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Score 3rd Party Control Suite Considerations
Jeff - 21 Jan 2006 10:30 PM - 5 messages
I'd like to hear from any of you who have *actually used* any of the popular 3rd party control suites (e.g., offerings from ComponentOne, Infragistics) for .NET Windows Forms application development. What has been your experience? FWIW I was a huge fan of Infragistics COM ...
Score Need Coding Help With Updating Dataset
Terrance - 21 Jan 2006 9:46 PM - 3 messages
Good day, I hoping someone can help me with a problem that I have. I'm trying to update a dataset then my datasource using the sqlcommandbuilder in vb.net 2003. I only want to update fields that actually have been changed by the ...
Score Accessing an EventLog on a Remote Server
Al - 21 Jan 2006 6:00 AM - 3 messages
All - I have an app that has a simple datagrid being filled with an EventLog.Entries. When the MachineName is local ("." or the machine's name) all works fine.  When the application tries to access another EventLog on a ...
Score Editing HTML inside a winform
ThePinkPanther - 21 Jan 2006 1:25 AM - 2 messages
Hello I need to let the client of my program edit HTML code within one of the forms of my program. I am looking for a Control that encapsulates Visual Web Developer (I'm not sure whether that's the right phrase to use,i mean "encapsulates" as ...
Score Cannot make a new form active
jjeffers1 - 20 Jan 2006 4:38 PM - 3 messages
Hello - I am an experienced web programmer who is new to windows forms programming. The problem I am facing is passing control in a winforms app from one form to another. Essentially I have form1, which has some text fields, ...
Score Save lines drawn in the picturebox as an lmage
Yash - 20 Jan 2006 8:06 AM - 2 messages
Have used DrawLine() method to draw some lines in the picturebox (sort of a barcode) in the picturebox paint event. This diagram has to be saved as an image in bmp or tiff format. But the problem is that these lines are not recognized as the image of ...
Score My events are all messed up: HELP!!!
Aaron - 20 Jan 2006 4:40 AM - 4 messages
OK, I was working way too late tonight. I have one form with one tab control. I have eight tabs. And hundreds of controls on those various tabs. I don't know why I did this but anyway I cut the tab control in order to ...
Score DataGridViewLinkCell: cannot set ReadOnly to false
Marshall - 20 Jan 2006 1:53 AM - 4 messages
Hey all, Working in C# with the Windows Forms 2.0 "DataGridView" control here, and a column of cells of type DataGridViewLinkCell. The DGV is bound to a datasource, and user is allowed to add rows. The subject line is a bit of a misnomer in that I *can* set the ReadOnly ...
Score Taskbar state change notification.
Dave Leach - 20 Jan 2006 1:02 AM - 2 messages
I am developing a Windows Forms application using VS.Net 2003 in C#.  My application is normally sized to cover the entire desktop when it is not iconified.  I would like to resize the application depending on whether the ...
Score Graphs in c#
Yossi And Inbar - 19 Jan 2006 9:16 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I am using VS2003 C# Is their any Free Graph Component in C# .Net  ? How can i get it ? Thanks, Yossi ...
Score #include <windows.h> causes compile error
brian_harris - 19 Jan 2006 6:02 PM - 2 messages
I am devloping a simple .net windows form using C++. without includeing windows.h it compiles and runs, but is not really doing anything. when I add the #include <windows.h> then I get various compiler errors listed below: ...
Score Help with reading FILESIZE
John Cosmas - 19 Jan 2006 5:29 PM - 2 messages
How do you read the filesize of a document/file using the SYSTEM.IO.FILE or whatever other function that might work?  Please recommend. ...
Score Design time image of a user control 2005
Jerry Langley - 19 Jan 2006 5:12 PM - 2 messages
I have noticed that in 2005 the public properties of a user control run at design time to format the items on the screen.  In building user controls it has been necessary to put if ( XXX != null) around many commands in my "set" ...
Score Bug in VS 2005?
David Veeneman - 19 Jan 2006 3:23 PM - 5 messages
I think I may have stumbled across a bug in Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0, or both. The Anchor property doesn't seem to work if a form's size is bound to a user setting. To reproduce the problem: ...
Score Unable to set focus of a textbox inside a groupbox
Emma Middlebrook - 19 Jan 2006 1:03 PM - 3 messages
Hi, I am having great difficulty in setting focus to a textbox that is inside a groupbox, why is that? I have checked and the textbox.CanFocus returns false.... I can set the focus to the groupbox but that doesn't help me because I still then ...
Score TabPage and PictureBoxes
Charles A. Lackman - 19 Jan 2006 9:43 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I am working on a program that Adds a Tab page with a picturebox inside it for each page of a TIF and it works well.  If I have a 3 page TIF the application add 3 TabPages and inside each TabPage Adds a PictureBox and ...
Score Activate event not triggered
Martin - 19 Jan 2006 9:00 AM - 2 messages
It seems that if I activate a application on a Windows Mobile Device from the Memory control panel app that the Activate event on the main (and only) form of this application is not triggered. Is this normal? WM 2003 ...
Score how to move selected row to the top of the dataGridView (c# - 2005)?
Mladen Belaj - 19 Jan 2006 8:24 AM - 2 messages
After I select a Row with this.dataGridView1.Rows[xRow].Selected = true; how to move this selected row to the top of the dataGridView1? (c# - 2005) ...
Score Textbox displays more than I hoped for...
pauldr - 19 Jan 2006 4:11 AM - 6 messages
I want to thank Morten Wennevik for his help on my last hurdle, but now I have another one. I have a string value going to a label.  The label displays the following: System.Windows.Forms.TextBox,   Text:  Paul ...
Score Given an 'event', how do I obtain underlying delegates ?
The One We Call 'Dave' - 18 Jan 2006 10:31 PM - 9 messages
Hi,     Various custom controls in my WinForms application register for the 'Application.Idle' event on load, and unregister on dispose. To avoid memory leaks, it's essential that I remember to unregister on dispose.     Before my application exits, I'd like to do an 'assert' to assure myself ...
Score Dataview Sort not working
WhiskyRomeo - 18 Jan 2006 10:10 PM - 3 messages
Below is the code.  This code should sort Subjects by SeqNo or LastName.  But it has no affect on the order.  The order remains the same as original dataset (ds).  What I am doing wrong? WR ...
Score Opening another GUI thread
uzi - 18 Jan 2006 9:23 PM - 4 messages
Hi Recently I had a problem in which I had window opened that had a slider which was updated by raising an event on that window. The background window was still available, and the user clicked on it causing it to perform a long time operation. ...
Score OnPaint event invoke after i close the form, normal??
eleazarm - 18 Jan 2006 4:43 PM - 2 messages
I have an app with only one form, when i close the form (and after dispose method is executed) the override void onpaint of the form is called again, it's this normal??? i thing maybe in dispose method add 'this.SuspendLayout();' ...
Score images inside a listview
WAkthar - 18 Jan 2006 4:42 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a listview with only one column. In the first row I am adding an image with no text. In the second column I am trying to add some text but the text gets put in the column but after the image. ...
Score Using images in ListView
TheJediMessiah - 18 Jan 2006 4:42 PM - 3 messages
I have a listview with only one column. In the first row I am adding an image with no text. In the second column I am trying to add some text but the text gets put in the column but after the image. ...
Score .NET 2.0 Books for winforms
Mark - 18 Jan 2006 4:04 PM - 4 messages
We've built a ton of ASP.NET applications, and now have a need to build several WinForm applications.  We're looking for 2.0 books.  I found the two below - any other recommendations?  Thanks in advance. ...
Score resize label image
brian_harris - 18 Jan 2006 4:00 PM - 5 messages
I have a .jpg image that I use in another application.  It represents our company logo and I want to place it in form.  But the image is way to large.  Is there a way in .net window forms to shrink the image to fit into size of ...
Score DataGridView with a ComboBox column error (listing objects)
gsa - 18 Jan 2006 3:59 PM - 4 messages
Scenario: Two classes (objA and objX), the class objX has a field of type objA.      class objA {          private double _a;          public double a { ...
Score IE hosted control css display style
Will Holley - 18 Jan 2006 3:05 PM - 26 messages
We have a run into an apparent bug involving the rendering of .NET winform controls within IE 6 (running on XP sp2 and .NET 2.0) . If one of a hosted control's parent elements has style.display == 'none' when the control is ...
Score Tabbed interface
Paolo - 18 Jan 2006 10:08 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a main windows forms with a TabControl. When I open a new form, I add a TabPage to the TabControl, and I add my form to the controls collection of the new page. All work very fine, but, the form inside the tabpage appear with the caption ...
Score To lock a form
wrytat - 18 Jan 2006 9:29 AM - 3 messages
This is a very simple question, but I don't know where to find the answer. I have a button on my main form of my windows application, when the user clicks on it, a second form will appear. How do I make it such that the second form ...
Score Reportviewer: how to display different reports in same viewer
Jan DHondt - 18 Jan 2006 9:16 AM - 2 messages
Designing a winform with a reportviewer that shows data for a single .rdlc report is no  problem, the wizords help to setup the datasource, the bindingsource and the tableadapter instance and bind it to the reportviewer and .rdlc report. ...
Score MDI child forms, if one maximizes, all maximize?
Earl - 18 Jan 2006 6:16 AM - 2 messages
What causes all forms to resize the same as the others within an MDI container? I've noticed that maximizing or minimizing one form is passed to all other forms within that container. Within the MDI container, I instantiate and display the forms with the following: ...
Score V1.1.4322 is being requested after I updated ATI catalyst
crash 98 - 18 Jan 2006 3:07 AM - 3 messages
When I bootmy computer I get 2 dialogue boxws open. They state I should have the above version of the dotnet framework. I have a Raedon 9600 AGP card and all my updates are usually from windows update automatic. Most times I choose ...
Score Visual Styles For Toolbar
Euphilos - 17 Jan 2006 7:40 PM - 7 messages
Hello, I'm working on a custom control which I'd like to have a background identical to that of the XP-themed explorer toolbar. Could anyone tell me which class of the VisualStyles hierarchy contains that look? VisualStyleElement.ToolBar seems to have only controls and separators, and ...
Score Opening a new form
Bala Nagarajan - 17 Jan 2006 5:52 PM - 2 messages
Hello,       I am trying to open a new form (form A)from another forms' (form B) load event but the formB when it opens the controls within it does not paint properly. I  see the controls are transparent. ...
Score using listview
WAkthar - 17 Jan 2006 5:19 PM - 5 messages
Hi, I need to be able to display a listview with the following functionality. The listview must be able to display different types of information. There are normally 3 types. Type 1 has only 1 column. The first row must display an icon showing the status of this type. ...
Score What is this?
Fabrizio Romano - 17 Jan 2006 2:22 PM - 8 messages
Hi everybody. If you load windows calculator and right-click one of its button you'll get a context menu with just one link. If you click on this link, a yellow "panel" shows up telling you all you need to know about that button. ...
Score iterating through forms collection in .net
Mike - 17 Jan 2006 12:35 PM - 3 messages
Hi, How can I iterate through the forms collection in vb.net (2003).  In VB6 I did: For Each f In Forms     blah Next f Thanks Mike ...
Score Minimized parent mdi form not properly restored
Jan_Weingärtner - 17 Jan 2006 9:39 AM - 3 messages
Hi. I have a MDI form with some child forms. Only one of the child forms is visible at the same time. It is maximized and all boxes are hidden to simulate a one-form-application. The problem: After minimizing the parent mdi form it can not ...
Score Japaneese IME
Lloyd Dupont - 17 Jan 2006 7:46 AM - 5 messages
I wrote a custom text editor. Now I have some japaneese customers who have a problem with it. Apparently, according to my understanding of what they said: There is an IME window and when they used it to enter text, characters are doubled. ...
Score ListBox question
Ilya Dyoshin - 17 Jan 2006 7:20 AM - 4 messages
Hi all! In my form I use ListBox to put some technical data - log of my program. And it groes up to very huge massive in memory. But exactly I need only 100-150 last records. I use logListBox->Items->Add(System::String("log records"); for adding ...
Score problem in persisiting a collection
Kaimal - 17 Jan 2006 4:26 AM - 3 messages
Hi    I have a user control in which i have a collection (ArrayList) of userdefined objects (A class with two public properties). I am using a custom editor derived from UITypeEditor to edit the values of this collection. The problem is that values in this collection are not ...
Score Highlight some items of a combobox
nathan.atkins - 17 Jan 2006 3:56 AM - 2 messages
I have a combobox with a list of items, and depending which one is selected it displays data relating to the selected item. I want to highlight some of the items in the combobox which meet certain criteria, but i cant find any info about doing this ...
Score Raise an event?
John Francisco Williams - 17 Jan 2006 3:09 AM - 6 messages
Hi All. How do I cause an event to be "manually" fired. I have a user control that contains a button. What I need to do is this: When the user clicks that button, the event "Click" for the user control that contains ...
Score .NET 2.0 DateTime picker
A.M-SG - 17 Jan 2006 1:18 AM - 2 messages
Hi, How can I change the format of DateTimePicker to YYYY/MM/DD in VS2005? Thank you, Alan ...
Score DropDownList in Winforms
Lew Barnesson - 16 Jan 2006 9:19 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I need a WinForms DropdownList (which for some reason isn't in the ToolBox). The ComboBox would be a good compromise, except that I can't find a way to make it ReadOnly. Am I missing something? - Lew ...
Score How to make a labels right align
A.M-SG - 16 Jan 2006 9:12 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a set of labels. I arranged them vertically. The labels supposed to show dollar amount, so they need to be right align. That means if I add digits to each label, it should extend toward left instead of right. ...
Score Richtextbox beep?
Chris - 16 Jan 2006 8:49 PM - 3 messages
As part of an application I feed text into a richtextbox in readonly mode. If I feed in an empty string the application beeps e.g.: String blah = ""; richTextBox1.SelectedText = blah; result: <beep> Why is this? Chris ...
Score Draw a horizontal line on the form without using GDI
A.M-SG - 16 Jan 2006 8:37 PM - 7 messages
Hi, How do I draw a vertical or horizontal line on a form without using GDI? Thank you, Alan ...
Score .NET 2.0 and toolbar icons
A.M-SG - 16 Jan 2006 7:32 PM - 9 messages
Hi, Using visual studio 2005 and .NET 2.0, when I right click on a toolbar strip and choose "Insert Standard Items", the IDE adds standard buttons and icons to the toolbar. So far everything is cool. Now, I tried to fin where the added ICONS comes from, no clue!. The only ...
Score Forms Namespace
Dick - 16 Jan 2006 5:51 PM - 10 messages
How to I change the namespace for a form in vs 2005? Do I add " "Namespace/End Namespace" to both of the partial files? Or is there an easy way to keep them both sync'd? ...
Score Click once Installs returns XML page to XP Pro Clients...
RBS - 16 Jan 2006 5:10 PM - 9 messages
I have deployed an application with ClickOnce Publish wizard to a web site. But when I click web page Install button the web server just returns the content of the .application file as XML to the browser on all my clients. On ...
Score How to convert a selectedIndex to SelectedValue for ComboBox
Mark L. Breen - 16 Jan 2006 4:37 PM - 5 messages
Hello All, I have a selected index for a combo, which I percieve to be the best value to use when programitically maniplating combos. What I want to be able to do is retrieve the Selected Value for a given ...
Score .NET 2.0: Right click on DataGridView and Cell Selection
A.M-SG - 16 Jan 2006 4:33 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I am using Visual Studio.NET 2005 and .NET 2.0. I need to configure a DataGridView so it selects the cell when user right clicks on the cell. What would be the best way to do that? Any help would be appreciated, ...
Score Bitblt beginner question
jordan - 16 Jan 2006 3:25 PM - 9 messages
Hi, I have a simple task that I can't seem to work out.  No previous experience in C++.  OK, what I want to do is when a mouse enters a window draw an image (from resourses) at a certain location over that form, such as the center of it. ...
Score Underlining Accelerator Keys
Sam - 16 Jan 2006 6:30 AM - 2 messages
Is there a way to programmatically display the underline of button accelerator keys? I am aware of the “Hide underlined letter for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key” setting but I would like to display the underline ...
Score Using a form as a remote object
kcamhi - 15 Jan 2006 1:16 PM - 8 messages
Can a form be a remote object? If not, is there any work around... basically I want a central computer to be controlling forms on several computers on a network? When I try to add Inherits MarshallByRefObject to a Windows Form class, I ...
Score ListView row height?
Chris - 15 Jan 2006 10:12 AM - 3 messages
Is there any way to alter a listviews row height? I ask as in my ownerdrawn listview (details view) all lower case letters have their subsections cut off. Chris ...
Score WebBrowser and XML
Lee - 15 Jan 2006 2:24 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I am using the WebBrowser control included with VS2005 to view XML files, and they are being displayed correctly as far as I can tell. The problem I am having is saving these XML files to disk. If I try to save the contents of the WebBrowser.DocumentText to disk, the ...
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