Re: Getting the directory that a .lnk shortcut points to - C# Discussion Boards

Re: DriveInfo Class Help Required.

Christian Graus9-Jul-09 2:17

Christian Graus

9-Jul-09 2:17

No, that's why people are using interop, because they have to.

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Re: DriveInfo Class Help Required.

Siddhartha S.9-Jul-09 2:32

Siddhartha S.

9-Jul-09 2:32

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply. Can you please help me with the use of Interop.
Which dll, which method do I need to use here.
I am bad with unmanaged code.

Best Regards,
Sid

Re: DriveInfo Class Help Required.

Christian Graus9-Jul-09 2:37

Christian Graus

9-Jul-09 2:37

I don't really know, I thought you said you'd found some code ?

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Re: DriveInfo Class Help Required.

Siddhartha S.9-Jul-09 3:07

Siddhartha S.

9-Jul-09 3:07

Not really. The code I found was for a different requirement. However it was close to my requirement which made me draw the idea of interop.
Any ways, thanks for your concern I will try finding the solution myself and if I am successful I will post my finding in this thread itself.

Best Regards,
Sid

New to programming, lost ability to view images in VMC add-on

James Alton8-Jul-09 23:58

James Alton

8-Jul-09 23:58

I am relatively new to programming(still in school) and cannot figure out this problem.

For my HTPC I use a open source program called Media Browser[^]

In the recent update we lost being able to sort by genre. Well, we can sort by genre but cannot view the images associated with each genre. The original creators have taken a break and are trying to go commercial with the software, while at the same time keeping it open source. I intend to buy(if it is stable when they do go commercial) but while they are getting things sorted the "followers" are left in the dark with the bugs in the new release.

I have tried with my limited knowledge to find the problem to no avail and was hoping someone on here had some time to kill and would download the svn and look at the code. That one problem is all I want fixed perhaps with an explanation of what was wrong so I can learn. I have spent hours looking over the code with no improvements at all.

If no one wants to help, I fully understand. Atleast to me its all greek and takes forever to go through, don't know if its the same for people experienced in the field.

modified on Thursday, July 9, 2009 6:04 AM

Getting the directory that a .lnk shortcut points to

Douglas Kirk8-Jul-09 23:57

Douglas Kirk

8-Jul-09 23:57

I am creating a file list of all files in a directory, searching each subdirectory and so on.

When I come to a windows shortcut file such as "MUSIC.LNK" I would like to scan and search the
directory that it points to as well.

DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(PSP_Directory[Display, i] + "\\");

FileInfo[] theFiles = directory.GetFiles();
DirectoryInfo[] theSubDirectories = directory.GetDirectories();

foreach (FileInfo theFile in theFiles) <<< The link file MUSIC.LNK can be seen here
{
if (string.Equals(theFile.Name.Split('.')[1].ToUpper(), "LNK"))
{

How do I get the directory infomation from it so that I can redirect my scanning to that directory as well.

Thank you in advance.

Douglas

Re: Getting the directory that a .lnk shortcut points to

DaveyM699-Jul-09 0:30

DaveyM69

9-Jul-09 0:30

I don't know if there's an easy way - but if you scroll down to LNK on this page[^], there are a couple of PDFs you can download which should help.

Dave
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Re: Getting the directory that a .lnk shortcut points to

DaveyM699-Jul-09 0:53

DaveyM69

9-Jul-09 0:53

Got it - you need to add a reference using the COM tab to Windows Script Host Object Model.
Add this to your usings
using IWshRuntimeLibrary;
Then you can do something like this

string shortcutLocation = @"C:\Your Shortcut.lnk";
WshShellClass wsh = new WshShellClass();
IWshShortcut shortcut = (IWshShortcut)wsh.CreateShortcut(shortcutLocation);
Console.WriteLine(shortcut.TargetPath);

Re: Getting the directory that a .lnk shortcut points to

Douglas Kirk9-Jul-09 21:46

Douglas Kirk

9-Jul-09 21:46

Works like a charm!
Thank you

Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha8-Jul-09 23:37

ansriharsha

8-Jul-09 23:37

Hi ,

i want to specify the maximum number of digits for numeric part and the Decimal part in a text box.

i tried specifying precision and maxlength of the text box but then it if we input the max length then the precesion cannot be inputted and it gets resetted to the maxamount which should not be possible.

like if Maxlength=8

precsion = 2

input required:123456.90 possible

input required : 12345678.89 which is not possible

so is there any way we could specify the format of the numeric part and as well the decimal part. which would restrict for only that particular input format.

like : dddddddd.dd

thanks in advance....

cheers,

sriharsha

Re: Numeric Format problem

Pete O'Hanlon8-Jul-09 23:43

Pete O'Hanlon

8-Jul-09 23:43

Use a masked edit box.

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Re: Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha9-Jul-09 1:29

ansriharsha

9-Jul-09 1:29

Hi,
i have tried using masekedit ,

<ajaxtoolkit:maskededitextender id="MaskedEditExtender1" runat="server" acceptnegative="Left" displaymoney="None" mask="9999999.99" masktype="None" messagevalidatortip="true" oninvalidcssclass="MaskedEditError" targetcontrolid="TextBox4" clearmaskonlostfocus="false">

<ajaxtoolkit:maskededitvalidator id="MaskedEditValidator1" runat="server" controlextender="MaskedEditExtender2" controltovalidate="TextBox4" cssclass="InputFieldRed" display="Dynamic"
invalidvaluemessage="Invalid " isvalidempty="false" tooltipmessage="" validationgroup="Search">
;

when for example

input is 12345678.90 no problem
but when

input is 11.11 > it changes to 1111 when i click it again.
and when it is something like

input is 11 .11 it changes to 1111 when i click it again.

is there any way it takes the input in a normal way and also restrict the format required for the number.

thanks and regards,
sriharsha

Re: Numeric Format problem

Eddy Vluggen9-Jul-09 1:47

Eddy Vluggen

9-Jul-09 1:47

Verify whether the decimal-separator is set to a dot - if it thinks that it's a thousand-separator, it will simply remove it from the input Smile | :)

"please help in this regard. give the visual basic code for this as soon possible."

Re: Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha9-Jul-09 2:40

ansriharsha

9-Jul-09 2:40

hi,
i even tried specifying
property Filtered="." of maskededit

but it does not work still the same problem.

what can be done to avoid it ...

thanks ans regards,
sriharsha

Re: Numeric Format problem

Eddy Vluggen9-Jul-09 2:51

Eddy Vluggen

9-Jul-09 2:51

"Filtered"? Didn't you mean Mask[^]?

"please help in this regard. give the visual basic code for this as soon possible."

Re: Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha9-Jul-09 3:47

ansriharsha

9-Jul-09 3:47

Hi,
No

<ajaxtoolkit:maskededitextender id="MaskedEditExtender1" runat="server" acceptnegative="Left" displaymoney="None" mask="9999999.99" masktype="None" messagevalidatortip="true" oninvalidcssclass="MaskedEditError" targetcontrolid="TextBox4" clearmaskonlostfocus="false" filtered=".">

Filtered="." property of maskededitexteneder .

but not working.

where else can we set the decimal...?

thanks and regards,
sriharsha

Re: Numeric Format problem

Eddy Vluggen9-Jul-09 3:57

Eddy Vluggen

9-Jul-09 3:57

In the configuration panel, under "Regional Settings" - but that applies only to the culture of the local computer.

The extender is part of the AJAX-framework, and the control is unknown to me. I suggest asking this question in the ASP.NET forum Smile | :)

"please help in this regard. give the visual basic code for this as soon possible."

Re: Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha9-Jul-09 4:33

ansriharsha

9-Jul-09 4:33

hi,
is there any way through c# we could fix the format or maximum length for numeric part and decimal part.

like

number format: (8,2) only.

thanks
sriharsha

Re: Numeric Format problem

Eddy Vluggen9-Jul-09 6:33

Eddy Vluggen

9-Jul-09 6:33

Information on formatting a string can be found here[^]. That's for display - it won't stop the user from entering three decimals.

You can use the MaskedTextBox.Mask[^] property to get more control on the input.

Good luck Smile | :)

"please help in this regard. give the visual basic code for this as soon possible."

Re: Numeric Format problem

ansriharsha17-Jul-09 0:50

ansriharsha

17-Jul-09 0:50

Hi ,

I used Regularexpression and its working fine.

as:

<asp:regularexpressionvalidator id="regexpName" runat="server"
errormessage="This expression does not validate."
controltovalidate="TextBox5"
validationexpression="^\d{1,8}(\.\d{1,2})?$" enableviewstate="true">;

in
controltovalidate : speicfy the textbox to validate
ValidationExpression: which validates the expression in the format (8,2)
otherwise gives error.

Thanks for all suggestions.

sriharsha

Please Help...

mjawadkhatri8-Jul-09 23:00

mjawadkhatri

8-Jul-09 23:00

Hi Please Help me i get this error when i connect to database

"An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server"

i use this coding

" SqlConnection con;
SqlCommand cmd;
SqlDataReader dr;

private void login_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
con = new SqlConnection("integrated security = true;Database=orcl8i;Password=creative;User ID=itehad");
cmd = new SqlCommand();
cmd.Connection = con;
cmd.Connection.Open();
cmd.CommandText = "Select * from users";
dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (dr.Read())
{
if (usr.Text == dr["userid"].ToString()) && pass.Text == dr["password"].ToString)
{
MessageBox.Show("User Login", "Information", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
else

MessageBox.Show("Login Fail")

Re: Please Help...

Pete O'Hanlon8-Jul-09 23:16

Pete O'Hanlon

8-Jul-09 23:16

I assume that you have a direct link to Code Project on your desktop, and your browser has had the address bar physically torn off it and thrown away in the trash. After all, a quick search returns lots and lots of hits[^] for this. I know that it means you've got some reading to do, but you wouldn't want us to hold your hand for you, now would you?

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Re: Please Help...

Luc Pattyn9-Jul-09 9:42

Luc Pattyn

9-Jul-09 9:42

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
you wouldn't want us to hold your hand for you, now would you?

is that a trick question?

Unsure | :~

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Re: Please Help...

Blue_Boy8-Jul-09 23:26

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8-Jul-09 23:26

Check if your connectionstring with DB is correct.

check this[^]

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Re: Please Help...

mjawadkhatri9-Jul-09 0:00

mjawadkhatri

9-Jul-09 0:00

Can't understand let me explain please Sigh | :sigh:

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