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.CHM help file
Posted by Ricardo at 4/16/2004 5:16:04 PM
have a compiled HTML file (.chm) ready to attach to a windows form application I now want to open a window containing that html file What type of window do i open is there any specialized help windows in .net Thanks Rick ...more >>


Close main form on error...
Posted by Andrew Parks at 4/16/2004 4:36:04 PM
I have a problem: I created a custom license provider for a custom control. I check the validity of the license and if the check fails I display a form with the information (license expired, buy now... etc, the whole thing). Then, if the user presses Close I would like to close the currently running...more >>

Double Buffering and Initial Paint
Posted by msnews.microsoft.com at 4/16/2004 3:32:50 PM
when I turn on double buffering ... I get the undesirable side effect that the control which is being double buffered momentarily has the same background as whatever the window popped up on top of. So for example, if the background is the desktop, the background of the control will momentarily i...more >>

Encode XML string
Posted by Mark at 4/16/2004 12:01:05 PM
I have an xml string that has some chars not valid for XML transformation. How can I encode all these chars at once Thanks...more >>

printing in the Winforms Designer of VS.NET
Posted by Wallace B. McClure (MVP) at 4/16/2004 11:20:26 AM
Ok, is there any possible way to print a winforms form from within the VS.NET designer? It doesn't work in Vs.NET 2003 and it doesn't work in VS.NET 2005. It worked back in VB6 and I want the feature back. BTW, I am not talking about printing in a winforms application, I want to print from th...more >>

How do I retrieve the Control Type Name?
Posted by Mike at 4/16/2004 11:13:46 AM
I am writing an application (in C++) to interrogate the controls on any currently running .NET application. Most of the information I need I can retrieve from the window and class information available through the HWNDs retrieved using the EnumChildWindows() API. My problem occurs with control...more >>

List of Instanced Objects?
Posted by localhost at 4/16/2004 9:22:50 AM
I have a WinForms app that loads several usercontrols dynamically through Reflection at Form_Load time. Later in the application, I need to get a list of running and instanced objects by name, attach to a running instance, and then execute a method on that child object. How can I do that?...more >>

Bar in the datagrid
Posted by Nelsonfa at 4/16/2004 4:16:03 AM
Hi I would like to know how can i display the selection bar like the list control. My selection bar is by cell and i don't want it Thanks...more >>



Form Activate does not fire
Posted by Alok at 4/16/2004 2:16:04 AM
If a form is placed as a control inside another form using Form.Controls.Add(child_form) activate event for the child form is not fired. Any work around for this ??...more >>

UserControl issue - creating a property which is a collection of controls
Posted by Siobhan at 4/16/2004 2:16:03 AM
H I have created a custom text box control and custom label control (Both inherited controls from the standard .Net controls I would like to be able to relate several of the label controls to a single text box control, so that I can have code which automatically clears the labels when I clear the...more >>

Synchronizing SINGLE-threaded Windows apps?
Posted by Christoph Nahr at 4/16/2004 12:07:07 AM
Multi-threaded applications are well-supported by the .NET Framework. Surprisingly, it's much harder to handle single-threaded applications! I'm talking about the really nasty Windows habit of checking the message queue of the GUI thread at the most inopportune moments, i.e. whenever some seem...more >>


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