Hey everyone. I'm developing a VB.NET Rebar/Coolbar with Menu. Is anyone intrested in helping with this feat of API? I want this to clone the IE one exactly and have the MDI menu functionallity. Any one up for a challange with me? Let me know by repling here. P.S. I have some buggy C# code to ...more >>

Hi all, I have a simple question here. I developed a user control which inhreits from the UserControl class. I exposed an custom property and then build the project. In another project, I added this control to a Window Form, set that property to a value, save and build the project. Everything...more >>

I'm trying to grab printer status for a printer with WMI I got a mo("PrinterState").tostring of "128" for a paused HP printer. What is "128" equate to? It did give a mo("PrinterStatus").tostring of 1 = "paused" which was correct but it took a while to display the correct state. When I un-pa...more >>

Hello, I have a form that is used only to insert data into a database. It is composed of a datagrid which is used only for displaying data and selecting rows and a few text and combo boxes for the actual data editing. What I want to do is bind these to a data source, but I am not exactly sure ...more >>

This question may be simple for most but I'm still relatively new to C# and .NET. I want to load a form that does nothing but display a progress bar and text fields that show some processes running in the background. I don't want to processes to run till after the form is displayed so that the pro...more >>

I'm trying to create a form that is only displayed/movable within the bounds of a parent form (i.e. the child form is clipped to the parent form's client rectangle). I don't want to use MDI for this because the parent form will be an MDI child. For example, there are three forms: A, B, and C. ...more >>

Hi, I have a method that is being called by a timer. I want to lock the entire section of the code in the method to protect it from being called simultaneously. So I am using Monitor.Enter(this) and Monitor.Exit(this) where this is the form object where the method is present. But what I obs...more >>

Hello everyone, I am writing an application where I am hosting a control I created in IE. Everything seems to work ok (aside from the minor security glitches here and there) but it seems to take a very long time to navigate to and from the page containing the custom control, even after it has ...more >>

I have Windows form (NOT ASP) With a datagrid that is bound to a dataset at runtime. I want one of the columns (that contains the dataValue) to be shown as a dropdown that will display the DisplayValue. I could do this WITH EASE IN ASP but it seems like more is required in Winforms. How do you do th...more >>

Hi all! I know this is not the proper newsgroup, but who knows? I've tryed 'Infragistics.dotnet.misc.controls' but no one posted! I would like to put tooltips in some controls such as button and textboxes, but i can't find whatever they (Infragistics devcenter) call "inbox tooltip component...more >>

Does anybody know I can override the drawing of scroll bars within a WinForms app. That's to say, where ever windows (within the app) puts a scroll bar (H or V), on forms or controls, I need to draw my own scoll bar. Does anybody know if possible?, and how?, Any examples? ...more >>

Is it possible to prevent caching of assemblies when using the NTD scenario (or at least have the cache cleared at the end of a user session)? The reason I ask is that our team is currently developing a Windows Form based application and we plan to use the No Touch Deployment (Smart Client) featu...more >>

Dear All, I have a .Net WinForm application whose first line in Main is MessageBox.Show("hello World");... When this exe is compiled on Windows2000 or XP and run on an NT machine I get the following error: The procedure entry point User32InitializeImmEntryTable could not be located in t...more >>

Hi, Greetings. I have used ControlPaint.DrawReversibleFrame to draw focus rectangle on my custom drawn user control. All is fine and I can get the toggling effect as that of ROP operations. When the control is re-painted either because of re-size or some other form overlapping it), the fra...more >>

Does anyone know how to create a winforms app similar to Microsft Media Player. I can create a form that has a background bitmap and a transparency color, thus creating a no rectangular form but how do they handle the resizing of the form without stretching the background bitmap. Also media play...more >>

Hi, I have this custom control (derived from a TextBox) with a property. I find it bothersome to go through the (long) property list to set a simple, (for me most important) property in the property list. So, I created a custom designer, and when I right-click the control I get a popup menu, w...more >>

Some weeks ago, I needed to access the method "get_DataGridRows" from the System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid class. I successfully worked it out with the following call: MethodInfo mi = DataGridInstance.GetType().GetMethod("get_DataGridRows", BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy | BindingFlags.IgnoreCase |...more >>

Dear All, If I create a form and then close it...next time it is launched again is shown in the background...I tried using API call SetForeGroundWindow but it did not work...is it a feature or bug of Windows2000 or XP...can someone plz confirm this... Please help... TALIA Many Regard...more >>

I made a custom control and I want to make impossible to resize it. I follow these steps: - I use a ControlDesigner (overridden SelectionRules) - I hide the public Size property and make it readonly - I override the protected DefaultSize property and I achieve the correct behaviour in the de...more >>