I had to create my project from scratch, but I would still like to copy the resources from the old project to the new one.
Can anybody tell me how to do that?
I have seen that I can import a .resx file, I guess that might be one way to transfer these resources over, but I haven't found a way to export a .resx file.
I can click a single file and Choose "Select for export", but I have like 50 files in my project, and I don't wanto to export them one by one.
Thank you!
I navigate to the folder where the resources of the old projects are stored (right-click an existing resource and select "Go to destination folder").
Copy these to a new folder on the desktop.
In the new project, click "Add Resource"->"Existing" and open the files.
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Try to make my app read the ms-access database from shortcut of my database it failed to read, so try to change the location of database dynamically ( there is an option in the app to move the database to drop-box folder and create a shortcut to that database in app folder )
try to make an shortcut to the moved ms-database
the app to read the database or to change the location of database dynamically
First of all, you should create a folder with a clear name in your VB.Net application path, namely inside the project Debug folder, let's name that folder as "MyProjFiles", so it will be in this path: ProjectFolderName\bin\Debug\MyProjFiles
Put your whole projects files inside our lovely folder MyProjFiles, including all types of your attachments: database, images, sounds, files, etc.
Call your database or whatever of those attachments files in addition to our \MyProjFiles\ using this method: My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory & "\MyProjFiles\YourFilesPathHere.EXT".
Now, the whole path will be such as this string: "C:\CurrentUserNam\RootFolder\ProjectFolderName\bin\Debug\MyProjFiles\YourFilesPathHere.EXT"
For great practical example of this, supposuply let's open our MSAccessDB.accdb which is already copied into our project folder \MyProjFiles\ by this code directly:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory() & "\MyProjFiles\MSAccessDB.accdb")
The result will be simply opening our database which called "MSAccessDB.accdb"
Or open some pdf files such as this line:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirector() & "\MyProjFiles\MyPdfFile.pdf")
and so on.
I hope this can help you all brothers.
Best ^_^ Regards.
You should read this link.
It explains how to read the information you need to give the access Datareader something to do.
.NET read binary contents of .lnk file
Maybe this is enough, so you don't need to copy anything.
It often happens that I draw diagrams of how something is designed in my application, for example a tree-like structure in a dialog window with several steps that the user can answer by choosing yes and no.
Is it possible to include this image in my solution but not compile it?
And would it be possible to add a link to the image in my code so that I can simply click on the link, and it would open up the image for me in VS?
This way I wouldn't have to locate it on my disk.
Thank you very much!
If you want to add an existing file to your project then right-click on your project in the Solution Explorer and select 'Add > Existing item'. Set the Build Action to Content and the Copy to output directory to Copy always or Copy if newer. The file will then be copied to the same folder as the EXE when you build. You can access such a file at run time using a path like this:
Dim filePath = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "filename.ext")
If I download the source and build it works fine, but if I do it myself Xcode won't find the default.inc.json file. If I alter the path to /default-theme/default.inc.json then that particular file is found, but other theme files aren't
Clearly, for some reason my set up is causing grief. However, analysing the directory structure of my app and the source comes up with no differences.
Has anyone run into the same?
Are you trying to set the 'root' theme file? If so it should be named 'theme.inc.json'. From there you should add in your own theme files and include files.
See this for further information about themes and the general structure. http://redbeard.io/documentation/theme-reference
I was having the exact same problem.
The problem was when one drags the 'default-theme' folder into the project.
A window will appear asking how you want to add the files: make sure "Copy items if needed" is checked, and "Create groups" is selected. Important: do not choose "Create folder references" otherwise your project will not work.
The example now works as documented.
I have a vb.net project that has 2 exe's that get built as well as the installer. The two exe's share a bunch of common files. I do not want to have two copies of the common files or mess around with having build events that copy things around (if possible).
My method was to create two projects in the same folder and have them point to the files they needed. This appeared to work until I tried to compile both apps at which point I get an error in a file called Application.Designer.vb. It seems that project files create this file in their folder and when I have two solutions in the same folder they conflict.
So my next effort was to create the second project in it's own folder and just add the items as needed. The problem here is that VS2010 doesn't hold a link to a file in a different folder it copies the file to the new project folder.
What is the vs2010 way to get this done?
You were almost there when you created your second project. Rather than adding the files to the second project, you need to link them.
When you add them, VS copies the source file to the current project's directory.
When you link a file, it leaves it in its current location and just adds a reference to the file to your project. This means that you are operating with a single source file instead of multiple copies.
To link a file, choose Add Existing Item... menu item from the Project menu, select the file(s) that you want to link, and then click the dropdown arrow next to the Add button on the file dialog and select Add As Link.
We have class files that are shared this way among a half-dozen projects, including Win Forms, Silverlight, ASP.Net, Services, and PocketPC.
The easiest solution would be to shove all the common stuff into a common project, and simply reference that project from your other two solutions.
Solution A:
Project A
Project C
Solution B:
Project B
Project C
Just my recommendation anyway.
I have some form/vb in another project that I want to import to a new one. There are three files with these extensions - .vb, resx, and designer.vb. Which do I copy and how exactly?
If you are copying the files outside of Visual Studio (e.g. in Windows Explorer) you need to copy all three.
But working in Visual Studio you only need to copy the base .vb file; the .designer.vb and the .resx will be copied for you automatically. How to do this? Right click on your project file in Solution Explorer and choose Add -> Existing Item.
You need to copy all the files. You should even be able to open two instances of Visual Studio and drag and drop the form from one to the other.
Once you do the copy you'll probably want to change the namespaces and/or type names inside the files because they might be pointing to names from the previous project.
You need to copy all files over. If you copy and paste them using the file system, in Visual Studio Solution Explorer they won't appear. You will need to "show all" files. Then everything in the project directory is shown allowing you to right-click them and "include" them in your project.