In datagrid I have a invisible column(width=0) in column styles at the first position, the horizantal scroll bar doesn't respond when you click the arrow it sends a small increment with the value of 1. Anybody faced this before? Dincer...more >>

At random times in my C# WinForms app in .NET 1.1, I will get the following stack trace: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntP...more >>

Okay, I give up! Why the futz can't I add a main menu component to an inherited MDI container form?!? I can drag and drop the mainmenu object onto the design surface, but: 1) the MDI form does not update to show that its menu property should point to the new main menu object (which it always do...more >>

Hi all, I have a TreeView control which at times is updated (rebuilt) to reflect changes done by the user. However when this happens the currently selected node is of course deselected. How do a make a nice and professional solution that reselects the same node after update? (if it still exist...more >>

I have a context menu program and am wanting to send information from it to a windows application. The Windows app has the delegate method defined to catch the event The Context Menu App is wired to send the event with the exception of it needs some place to send it to. The OnAddJobEven...more >>

I have a windows application that returns 10s of thousands of rows to a DataGrid (for all intents and purposes you can assume that it's a DataGrid, I'm actually using the Infragistics UltraWinGrid though). Due to the ever growing amount of data I want to implement some sort of record paging....more >>

I have a datagrid with a boolean column – checkboxes. When the user checks the checkboxes, the datagrid redraws with a big Red X in the middle. This is happening only on a single computer (user), and I have tried to reproduce the problem many times on my computer without success. Any idea?...more >>

Hi all. I have a user control that contains a picturebox within a panel with the panel set to autoscroll the picturebox. One thing that I have noticed with the default functionality is when you click and drag the scroll box (thumb track) the picturebox does not scroll until you release it. Is the...more >>

Hello, Surely I'm missing something obvious. How do you change a button's text color without causing a change to the button's border? The following line of code causes the button to be drawn with a yellow border: btnTest.ForeColor = Color.Yellow; Thanks, Jeff ...more >>

I want to enumerate the cells in my datagrid and specify different background colours for each cell depending on its contents. Is this possible? There are no properties for DataGrid.Item(Index, Index)... ...more >>

Hi all, Can a user control be written in such a way that it can behave differently depending on whether it is being authored, being used on a form in VS2003 and being used at runtime? If so, how does it tell the difference between these environments? I am developing a user control based ...more >>

I have a form. It has a datagrid which is disabled. It has a button which enables the datagrid. It has a dataadapter and a connection object and they are configured to get some data. It has a dataset with the code necessary to fill it using the dataadapter and to bind the first table it to t...more >>

I want the horizontal scrollbar location to be altered during runtime. I have read msdn, and the scroolbar property of the datagrid is readonly, so there seems to be no apparent way to simply set it. My next guess was to override the HorizScrollbar property and play wiht the datagrid cont...more >>

Hi all, basically i have a WMI scanner which i install as a windows service. using .NET remoting the service registers an object which records the status of the scanner (ie how many assets its' scanned so far etc..) I then have a windows application which reads the status object to display t...more >>