Hi, I have a Windows App which uses a custom form to display messages. This form is based on the singleton pattern so that the user does not need to explicitly create an object of this form. After the Showdialog() method on this form, do i need to dispose this form explicitly. i distinctly re...more >>

Hi all, I know I must be missing something very simple here, but this little problem is baffling me. If you have a combobox called cmbMyCombo and add a bunch of strings to it, say, "Apple", "Pear" and "Orange", and then call the cmbMyCombo.SelectedIndex it will tell you the index of the ite...more >>

Hi all, I am now using a master form to derived my windows forms from. The problem is - I dont know how! I have a master form with a menu control across the top, I have then 3 others forms that I want to inherit the master form, I have added inherit master form etc at the top - in the des...more >>

Hi, I need to do osme handlings with an Internet Explorer Window. The problem is: when the user has one ore more Internet Explorers opened, this is (sometimes) indicated in the Task Manager as one process and not 2 or more. When trying to get all the IE-windowd with the "For Each p In Process...more >>

Hi, My application has some interaction with an other application. I sometimes need to put the other application to the front. The problem is that I'm not able to get a nice solution to work in every case. I tryed two ways: one way it disn't maximazi the Windowd when it was Minimized, in the o...more >>

I am dropping the Media Player control onto a WinForm and things work fine. Is there a way to hide the Media Player controls? Thanks, Steve ...more >>

I am populating a DataSet using SqlAdapter and then displaying it in a DataGrid. Some of the values in the DataSet are DateTime. It seems by default they are displaying as dd/mm/yyyy and I want to also display the time. I have played around with the DataGridTableStyle and the DataGridTextBoxColu...more >>

Hello Group, I need to have access keys to access the TabPage. (e.g) TabControl1 will have TabPage1, TabPage2, TabPage3. I want to display the tab pages with the access keys under-lined as follows TabPage1 TabPage&1 - Where 1 is the access key TabPage2 TabPage&2 - Where 2 is the ...more >>

Hi, I want to give my application a Visual Studio .NET-liek interface: With Forms that can appear or disappear at the site like the Toolbox. With docked Forms. With Forms that are selectable with Tabs. I found some information abotu these stuff on the internet, but you always have to buy fo...more >>

I am writing a windows application that uses a web service however the location of the web service is not always the same. It seems when I create a windows application to use the web service, the location of the service is hard-coded into the application. Is this true or can I change the location...more >>

I want to implement checkboxes in all child in a treeview EXCEPT all top most root nodes. TreeView control's CheckBoxes property implement this functionality to all nodes. So is there some way to implement CheckBox to some specific node? Thanks ...more >>

I have a custom control called, lets say, SportBillyComboBox, which inherits from ComboBox. When I add my control from the toolbox, I get an error (System.NullReferenceException : Object not set to an instance of an object) on my form replacing the control, but my newly added SportBillyComboBox...more >>

Hello how can i change the active tab-page in a tab control by code? tabpage4.show() works but the tab itself doesn't change, only form changes. i mean activation the same as by mouse click. ...more >>