is this a good idea or not really? instead of having to open a file through filestream, i would like to just save text in an encrypted format in application settings. is this OK if the text is under 10mb? what would be the best way of implementing this?
View 2 RepliesI recently made an application which have some settings one of them a saving path
I want to make check if the saving path settings is available or not (drive)
If not so it got a default value which is application path
I tried to Change the default settings in the My.Settings by writing "Application.startuppath"But the application accept it as a string is there any way do dodge this problem?
i want my form to read a textfile and make it like line 1 will put in textbox1.text and line 2 will put it in like textbox2.text and like when the app closes it writes textbox1.text to line 1 and textbox2.text to line 2 in the .cfg file
i found acouple codes, but i havent found one that worked for what i wanted to do
I just wondered if you can or can't save arrays using the settings system object. There seems to be no way of entering it at designtime. It seems implied you cannot create new user settings.subobjects at runtime. I'm looking to find the easiest way to save a populated array of PictureBox's. If the only way is a self/custom made/managed .ini file then I need to know so i can start on that but I was hoping to use some of all this phaff in the new frameworks usefully.
View 3 RepliesIs there a way to maintain application modified Settings in the settings files after a program update? i.e. I have 10 or so values in the settings file and the users can modify them... when I send a program update they revert back to what I initially programmed them to be.
View 3 Repliesi am having trouble reading my XML settings. I Create new entries like this
Private Sub Create()
Dim doc As New XDocument
If File.Exists("Settings.xml") Then
doc = XDocument.Load("Settings.xml")
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The XML file will have multiple <Network> Entrys. I cant figure out how to loop the file and get every <Server> entry. But then if i opened a form and gave the variable one of the server entries how could i get that <Network> based on the server entries child parameters.
I'd like to know if there's a better way to read/write various user settings to disk. My program loads up a bunch of settings during load but also during execution from a few different forms, encrypted string values, boolean values, different types. The code seems to work okay but I have a feeling it's just not the best way to be doing this. Some of the settings are encrypted strings that have to be decrypted/encrypted so the code to read/write the text file is a bit different on some items. The data read from disk usually goes to a public string, a textbox, or a up/down type control. Below is about 1/10th of the settings that get loaded/written at various times. Anyone have a better way that might be more efficient that I should look at?
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i have created a user setting named 'setmeup' as string, scope = user, value = "magical meow meow!".in my code i access it and assign it a new value like this...my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!"my.settings.save()application.restart()when the application restarts, i expect the my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!" but when i check its contents its still "magical meow meow!".but when i use application.exit() instead of application.restart() and manually restart the program, my.settings.setmeup = "howdy cowboy!" which is correct.what must i do? i want to use application.restart() because i don't want the users to double-click the icon again to start the program. i want the program to restart automatically.
View 2 RepliesWas just wondering, why would a 70KB application takes almost 10MB of RAM? All the application does is that it shows the amount fo FREE RAM my computer has. It has 2 pictures, an icon and 2 labels. The amount remains the same, it doesn't increase with the passing of time, I just think such a small application shouldn't eat that much memory.
All code is below:
vb.net
Public Class Form1
Dim drag As Boolean
Dim mousex, mousey As Integer
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What can I use to make my 40mb .NET app 10mb or less? I tryed netz compressor but that only takes it down to 30mb not to mention the EXE doesn't work after that. Its compiled in .NET Framwork 4.0.
View 4 Replieswhat is the different writing code application vbnet 2005 application for single user and multiuser?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to save a collection of key/value settings in my application's "user settings" (they're column widths), but while I see no errors, when I run the code (in the IDE) my collection in "My.Settings" is always nothing at startup. I do a "My.Settings.Save" when the application exits, and barring the "serializers not found" errors in the IDE, no other errors occur. When I run my application as an exe, it behaves the same way..
View 7 RepliesWhich is the best way to store application and user settings of an application running with multiple instances?My problem is that using the vb's "Application Settings" one instance would overwrite the other one.I want to identify each instance with a number passed via command line argument. I could use this number to identify the appropriate settings of the running instance, but I see in a local INI o XML file a better way to handle that.
View 1 RepliesIf I create a user level application setting and bind it to a text box on a form, then type something in the textbox, the value is automatically saved and when the application is launched again the value appears in the textbox. This doesn't happen when I scope the setting as application.
Why are application scoped settings not saved automatically like user scoped settings are?
If this is by design, how can I manually save these settings and load them at runtime?
Am writing a GPS application but I need APIs or Libraries I can easily use. It's supposed to work real time...
View 5 Repliesi am writing a exit button for my application i am using the code :
MessageBox.Show(
" Exiting Application . ", " Application Closing ", MessageBoxButtons.YesNoCancel, MessageBoxIcon.Question)
How can i make it as such when i click "no" & "Cancel" it will not exit the application and only on yes it will exit ?
This windows application finds the amount of your pay if your pay is doubled each day, starting with a penny a day or a nickel a day. Instead of one month's salary, a boss offers her new employees a penny the first day and experienced employees a nickel the first day under a new pay system. Each day the pay will double.Restriction: The minimum number of days for the pay period is 19 days for the new employees and 16 days for the experienced.
Private Sub btnCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCalculate.Click
Dim intNumberOfDays As Integer[code].....
I'm handling the Application.UnhandledException event in a WinForms app and need to log exceptions caught there. My app.config is set up to log exceptions to a FileLog and an EventLog.The problem is that when running as a non-admin user, the EventLog cannot be written to because of a SecurityException - I get the message "The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched."I understand why - the user does not have permission to create the EventLog source, but the question is how should this source be created? As I see it, I could either:
1) Create the EventLog source with my installer, as this is running as admin. How to do this?
2) Create from within my app, by somehow elevating permissions? But this would give the UAC prompt on Vista.
What's the best practice for creating a Windows Application EventLog source on a client machine?
My VB.net application has a lot of application settings, is it possible to group them somehow(other than having a common name)?For example, my application has a lot of winforms each of which needs to save some information about itself. Is it possible to use something like:
Form1.width = My.Settings.Form1.Width
Form2.width = My.Settings.Form2.Width
etc.
Im using vb 2010 Express. I use 'Application settings' to store "demo version exp. date" of my program. My program stores the settings in "C:UserslenovoAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsApplication1.exe_Url_fbujq51flndh1ui4t4442ohpvlebhwej" folder.But when user copies the exe program and pastes it to another folder, the settings folder changes. I mean when user copies and pastes the exe program to another folder, the program starts to store the the settings in
"C:UserslenovoAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsApplication1.exe_Url_zywjz0o2tyrcmd35h5j1fdq0lplbklwc"
(Different than the first address). This causes the exp date to change everytime user copy-pasts the program.. Is there any way to specify where to store the settings? I mean when the program starts i want to store the settings always in "C:UserslenovoAppDataLocalMicrosoftxxxx" folder.
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View 3 RepliesI'm binding user settings to a bunch of controls on a WinForm dialog that has OK/Cancel buttons. While this works great to read in the bindings in, I would only like to commit binding changes if a user clicks OK, and not if they click cancel. Is there a simplistic setting to achieve this rather than managing all reading and committing myself?
Right now, let's say I have a textbox that binds to a user setting called "country". It has "United States" in it and if a user changes it to "Bolivia", that will get committed as soon as it is typed instead of when the OK button is pressed.
I'm binding user settings to a bunch of controls on a WinForm dialog that has OK/Cancel buttons. While this works great to read in the bindings in, I would only like to commit binding changes if a user clicks OK, and not if they click cancel. Is there a simplistic setting to achieve this rather than managing all reading and committing myself?
View 1 RepliesTo start with, I know that applications scope settings are read only, and user scope settings are read/write. My problem is this: I am creating an application which will be used in a setting where an "administrative" user (admin in this case does not denote any computer ability whatsoever- just the one in control of the computer) will be installing my application onto a computer where several users will likely use the application. I have a number of program settings which I would like the administrative user to be able to set, and have those settings be used for all users who run the program.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to get my application to restore the default values of my application settings but every time I click the Synchronize button it says:
No user.config files were found in any of the following locations.
I have never before tried to synchronize this application and am working with Visual Studio 2010. [URL].
I am doing simple VB.net application w/ VS 2008 as my IDE.... How to keep UI settings after closing application??
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Save some settings related to the application on individual computer so that user does not have to set them again and again.
View 10 Repliestried using the application settings yet. Everything seems to work well except when I specify the type as a string collection. When I try to add new items at run time using the property window I get the following error:Constructor on type 'System.String' not found.Do I need to do something else to make this work?
View 4 RepliesI am doing doing some network work and am working on an app that will ping the different IP's on the network at specific intervals and create a log for me. My issue is when I store an IP in application settings and try to use that setting, the pingwill not work properly. I have tried both with and without the quotations.
If
My.Computer.Network.Ping(My.Settings.OutSideIP)
Then
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I'm using my.settings to store different communication parameters. After changing parameters, for several reasons, it's easier to restart the application then to re-initialize all objects/variables/etc using program code.
When I change my.settings and use save to save them. When I quit the application and manually start it again, the newly saved settings are used.
When I use either .restart, or application.exit in combination with process.start. The application will use the old values for my.settings.
If I read up on .restart there's a remark mentioning that it will restart the application using the initially used settings.
Before restarting the application, I manually checked if the new settings were really save to the user.config file, and they were.
My question: Is there a way to restart the application using either .restart, or application.exit in combination with process.start which will use the newly saved my.settings values?