Visual Basic

24-May-04 2:37

execute a file in automathic mode using VB.net?

Now I explain myself better.......

I should make run the file xxx. exe in automatic during the execution of a program.........making this in DOS I would do:

C:\> cd C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386

C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386>msinfo32.exe /report FILE_NAME.txt /categories

Can I do this two simple operations whith vb??

Please Answer me ASAP....it's very important....

Thanks All. Wink | ;)

Night Soul!!!

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 3:22

24-May-04 3:22

What? Your post doesn't make any sense at all. What do you mean by 'automatic'?

Are you asking how you can launch two applications (.EXE's) if you double-click one of
them? Are you asking how to launch another application from inside your application?

In VB.NET, you'd use the Process and ProcessStartInfo classes to launch an external application.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Night_Soul24-May-04 4:45

24-May-04 4:45

first of all thanks for the reply...

maybe I express myself bad.

I want to create a subroutine or a function that when it run make this:

C:\> cd C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386

C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386>msinfo32.exe /report FILE_NAME.txt /categories

is it possible?

It hope to be explained myself better this time..

Thanks of the help. Wink | ;)

Night Soul!!!

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 5:00

24-May-04 5:00

Make what? Are you talking about running an external application?

Easy enough?

Dim newProcess As New Process
newProcess.Start(C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386\msinfo32.exe", "/report FILE_NAME.txt /catagories")

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Night_Soul24-May-04 22:20

24-May-04 22:20

IT WORK!!!

Thanks a lot.;););)

(and sorry for not perfect my English... Blush | :O

)

Night Soul!!!

Audio Tool

Night_Soul24-May-04 0:00

24-May-04 0:00

Hi all!!!

first of all I want to greet all of you...this is my first thread here!!! Smile | :)

I need your help because i'm tring to do a program that on keypress of a button (in the keyboard) will activate the "mute on"....is it possible?

thanks for your attention....

Night Soul!!!

Re: Audio Tool

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 3:18

Re: multi user application

24-May-04 3:18

This is possible. You'd have to write either a keyboardhook or a message filter that looks for the keypress you want, then you'd call the multimedia functions that will mute the sound. This seeming simple part will be extraordinarily difficult if your not familiar with the Multimedia SDK and P/Invoking API functions.

Multimedia SDK Docs[^]

RageInTheMachine9532
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multi user application

Ganesh4u23-May-04 23:11

Ganesh4u

23-May-04 23:11

i know how to develop single user(desktop) database application using ado.How i can make it multi user(more than one computer) in visual basic 6.0 and access/oracle as backend.

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 3:09

24-May-04 3:09

It's not much different than a single user app. The database backend should handle the bulk of the concurrency and your user side shouldn't know (or care) about any other instance running on another machine.

What do you mean by "Access/Oracle" backend? Are you using and Access database and an intermediary to an Oracle database? Why the Access part?

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Unicode Converting

Pugman81223-May-04 23:02

Pugman812

23-May-04 23:02

I am making a blowfish cryptography program in vb .NET and i have run into a point where i have to convert for unicode. I tried using the StrConv() function but it no long support vbFromUnicode enum. I can convert to unicode but i just need to convert back in .Net. The code that i am using in 6.0 is

Key() = StrConv(New_Value, vbFromUnicode)

Any help with this would be great.

Re: Unicode Converting

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 3:01

24-May-04 3:01

You might want to replace 'vbFromUnicode' with 'VbStrConv.Wide' in the VB.NET code.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Hardware Detection

macjules23-May-04 22:07

macjules

23-May-04 22:07

Hi guys!!!

Im new to VB.NET, and im having some difficulty writing a code that displays all the hardware setting and specifications, presumably currently installed into a computer....What should I do?? =(

Your help will greatly be appreciated!!!

Thanks,
jules

Re: Hardware Detection

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 2:50

24-May-04 2:50

majulose wrote:
What should I do??

You never mentioned what you problem was. Try posting an actual question...

RageInTheMachine9532
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little-endian/big-endian

fuel2run23-May-04 21:51

23-May-04 21:51

hi there,

i'm having big trouble in reading a binary file that has some values in little-endian encoding and some other in big-endian encoding in the header.
can someone explain how to read the header retreaving those values?

thanks in advance.
fuel2run

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 2:57

24-May-04 2:57

fuel2run wrote:
a binary file that has some values in little-endian encoding and some other in big-endian encoding

WHAT?? Very strange...
But the fields that are encoded backwards would have to be read into a byte array and you'll have to write the code to reverse the byte order and then do some simple math to get the value back out.

byte0 | byte1 | byte2 | byte3

Gets reversed to:
byte3 | byte2 | byte1 | byte0

Do the math:
Value = (Byte3 << 24) + (Byte2 << 16) + (Byte1 << 8) + Byte0

Of course, this is subject to exactly how the bytes are really stores and what the value is supposed to be. You COULD have something like this if the values were stored WORD reversed instead of BYTE:

byte0 | byte1 | byte2 | byte3

Should be:
byte2 | byte3 | byte 0 | byte 1

It all depends on the system that wrote the file...

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

fuel2run24-May-04 4:31

24-May-04 4:31

thanks Dave,

i have to read some "int32" (in vb.net) and i know "where they are" , could you explain the simple math you wrote? i'm not familiar with that sintax (Byte3 << 24 ?)

a win system wrote the file,it is an esri shape file.

thank you
fuel2run

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 4:51

24-May-04 4:51

The << and >> operators are bit shift operators available in VB.NET 2003. They don't exist in 2002. All they do is shift a value a specificed number of bits in that direction. So if you, int a UInt32 had the value &HFF (decimal 255), it would look like this:

00000000|00000000|00000000|11111111

Shifting the value 24 bits to the left, it would now look like this:

11111111|00000000|00000000|00000000

And it's value would then be &HFF000000 (decimal 4,278,190,080).

You could accomplish the same shift by multiplying the value by 2^24.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, gastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

fuel2run24-May-04 6:49

24-May-04 6:49

i'll try as soon as possible, you've been crystal clear

thank you!
fuel2run

fuel2run1-Jun-04 21:57

1-Jun-04 21:57

it works fine Dave!

it's the very first time i read binary data.
many thanks!
fuel2run

Dave Kreskowiak2-Jun-04 0:26

ScaleWidth/ScaleHeight Explantion

2-Jun-04 0:26

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API Problem - ShowWindow

ColonelSanders23-May-04 19:10

ColonelSanders

23-May-04 19:10

I am using:

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" Alias "ShowWindow" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

In a VB.Net project (virtual desktops) to (try) and hide running programs (windows not created by my application). I have allready found the hWnd for the window I want to hide (invisable and not in task bar).

I can use the API above to hide the windows no problem (hWnd, SW_HIDE) but getting them back is... not working. I have tried to restore the window (same hWnd) on the next line of code, with SW_SHOW, SW_SHOWNORMAL, SW_RESTORE, SW_MAXIMIZE, SW_MAX (which I took straight form the VB6 API Text Viewer), all with no sucess. The process is still running (in TaskManager) so I doubt that the window was destroyed.

I tested the program on 2 PCs with different OSs (XP Pro and Longhorn 4074 - i know, i know: unstable alpha. But it should work on the XP system), so I think it is my fault.

If any one knows whats wrong, or has another way to hide and restore windows, I'd appriciate it.

Colonel Sanders

xfitr223-May-04 18:43

xfitr2

23-May-04 18:43

Could someone please explain the difference between scalewidth, scaleheight, scaleX, scaleY, etc. I am really confused. I am trying to set my controls and pictureboxes to automatically resize with the form, but I am having a lot of trouble. I would really like to see an explanation mathematically so that I understand it better. I see a lot of code that uses these with the screen.TwipsPerPixelX, screen.TwipsPerPixelY, but don't quite understand.
Confused | :confused:

Re: ScaleWidth/ScaleHeight Explantion

Dave Kreskowiak24-May-04 2:38