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Q: ValueObject design pattern and DataGrid control
Posted by Guy Mahieu at 10/1/2004 8:44:18 PM
Hello all, I've been developing enterprise solutions in Java for a few years now, and I became quite curious about .NET. When the opportunity arose to start a new (relatively small) project, I chose to give c# a try. I am used to implementing a ValueObject pattern when it comes to retrievin...more >>

Painting a custom BG on TextBox
Posted by Phil Jones at 10/1/2004 8:25:10 PM
I'm inherting from the winform [TextBox] control. I'm wanting to override the OnPaintBackground paint a custom background, however these method are not being called. Is the TextBox doing something funny in it's implementation or am I missing something here? What would be the correct way t...more >>

F5 is not firing an event when the focus is in Datagrid
Posted by Techstudent at 10/1/2004 4:35:01 PM
I am trying to implement the keyboard functionality in windows forms. I am overriding the "ProcessDialogKey" method to capture the key strokes. I could able to capture all the key strokes when the focus is not in the datagrid. When the focus is in datagrid i am running into problem: when i pre...more >>

Using Datagrid Problem on Column align
Posted by Enver at 10/1/2004 4:00:13 PM
Hi! I am trying to use a datagrid control on a smart device application. I managed to see my data on it but i have to arrange the width of columns. How can i do that? I ve tried to use tablestyles but couldnt manage. I get System Null Reference Exception... ...more >>

Show window content while dragging for one window ??
Posted by Dnf at 10/1/2004 3:09:54 PM
Hallo !! How can I make window content visible while dragging without turning on this effect for all windows in system - I want this effect only for one window ????...more >>

Why is Button.Hide( ) so slow ???
Posted by Jeff at 10/1/2004 2:59:29 PM
Hi, When I call Hide( ) on five buttons, it takes 600 mSec to complete. The screen updates are very, very slow on a 2Ghz machine. Ouch! How can this be so slow? Code looks like: foreach (MyButton button in this.buttonList) { button.Hide( ); } Note: MyButton is derived from ...more >>

detecting control visibility before form shows
Posted by Bob at 10/1/2004 2:24:07 PM
Is it possible to tell if a control would be visible (or hidden) before making its parent form visible? Bob ...more >>

Is there a way to assign a ctrl key press shortcut to a form butto
Posted by Rico Alexander at 10/1/2004 2:15:06 PM
Thanks in advance...more >>



Get the number of visible characters in textbox
Posted by Nacho Nachev at 10/1/2004 1:46:17 PM
Hello, I have a readonly textbox that is limited in width. There are cases when the text in it exceeds this limit. In such cases I want to add "..." at the end (for example: "somelongt..."). The problem is that I don't know how many characters the control cancontain, because its seems that the...more >>

What is the best way for building Help files for WinForms?
Posted by Jason at 10/1/2004 1:31:17 PM
Is there some kind of publishing tool, such as RoboHelp for this? ...more >>

Adding Web page to Favorites using C# web control
Posted by Mark Shehan at 10/1/2004 12:43:54 PM
Hi I am writing an app that has a web browser in part of the Windows form in C#. I can navigate etc happily around the web with it but want to allow the users to add to their favorites. I know the favorites files have a .url extension so how do i save the web page in the folder? do i use th...more >>

combine multiple dlls with same namespace into a single dll
Posted by sudhakar at 10/1/2004 11:12:06 AM
Hi I have many dlls with same namespace (say X). I would like to combine them and make it a single dll , called X.dll. onw way to do this is by copying all the source code into a same project and compiling them. but its a maintenance and extensibility nightmare. Is there any other way to "mer...more >>

Referencing application though VB.NET
Posted by Russ Green at 10/1/2004 10:00:36 AM
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C4A79D.7F764D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am currently developing an application in VB.NET that uses the = Microstation's object model via COM Intero...more >>

createcaret with bitmap
Posted by Magic Gooddy at 10/1/2004 9:39:07 AM
SGkhDQpJIHRyeSB1c2luZyBBUEkgQ3JlYXRlQ2FyZXQgd2l0aCBiaXRtYXAgZnJvbSBQaWN0dXJl Qm94LiBCdXQgdGhpcyBmdW5jdGlvbiBkb24ndCB3b3JrLiBDYW4gYW55Ym9keSB0byBoZWxwIG1l Jg== ...more >>

Trigger mousedown in derived TextBox from code
Posted by Peter Erikson at 10/1/2004 9:21:01 AM
Hi, I am wondering if someone knows how to trigger a mousdown event in a TextBox from code as if someone clicked the textbox. I have tried to derive a TextBox and manualy call the RaiseMouseEvent metod whith a propper MouseEventArgs, but this doesnt work the way I want. The thing is that...more >>

Listview BackColor problem
Posted by Gary Paris at 10/1/2004 9:02:27 AM
I am trying to change the BackColor of an item but when I run this code, it doesn't change ListView1.Items.Item(currentRow).SubItems.Item(4).BackColor = Drawing.Color.SpringGreen What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Gary ...more >>

Font to support Chinese & Japanese characters?
Posted by MatsL at 10/1/2004 8:58:14 AM
Hi, We are building a windowsforms application to support Chinese & Japanese characters. Which font supports best Asien character sets. Thanks in advance // Mats ...more >>

Using a class to bidirectionally pass parameters between forms
Posted by AlBruAn at 10/1/2004 8:39:04 AM
I have a need to populate a collection class from one form and need to access and/or modify the values in it from a second form such that it is still available to the first form. Of course, using the New keyword as in "Class1 c = New Class1();" returns zeros and null values in the second form...more >>

Question about list view: how to find out the subItem pointed by the mouse?
Posted by Linda Chen at 10/1/2004 8:15:53 AM
I created a list view control which has 4 columns. I am planning to add a dynamic tooltip to the control. Everytime when the mouse hover over any subitem on column 4, the tooltip will display the content(text) of the subitem. I am adding my code to the MouseHover event. The problem is ...more >>

Failed to load resources from resource file.
Posted by Manso at 10/1/2004 5:51:03 AM
Hi, I've been struggling with this issue for some time and can't find any relevant information about it in any newsgroup, including the managed newsgroups. I have some information that might help someone else, though. I'm running a WinForm and get the following on startup: Failed to l...more >>

set height of datagrid match by font size
Posted by KPH at 10/1/2004 4:21:04 AM
Hi, I'm a VB .NET developer. I would like to how to set Height of DataGrid to fit the font height? Thanks, KPH...more >>

AcceptButton and Key-Events
Posted by lakmann NO[at]SPAM gmx.de at 10/1/2004 2:06:22 AM
Hello, I have a problem with Key-Events on Forms in connection with hitting the AcceptButton. Situation: - MdiChildForm 1 with DataGrid for selecting records. This DataGrid has AllowNavigation false, ReadOnly true and all the textBoxes of all the DataGridTextColumns are disabled, too. The Key...more >>


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