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I'll have to look for it. It's not too big of a deal if it doesn't get deleted I guess because since I'm looping through all *.enc files in the folder, the next time the program is opened and closed...

Well I had that line already

fs2_write.Close()

First I create the file like this:

File.WriteAllText(encryptedFile, verStr)

Then I after it's acreated I append to it like this:

fs2_write = New FileStream(encryptedFile, FileMode.Append,...

I'm trying to delete a file in the FormClosed method, but I get an error saying it's in use by another process. At this point in my program it's not needed anymore. Is there any way to take control...

Thanks for the info!

Is there any better performance by checking for a true value like this:

If (debugFlag) Then

' Do something

End If

than like this:

If I don't grant write permissions to the folder containing my exe file, I get an 'Access to the path bin\Release\program.exe' is denied. But if I grant it write permission I don't get the error. Why...

Thanks. I found this link that looks like it might be helpful

http://www.powervb.com/consoleapp.htm


That's pretty cool. I got it to work with the little gui app I wrote. I guess VB6 was...

How do you write a console application in vb6? I don't see an option for creating one like I do in vb.net. Is it not possible to create an app like this in vb6?

Thanks

I got the problem fixed thanks to this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64469/vb-net-on-vista-trying-to-get-date-today-causes-security-exception

I'm calling a method and passing Time and TimeOfDay to it, then in my method, I'm populating a datagrid of entries. I'm not actually trying to set the System time, just record read it but I'm getting...

Oh...how do you run it as a restricted user?

Thanks a lot for the informatino

Do you know where the app.manifest is usually located?

I'm working with a vb.net 2005 project that i converted from vb 6.0 last year. It's working fine in windows xp, but on vista and windows 7 i get an error saying 'Insufficient security permissions to...

What events are hit before form_load in a winforms app?

Somewhere before the form_load a file called .ini is created and I can't figure out where it's being created. It's just .ini with no name...

Is it possible to change the keybindings in VB6? Right now,

Step Over is Shift + F8
Step Into is F8

I'd like to make them the say as I have in VB.NET where

Step Over is F10
Step Into is...

Actually it was pretty easy. If there's an empty string, just set it to Nothing:

If (LineItems(3).ToString().Length = 0) Then
LineItems(3) = Nothing
End If

I'm adding a DateTime DataColumn to a DataTable like this:




Dim colDate As DataColumn = New DataColumn("Date")
colDate.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.DateTime")
...

I needed another counter like this:



Dim i As Int32
Dim z As Int32
Dim fileCount As Int32 = 0

If (fileOpenDialogOpen.FileNames.Length > 0) Then
...

I'm selecting multiple files from a FileOpenDialog box. Now I want to store the names in an array. This is what I'm trying to do:




For i = 1 To fileOpenDialogOpen.FileNames.Length

ReDim...

In my VB.NET (desktop) application I'm adding items to a dropdown box like this:


Me.mnuSetup.DropDownItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem() {Me.mnuAddUser, Me.mnuDeleteUser,...

Thanks!

Why do you have to escape it with 2 extra sets of double quotes instead of just one?

Why is it """C:\My Folder\My File.txt""" and not ""C:\My Folder\My File.txt"" ?

One more question

If I...

If I try to display a command line argument that has double quotes around, the double quotes are always stripped off. How can I avoid this?


for example, the argument is "c:\xx.txt"

and this...

Cool. thanks for yoru help

In my console app, I'm currently printing to a log file with File.AppendAllText. How would you print to the screen instead. Also, is there an echo command so that I could echo to the screen...

I wrote a console application where arguments are passed from the command line to a string array called args()

If someone runs the program without supplying any of the arguments, I want to catch...

deleted. nevermind.

Oh Ok. Thanks for the help. It shouldn't be too hard to emulate what that's doing. I have a feeling it isn't being used much though anyway. This program offers either ftp or https uploads. We wanted...

The VB6 version used a 3rd party component by Xceed, which I replaced with .NET methods from the System.Net.Sockets namespace. The VB6 code looked like this:


' if we need authentication, log in...

Well, I'm rewriting an old vb6 app. From reading the documentation for it, it states that users may provide firewall login and password if necessary but this may not work. i actually couldn't even...

I'm using System.Net.Sockets namespace for connecting to an ftp server. If a user has to login to a firewall first though, I'm not too sure what to do. The following is what I have working for...

In my setup project, I have a couple console apps that run as Install Custom Actions. They work fine, but since they exist in the file system on the target machine, they are present on the users...

My solution:

Pass "C:\Program Files" in as a command line argument



Imports System.IO

Module Module1

That worked, although for some reason it wrote out a trailing " but not one before the string. Even so I guess after writing the string, I'll want to replace all " with a blank space. Before reading...

I have a small console application that writes the [TARGETDIR] from my msi installer to a text file.

If I choose C:\Program Files\ as the installation folder, it only writes out

C:\Program

...

Thanks for all your help.

When a user chooses a folder to install my program to such as

C:\programA\

in this folder 5 subfolders are automatically created by the installer.


After the user chooses where the program...

I will check on that. Would this take care of the vshost.exe closing also?

I'm not seeing the program in the task list right now but the program name_vshost.exe still runs after the program is...