the values returned are either all zeros or it just doesn't work.I do a Try/Catch to see if the other app is running and I fetch the Handle of the process. This works fine. Then I try to get the positioning of this process and set my .Left property to the returned RECT's .Left property. no dice.This is Visual Basic 2005 ExpressOther application is a PuTTY window that is not a fullscreen app.
View 3 RepliesIs there any code for vb.net so i can zip and unzip file without any 3rd party programs e.g. (i know this is not right)
Using zip As ZipFile = New ZipFile
zip.AddDirectory(directory)
zip.Save(targetZip)
End Using
my program launches a 3rd party program with a few switches to update itself.Once these updates are complete I need to manually click save from the applications menu. This can be done via the keyboard (Alt Gr + M then Alt Gr + S)
The application will take several seconds to load at which point the application will open maximised and the save option will be enabled.
the best 3rd party component in vb.net.
The most important I want is listview / combobox
I have a 3rd party DLL which converts my file(ex: text file) their intermediate format.
this function convert the file to their intermediate format and stores the result in targetdirectory.
Dim result As Result = test.Convert(file, targetdirectory)
If Not result = result.Success Then
MsgBox("Convertion failed")
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Does anyone know of a good 3rd party reference for Win32 API for .Net where VB.Net is the target language Most API references target C as the language of choice. Frankly, I hate C and all C like languages.
View 11 RepliesI'm using VB 2008 and I'm trying to add a xmlns="mynamespace" attribute to an XDocument's root element.The XML document is created by a 3rd party, and I have loaded it into a VB XDocument object. As it comes, it has no namespaces. I have been working on a local copy and I added in a namespace in a text editor, so that I can use the XMLToSchema in VB to enable intellisense etc, as per the instructions in the Beth Massi vids at MSDN. Now the rest of the code works I want to open the live documents again. Without the namespace, my XML literals don't resolve.I've tried unsuccessfully to add in the XMLNS property to the root tag using a few methods, and the nearest I got was the following three code samples.
Dim myNS As XNamespace = "urn:nbf:namespacename"
myXML.Element("nameofrootelement").Add(myNS)
^^^^ The namespace was added as the value of the root element, not as an attribute.
XML.Root.Add(New XAttribute("xmlns", "name"))
^^^^ Generated the error: Run-time exception thrown : System.Xml.XmlException - The prefix '' cannot be redefined from '' to 'name' within the same start element tag.
but
XML.Root.Add(New XAttribute("test", "name"))
^^^^ works correctly. Presumably it doesn't like me manually trying to set a reserved attribute? This namespacing seems way too over complex from some of the Googling I've done.I thought to .ToString it, then modify, then .Parse it also, but I wanted a better solution so that it would help me understand it a little better! I did try this though, and as you rightly point out, it affects all the descendants too, so thus it still breaks.
I will be working with multiple XML feeds all produced by different third parties, and I think for simplicity I will be leaving out the namespacing entirely!My own custom parsing function rewrites the third party feeds into one uniformed document, which then gets processed by another routine. I'll be able to add a ns to that intermediate piece of XML which will help when coding the secondary function.
Im trying to detect when numbers change in a 3rd party app and then capture them for crunching. I do recall something back in the days of vb5 that would list control info when the mouse hovered over it. Cant seem to find anything like it these days. Ive got window handles ok, just cant read the control data.
View 9 RepliesI Want to use free 3rdParty DataGrid for my Database Application
I try to use datagridview or listview but i cannot find way how to freeze pane or insert progress bar in it.
Working on a program that makes use of a third party API. That API can be found here:[URL]I'm a beginning/intermediate VB.Net developer, and have written other programs, but not using something like this. I suspect I'll need to create a Web.Request (Secure) object and 'POST' to the URL with a stream of XML text. That's the general idea, right? The actual URL is internal to our network and I have that information of course.
View 9 RepliesHow can integrate particular Third party tool with my vb.net application
View 2 RepliesI'm still new to most of this but I seem to be finding that while you can load the Microsoft Reference Libraries at no charge, I'm told they are the slowest method to use.I have tested Gembox and only read about others. Is it worth the effort to deploy these 3rd party platforms, even if I'm working with small data sets, for the moment at least? Speed is one thing but when you're talking about 2 seconds vs 0.2 seconds, it's not worth $900 per seat.
Are there other 3rd party references which are Open Source, or no cost, etc...I would like to hear what the rest of us are doing on this?
I use SelectNodes("//Party") to extract all the Party nodes. Then I have seperate processing for all the nodes that are not Party and are not children of Party (HostName, HostVersion, etc).
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