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Score windows is hanging when i click a no existing networklocations
windows is hanging - 20 Oct 2007 2:30 PM - 1 message
Hello to you all. I have developed at vb6-program in which I can browse my network (2 computers), via the form BrowseforFolders. But when I close the other computer and try to locate the other computer via 'my networklocation', the program is hanging and the problem is only fixed by ...
Score ListView tooltips appearing at top-left corner of screen
Bob S - 20 Oct 2007 7:21 AM - 2 messages
I have a control (derived from Control class) based on SysListView32. The LVS_EX_INFOTIPS style is ON. I select an item and hover mouse over it to shows its infotip. Then I move mouse outside the control and use the arrow keys to select a different item. ...
Score RDP disconnects, no logon screen, TermDD 50 error
kong - 19 Oct 2007 7:08 PM - 2 messages
A remote user is having problem with RDP randomly. She told me she was unable to get to her office computer thru RDP, so I walked to her machine and tryed to log on to take a look. But there was no logon window anywhere, her desktop ...
Score Tips on runtime-customized UI
Dave - 19 Oct 2007 6:45 PM - 4 messages
Hi, In the past, I've designed single screen interfaces, without much need for allowing the user to customize anything except the size/state of the main form. However, I am redesigning the application and hope to allow the user to both select and position elements out of a list of ...
Score Object Variable or With block variable not set.
Ross Culver - 19 Oct 2007 3:49 PM - 11 messages
I get this error whenever I close one particular form in my Windows application; however, I can't find the error in the code.  Setting a break on the dispose event doesn't catch it and the error does not occur on any ...
Score DATAGRID - When doc property is FILL why do headers disappear?
Darrell Wesley - 19 Oct 2007 3:16 PM - 3 messages
VS2005 question. I have a form with 5 panels on it, top, bottom , each edge and in the middle .. The middle panel's DOC property is set to FILL. Inside this middle panel is a Datagrid, if I leave the DOC property of the Datagrid set to NONE then the ...
Score Trimming Windows form caption bar text
PacManFan - 19 Oct 2007 9:12 AM - 2 messages
Hi, In the resize event handler of my Windows form, I want to replace a portion of the form's title with ellipsis when the form is too small to completely fit the title. What's the easiest way to generate a trimmed, best-fit caption ...
Score no scrollbar showed for ActiveX control in a WinForm
Shwu - 18 Oct 2007 9:30 PM - 2 messages
Hello, I have an activeX control created by ATL, which shows a treeview. It works fine on my development machine for a C# form to embed the control. If the content of the treeview beyonds the visible area of the form, the vertical ...
Score Embed localized resources in the main assembly
Martin Plante - 18 Oct 2007 7:09 PM - 1 message
Apart for doing all this manually, is there a way to benefit from Visual Studio .NET localization support with Forms, and NOT make it create a satellite assembly for every non-default culture, but instead embed those resources in the main assembly? ...
Score ComboBox loads slow
0to60 - 18 Oct 2007 5:29 PM - 5 messages
I am noticing that it seems to take windows a long ass time to paint a ComboBox control that has say, 32000 items in its dropdown.  Yes, I know that's a lot.  However, I have a VB6.0 application that uses DAO to access ...
Score Options for 'granular' Help - refresh my memory
B. Chernick - 18 Oct 2007 5:08 PM - 2 messages
I have a basic help system set up for my program (Winforms, VB/Dot Net 2.0).  Hit F1 and get help for each current screen. Now my boss has suddenly decided the help needs to be more 'granular', for lack of a better term.  While I can ...
Score Crystal Reports (parameter)
Luc - 18 Oct 2007 6:43 AM - 1 message
Hi , I've some malfunctions with the code I'm using to create a Crystal Report 1) From time to time a parameter is requested, this while the parameter is set in code ...................... 2) If I change my Connection info, the report try to connect to the original ...
Score It's possible to brush a window/control to a 3D graphics surface in WPF?
Sherman - 18 Oct 2007 1:55 AM - 1 message
hi, all Does anyone know that is there have a way to brush a window/control to a 3D graphics surface in WPF? For example, I want brush WMP (Windows Media Player) to a 3D graphics surface, it's possible to do that? ...
Score OpenType fonts in Framework
Urs - 17 Oct 2007 4:07 PM - 1 message
Hi I'm trying to access an installed Adobe OpenType font, but it doesn't appear in the InstalledFontCollection. I also tried PrivateFontCollection.AddFontFile(), it then throws an incorrect file not found exception. Investigating in the msdn library, it tells me that there's only limited ...
Score DataBinding in OwnerDraw ComboBox
Wolfgang - 17 Oct 2007 10:48 AM - 1 message
I wrote a ownerdraw version of a ComboBox. But if I bind a dataset as datasource and an displaymember, the combobox shows the type of a datarow instead of the contens of the displaymember. This is because the i read the string to display like this in the OnDraw ...
Score cookie problem
D_W - 17 Oct 2007 9:43 AM - 2 messages
Hi. I have a webshop that runs on .net c# and uses cookies to get the cart id my customer now changed web hotel and this new hotel provides a ssl security solution that makes my customers domain subdomain to their ...
Score Re: Same application in dual monitor
Amb k - 17 Oct 2007 7:35 AM - 1 message
Hi morten I want to know one more thing. I have defined a picturebox control defined in the common class and i am loading the picturebox to a panel defined in form1. Now when i load two form1 screens at the same time only the last ...
Score Object Variable Error; Followed by Memory Error
Ross Culver - 17 Oct 2007 3:11 AM - 2 messages
I've been working on a Windows application for several weeks now.  Starting late yesterday, I started getting the dreaded "Object variable or with block variable not set" error when I close one of the forms.  By process of ...
Score Splitting Files
Tedmond - 17 Oct 2007 2:54 AM - 3 messages
Dear all, Is there any easy way to split a file into several smaller files and then recompose it?  Which namespace should I use? Thanks for any help, Tedmond ...
Score How to populate a treeview from a dataset
xmail123 - 16 Oct 2007 10:50 PM - 4 messages
I am very new to C#.  I need to create a Windows form that will read a SQL table and populate a treeview.  I can connect to the DB, create the dataadapter, populate a data set.  The problem is how to use the ...
Score Form Localization
Matt - 16 Oct 2007 10:48 AM - 6 messages
Hi, I have a set of forms in a windows application which I'd like to localize. Some of these forms contain the same strings, for instance - "are you sure?". I would like to put this string in one place which ...
Score Flicker in Owner Drawn ListView in VB.NET 2.0
jason.yfho - 16 Oct 2007 10:48 AM - 1 message
Hi All, I've implemented a custom draw listview overriding System.Windows.Forms.ListView. In VB.NET 1.0, the listview won't flicker. However, in VB.NET 2.0, the same listview flicker a lot. By observation on the listview on monitor, I found that in VB.NET 2.0, ...
Score Derived Combobox with Locked/Readonly Property working until Databind
aaapaul - 16 Oct 2007 8:04 AM - 3 messages
I have a derived combobox with locking property. The user can see, what items are in the combobox but he can' t change them. This is my code: Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.ComponentModel Public Class LCombo     Inherits ComboBox ...
Score Insert a line break into textbox
Tedmond - 16 Oct 2007 6:29 AM - 6 messages
Dear all, Is it possible to insert a line break into a textbox that the 'Multiline' has been set to True?  I used "\n" in C# but it doesn't work.  Thanks for any help, Tedmond ...
Score ReportViewer Print issues
Herb - 15 Oct 2007 6:37 PM - 3 messages
I can render and open my report via the ReportViewer, but I have to print it twice for it to actually print. Is there a bug fix for this? More specifically, my Winforms.ReportViewer opens an rdlc. When I click the ...
Score Menustrip //acceptbutton
Luc - 15 Oct 2007 1:27 PM - 3 messages
Is it possible to use the acceptbutton option in the menustrip (via code)? Thx for your quick reponse(s) ...
Score Bug? Graphics.DrawImage throws "Out of Memory" Exception
Alex - 15 Oct 2007 6:46 AM - 2 messages
Hello, The Graphics.DrawImage method throws "Out of Memory" Exception if the Matrix.RotateAt(X, Point(100,100), MatrixOrder.Append) was used with a value of X = 180 + n * 360 where n is an integer. Code snippet:         protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) ...
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