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Conditional Installer of Desktop Shortcut using VB.NET

Yojimbojinn11-Jul-06 8:07

11-Jul-06 8:07

Greetings everyone!

Question! Is there a way to set up the installer of a VB.NET program that will you set a condition to evaluate that will give the user the choice of either creating a desktop shortcut or not?

Any help would be fantastic!

Re: Conditional Installer of Desktop Shortcut using VB.NET

Dave Sexton11-Jul-06 20:43

11-Jul-06 20:43

hope this[^] helps.

Re: Conditional Installer of Desktop Shortcut using VB.NET

Yojimbojinn12-Jul-06 1:14

12-Jul-06 1:14

Unfortunatly no. When you create the shortcut via the file system editor, the shortcut you create does not have a place for checking the condition from one of the installation dialog boxes that I have seen unless I am overlooking something.

If all about are losing their head while you keeping yours, you must be the one holding the axe!

Len Miller11-Jul-06 6:47

11-Jul-06 6:47

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Visual Studio 2003 v7.1.3088
.NET Framework 1.1.4322 SP1
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I have a large WinForms project.

I have a form where I added a checkbox chkIsEmployee.

Sporatically, I get errors:
'chkIsEmployee' is not a member of 'ClearView.SMS.frmStudentManagement'

However, all of the designer code appears to be intact:
...
[Line 133] Friend WithEvents chkIsEmployee As System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox
...
[Line 181] Me.chkIsEmployee = New System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox
...
[Line 346] Me.grpDemographics.Controls.Add(Me.chkIsEmployee)
...
'
'chkIsEmployee
'
[Line 371] Me.chkIsEmployee.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(222, 99)
[Line 372] Me.chkIsEmployee.Name = "chkIsEmployee"
[Line 373] Me.chkIsEmployee.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(92, 16)
[Line 374] Me.chkIsEmployee.TabIndex = 16
[Line 375] Me.chkIsEmployee.Text = "is employee"
...

Now, I open the form, and the checkbox control is visibly gone.

It is almost as though the compiler is ignoring line 133. All lines after 133 have the error - not 133.

I rebuild the app and sometimes, suddenly all is OK.
I have tried deleteing the checkbox and re-adding it. The problem keeps re-surfacing. It was doing this behavior on a different control before.

Later, I open the form, and the control is gone again, but all the declaritive code in the form is still there.

This happened to me before (in this project with a different form), and I had to create a new form, paste controls on, paste my code in, delete the old form and the behavior went away.
I tried that here, but the behavior keeps comming back.

Is anyone aware of a bug or a fix for this?

Thanks,
-Len Miller

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
-Abraham Lincoln

Re: BUG? '' [modified]

Dave Kreskowiak11-Jul-06 9:24

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Jul-06 9:24

Yep, it's a bug in the IDE. Nope, there is no permanant fix for it yet. You've already discovered the only work around I know of. SP1 for Visual Studio 2003 should be comming out sometime last month. Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

Oh! Have you installed SP1 for the .NET Framework 1.1?? If not, get it from here[^].

Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1[^]

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

-- modified at 15:36 Tuesday 11th July, 2006

DLL as child form in MDI form

kjarrig11-Jul-06 5:25

11-Jul-06 5:25

Hi,
I've been surfing the web for the following question, with no luck. Do you know of any solution regarding having a parent form (MDIparent) calling a DLL and the DLL will be known as child to MDIparent?
Looking forward hearing from you.

Kjartan Þór Guðmundsson

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

Dave Kreskowiak11-Jul-06 16:53

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Jul-06 16:53

Your question doesn't make any sense. I .DLL cannot be a child of anything, except a process in a round-about way.

Is this .DLL supposed to be returning a Form? Without any details about your .DLL, there's really not much anyone can do to help you.

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

Dave Sexton11-Jul-06 20:47

11-Jul-06 20:47

is the DLL a separate user control with a form?

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

kjarrig12-Jul-06 0:11

12-Jul-06 0:11

Sorry about the unaccurate question. The DLL is a form, I'm building a large project and have no intention to have in one project.

Kjartan

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

Dave Kreskowiak13-Jul-06 5:29

Dave Kreskowiak

13-Jul-06 5:29

This form is it's own class library?

Then all you would have to do is create an instance of it, just like any other form:

Dim newForm As New MyDllForm
newForm.Parent = Me
newForm.Show()

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

kjarrig14-Jul-06 12:57

14-Jul-06 12:57

I get this errormessage.

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll
Additional information: Cannot add a top level control to a control.

Kjartan

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

kjarrig31-Jul-06 6:03

31-Jul-06 6:03

instead of newForm.Parent = Me, which gives an error, you should have
newForm.MdiParent = Me, and then it works fine.

Kjartan

Re: DLL as child form in MDI form

Dave Kreskowiak31-Jul-06 16:14

Dave Kreskowiak

31-Jul-06 16:14

Whoops! My mistake!

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Problem clearing process ...

Rashar11-Jul-06 5:19

11-Jul-06 5:19

Hello,

I have a filestream that I am able to read only once when my program launches. If I attempt to read the line a second time, I receive the message "The process cannot access the file 'C:\IMGfromDB.BMP' because it is being used by another process." at this line of code...
fs = New FileStream(savedIMGName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)

I've tried the following to release the processes...

fs.Close()<br />
fs.Dispose()

and
File.Delete(savedIMGName)

Thanks in advance

-- modified at 14:11 Tuesday 11th July, 2006

Re: Problem clearing process ...

Dave Kreskowiak11-Jul-06 9:19

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Jul-06 9:19

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311754[^]

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Selecting the TreeNode

MAP Tiger11-Jul-06 5:18

11-Jul-06 5:18

Hi guys

I have stored a treenode text into a custom property then now i want to reselect the specified treenode whenever i start my application.

So plz guys help me out n tell me which code to use.

Thanks in advance.

MAP Tiger
Tiger Softwares

Software Designer and Developer
VB.NET, ASP.NET, VFP

VBA macro selection with word

Waldermort11-Jul-06 4:01

11-Jul-06 4:01

Hi all,

I'm not much of a VB programer so I hope one of you guys or gals could help me with something. I am trying to create a macro to be used with word. The pupose is to search the selected text for a character sequence and edit it. If you know anything about chinese, this macro will convert numbered pinyin into toned pinyin.

it looks something like this

Sub number2tone()

    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "r1"
        .Replacement.Text = "1r"
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "r2"
        .Replacement.Text = "2r"
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    
    ...


    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "a4"
        .Replacement.Text = ChrW(&HE0)
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

The problem I am having is that instead of searching only the selected text, sometimes it goes on to the end of the document and sometimes to the end of the line.

stored procedure

vidyashankar11-Jul-06 1:54

11-Jul-06 1:54

stored procedure concepts in vb.net

Re: stored procedure

Dave Sexton11-Jul-06 2:15

11-Jul-06 2:15

Confused | :confused:

can you be a bit more specific please?

Re: stored procedure

Christian Graus11-Jul-06 4:11

Christian Graus

11-Jul-06 4:11

Is this a question, a statement, or just a general thought ? I suspect if you wanted info on this, pasting it into google verbatim will give you plenty.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

create table command from listview

newbjohny11-Jul-06 0:51

11-Jul-06 0:51

Hi, I am creating a front-end to the sqlite DBMS using VB.Net 2002. I have managed to get the name of the table, field names and types from user input displayed into a listview but I can only get the Create table command to accept the last input values, so if the table has more than one field(which nealry every table has) it simply ignores the previously entered fields.

How would I get it to create an SQL query with all the inputted field details?

I have inserted the code I have used so far.

Many thanks for your help.

This button opens up a new form for the user to input the field name and select the field type then brings them back and displays them in a listview.

Public Sub btnAddColumn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAddColumn.Click
Dim frmAddColumns1 As New frmAddColumns()
frmAddColumns1.ShowDialog(Me)
fldName = frmAddColumns.ColumnNameTB.Text
fldAttribute = frmAddColumns.ColumnTypeTB.SelectedItem
'Create ListViewItem
Dim item1 As New ListViewItem(fldName, 0)
item1.SubItems.Add(fldAttribute)
'Add the items to the ListView.
listView1.Items.AddRange(New ListViewItem() {item1})
Me.Controls.Add(listView1)
End Sub

This button takes the input table name, field name and attributes and creates the SQL command to send to the database to create the table:

Private Sub btnCreateTable_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCreateTable.Click
Dim tblName As String
tblName = txtTableName.Text.ToString()
If Len(txtTableName.Text) < 1 Then
MessageBox.Show("Please type a name for the table")
ElseIf Len(txtTableName.Text) > 0 Then
Try
dbConn.openExistingDatabse("Data Source=" & getDBName() & ";Version=3;New=False;Compress=True;")
dbConn.createSQLCommand()
dbConn.createTable("CREATE TABLE " & tblName & "(" & fldName & " " & fldAttribute & ")")
MessageBox.Show("Table created successfully")
Me.Close()
Dim frmInsertData1 As frmInsertData = New frmInsertData()
frmInsertData1.Show()
Catch es As Exception
MessageBox.Show(es.Message)
End Try
End If
End Sub

Re: create table command from listview [modified]

fredde_d12-Jul-06 4:04

12-Jul-06 4:04

In btnAddColumn_Click() you assign fldName and fldAttribute and add them to the ListView but in btnCreateTable_Click() you don't iterate the ListView to retrieve all added columnnames and datatypes. You only use the las assigen values for fldName and fldAttribute.

BR
Fredrik

-- modified at 10:05 Wednesday 12th July, 2006

Re: create table command from listview

newbjohny12-Jul-06 4:37

12-Jul-06 4:37

Hi Fredrik, thanks for your help, I've managed to get all rows from the listview using a for loop and adding them to a string.

thanks again for your help

john

how to run vb script for setup & deployment wizard

Member 227165511-Jul-06 0:05

11-Jul-06 0:05

I had created a vb script file
I want to execute the script file , before of after installing
the applicaion.

how to run vb script form setup using Visual Studio
Setup & deployment wizard

Thanks in Advance

Crystel Report Style

paragyerawar11-Jul-06 0:02

11-Jul-06 0:02

hi,
i want to print the report using crystal report.
but the layout which i want should be displayed in Boxes.
Plz give me suggestion and code.
thanks

Parag
S/w Engineer

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