I enter data into several textbox's. and try to save it to a SQL table using the following code: Before this code is executed I do a 'sqlDataAdapter->Clear', and then enter the new data. private: System::Void btnOSave_Click(System::Object * sender, System::EventArgs * e) { void UpdateD...more >>

Is there any way to determine the CAPS LOCK state in VB. NET, without calling any VB6-style Windows API? ...more >>

Hi I have this in a method which is called when my form is created public CreateDevice() { // Set the initial size of our form this.Top = 0; this.Left = 0; this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(500,800); //this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(400,300); // And it's caption this....more >>

I have a vb.net 1.1 winforms app and have several radio buttons in a panel control. I want to be able to check several of the buttons at the same time, but their behavior is that when I check one the other button becomes unchecked so its not possible to have 2 checked at the same time. Is th...more >>

Sorry about the last post -- I hit Enter by accident... I have the following code ('this' is a non-MDI Form): Form form1 = new Form(); form1.Owner = this; form1.Show() Form form2 = new Form(); form2.Owner = this; form2.Show(); The behavior is that form1 and form2 are sort of child fo...more >>

In our app (VB) client forms are displayed based on what is on the current client form and the button pressed. A user never selects a client form. You can think of this process as filling out a very long form with many branches (e.g., IRS form 1040). Once a client form is loaded it is never un...more >>

Is it possible to sort datagrid from code and how? Tnx in advance ...more >>

Hi, I registered event handler to catch the AfterCheck event... myTreeView.AfterCheck += new TreeViewEventHandler(myTreeView_....); It works fine, however, if I set the checkbox as true or false programatically(I mean..in the code, somethinglike node.Checked = true...), aftercheck event...more >>

Hi, How to to create an object (like Cursor) from a .Cur file embedded in a dll of C# classes? Thanks in advance, Pascal ...more >>

I have a C# application with one and only one icon in the project. The icon is linked as the application icon in Project Properties and is also linked with each windows form. The icon is displayed properly on the desktop, in the task bar, and on the form itself. However, when you task switc...more >>

Hi This question is probably one of the basic things but being a novice programmer in c# and .NET environment, I couldn't get to find the answer. I have a menu item in one form and need to create the context menu with tht menu item in another form. The first form becomes the parent form for th...more >>

How can I develop a windows application that uses controls in Office 2003, especially Outlook. Jay ...more >>

I would like to know if there are any examples, tutorial on how to completely change an application's look and feel. By that I mean the colors, the way menus are drawn, the way tool bar items are spaced in a tool bar, the way tab identifiers are shaped, etc., etc. There are a few interesting ...more >>

Hi all, here is what I want to do: I've got a ListView populated from a database. The problem is that there is two much items generated... So I wanted to only get additionnal data (all the colums) for the painted items. To do so I created my own ListView class derivated from the original on...more >>

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Hi! How do I determine the windows standard vertical scrollbar width in pixels (set from the display properties) from c# code? Peeter. ...more >>

i have a datagrid that is getting it's dataset from a mysql database. is there a way to change the header label and a way to set each columns width before it is displayed? there are 4 columns being displayed and i need to be able to rename 2 of the columns and set the width of them too. t...more >>

I have a Button on a WinForm that has a text property = "&Submit". I noticed that whenever I pressed the "S" key only (without pressing the "Alt" key) the Button's click event would fire. I thought that it was only supposed to fire if the combo "Alt+S" was pressed. My problem is that I hav...more >>

When I run the sample code below, I expect the background image of the borderless winform to change to that of the new Bitmap image (and for the form to resize to fit the bitmap). The latter works fine but instead of the new image replacing the old background image, they are being overlayed o...more >>

I have a class that will be edited via the CollectionEditor/CollectionForm UI. To that extent I have defined the various properties I want editable for my class. However, three of the properties are of type string but I would like them edited by selection from a dropdown list whose contents ...more >>

This sounds very simple, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. When I display a WinForms datagrid, I want the value in the first row and column to appear in reverse image. I have tried setting the CurrentCell, focusing the grid, getting the textbox and tried to select the text, etc. Each ...more >>

Hi .. How to make form invisible without hiding control on the form. Thanx.. ...more >>

Hello, I need to host .NET Windows forms UserControl in Internet Explorer. I do it by including <OBJECT> tag in my aspx page: <OBJECT id="mycontrol1" classid="MyControl.dll#MyControlNamespace.MyControl" width=800 height=300 style="font-size:12;" VIEWASTEXT> </OBJECT> everything works fin...more >>

hello , I have created a Control array for a ComboBox to populate on a tabPage . My concern is that I 'm using a List to populate the Combo Box like this .. ComboArray[i].Items.Add(List[i)]; ComboArray[i].DataSource = List; The Combo Box gets populated with all the values in the List ...more >>

Hi All, I need to draw on Non client area for that i need to handle WM_NCPAINT event. Please help me and send demo code if possible. thanx Amar ...more >>

I have a user control that inherits from another user control. The base user control works fine in the designer, I can see all of the controls, etc... However when I open the derived control in the designer, all I see is a grey square with no controls. I have tried attaching to the IDE with ...more >>

Hi All - Happy Holidays I'm struggling to understand how to make resource files work in a multi-lingual vb.net windows app - and feel real stupid. I've read MCSD books and Visual Studio Help articles, but just don't get it. Duh. The ResourceManager class and resource files within a proj...more >>

Hi, I just wonder if anyone can help me with this: I need to be able to resize a form by setting the size of its client area. Say, in Delphi i would do so: Form1.ClientHeight = 10; Form1.ClientWidth = 20; And the form will adjust its size so that client area will be as set. In .NET ...more >>

I posted a question on "MDI Client Problem" on 12/22/04 and I'm still waiting for a response. -- tsiGeorge...more >>

I've gotten this question a couple of times in interviews and I don't know what they are looking for: How do you update a control's property, such as a textbox.text property, from a thread, in .NET? It seems to me you just update it normally. What are the interviewers looking for here? T...more >>

Hi .. I wanted to repace form's default title bar with new One. So Can I draw Image on title bar. Pleae help Amar ...more >>

My application has regular document windows and floating windows above them. I want to iterate through all windows in z-order. I would have thought this capability would be built-in to the .net framework, but everything I can find on the archives says no - you need to use GetWindow(), thus: ...more >>

I have a windows form application (C#) that launches multiple external batch files to do various installation tasks. I want to show some status on the win form, say simply update the text on a Lable control, "task 1 starting...", "Task 1 completed.", etc. However, the text for the label is...more >>

my program draws a form and when you click the start button another form is drawn with a progress bar as it runs through a function. my issue is that when you click on another progrem then try to go back to the progress bar form it doesn't redraw itself. i tried using a: if(num%100==0) ...more >>

Where do people put application data that is not user specific? For example, what if I have a xml file containing r/w data for a forms application, and the application may be used by users with limited rights. I cannot do any user management, and there is no reason to expose the user to the...more >>

Our company develops and markets a client/server application which is written in VB6 as a rich Win32 Client/Server application. For a variety of technological reasons we are looking to migrate toward the .NET environment. However, a number of business factors make it impractical to accomplish ...more >>

Hello all, I am writing an application in C#, VB.NET which basicaly has a form with a few pictureBoxes on it and a TabControl with 3 tab pages - in each one a treeView and a ListView. In addition it loads a few other dll's as a reference which should not be memory consuming since each have a...more >>

HI In Access the date is like 21/12/2004 08:57:17 a.m. I need to update the record only if it was not created more than five minutes ago cmd = "UPDATE Sales SET Status = 'A' WHERE Mid(SalesDate,13,20) > #" & Mid(Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAdd(DateInterval.Minute, -5, DateTime.Par...more >>

Hi Gurus. I'm doing my first steps in the Winforms realm (I dealt mainly with ASP.NET until now), and I've stumbled across issue I really cannot solve and that seems extremely stupid to even ask about, so please forgive me... I need to execute some logic in the Load event of the control. Pr...more >>

Hi, I'm using UIPAB v 2.0 in a Windows application. Following the UIP documentation I'm trying to "nest" two tasks. As I need to pass data between those two tasks, I;m using the OnStartTask method. This is what the documentation say about nesting tasks, using that method: "When the Add New S...more >>

hello how can i set up the listview to high-light one line that is selected by mouse.now only the first column can be selectable. thank you. ...more >>

Hi All, I want to show animated GIF on form. I used ImageAnimator class to Animate and StopAnimate method to stop the animation. But my client says that if he stops the animation in between then it should not stop at that postion, but it should complete its remaining rotation and then stop. ...more >>

Hi I seem to have a lot of problems with inherited forms in VS2003. Problem 1: Form1 has a txtEdit1. Form2 inheriteds from form1. But for some reason I would like to be able to access form1.txtEdit. When I put his modifier to protected instead of the default private. The control jus...more >>

I need to pass several values from a .NET Windows app into an EXISTING, OPEN IE form. I found the following code snipped for VB6 elsewhere on the forums--it's close: Dim IE As Object Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") IE.Visible = True IE.navigate "http://www.kbb.com"...more >>

Hi.. I wanted to replace form's title bar with new one which will look like xp form title bar -Thanx ...more >>

The scroll box of an independent scrollbar is affected by the difference between Maximum and Minimum like so (approximately): percentage of scrollbar occupied by scrollbox = 1000 / (Maximum - Minimum). Does anyone have the exact rules that apply here, i.e. how is the width of the scrollbox...more >>

I have a table called tblOrg in a SQL Server 2000 database. It has PK = Org_ID and a field called ParentOrg_ID so an Organization can have 0, 1 or many children but only one parent. I have a recursive function that builds a tree view of this and populates a tree control with Org_ID as the ...more >>

Hi I have made a custom TabControl and a Custom TabPage to go with it. The custom TabControl has a collection of custom Tabpages, which shows in the property editor. What I need to do now, is to hide the TabPages property inherited from TabControl. I whant the developer to only use my ...more >>

This is very queer=2E I am using a CheckedListBox in VB=2ENET=2E When I run the application= on my development machine, it works just fine=2E But when it is= run in the client's machine, sometimes (seemingly randomly) the= for the top 2 or 3 items of the checkedlistbox, the checkboxes= o...more >>

(Type your message here) Hi, I want to make user control transparent. I have made it tarnsparent using maketransparent method but while moving that control its taking background of parent control which i dont want so how can i make this?? Please help me ASAP. my email id is vrushalid@gmail.c...more >>