Does anyone know how to make the vertical scrollbar visible in a panel without relying on the AutoScroll property? Good examples of what I'm looking for is when you open up a blank page in internet explorer, the vertical scrollbar is already visible. Any ideas? ...more >>

I have a winforms datagrid that has several columns. Three of the columns are displaying combo boxes. When the user selects a value in the 1st combo, I would like to have the data displaying in the other combos filter based upon the selected value. Does anyone have suggestions for how to ...more >>

I am experiencing a weird error using Visual Inheritence when setting property values in a base form. I have 3 forms inheriting from each other in a chain: Form1 -> Form2 -> Form3 Form1 looks like this: public class Form1 : Form { private Control ctrl; public Control theControl...more >>

I have a windows form app that is bound to a dataview. If I add a combobox (with the default style of dropdown) and bind its text property to a field then everything is fine. If I now change the DropDownStyle to DropDownList then the binding no longer works (data from the back end SQL doesn't g...more >>

Hi, I want some code to run when the user changes the check state of a checkbox on a Windows form. Simple enough. But I don't want that code to run when the user navigates to record number 2 (given that the value of the checkbox is different for records 1 and 2). I've tried both CheckStat...more >>

I was wondering if anybody could lead me to some documentation or best practices, architecture documentation etc.. regarding deploying a VB.NET desktop application onto a centralized server which is then accessed by terminal services clients. The idea is to allow the app to run on the server, ...more >>

Hi, I have a fixed width ownerdraw listbox, in which some of the items get truncated. What I'd like to know is if anyone has any tip and/or tutorial on how to implement something like a tooltip for the items that get truncated, so in it I can show the full text. thanks in advance ...more >>

Bug: There's a small bug regarding strings in VB.NET 2003. If you append char's to a string but the first char appended is nothing then the string value remains nothing regardless of how many chars are appended thereafter or their values. This also applies if the first value in a StringB...more >>

I have a routine that takes a DataTable and exports it to Excel. Works fine and dandy on my machine, which has the Office 11 Beta on it. But it of course doesn't work on anybody else's machine because the have Office 2000 on there machine. How can I make this export function work with O...more >>

Does anyone know how to make the vertical scrollbar visible in a panel without relying on the AutoScroll property? Good examples of what I'm looking for is when you open up a blank page in internet explorer, the vertical scrollbar is already visible. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I have 2 questions. 1. Is it possible to modify the config file at run time? 2. Force the ----> ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["BlahKey"] <--- to read from the latest modified config file whenever it hits this line? Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Regards HyperX....more >>

Problem description: In my windows forms application, i have lots of user controls and one windows form. According to the selection from menu, the reletad user control is added to the windows forms control collection. If i clear the control collection of the windows form, before adding the user ...more >>

Hi, the subject says it all, A form has a textbox (which doesnt allow 0 length strings) and has Validation set to true. But I obviously dont want this event to return false if Im closing the form or tabbing off the form. Ive seen solutions that check for the mouse click vs. the client...more >>

Back in the days of VB6, I was able to use the web browser control to easily display browser content within my Windows forms. I am now trying to do this with a C# Windows Forms application and am suprised at the apparent lack of information on this subject. Does anyone out there have some ...more >>

Hello, I'm not able to figure out why WinForm doesn't come with an option like TextBox.AllowOverwrite = true. The user wants to be able to overwrite the text (as in INSERT mode) in the text box. How do I accomplish this? Regards. HyperX....more >>

Hello, I need to print the whole panel that contains images, text boxes, etc. I also need to resize it somehow to fit a regular 8:11 sheet. This is a windows VB.NET application. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Can someone point me to a sample of a winform app using an AVI animation in C# or VB.NET. I want to show show an animation while my app is processing ...Similar the the spinning globe in IE. Thanks Greg ...more >>