I'm a newbie to .NET and I need a little help displaying multiple column in a combo box control. It's got to be simpler than I'm making it. Any help. Thanks in advance...more >>

Dear, Do you have the code for designing a form in such way that it resizes and hides/displays controls on it depending on what the user clicks ? Please send reply soon to : bkishore@activebrains.co.uk Thanks! PB Kishore ...more >>

I am creating a data harvesting application with VB.NET that parses information from the HTML of web pages. Part of the information to be collected is in the form of images. The parsing of the text from the HTML was a chore but I am stumped trying to retrieve images based on the src insi...more >>

Working on developing a smart client application and I am trying to get past one nasty stumbling block. Hoping someone with previous smart client deployment experience can steer me in the right direction. My problem is as follows: I need to better understand how to have my launcher or stub app...more >>

I have an application in which the constructor for the main form pops up a user name/password dialog and validates the user. If the user hits the Cancel button in this dialog, I want to close the application without ever showing the main form. // this code is in the main form constructor i...more >>

Hi All, When TreeView control loses focus it's selected node higlighting changes it's colog, in my case to pale gray. This is the standard behaviour. But I would like to keep the higlighting unchanged. With a huge number of nodes in the tree it is unconvenient to look for the node selected w...more >>

Anybody have an idea on how to get a Service to STOP itself? I have a Service that needs to be able to be stopped, by itself! I have the "onStop" procedure which basically kills a thread. That works fine. But when the proc. is finished, the Service still shows as running. Anybody have any id...more >>

Hi, I'm having an unusual problem with the Print Setup Dialog box. I've got it synchronizing it's PageSettings with my PrintDocument, but unfortunately it's not using the same measurement-units when calculating margins. If I set all the margins on my PrintDocument to be 42 (where 42 100ths ...more >>

how does the system compute the color that is used in disabled controls (for example, TextBox)? how do I change that color (disabled controls are not quite readable)? (I do not want the control to be ReadOnly, I must have it disabled). Regards, Wiktor ...more >>

Hello, I've got a problem with making a form topmost in the application. I need that a form is shown on top of other forms of my application, but it should not be on top of other applications windows. I tried to use Form.TopMost property, but if I use it the form appears also on ...more >>

Hello everybody, I have a variable of type float that i want to display it in text box as a currency, does any one has an idea of how to do it? example: float a= 10.0; i want to display 10.00 thank you very much. ...more >>

vb.net app(windows app) I have 2 forms form1 and form2 Could someone give me some code on how I would make form2 and inherited form(kinda like the child form) Thanks ...more >>

I implemented a timer on a form but when it is enabled the key down events for the form will not fire. The application is using the .net compact framework. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...more >>

Would like to detect when a column header of a DataGrid is double-clicked. I'm really puzzled why there is not an obvious way to differentiate between column, row, cell clicks of a DataGrid. Please note that I have looked at the syncfusion.com/faq/winforms article which recommends using the H...more >>

I've an IIS webserver with HTTP compression enabled. I'm using it along with Jamie Cool's .NET Application Updater. The webserver sends the files to the client in compressed form, but the .NET Application Updater component doesn't uncompress them... it just writes the compressed stream to dis...more >>

have tried several different approaches to try and get the Visual Studio VB.NET to work with Inherited Forms. Every approach I have tried results in the display of an error message in the Designer View for the inherited form class. The following error is displayed: "An error occurred while ...more >>

Hello, How do you perform wordwrap in a listbox? I tried an example with the owner drawn listbox, but the text did not wrap. Could someone please help me? Thanks, Matt...more >>

My system doesn't have System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid.HitTestInfo I have ...DataGrid, just not .HitTestInfo This makes it very difficult to use DataGrid.HitTest() Am I missing something? Thanks, Bob...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to get the tag of all items selected in a listbox. I cannot seem to figure it out. I think I am getting stuck on the Dim and dimming it as the correct item. Any help would be great. Private Sub lstSelectAircraft_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVa...more >>

Hi Is it possible to have a drop down combo in one of the columns of the data grid? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I've created a new Windows form and then another form inhereted from the first one. When I try to open Inherited form in Designer View, Visual Studio .Net 2003 silently closes my solution. I even was not able to re-open solution (VS closes in the process of restoring previously open windows) un...more >>