Hi, I would like to display a tab control without tabs; I am trying to create a simple wizard type form. Any suggestions? ...more >>

I have a program which does a tight loop. When I invoke the winforms application, I enter the loop and the user interface does not appear on the screen. The user interface should only display some status counters on the form. How should I construct the application to draw the userinterface and...more >>

In my program (VB.NET2003) I use a textbox with multiline to show the user a realtime progress. Everytime (s)he changes something, it is logged into that textbox. Also it is possible to add text as remarks. But I just found out, a textbox can only hold 32 kbyte of characters (2048 bytes with...more >>

My understanding is that MouseButtons should return which mouse button has been pressed. This method exists in the Control class. However, None is always returned as the value when left or right button pressed, and I don't know why. I get the same results using any of the following syntax: Mouse...more >>

I am trying to create a new row with the values from textboxes. When I create the first row it works fine but when I click the button to create another row it only overwrites the existing row. this is what I am doing. Toward the bottom (about 8 uncommented lines from bottom) where DataRow first...more >>

Hi I have the following problem I'm trying to create a dynamic ContextMenu (used by a NotifyIcon), but when I repopulate the submenus the submenus won't show. the little arrow is there - indicating that there are submenues available - but they won't popup On the ContextMenu objects Popup eventh...more >>

I want to use a panel control which sits on top of another object which as a gradient background. when I set the background color of the panel to transparent, it just picks the darkest color from the background underneath it. How can I make the panel (or a user control to behave like a panel) t...more >>

Hi, I trying to find a Tab Page with close button on the Tag of the tab. the other option is to add a button to the tab-control and to close the selected tab. Is anyone know how to do it? Thanks, Erez ...more >>

I tried trapping on the TextChanged event and doing a ToUpper, however the cursor behavior doesn't work correctly when doing this (it goes to the start of the text). Is there an elegant way to do this? ...more >>

Hi all, Does anybody know why the system emits a beep when the Enter key is pressed inside a TextBox? I know how to stop the beep from happening but I was wondering what the purpose of the beep is in the first place. TIA -- Rob Windsor [MVP-VB] G6 Consulting Toronto, Canada ...more >>

Hi, I have a windows forms control hosted in a WebForm (.aspx) like this: <object id="myCtl" classid="UC1.dll#UC1.UC1" width="500" height="400" VIEWASTEXT></object> Now, the control inside calls some Web Service's method, which returns some data, like this: WS1.BWebService ws = new WS1.B...more >>

Hi, I read in an other thread that it is not necessary to do an installation of an application: Just copying everything in a directory is enough. Is this really true? Even if there are new dll's etc included? If this would be true this would be a great advantage to deployment on client-comp...more >>

Hi all, How do I make my windows form full screen? (C#) I actualy dont need to hide the window elements such as the border, title bar or even the maximize/minimize boxes but i do need to either place my window on top of the task bar or hide the latest. Thanks for any help. Regards, An...more >>

Hi, I read in an other thread that it is not necessary to do an installation of an application: Just copying everything in a directory is enough. Is this really true? Even if there are new dll's etc included? If this would be true this would be a great advantage to deployment on client-comp...more >>

Hello all.. I am writing a fairly simply C# app that consists of a main form and then a modal dialog. The glitch is that when I click my button on the main form, I want to minimize the main form before I show the modal dialog. I've tried the following code: //-------------------------------...more >>

Hi there, i need some advice in creating a re-usable DLL. What i want it to do is to create a DLL file which will hold a form that pops up when a function is called within it. What kind of project do i need to create (class library, windows application, etc..) in order to create this? th...more >>

Do WinForms have "global variables"? I know I could create an object in the presentation layer with static variables to achieve the same effect, or use app.config, but a co-worker asked me, and I didn't know the answer. Thanks, Jake...more >>

I've got a TabControl, and I need to add and remove tabs after initial screen load. (Customer wants this) How do I prevent the screen flicker when adding or removing the tabs? I've been messing around with SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout, but that doesn't seem to work. Thanks, Tom...more >>

I am attempting to have a parent child grid setup on one of my screens. I give the bigger grid a dataset and datamember of one table and the smaller grid the same dataset and datamember is the tablename of the previous datamember and added on to it . and then the name of the relationship to con...more >>

I am trying to use inheritance and get the following error An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of StandardInclude.CRPreview. The exception was "Unspecified error" What is the solution or how do I go about debugging this to find the answer Sorry for the cross pos ...more >>

Hi all Can the datagrid have a tree as the first column Exampl Column 1 Column2 3 ----------------------------------------- - Root 100 200 30 - First item 10 20 6 - Second item 5 10 2 - Sub item ...more >>

Am I doing something wrong here? I have a form with a TreeView whose Dock property is set to Fill so that it fills the client area of the form. This form also has a Toolbar and StatusBar. Now, the TreeView takes up all the space of the form, and it doesn't take in regard the space taken...more >>

At the moment I'm building a Windows Form (connected to an Access DB) which has bound controls. Using some examples I created navigation buttons, so far so good The problem is the following. I want to create an Add button so the user can add a new record to the database. I searched for several exa...more >>