Hi, Just wondering if it is possible to hide the Minimize, Maximize and Control box that are added to an MdiContainter form. We want to use the idea of Mdi but control how the child forms are sized, minimized & maximized etc. We need to hide these so the user can't override what we are doin...more >>

Every time I try to debug a windows forms app in .NET 1.1 the debugger deletes the app's .config file. This only happens with new 1.1 projects, it doesn't happen with projects created in 1.0 that are converted to 1.1. Has anybody else seen this? Here's an example of what I'm doing: 1. c...more >>

I've posted serveral times to get an answer, but till now still now satisfying answers. Here is my problem: I have filled a datagrid control with the contents of an Excel sheet. Over 3500 rows of information. I used a dataset which I then binded to the control. That worked. Now I wa...more >>

I'm wondering if there are recommendations with regard to how controls are layed out on a form. Is there a certain number of pixels (or other unit of measurement) that should be used between controls? For example, if I have 4 rows of text boxes, should I make it so that there are always 5 pixels ...more >>

Hi, I am working in C#. The program I am working on is querying databases. This is done in the OK button Click event. Sometimes, it takes a long time to search. I would like to give the users the ability to cancel the search. I was thinking of a pop-up dialog with a Cancel button. When the ...more >>

Has anyone seen the situation where you open multiple child forms within an MDI application ... child forms that have alt hot keys defined. Invoking an alt hot key that is defined on more than one child form will put the cursor on the associated control of the first child form opened and not on ...more >>

I programmed an application in C# and it works perfectly on my computer (where I installed VS .NET 2003). However, when I then transfer the Application to another computer (w/o .NET 2003 installed) it crashes. is there some special components I need to install? I use the Interop.Shell32....more >>

Hello group, (VB.NET 2003/Framework 1.1/XP Prof.) after narrowing the problem down, it turned out that there are focus/activation problems whenever an MDI child contains any type of ActiveX control. Steps to reproduce: 1. New WindowsApplication 2. Add two new Forms (Form2 and Form3)...more >>

Hello everyone. I'm trying to instatiate controls on a windows form in .net (using C#, incidentally--not that it matters). I don't want to have to hard-code instantiation of a certain kind of control. E.g. I _don't_ want to do this: if ( x = 1 ) { TextBox newControl = new TextBox(); ...more >>

Hi I have a webpage in asp.net on submit sends an email, I want the body of the message to be in the HTML format. what I am doing is creating an object of say oMailMessage = New Mail.MailMessage() With oMailMessage 'set required parameters .From = ...more >>

I want to plop a ComboBox in a ListView entry. I can find the border rectangle of any particular ListViewItem with no problem, but that gives me the outside dimensions of the item, not the inside. Is the width of the border lines available somewhere, or do I just fudge in a constant? -- ...more >>

I have created a print button in my windows and web applications. I have two printers. One printer is located at server and another one is at client. The problem is every times I print at client it will spool to my server printer. I wanted to force print directly to my client's local printer. Cou...more >>

All, Please consider the following scenario: I have a listbox with a number of employee names as part of a larger form which contains data about those employees. If the user selects a new employee from the listbox, I would like to prompt them to save/delete/"cancel the operation" ...more >>

Handling MouseDown and MouseUp events disables of a ListView disables the Click and DoubleClick events. Why? Information on the order of events can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? url=/library/en- us/vbcon/html/vbconwindowsformsarchitecture.asp I need to hand...more >>

Hello to everybody.I have a problem.I have a property grid that display several properties of a object.I have a properties that store the image but I want to display the file name.So I have modified the editor of the image and the typeconverter of the image. So I have inherit from ImageConv...more >>