Hi, I'm developing a messenger-style application, and everytime a new chatter comes up, a new window should be opened. Of course, this window should not get the focus, so I tried ShowWindow API with the SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE flag. Now the problem is that the new window, although not getting focus...more >>

Hi All, I'm facing difficulty in coding. I have a win App that has a web browser control that host a website. Code is in VB.Net. The website have many web pages. I want to execute win App methods from script in web pages. I got some info but its in VC++. Its like calling window.external.your...more >>

Im trying to figure out how to change the image of a toolbar button as the user hovers over the button - similar to word/excel etc etc. Is there a way of determining which button is being hovered over? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just do something. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...more >>

How can I select the full row in a datagrid? I tried the code below (from the Syncfusion windows forms faq), so that all the cells of a row are selected when I click on a single cell, BUT this has the effect of not allowing multiple rows selection (ctrl-click or shift-click). How can I fix this?...more >>

Hi I have a long running task and while it is being performed I wish to show a modal dialog that displays the progress of my task.. what I am doing is this 'start task frmWait.ShowDialog(Me) 'perform task and update the dialog "frmWait" take frmwait down. however exec...more >>

Hi I want to remove the text NewDataset appearing on my datagrid, if i know where is it set, i found it is neither the text /caption property, then where it is? thanks ushas ...more >>

Hi How do ii have datagrid display data directly and prevent the data appearing on datagrid only after the click of the + sign and then the table name. thanks ushas ...more >>

Hi. I basically have an MDI application with many 'child' forms, and am having difficulties with form WindowStates. Most child forms in my app should run in FormWindowState.Normal (or .Minimized) only, and I have disabled the Maximize buttons for them. Most of the time, this works fine, but I am hav...more >>

I have tried to drag an e-mail from the outllok 2003 to my windows application. So far all i could do was drag some attatchments. Here is my code... am i doing something wrong or this just does not work ? João Melo ################################################################# Dim t...more >>

Hello, i'm developping a windows.forms app, using C#. form a form (Form1), i want to call a second form (form2) I want to use form2 as a generic form to set colors, fonts, .... for many types of labels included in form1. So the question is: how can i call Form2 with initial value (get ...more >>

Hi, I have a windows forms application that starts a background thread when it loads. The background thread is intended to load some data from a database, this data is required later on in the app (say on some menu option being chosen). Now, if this menu option is chosen I check the state of t...more >>

in .NET 1.1 Graphics.DrawIcon(Icon, int, int) doesn't clip the icon according to the graphic object's current clip region -- Lloyd Dupont, Software Architect Get Your Data Mobile http://www.ihookdb.com ...more >>

I am trying to create a form that has a notch in the Upper Left corner. Currently we use the Transparent propertry to see other forms behind the current one. That is causing some problems when the user is interacting with it. So we want to notch a corner out or only make that corner transparent? ...more >>

Say you have a tabed dialog window like the the MS DNS Properties Window. You can go add/change/delete a bunch of stuff on each tab and hit cancel and nothing on the server is changed (easy part). However, if you hit Apply or OK, you then need to figure out what all was changed and do the delet...more >>

Is this possible? Any ideas on source code available?...more >>

I am trying to create a remoting host where I have a datatable and the client simply adds rows to the datatable and has the possibility to fetch the whole datatable. Every request they make always re-initializes my library so my datatable becomes a blank one with every new request.What I was loo...more >>

Hello, I have seen a lot of people with a problem simialr to mine but I can't seem to find a solution to my problem. I have an MDI Child form with a user control and a toolbar. My MDI parent has a panel docked on the left with a treeview in it. When some processing occurs in the MDI Child...more >>

Hi, I have a simple .exe application that I need to invoke from my C# application. I need to send it two strings and then get the result back. Can anyone advise me on how this is done? Also, I'm currently using a windows forms application but I would like to use an ASP.net appliocation to...more >>

Hello, We are converting our product from Dot net Framework v1.0 to Dot net Framework v1.1 and experiencing some problems regarding it. In our MDI Application, any Child window doesn't activate on mouse click in Client Area, whenever we open/close any Child form that hosts ActiveX control (such ...more >>

In my Windows Form, I have a io.File.Delete(filePath) command. Everyone has Full Control to the folder and file. I watch the file with FileMon and nothing opens the file in my code. (There is no code to open the file before the delete command.) I get an 'UnauthorizedAccessException'. How can I fi...more >>

if you not sort the grid and then click "del" button,no problem. but if you sort the grid (column caption is "DNAME" ) first and then click "del" button, a exception occur(System.IndexOutOfRangeException) . why? underside is my program. Thank. using System; using System.Drawin...more >>

I have a class Order that contains a set of properties for my OrderControl control. Instead of creating separate properties in OrderControl for every property in Order, I just wanted to make Order a property and then let the user set any properites within Order via the designer. But I don't...more >>

I am trying to format the summarie band as a numeric field or currency but I don't know what string I need to entered in the displayformat. I tried "###,###,###", "c","999,999" and did not work. I tried to get the value to use format() function but I cann't find it. oBand.Summaries(intRecno...more >>

Hi, is there a way to extract the directory-name out of a filename that includes the path ? thnx Chris ...more >>

Hi I have question about Click event handler in forms, which the forms are in the mdi container. Let say from1 is a mdi container (IsMDIContainer = True) and include form2 and form3. In form3 we have a Textbox and Button and both of them have Click event handler and also AcceptButton in f...more >>

Hi, I am new to Crystal Reports in .NET Can anyone give me a good links which can help me to understand Crystal Reports. I mean. How to write program for Crystal Reports in C#. etc.. -- Great!! ChristManIn...more >>

Dear Firends, Is there any combo box available for displaying images inside the combo box. -- Yours, Hazira B...more >>

Hi, I am making a form designer. It is same like VS.net IDE. I am facing difficulty in adding Eventstab to propertygrid control. In some forums it is mentioned that just assign some Site to sIte property of propertygrid and then just do grid.propertytabs.addtabtype(typeof(eventstab),Pr...more >>