Comments by drummerboy0511 (Top 39 by date)

I'm having trouble figuring this out... especially since the code is C or C++...

You're right, I should have. Either way, you helped immensely. I'll revert the question back to the original.

I'm going to update the original post... that did help, but there's a new problem.

Thanks!

I wonder why people are voting on my question?

The program I'm writing is already a good part of the way done... in VB. I've tried C#, and it does have its advantages... I guess I'm just going to have to learn it.

EDIT: Just to let you know, I found a pretty good portion of what I need in the code in the link in my last comment. Thanks!

Thanks... that led me to find this: http://geekswithblogs.net/WTFNext/archive/2009/05/06/how-to-create-a-plugin-architecture-in-vb.net.aspx . I just might try it here soon...

I knew it could be done in Visual Basic, I was just very discouraged because every tutorial that I found was written in C#.

Sorry... it's a desktop application.

Okay, why I want it: Part of a program I'm writing has features that only enable if they have a certain browser. If they don't, they can't access it. So, obviously, I need to check, "Okay, do they have Firefox? Okay, then we'll get them in this part. Do they have Chrome? No? Okay, block that."

Thanks for the heads-up; I knew the Program Files thing wouldn't work. I could probably do a search for "firefox.exe," but who's to say that would work?

I could probably just detect the fairly recent versions of the browser in the Registry, and update it as necessary, I guess. It's a small fix, for now at least...

Thank you! I was able to modify the second VB version to work with what I needed.

It gave me an error with the GetRandomChar() part...

I don't really understand how to use this...

This is in C#... I need it in Visual Basic...

Thanks for the response... I'll try it out later and see how I like it.

Completely random text. It can't make any sense whatsoever.

Ahh, okay. Thank you very much!

Thank you very much!

Ahh... I'm unsure of how to do this.

I'm not entirely sure how to do this...

Thanks! That was just what I was looking for!

What is the "mstrLine = Value" line in the first block of code? It's causing an error on my machine... what is it supposed to do?

I tried it, it's not working.

Reason for my vote of 4
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Reason for my vote of 1
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All right, @RLH68, I will look into it when I get to the development computer...

I do have a piece of code where I can detect the operating system (XP, Vista, or 7) and then run a different piece of code for each system. Perhaps I can use that in this case.

RLH68 - I'm using XP too... with the permission issues, run the app as an administrator. That's the best I can come up with there. What version are you using, William Winner?

Reason for my vote of 1
Not what I was looking for...

i have personally used it many times, successfully.

Get files DOES search subdirectories, with the code that I put in.

See, that's the thing, I don't want it to search just that folder. I want it to search the whole drive.

And, for those worried about lag issues, I'm going to do it asynchronously.

It's giving me "0" and I'm expecting to see the total number of temporary files from my hard drive. And I know for a fact (by looking in my various folders) that there are more than 0 files with the "*.tmp" extension.