C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\Visual 2005\...\bin\debug\Reports *Spaces will not let me open .doc file in word*

C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\Visual 2005\...\bin\debug\Reports *Spaces will not let me open .doc file in word*

• Udo Kroon

  Im trying to figure it out on my own, but is there a way to open a document by when the document was created Im thinking of how to do it and the only way i can think to do it is to do it with if statements which i dont think will work...
  
  

• MLatchmansingh

  oo, thats awesome. Thankyou so much. It works when i test it within VisualStudio, but im still encountering a similar error. When i take the application out of bin/release and try to use it how it should be used, it comes at me with this error.

  Because the way this program is supposed to be designed for is to open files for people whom don't want to go fishing around for purchase orders at my work. All of the purchase orders are in one place, therefor the program needs to look in /Reports/ in the program's main directory. Thats why i used the approach of Substringing the filename's exe out of the application.path, so no matter where the program was, it would look for /Reports/

  But when i try to put it into effect...it doesnt work unfortunately.

  Btw, i really appreciate the help, its my first time posting on MSDN.

  See the end of this message for details on invoking
  just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

  ************** Exception Text **************
  System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
  Parameter name: length
  at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
  at Gauge_Helper.Form1.Button2_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

  
  
  

• Austin Milbardge

  str2File = str2File.Substring(0, str2File.LastIndexOf("GaugeHelper.EXE"))

  The above code statement was trying to findout GaugeHelper.EXE in the AppPath and it was searching that with case sensivity. When you were trying to run it from VS there might be possibility that the AppPath was .....\GaugeHelper.EXE but when you were trying to execute the application from outside VS the apppath might changed to ....\GaugeHelper.exe which made str2File.LastIndexOf("GaugeHelper.EXE") return -1 and the whole statement turns to

  str2File = str2File.Substring(0, -1) which is not a valid statement

  with my code what i did was just replaced str2File.LastIndexOf("GaugeHelper.EXE") with str2File.LastIndexOf("\") as there is 100% possibility that the AppPath has "\" and thats too just before the EXE name then we finally add "\" to the string before appending anything else to that path.

  Please do let me know if you need any further clarifications.

  
  
  

• bkohler

  WooT!! Thanks so much!! It works great now! =)

  ty again

  Could you maybe tell me why changing it to that makes it work

  
  
  

• Leo Kent

  Ah! dont worry about it, sorry for the post above, i have an alternate method of retrieving the documents creation date

  but thanks!

  =)

  
  
  

• djt69

  Replace

  str2File = str2File.Substring(0, str2File.LastIndexOf("GaugeHelper.EXE"))

  with

  str2File = str2File.Substring(0, str2File.LastIndexOf("\")) & "\"

  
  
  

• Martin123

  Wow, thankyou so much. It makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me. I am taking computer programming in college right now, but my instructor is a dingbat and doesn't know any of the answers to any of the questions i ask. His response is always..."Go look on MSDN, im sure someone else has had the same problem in the past..."

  Aaaaanyway...

  Thanks again. Do you know of a way to gather a file's properties and display it in a label or something similar

  =(sorry for asking so many questions... =P

  
  
  

• Dave_L

  Its almost as if word treats the spaces as seperating commands or something of this sort...I really have no idea...
  
  

• normanbates

  try this code

  Dim MyFileInfo As System.IO.FileInfo = New System.IO.FileInfo("File Path Goes Here")

  and then go and try the various properties available inside MyFileInfo

  to include few you can get

  MyFileInfo.Attributes

  MyFileInfo.CreationTime

  MyFileInfo.CreationTimeUtc

  MyFileInfo.DirectoryName (This could give you the complete path where the file exists , you can also use this directory name inplace of SubString :) )

  Well MSDN is always a good resource but then he should not be called a trainer :D

  
  
  

• Tom Sapp

  Ive done some testing and ive come to the conclusion that something is wrong... =P

  So, When i debug the program it works...but when i attempt to run it, i get the error described above...

  Testing Process

  -----------------------------

  Tested program in visual studio

  Result: No errors

  -----------------------------

  Tested program by going to Program1\Program1\bin\debug

  Result: Error

  -----------------------------

  Tested program by going to \Program1\Program1\Bin\Release

  Result: Error

  -----------------------------

  
  
  

• woodland30033

  This is what ive come up with so far, the comments were just reference for myself.

  But! this doesnt work...=P

  unfortunately...

  Private Sub btnDate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDate.Click

  Dim varMonth, varDay, varYear As String

  varMonth = txtMonth.Text

  varDay = txtDay.Text

  varYear = txtYear.Text

  Dim varDate As String

  varDate = varMonth & "/" & varDay & "/" & varYear

  Dim varPlaceholder = ""

  Dim filepathdate As String

  filepathdate = Application.ExecutablePath

  filepathdate = filepathdate.Substring(0, filepathdate.LastIndexOf("\")) & "\"

  Dim filepathdate1 = filepathdate & "\Reports\"

  'Dim MyFileInfo2 As System.IO.FileInfo = New System.IO.FileInfo(varPlaceholder)

  'Label2.Text = MyFileInfo2.CreationTimeUtc

  For Each fileName As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles _

  (filepathdate1, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories, "*.doc")

  Dim file As IO.FileInfo = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo(fileName)

  Debug.WriteLine(file.CreationTime)

  Debug.WriteLine(file.LastWriteTime)

  Debug.WriteLine(file.Length)

  Next

  'Dim filepath4 As String

  'filepath4 = "\Reports\" & filepath0 & "\" & filepath2

  End Sub

  
  
  

• ManishMenon

  lol, yeah i agree completely...He shouldnt be teaching.

  Thanks again.

  
  
  

• maqk

  Im also thinking about a comparing code, and if it comes up true, then open the file...

  Psuedocode
  sorta like...

  if Date is = fileInfo.creationTimeUtc

  then

  open file

  
  
  

• bharathi_tunes

  you need to wrap the path in quotes, which are represented as """" ( they need to be wrapped in quotes themselves) e.g. wordstart.StartInfo.Arguments = """" & str2File & "\Reports\" & Job & "\" & Job & ".doc" & """"

  
  
• C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\Visual 2005\...\bin\debug\Reports *Spaces will not let me open .doc file in word*