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TabControl - Excel Look-and-feel
Posted by Arno van Rooyen at 2/4/2004 11:28:06 PM
Hi all I am playing with Windows Forms and would like to know *if* there is a way to take the standard System.Windows.Forms.TabControl and give it the same look-and-feel of the Tab Controls in Excel (which enables you to navigate to different spreadsheets) Help will highly appreciated ...more >>


Wrapping Text in Column of Windows DataGrid Control
Posted by Ganesh Nayak at 2/4/2004 10:51:05 PM
Hi, I have a Windows Datagrid Control on a windows form. I have created the columns for the Datagrid dynamically. I am binding the datagrid columns to a Dataset. One of the columns in the Dataset contains a lot of text. My requirement is that the text should be displayed on the Datagrid column [the...more >>

running ".Net WindowForms application"
Posted by jenicek NO[at]SPAM poh.cz at 2/4/2004 10:29:28 PM
Hello, How can I run ".Net WindowForms application" from web request ? Thank you peter...more >>

Embedding form in a panel to allow form in non-child window area
Posted by Yasutaka Ito at 2/4/2004 9:58:07 PM
Hi, I have an MDI application, in which I want to embed one form (System.Windows.Forms.Form) into a specified area of my MDI application. This is, wihtout affecting the capability of other child forms opening. Currently, I'm achieving this by... 1) place a panel on an mdi container form, se...more >>

Animation control?
Posted by Jay Ayliff at 2/4/2004 8:30:53 PM
Hello, Is there a .NET equivalent of the VB6 Animation control that can play simple AVIs, GIFs, etc? I Regards Jay Ayliff Stalis Ltd ...more >>

Getting Xml into datagrid...
Posted by Dave Brown at 2/4/2004 5:34:16 PM
Hi all, i'm trying to setup a datagrid from a set of xml data I load and am having difficulties deciding A. if its possible to do what i want to do and B. how to attempt it. this is an example of the XML, <items> - <item> <Itemid>0001000002</Itemid> <Quantity>0</Quantity> ...more >>

buttons in datagrid
Posted by Dave Brown at 2/4/2004 5:08:50 PM
Is it possible to add buttons to cells in a windows forms datagrid and have their caption reflect the bound data ? rgds, ...more >>

Button Click Event Handling
Posted by Mark at 2/4/2004 4:36:35 PM
Hi, I would like to have a custom event handler attached to th click event of a button: btnTmp.Click += new CustomeEventHandler(EventHandler); I have tried searching for an example of this, but have not had any luck - can anyone help? Mark ...more >>



DataGrid Column "AutoGrow" Property
Posted by Larry at 2/4/2004 3:36:07 PM
Env: C#, WinForms Is there a datagrid column property that allow for a column to grow in height (just for that row) automatically if the retrieved text exceeds the width of the column? Larry...more >>

Hide Datagrid column when autogenerateColumns = "True"
Posted by Brian at 2/4/2004 1:56:06 PM
How can you hide a column in a datagrid when you have autogenerateColumns = "true"? In VB.Net useing a Windows Form There are no Grid TableStyles or ColumnsStyles ...more >>

Splitter Usage
Posted by Bruce Schechter at 2/4/2004 12:27:12 PM
I am creating a Windows Form which will hold two primary controls: a listview docked on the left and a datagrid docked on the right. I'm putting a "spliiter" between them, and I had hoped to design it such that the splitter was tied to both (listview and datagrid). The behavior I desire: wh...more >>

Access to Components at Runtime (2) - "Site" object
Posted by JezB at 2/4/2004 12:10:57 PM
I'm trying to get at the Components collection given only a reference to a Form object (things like tooltips, etc, I dont mean the Controls collection). It has been suggested that I read the Site object and get at the Container.Components thru that. However, when I evaluate myForm.Site at runtim...more >>

how to draw a string in the center of a control?
Posted by Bonna at 2/4/2004 11:57:02 AM
Hi, Some controls I use receive databasedata like a TreeView, ListView, Grid... I'd like to display a cool centered "No data available." string when no data is retrieved. Is there a way to draw a text in the center of these controls? I've got it thusfar: - I'm using the top and left prop...more >>

How to obtain the database field widths out of a datatable?
Posted by Tony Mouton at 2/4/2004 11:48:55 AM
Hello, Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get the width of the underlying database fields in a datatable (dataset)? If so... how is it done? Tony Mouton ...more >>

Tab Control with Icons
Posted by D King at 2/4/2004 10:08:10 AM
Hi. I have a Tab control on my form. I used an image list for icons for my tabs. Then I decide I wanted to make the tabs look a little better so I set the DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed, wrote some code to the TabControls DrawItem event and now I have the selected tab with a nice gradient blue backco...more >>

Code behind Control.Invoke
Posted by JPRoot at 2/4/2004 10:06:07 AM
Hi all Does anybody knows the code behind System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke Is it using Win32 SendMessage with some WM_USER + x message Any hints would help I have a mixed environment (MFC, Win32 and .NET) and need to resolve some issue with windows message queue Thank JPRoot...more >>

Displaying a progress bar
Posted by Ben dotNet at 2/4/2004 9:41:47 AM
I want to have a form that, when it opens, a lengthy processed is started. I'll show the progress of it by a progress bar on the form. But what is happening is: -The form begins to load -then the process is started -only after the process is completed does the form completely show itself. T...more >>

embedded winforms in IE wont cache
Posted by bryan at 2/4/2004 9:16:08 AM
I have a problem. The issue is that my embedded winforms in IE will not cache no matter how hard i try. They seem to goto the download assembly cache but they dont load from there like the framework documentation has stated. I have tried versioning, strong naming, and everything else i can think of....more >>

Finding Server!
Posted by Nuno at 2/4/2004 8:26:06 AM
Theres any function to find the available server or server's Thanks.. ...more >>

Form does not have focus
Posted by jeremy NO[at]SPAM NOSPAMwardlawclaims.com at 2/4/2004 7:21:05 AM
I have an application where a hidden form displays a system tray icon. The hidden form calls a second form. When the second form is displayed on screen it does not have focus and I am not able to use the Activated event to automatically set focus to the first control on the form as I’d like. An...more >>


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