Writing Files To A Location Due To Windows "run As Administrator"
Jun 22, 2010
Well i need my application to write a txt file in the C:x location, but some computers will require the application to run as administrator. Without having the person who is using my application manually make the program run as administrator
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May 22, 2012
Ok I know this question has been asked to death but I still have not seen a good answer. I have created an application in VS2010 using VB.NET. In my application I have an error log that is an XML file located in the Public gstLocalErrorLogLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "ErrorLog"that gets written to in the event of an error so I can trouble shoot application easier. My application also downloads files from our FTP site and puts the files in Public gstLocalDownloadLocation As String = Application.StartupPath & "download"So I have files that get read and written to as well and created and deleted all in the Application.StartupPath which is either "c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" or "c:Program Files (x86)(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File)" depending on 32bit or 64bit Windows 7.
After creating the setup I install it on my test machine that have both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit.Everything in the application works great till I have to write to, delete or creat a file in those directories above. I know it is an access issue and the UAC. This will get installed on numerous systems so the options I have seen to change file or folder permission on the computers manually is not an option.What has to happen is after I install the application it just works like when you install it on XP. Some post have suggested that you us a user with administrator privilages or group which is all fine and dandy but the user I have used to test the application has all of that.
So what I am asking is how do you create an application with VS2010 in VB.NET that after creating a setup package and installing on Windows 7 will just work with out "Access to the path c:Program Files(Application Directory)(Some Directory)(Some File) is denied." If I have to install this on 100 Windows 7 computers it has to be a concreate no manually doing anything just install and work like when we installed on XP.
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Sep 1, 2010
I am using following code to get a directory of files with a particular extension. It throws an error that you donot have administrator privileges.
CODE:
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Jun 28, 2011
My VB.net framework 4 windows program work fine for the users on Windows XP machines if they are in the local Administrator Group. I would like to setup this click once application to run as an administrator so the user doesn't need to be in the Administrator group. The program is reading the"C:Documents and Settings" & User & "Local SettingsTemp" folder looking for files with extension like "emf", "tmp" and "htm" and then deleting the files if they are older than 24 hours. We have a third party application that adds these file and doesn't delete them so I need the users to run this cleanup program.
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Jul 27, 2010
We have developed a 'deployment tool' (say program A) which need to modify system registry, etc info which requires admin rights. This program will be triggered by another program (say program B).
Question, when B call A, how can B initiate A with admin rights? is there any command like A.exe /runas admin or any other way to achieve this. Please note that both programs are developed using VB6.
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Dec 8, 2011
Background: I have 2 Apps. One spawns the other as a 2nd process. Both need Adminstrator rights to run.The below code (which spawns the 2nd app from the 1st) works just fine from my released Application (when I right click the 1st app icon and start as Administrator).
Problem is, from within the VB Express environment it does not. The 2nd app starts, then complains about Access Rights.Can I start a process with Administrator rights in Windows 7 from within the environment?
[Code]...
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Jun 14, 2011
I'm using SHDocVw.InternetExplorerClass to scrape a webpage. It works fine in XP, but when I try to run it in windows 7 I get an error:The interface is unknown. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706B5)
When I run visual studio in administrator mode it works fine, but the published application has to be run in administrator mode too, which isn't acceptable.
Is there any way to get around running the application in administrator mode?
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Nov 26, 2009
i currently have a project that needs to edit a few files in the startuppath folder. on a non administrator o.s., if my app. is installed in ( c:program filesmy crappy little app ), i cannot write to those files. in win7, it does not even ask for administrator approval, just the option to save to my documents.. this can be quite a hassle to work with, specially on closing the app, since i have quite a few files that need to be updated.
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Jul 4, 2011
I am having a windows application. That downloads files from server and write into the local directory. It works fine. When we try the same appliication in Windows 7. IT shows an error Access to the path denied (While writing to the local directory).
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Jan 31, 2009
I'm writing a windows service (MacTimeFix.exe) to fix the Windows time on a Macintosh (it's like this: i live in Moscow (GMT+03:00), and Mac OS thinks that the system time is GMT+00:00 and adds 03:00 to it< and Windows thinks that system time is the local time).I need to execute my code when my VB app is closed. (it happens with the shutdown of Windows) The form is invisible (hidden), and the user mustn't click anything except windws shutdown button. It is a service. When i write a Form1_FormClosing sub, it works only on Alt+F4 or CloseButton and doesn't work when the app is stopped from Windows Task Manager or whatever also.I need a way to execute sub when app is closed with taskkill (without /force) or a way to execute a several app on Winshutdown.
Here is my code:
Public Class Form1
Dim SystemMary As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
SystemMary = Mid(TimeString, 1, 2)
[code].....
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Feb 24, 2012
Visual Basic 2010 - Net Framework 4.0 Client
I have an application (application #1) running with Administrator privileges on Windows 7.
I want application # 1 to start another application (application #2) without Administrator privileges so application #2 is running as a standard user.
Is there a way to do this? I have been using Process.Start.
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Apr 9, 2009
i want to specify a folder and then have all files from "Temporary Internet Files" copied in to the specified location. I have specified both locations, and yet it fails. I think this could be caused by the fac that the "Temporary Internet Files" is located within a hidden file/s How should i go about copying the directory?
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Oct 12, 2011
I want to generate an xml file from the vb.net form application and i have the following vb code and the xml output file is shown below the code
Imports System.Xml Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
[Code]...
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Mar 12, 2011
I'm creating a simple forms application where users can enter their details and save the information to a .ini file because I needed this for a simple game profile. I've tried to make it write "Name =" + txtname.Text but it won't work anymore. And as well as that, I don't think It will load the text back from the ini file.
Here's the code I used;
Public Class Form1
Dim hFile As Long
Dim sFilename As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
[Code] .....
Form designer: [URL]
Form1.resk: [URL]
Form1.vb: [URL]
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Dec 9, 2009
Basically I'm writing a program that records all the financial transactions I make. You type in what it is, whether it is going in or out, the date and the price. I will get on to adding the sums up later but that's important at the minute. With one record the program worked perfectly but as soon as I added an array to the records variable it stopped working and complained about a null value.
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Jun 15, 2009
how to write and overwrite a excel files?write is like create a new excel files and insert data to it using vboverwrite is writing data to the excel file which overwrite the old
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Jun 30, 2009
I'm working on a program where i need to create a text file and write in it. I created the file and I'm capable to write in it but my problem is that i'm not able to write text on the same line. Imagine you have 2 textboxes, the first is tb1 and the second is tb2. how can i write then content of the 2 textboxes on the same line in the text file?
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Dec 28, 2009
seeing as '.dat' files contain only what you want them to and there is no preset encryption for them etc could I write data to one by using this simple process:
1) Change file extension to '.txt'
2) Decrypt
3) Write
4) Encrypt
5) Change file extension to '.dat'
and pretty much the same for reading it. or am I thinking to simply?
I thought of the above way as i know how to write to text files already, but is this the best way to do it? or is there a better way?
EDIT: Nevermind you just write to it like a text file and encrypt/decrypt it. request lock/delete from mod.
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Dec 23, 2009
I want to upload files from particular location. I got problem with GetRequestStream() function.
Here is the
Dim path() As String = Directory.GetFiles("C:files") 'I tried and with("C:/files/")
For Each files As String In path
Dim ftprequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("ftp://" & FTPHost & "/" & files), FtpWebRequest)
ftprequest.EnableSsl = True
ftprequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(user, password)
[Code] .....
Error message is:
The remote server returned an error: (500) Syntax error, command unrecognized.
When I tried with My.Computer.Network.UploadFile(...)
I got this error:
The remote server returned an error: (550) File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).
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Jun 29, 2006
I am trying to create a bunch of records, there will be a limited number of "Codes", about 50. Each "Code" is associated with a name from a textbox, I was trying to have it save each one when you click a button, to a .txt file.So, from the start the record will be blank, the person will go through the form, choose a number from a numerical up and down box, pick a name associated with it (both of these are mandatory and not implied). When they click the button, it will save the contents I talked about into a .txt file, say the number is #2, and the name is "Bob", the next time they try to change that value for #2, it will overwrite "Bob".
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Jul 18, 2012
I have been given the task of basically reading and writing to and from files. Below is the code from one sub:
If btnSaveRecipe.Enabled = True Then
FileName = "C:UsersLeylaDocumentsRecipe TaskRecipe.txt"
FileWriter = New IO.StreamWriter(FileName)
[code]....
I can't work out what i've done wrong, but when I open the file itself in the folder, it is empty.
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Jun 24, 2011
Am writing a simple application which can write a to pdf,doc,xls and access files. so far it can write to word.i also want it to be able to navigate a hard disk and open these files using filters. i was using this code to write to the files
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Sep 13, 2010
I am trying to search for snippet for reading and writing ini files in visual basic .net.
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Mar 11, 2010
Input File to read:
SAMPLE NO: 10S-02013
Moisture 10.1
[Code]....
I am not getting the right output I need, as whenever it reads a line, it looses my sample numeber.
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Apr 6, 2009
I'm writing a system with several programs, each of which will start off with a number of 'run time parameters' which will be stored in what I call 'personality files'. Each file will have about 10 elements ( file locations, logo files, dates, numbers , text strings ). I"m starting by building little programs which maintain ( build and modify ) the personality files. To begin the first one, I"m only reading/writing 3-4 strings ( I"ll graduate to dates and numbers later )When I run the program below, I get " The process cannot access the file 'c:yyyyyyyy.zzz' because it is being used by another process. ". I also get"A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.IOException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll "
I get these errors even though I've done the usual stuff like deleting other versions of the test file, cancelling other processes which might be involved, and so on.
Code:
'.... user has clicked on SAVE in menustrip ....
Private Sub FileSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FileSave.Click
[code]....
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Mar 3, 2009
so i have it so that the user input three initials and presses an enter button. Then it goes into a listbox where theusers initials and game score enter. I then have it transfer to a text file. all this works but i need some code toun through the text file and arrange them from highest to lowestheres my current "HighScore" codei know its going to be a for loop but im a beginner in vb and it would be so much easier in java button1 is the enter buttonbutton2 is the save button that saves to a text file
Imports System.IO
Public Class HighScore
Dim objStreamWriter As StreamWriter
[code]......
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Mar 11, 2012
I am having difficulty writing to cvs files. My application is a text parser that scans a txt file, removes punctuation, and then stores the individual words in another txt file for later analysis. My end aim is to process txt for semantic similarities. I'm very new to this so my code is very chunky But I'd really like to pull each sentence from txt file, put into an array, and then place each array item into a CSV file with commas between words. [Code]
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Sep 1, 2011
i was wondering does any know of any good tutorial on using dat files eg reading writing and formatting. I am pretty sure you and use stream reader and writer form the IO but what about formatting.
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Dec 27, 2010
My app has a series of parameters that is to be stored in an external files. Eventhough the "parameter" file could be edited by the end user, I really don't care that much about what the user does to them.
So my two questions are, what is the most effeicent means of reading and writing a file and in what format should the file be in? When I say effeicent I mean, what utilizes the least amount of memory during the process, is fast, and disposable.
Example: XML, Text, something else. StreamReader / StreamWriter or what ever.
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Apr 16, 2009
This does not work because it will not write when the writers closed how do I keep it open? What do I have to change?
Dim tring As Integer
Dim startnumber1 As Integer
Dim bas As New System.IO.StreamWriter(SandboxLocation.Text & "internetconectivity.bat")
bas.InitializeLifetimeService()
[Code] .....
If tring is more than one it doesn't work, it cant write to a closed bat file.
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