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[muttley1968]

Hello i need to know how to take a .exe file from program resources soo say i have like paint.exe in there and i wanted to move it form their to the desktop i did try using
file copy but wont work says something about bytes error hopefully get this done before morning and then program can be released to you and given to my work as they want it as well :P

[Dummy1912]

hello muttley,

try this:

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'add this where you like button, form_load

'Where to copy to
Dim Path As String = System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop & "\Paint.exe"

'Here we call you're paint.exe from the resource
Using sCreateFile As New FileStream(Path, FileMode.Create)
sCreateFile.Write(My.Resources.Paint, 0, My.Resources.Paint.Length)
End Using

hope this helps.

goodluck

[muttley1968]

umm thanks dummy but when i press the button it crashes and says that the location was unhandled and it is runing in admin mode as well

[clanc789]

Coz

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Path

is not a valid name for a string. Path is something else. Try to rename Path to Pathhie or Path123 then it should work.

[Dummy1912]

oops sorry for that, i just write the code fast
didn't think of that yea clanc is right.
path is a name that contains in vb already.
just rename it will work

[MrAksel]

Try this

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Dim Path As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + "\Paint.exe"
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(Path, My.Resources.Paint)

[muttley1968]

Download to the final program please have a look :P
http://www.mediafire.com/?3tdkq7r7f5pd63i

[Dummy1912]

so did the code works?
to bad i can't run your app because i don't have java

[muttley1968]

app should still work and should get java good for programing can code and debug at same time realtime update

[Dummy1912]

:lol:
thats wasn't my question :p