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Score DllImport issue!
chandan - 29 Sep 2007 7:01 AM - 4 messages
Hi All, I have a dll created using vc++(Unmanaged).So when we are using this I have to give to full path of this dll as a parameter of DllImport attribute. The parameter takes only const string value. It will work ...
Score Embed Form in TabPage
Amigaso - 29 Sep 2007 1:42 AM - 5 messages
Can somebody provide an example on how to embed a form in a TabPage. I have a bunch of tabPages that behave pretty much the same, so I created a base form with the basic functionality and from there I am going to create ...
Score Cannot bind to the property or column on the DataSource.
ginacresse - 28 Sep 2007 5:35 PM - 1 message
I'm trying to use the following code to do a very simple databind to a combobox on a Windows Form.  I keep getting the error shown in the code.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? ...
Score Application deployment
Darren Sim - 28 Sep 2007 10:05 AM - 1 message
Hi there, I am nearing completion of my first real project in .NET and I'm looking at the various deployment options.  The clickonce alternative seems like the ideal option for us, but my solution contains sevreal projects which make up ...
Score DllImport issue for relative path!
chandan - 28 Sep 2007 8:26 AM - 1 message
Hi All, I have a dll created using vc++(Unmanaged).So when we are using this I have to give to full path of this dll as a parameter of DllImport attribute. The parameter takes only const string value. It will work ...
Score DllImport issue for relative path!
chandan - 28 Sep 2007 8:14 AM - 1 message
Hi All, I have a dll created using vc++(Unmanaged).So when we are using this I have to give to full path of this dll as a parameter of DllImport attribute. The parameter takes only const string value. It will work ...
Score Using ComboBox in DataGridView with custom classes as datasource
Jan Obrestad - 28 Sep 2007 7:03 AM - 1 message
Hello. I'm working on a telephone directory lookup for an application and have a custom class I would like to show in a datagridview. The problem is that a person might have more than one mobile phone registered, but the application expects only one, so the user will have ...
Score How to disable Start menu or prevent it to open?
bz - 27 Sep 2007 9:20 PM - 5 messages
Hi, I need an app to run in kiosk mode, so user will not have access to start menu and taskbar while the app is running I was able to hide / show the taskbar with the following code when app starts / exits ...
Score Help - Sudden crashes while editing DataGridView properties!
B. Chernick - 27 Sep 2007 7:03 PM - 1 message
I have a fairly large winforms project, VB/Dot Net 2.0.  While in the midst of fairly routine editing I have suddenly found myself unable to click on the 'Choose Data Source' dropdown of DataGridView Tasks without crashing Visual ...
Score Drawing tabs in ListBox.DrawItem event
Quimbly - 27 Sep 2007 5:11 PM - 2 messages
I have a ListBox, and have changed the DrawMode to DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed.  I'm using the ListBox.DrawItem event to do some custom coloring in my ListBox object. My item strings contain tabs, but after drawing the items myself, the tabs ...
Score Problem rendering metafile text on bitmap.
Chris49 - 27 Sep 2007 3:33 PM - 1 message
Hi, I have a problem with the quality from metafiles rendered on a System.Drawing.Bitmap. In particular, text is drawn poorly. If the same metafile is rendered directly onto a form's drawing surface, the quality is fine. There's also a problem with scaling, with a difference in size between ...
Score Re: Sent Crystal Report as pdf via Outlook
Martha Hoffmann - 27 Sep 2007 1:50 PM - 3 messages
I have been trying to figure out how to Embed the pdf into my outlook message with VB.  Can you give me a place to look for the answer to that.  Thanks in advance. Martha Hoffmann ...
Score RE: form repaint, tabcontrol
Juanma Mtnez - 27 Sep 2007 1:50 PM - 1 message
Hi: Try using FormName.SuspendLayout() before loading controls and data, and then  FormName.ResumeLayout(true) after that. Hope this result usefull. ...
Score What are my options for implementing a horizontal drag/drop contro
B. Chernick - 27 Sep 2007 1:05 PM - 4 messages
I have an interesting problem.  I have a set of records in a data table organized by a simple key.  What I want to do is represent these records as icons on a horizontally oriented control in asending order.  Furthermore, I ...
Score Missing Record in Crystal Report
wrytat - 27 Sep 2007 2:23 AM - 2 messages
I have a Crystal Report, which DataSource is made up of 2 tables, 1 Header table and 1 Detail table. The Detail table contains extra details of the items in the Header table. Not all Header items has a record in the Detail ...
Score Binding DateTimePicker question
dbuchanan - 27 Sep 2007 2:15 AM - 7 messages
Hello, I thought that my DateTimePicker was bound to my binding source in my entry form, but it does not behave as though it were. Here is the AutoGenerated code for that control:             // modifiedDateDateTimePicker ...
Score Catching mouse events on all child controls
Bytter - 27 Sep 2007 12:41 AM - 2 messages
Greetings, I've already tried googling for the following problem, but it seems every solution I've found is too complex and error prone. I've got a control (Panel) that acts as a container for several other controls. These controls, in turn, have several other controls and so ...
Score Very weird RichTextBox bug
David Thielen - 26 Sep 2007 7:04 PM - 2 messages
I have tried to make a simple sample of this - but the simple samples all work. The basic problem is I create a RichTextBox and then call RichTextBox.LoadFile() to load a rtf file in it. If the file has an image in it - the control displays nothing and ...
Score Set the row background color according to a cell value
dreamkeys - 26 Sep 2007 4:57 PM - 4 messages
Hi, At this time I'm able to set the background color of a cell depending on it's value. I'm able to achieve this by extending the DataGridTextBoxColumn class and overriding the Paint method: [code]         protected override void Paint(System.Drawing.Graphics g, ...
Score Beginners question - DataGridView with a combo box column
B. Chernick - 26 Sep 2007 4:50 PM - 2 messages
I have not tried this before.   I have a fairly simple table bound to the grid itself and I want to make one of the columns a combo box.  To this end I bound the grid to the first table and the column to a second.  No matter what ...
Score I need to be able to trap when the user clicks on a Web Browser control.
RMZ - 26 Sep 2007 3:14 PM - 3 messages
So the .NET 2.0 web browser control does not provide a MouseDown or Click event handler, but I have a need to trap on this. I would like to know the best approach to accomplish this. I see Enter and Leave ...
Score ListView - one column
MihaiT - 26 Sep 2007 11:56 AM - 3 messages
Hi everybody, I want to have a ListView which has only one column and all the items have the width of the listview (that is, no room fro subitems since i don't need them). It may sound like a ListBox, but I need to have ListViewItems and not ...
Score Component Designer
Loris Groppo - 25 Sep 2007 10:23 PM - 2 messages
A great problem on VS2005. After I dropped an object on the design area of a component, it does not maintain the position assigned. All objects, after closing and reopening the designer, move on the left of the area. It's hard to work in this situation. VS2005 SP1 resolves the situation? ...
Score Component Designer
Loris Groppo - 25 Sep 2007 10:16 PM - 1 message
A great problem on VS2005. After I dropped an object on the designer area, it does not maintain the position assigned. All objects, after closing and reopening the designer, move on the left of the area. It's hard to work in this situation. VS2005 SP1 resolves the problem? ...
Score Exceptons when debugging
Jack Jackson - 25 Sep 2007 6:00 PM - 3 messages
My VB 2005 winforms application has an Application.ThreadException handler to catch any unhandled exception. When debugging, the debugger doesn't stop when I get an exception, control passes to my application exception handler.  Currently I comment out the handler to be able to get the debugger to stop when an ...
Score PictureBox.Load and animated GIFs
Liz Phillips - 25 Sep 2007 2:48 PM - 1 message
Loading an animated GIF using PictureBox.Load causes an ObjectDisposedException with the message "Cannot access a closed file" to be thrown in the FileStream.Read method ultimately called by ImageAnimator.UpdateFrames. Looking at the output from ILDASM, it seems that the underlying file stream ...
Score ClickOnce xamlparse error
Leon - 25 Sep 2007 1:36 PM - 1 message
Hi I was trying to use ClickOnce in VS2008 beta2 for my WPF application but got error after I ran the setup.exe. Error signature: .... P9: system.windows.markup.xamlparse Any thoughts? ...
Score Re: ClickOnce bootstrapper fails with empty error window
Stefanie Mehl - 25 Sep 2007 9:42 AM - 1 message
Hi, I deploy it to a folder on disk. If I run it from the publish.html page that is also generated, the same error occurs. I know now that this problem seems to be specific to my machine, but since ...
Score Autocomplete textbox with dynamic datasource
andy gilman - 24 Sep 2007 8:04 PM - 3 messages
I know how to use autocomplete with 2.0 framework on a textbox. I also know how to use COM interop to use the IAutoComplete interface directly. But with either approach I seem unable to change the list while the user is ...
Score WebBrowser (loop automation)
Cesar - 24 Sep 2007 6:54 PM - 2 messages
Hello, Background information …. I have a VS2005 C# Windows forms app which has several text fields, one button control and one webbrowser control that I use to display an external webpage and based on the input data provided by the user, I perform some ...
Score Word 2007 symbols problem
Greg h - 24 Sep 2007 6:24 PM - 3 messages
I recently got word 2007 on my windows vista computor and no matter what I do when i push the slash/question mark it puts a french e in it's place. ...
Score Layout MDI problems with more than 3 windows
Olivier BESSON - 24 Sep 2007 4:51 PM - 5 messages
Hello, When i use LayoutMdi with TileHorizontal or TileVertical and more than 3 windows the result is not the expected one and is the same. When i TileVertical 4 windows i want them === =1= === =2= === =3= === =4= === (like ALL windows application does) but i got them : ...
Score Non-English Warnings
Martijn Mulder - 24 Sep 2007 1:22 PM - 2 messages
When I use OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog(), the dialog is in Dutch (which is fine for the moment). It says 'Bestandsnaam' for Filename, 'Bestandstypen' for File Types etc. But when I select a non-existing file, the warning is in English. How can I change the warnings to Dutch ...
Score Inconsistent image behavior in a Winforms app.
B. Chernick - 24 Sep 2007 12:58 PM - 1 message
I'm writing a Winforms app in Dot Net 2.0.  I created a few PNG images for use as button images in order to liven up appearances a bit.  I thought I had given the images a transparent background using Paint.Net and they display ...
Score Delete key in DataGridViewComboBoxCell
mrstrong - 24 Sep 2007 1:49 AM - 2 messages
I have a DataGridViewComboBoxCell in a DataGridView. When it is selected and the user presses Delete key it is reseted to default value (or first value in ComboBox). How can I override this default behavior and delete entire row instead? ...
Score Capturing Shift+Return when AcceptButton is used
Henrik Jernevad - 23 Sep 2007 8:55 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I've got a search form with the search button used as AcceptButton for the form and everything works as expected. However, I want to be able to capture not only Return, but also Shift+Return in which case I want ...
Score .net controls advice
John - 23 Sep 2007 5:54 PM - 10 messages
Hi I am contemplating purchasing either Infragistics or DV Express .net controls. I need advise on which one is better if any. I need the usual controls that both offer i.e. grid, tab, explorer bars etc. Many Thanks Regards ...
Score Disable Close button and remove Close menu and then reactivate
fpsoft - 23 Sep 2007 2:55 PM - 1 message
In Vs2005 i need to disable the Close button and remove Close Menu and then reactivate them. I have found how to disable Close button and remove close menu, but i haven't found how to reactivate them. Does someone knows how to reactivate them? ...
Score Lost Main Id Emails after HP system restore
Tom - 23 Sep 2007 9:36 AM - 2 messages
Hi Last night did a full system restore using HP F11 function on boot up. Now i have lost all my Parteners old emailsand she was the main Account in OutLook Exspress 6. I can find my emails just not sign of hers at all any where. ...
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