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TabControl - change the tab shapes and appearances?
Posted by Sholto Douglas at 6/21/2004 11:19:01 PM
I have tried without success (using C#) to change the standard rectangular tabs (for the TabPages) to look like the ones in Messenger - funky curved jobs. However whenever I try to overwrite an existing tab, either by superimposing a bitmap over it, or by manually drawing a new shape with the Graph...more >>


Comunication Between Threads C#
Posted by Fernando_André at 6/21/2004 10:14:49 PM
Sorry I forgot to specify the language I am using the language I'm using is C# . Hello, could anyone give me a help on the best way to transmit the results of a function in a thread to where she has started from ? Problem is if i'm not in error that the function launched by the thread has...more >>

Big picture question - Custom control concepts
Posted by B. Chernick at 6/21/2004 8:09:01 PM
Maybe it's just late but I'm having some trouble with custom control concepts. Do I understand this correctly? If you define a custom control, you are responsible for defining all events and properties, even if it inherits from an existing control that has the events you want? (ie - none of the...more >>

ImageList Errors - What a crap!
Posted by *Herr Lucifer at 6/21/2004 8:08:49 PM
Hi, Whenever I add images to imagelist and running my application I encounter this error: ------- An unhandled exception of type 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Then i...more >>

Preventing forms from showing up before their layout is completed
Posted by Ana Lindt at 6/21/2004 7:22:47 PM
Hi, When my forms show up (i.e. visible set to true), they show up immediatly while their components (labels etc...) are still being displayed. This gives the application a very unprofessional feeling. I would like to know if there's a command to fix that. I would like my components (forms, p...more >>

Data Conversion in a grid
Posted by pdavis68 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 6/21/2004 6:13:35 PM
I have a custom grid control and I'm stuck on an issue in the data binding. Using a method similar to the DataGridColumnStyles class, I have a column style class that allows you to map the bound datasource fields to the grid columns. I've added a Format property which will take a format stri...more >>

Disposed forms problem
Posted by jester at 6/21/2004 6:08:01 PM
I have a simple problem: In calling form: Private _theForm As MyFormClass() ' in a button click event... If theForm Is Nothing Then theForm = New MyFormClass() End If theForm.Show() The problem is if I close theFrom, then click the button of the calling form again, theForm Is Not...more >>

Convert Access application to .NET?
Posted by aualias at 6/21/2004 4:49:49 PM
I have a small-medium sized Access application that is poorly written. My choices are to either rewrite large parts of the Access app so that it functions reasonably well, or to convert the whole thing to .NET. Not being an Access developer, the .NET approach seems most natural, but I want to...more >>



All forms in a process
Posted by john smith at 6/21/2004 4:42:01 PM
Hi, Is there an easy way of finding out how many forms a process has created? Something like .AllForms property? Thank you, ...more >>

Productivity: WebForms vs. WinForms
Posted by Martin Rosén-Lidholm at 6/21/2004 1:43:25 PM
Although an impossible question to answer, I fell urged to raise it anyhow. Given a fairly complex ERP application scenario, what's your estimation for the X-ratio dev. time for WebForms app ----------------------------------- = X dev. time for WinForms app ? My ow...more >>

Need advice on making a MessageBox replacement
Posted by Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] at 6/21/2004 12:01:44 PM
I'm looking to make an enhanced MessageBox. I want to make it work very much like the regular MessageBox as far as developers are concerned, so I'd like to use the Show() method to display it. However, I want it displayed modally, which we normally achieve with ShowDialog(). Is there a way that ...more >>

Complex properties in custom controls
Posted by pdavis68 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 6/21/2004 11:52:46 AM
I have a control, let's call it MyControl. One of the properties of MyControl is MyControlStyle. MyControlStyle is a class with a number of properties. MyControl always has a valid instance of MyControlStyle (it is instantiated in the field declaration). In the property grid, I want to lay out...more >>

inherited form
Posted by e-mid at 6/21/2004 11:36:40 AM
i have a generic form with alot of controls on it, when i inherit a new form, i can not see the design of my new form on the visual studio and get an error on designtime. Error is: The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. The des...more >>

Problem with menus
Posted by Daniel Bello Urizarri at 6/21/2004 10:29:17 AM
Hello: I have a MainMenu and want to drag the MenuItems by pressing ALT + MouseDown on an Item. I can not find any event to do it because there is no way to stop the MenuItem to popup, even overriding and not calling the base methods.. and when the submenu is visible, the messages can not ...more >>

WinForms, Events, and Subscribers
Posted by dougperkes NO[at]SPAM msn.com at 6/21/2004 9:15:54 AM
Background -------------------------- I am in the process of creating a WinForms app with many forms. I have a set of forms that all subscribe to events on a custom object. When the forms are created I manually create a subscription in the form to one or more events in the custom object. (...more >>

datagrid
Posted by kk at 6/21/2004 6:57:03 AM
Hi, I have a dataset with a number of tables and a number of relations between the tables. I display the the dataset using the datagrid. When I expand a main table row, I see the name of a realtion, which I can click, to get a list of child rows. What I would like to do is to get not the nam...more >>

Application .exe AND/OR Static DLL disappears
Posted by Harshawardhan at 6/21/2004 4:26:01 AM
Here is the issue a. We have an exe that is referring to our custom STATIC DLL that is present in the SYSTEM 32 folder. b. Whenever there is SHUT DOWN (ungracefully due to POWER DOWN) and especially when TCP LISTENER WAS WORKING in the windows application (SERVER) following things happen: - ...more >>

Displaying different font size or font type on DatagridTextboxcolu
Posted by KPH at 6/21/2004 1:18:02 AM
Hi All, I'm developer in VB .NET family. I'm using DataGridTextboxColumn class so I need to display different font type, style and size on each cell. Is it posible, How? Thanks, KPH...more >>


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