I would like to find an item in my listview items collection and have it scroll to the 3rd visible item in the list and be marked as selected. What's the best way to do this? Thanks, RickN ...more >>

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Hi, I met a strange problem during playing listView control. If I create the control following the InitializeComponent(), then it displayed well at the beginning. If later on I want dynamically change-remove all existing column headers and all items, add new header and items, the listview con...more >>

I haveseveral textboxes which are being populated by clicking on a row in a datagrid. Dim CRI = DataGrid1.CurrentRowIndex.ToString txtRegCode.Text() = DataGrid1.Item(CRI, 0) txtFullname.Text() = DataGrid1.Item(CRI, 1) txtTitle.Text() = DataGri...more >>

Hi I would like to set a Windows.Form into a non responsive state, i.e. that it does not respond to user input of any kind, similar to the state a forms gets when another modal form is opened ontop with ShowDialog(). Form.Enabled = false is not what I'm looking for, it changes the look of the ...more >>

Hi, My application's initial form is a toolbar in the office style. This bar must be accessible always, while my application is running, of course. My problem appears when I open a modal window (ShowDialog), and not only the caller window is blocked, but all windows of my application, incl...more >>

Given a reference to a Form object, is there any way to ascertain whether there is a ToolTip component (or indeed any component) attached to it, and then to be able to manipulate that component ? ...more >>

Why does the application icon only shows some gray pattern, no matter what picture I draw in the app.ico? Thanks in advance, Henke! ...more >>

How do I enable sorting (Ascending / Descending) on a list view control in C# ...more >>

Can I add a ToolBox control to my forms app? or is it just reserved for the developer platform Other developer platforms (like Flash) call this an accordian control. Is there a way to trick the tab control into behaving like a toolbox TI Jerry Hopefully someone from MS will look at this threa...more >>

I want to make my application looking good with flash button images. I cannot find it in either office nor .net common graphic library. Does anybody know where to find it Hopefully I don't have to draw it myself. : Frank...more >>

Hi all, I have several forms in my wizard application. I need to know when the user closes the form by clicking on the X button, Like queryunload event in vb6, we can know what causing the form to close. thanks Noor ...more >>

Hi, I can't find a Form method that returns the current focused control in the form. Is there such a method? Thanks, Hagay. ...more >>

Hi All, I have added my own button in the titlebar of a form next to the close button. Everything works fine but when I resize the dialog, the button does not get redrawn at a correct location. I calculate the button position relative to the close button and draw a button using ControlPaint...more >>

I'm embarrassed to say I asked this before but the original answer scrolled off the list. I use configuration files with my VB.NET winforms apps. The application is configured to find them in the same folder as the executing assembly, and with the same name, but with '.config' at the end. Trou...more >>

Looking through the newgroups and google, I can't find any good information regarding catching exceptions in the PropertyGrid component. If the user sets an invalid value for a property in my object and my object throws an exception, the PropertyGrid component displays the error in its own dialog...more >>

Hi, In our system, we use a lot of referenced objects. We use binary serialization for saving the objects and deserialization for restoring. It worked, and we had no problem. In a new version of our system, a lot of changes were done: some classes were moved from assembly to assembly, others ...more >>

Does anybody have any success stories regarding embedding a PDF viewer control into a .NET Windows Forms application? I have tried talking to Adobe, and they seem to want everybody to pay up and join the ASN befor thy will tell you if they can help. I was even shown a (locked down) link to a d...more >>

When I use the Show() method to position a form, the runtime engine seems to decide where to put it, normally just below and right of the parent window. It does not seem to allow me to specify the co-ordinates in the Show(), and it does not follow the Location property of the secondary form itsel...more >>

MS VC# Version 7.1.3088 MS .NET Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322 I create a form and set its FormBorderStyle to FixedToolWindow. MSDN says that it's a : "A tool window border that is not resizable. A tool window does not appear in the taskbar or in the window that appears when the user presses ...more >>

Is it only the RichTextBox control that allows the font to be changed for different sections of text ? I would really like to be able to employ this in a tree control, where each node displays a normal black bit and a bold red bit. Can this be done? ...more >>

Dear Guys I developed a Win form application using C#. In my application, I used Login form to enter into application. In this login form I used three buttons( OK, Close and Cancel). The OK button call the web service and check the login credentails and then delivers the proper required data s...more >>

I'm trying to draw a bitmap on the screen, but I'd like to embed the bitmap into my assembly so I don't have to include the .BMP file with my executable Anyone know how to do this? And how do I retrieve it from my resources in memory so I can display it? I figured I could just add a bitmap resou...more >>

Hello, I was wondering, is it possible in a windows form datagrid to set up a mouseover / mouseout style event where when you hold the mouse over a row, it changes the background color of the entire row (i.e. highlights it), and then when you move the mouse away from that row, the background c...more >>

Is there a way to hide the icon in the title bar for a dialog. I have tried setting Form.Icon to null and the default icon still appears. ...more >>

I have resx files that contain the strings for all my localizable items. However, I open .net dialogs, like FolderBrowserDialog. How does the text in there become localized ??? -- THanks, Andrew...more >>

Hi, I use a MSIE control as an Active'X control in a .NET form for generating reports. I need catch "click" events in loaded HTML page and handle them in application. Everything works fine when page is first loaded into control, but when I move the form window, application doesn't handle events f...more >>

I have a datagrid, doubleclicking a row opens a form. I edit the data in the form and update the data in the underlying Dataset. When I close the edit form the grid displays the old data. When I close the grid form, then re-open it, the changed data is displayed How can I see the changed data wit...more >>

In order to be able to track some of the forms in my application, I am using a collection of forms (I am using an ArrayList per the Billy Hollis MSDN Article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet05132003.asp ) .. As I instantiate each new forms, I ...more >>

Hi to all I need to use some library with XP style controls like dotNetBar and Syncfucion. Can anyone make some recommendation about some other and to tell me why it is preferred thanks in advance...more >>

Is it possible to put a label (or more labels) to datagrid on any position and when datagrid is moved also label is moved with it....more >>

Hi, I'm developing an aplication using vb.net 2003, the aplication is MDI. My problem is that when I show child forms, I want them to appear in the "fill" space, but I can't do that. Can anyone help me with that. I've tried the maximaze child form propertie, but the controls a...more >>

Hi, I have a base form (FormBase), which defines things like the value of the WindowState. Other forms inherit from this base form to reflect the layout given in the base form. Is there a way to prohibit the inheriting form to change the value of the WindowState property? Appreciate any ...more >>

Hi, I am using ver1.1 of VS2003 and I am having a problem. When I run this piece of code I get the modal dialog but no treeview. I cant understand why. Is this a bug that anyone else has seen. if (this.folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { this.textBox1.Text = this.folder...more >>

I was wondering if anyone might have any idea at all what might cause the close button on a Windows Form to stop responding. When my form is first brough up, the close button works as it should, but after a while it stops repsonding when clicked on. The form can still be closed through code, ...more >>

Hi There is a main form. On some user request it creates another modeless form. By the default behavior that new form becomes active. I do not want that. So, I set focus back to main form, executing mainForm.Activate. But it makes forms to flicker a little - and it looks bad Are there a way aroun...more >>

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After some playing around with icons and ImageList, I'm not quite sure I understand what's happening. Either the resources are not really getting cleaned up like I thought they would or what I'm using to measure the resources isn't accurate, or there's something else going on. I'm using Task ...more >>

I am adding items to my combobox like this: Me.cboDeprecType.Items.Add("X") Me.cboDeprecType.Items.Add("Y") Me.cboDeprecType.Items.Add("Z") Me.cboDeprecType.SelectedIndex = 0 When I get to the selected index line, I get an index out of range error. Any ideas w...more >>

Hi, I have a Windows Forms app written in vb.NET. I have 2 controls and a form in the solution, one control (say control1) is used in another control (say control2) and control2 is placed on a form. I am aware of how to make control2 a container so that other controls can be placed on it in t...more >>

I can't find the articles on how to format the columns of a DataGrid to host a ComboBox, Calender, Checkbox.. Anyone remember Michael...more >>

Hi I am using VC++ 2003 for a WinForm application I have a TabControl with 5 pages. Depending on a user setting, I want to either show the first 2 or all 5 pages. How can I do this at runtime. I've tried the hide method on each page but I can still see the unwanted tabs with no controls, I've...more >>

Is there an easy way for an application to be able to cycle through a collection of all form instances that are currently being shown to the user? I would like to be able to do this for a couple of reason, such as making sure the same form isn't opened twice conncurrently, or making sure all for...more >>

Hello, I have an Windows MDI application. I would like to only allow one instance of a child form tpo be open at any particular time. Can somebody suggest a way to do this? ...more >>

I have a datagrid populated by a Dataset using an SQLAdapter. This datagrid is at the bottom of the form displaying all of the records for my SQL Query. Above the datagrid, I have several textboxes corresponding to the columns in the datagrid. What I would like to do is be able to click...more >>

Hi, i´ve a problem with a NET application. In develop server, the application runs without problems, but when I upload to our internet webserver, fails with this message when i enter the information to validate users. The error message is: Server Error in '/' Application. ------------------...more >>

I have a file field on Webform2.aspx and it works (as far as browsing and getting file and path). What do I do next to get the file to upload? Thanks, Trint ..Net programmer trintsmith@hotmail.com *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...more >>

Is there an easy way to detect if the user has used the application for a set amount of time? Thanks....more >>

Hi, I am finding for a way to draw a logo bitmap in the Main Menu of an application window (similar to Internet Explorer main window). I tried 2 ways to do that. Neither of them worked out. 1. I can create an additional menu item with ownerdraw style, but I can't make it align to the right ...more >>

I have 2 different forms bound to the same DataView. The first form has a datagrid displaying the data. The 2nd form is used to edit the data. When the data is changed in the edit form, I call Invalidate, Update, and Refresh on both the datagrid and the entire datagrid form. The data displayed by...more >>