Hi, there is a sample of windows application which uses SQL Reporting Service, but I don't know from where I can download it. Here is the link of the sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSAMPLES/htm/rss_sampleapps_v1_1s2q.asp Please help me. Thanks....more >>

I would find it very hard to believe that I'm seeing a bug in the listbox control, as I'm sure it's one of the more popular controls out there. But I simply do the following: 1) Create a new Windows Forms application (C#/VB.Net), 2) Drag and Drop a ListBox control onto my designer. 3) In th...more >>

George Shepherd's great Windows Forms FAQ has this article about creating a datagrid with no active cell: http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/856.asp Unfortunately, this only works properly for datagrids that are not ReadOnly (i.e. a row will become unhighlighted if you click the s...more >>

Hi All, I asked this question a few days ago and nobody answered me so far. I am using C++ and Visual Studio .Net 2003. Lets say I create a WindowsForms Application and I add a button to the form. When I double click on the button, I create an event for click. Then I can write all the code...more >>

I have (nearly) upgraded an existing working VB 6 application to VB.NET using the built in Vis Studio migration tool and a lot of editing. However, the TextBoxes on Windows forms of the upgraded application display text as the user types but in the reverse order. This effect occurs for letters...more >>

Hi, I have a .NET WinForms application that needs to identify the user and authenticate this against a datastore (could be Access, SQL Server, or Oracle). Currently, our login process is forms based so whatever login the user enters, together with the password, are matched against a table i...more >>

My user amends text in a datagrid. When this happens i want a Save button that currently has enabled set to false to become enabled. I have been messing around with the CurrentCellChanged event, however this activates the button just by clicking within the grid. I want the button to only bec...more >>

I have a pop-up Windows Form that displays next on top of the system tray. I can get it to pop-up just fine using .TopMost and .Show, but the problem is that it seals focus away from the application that the user is currently using... I don't want that. I have gone to the API level and used ca...more >>

Hi All, I have a simple requriement... I want then whenever a user press enter on a form in moves to next control... For that purpose I wrote following code in Form's KeyDown event and sets Form's Keypreview property to true... Private Sub frmBHEntry_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e...more >>

I'm binding a ComboBox's SelectedValue property to a datasource and using a custom Format event. The problem is that the format event never fires. Here's some sample code that demonstrates this (create a form with a combobox on it): Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, By...more >>

Here's a tricky problem I just ran into. 1) Install the German language pack of the .NET framework 2)Create a menu bar with a File/New menu item and make the shortcut be ctrl-N 3) Immediately after the call to InitializeComponent, add the following code CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo...more >>

Hi, I would like to create a PrintDocument which shows my data in a designed table: but how can I design a table in my PrintDocument??How can I measure the columns' length according to the contents, so that it looks like a table?? Here is an example of my PrintDocument: Name | Surname | A...more >>

I need to upload two files, one at a time. The only file control I can find uses the <input type="file" />, so the handling code has to go in the HTML side and not the code behind. I would much rather code this in the proper place for good practice. Is there an ASP.Net control for file up...more >>

How to loop for each datagrid column and rename it? Is it different mechanism if this is webform? Here You have example i have tryed For Each col As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridColumn In DataGrid.Columns col.HeaderText = Translate(col.HeaderText) Next But it does not work? Why? ...more >>

Hello All, Does anyone know of any nice custom ProgressBar libraries? Thanks...more >>

I am starting a project that may be suitable for vb.net, using windows forms. I want a rich client, thus win forms vs web forms. Most users will access the app data over a LAN, but some will be remote users, accessing via vpn. I could use terminal services for this but am thinking that an al...more >>

Hello, Can I use libraries e.g. MS Application Blocks (which build on .NET Framework 1.0) in VS.NET 2005 (Framework 2.0)? Is there any problems? ...more >>

Hi Can anyone offer any hints / tips for creating registration keys / application activation, as software copy protection measures for a Winform app developed in C#? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I want to develop a smart client application so that I can use features like one click update, easy deployment, offline ... Which development tool i should choose to start the project? VS.NET 2003 or VS.NET 2005 beta Would it be difficult to develop smart client application by using ...more >>

I am new in VB.NET and at the bigining of my work I have a problem. I wont to make small program which contain 3 forms. In the 1st Form I put 10 Textbox which contents I need to display in the 3th form. This 3th form I connect with button OK. I wont that user in 1st form input name, date of bea...more >>

Is the listview (not listbox) not vertical scrollable? I have the style set as List and scollable = true but don't seem to get the vertical scroll. ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create an application that can allow users to extend the menu by supplying the event handlers in their own libraries. My first thought was to use reflection to specify the event handler, something like this... // The user's assembly has already been loaded and we have...more >>

Hi, Can any one help me in creating the custom control in C-Sharp .Net. I want to create a transparent resizable rectangle which when placed on any window should be able to see the contents of the window. Thanks in advance ...more >>

when the datagrid gets enough rows a vertical scroll bar shows up, but is there a way to make the vertical scroll bar always show up? i do not want to add a vertical scroll bar component, since the datagrid already has its own scroll bars. i just need the vertical scroll bar to always sh...more >>

Hello all, Few days ago I participated in a conference here in Bucharest, about .NET - CLR and Forms - where we had the pleasure to meet some people from Microsoft (Jason Zander (PUM CLR), Brandon Bynum (Test Manager .NET Client), Ronald Laeremans ) It was a nice evening, we had the chan...more >>

Overview: I have been creating custom shaped forms using a bitmap to set the form's region. This has worked well, and I have had a lot of success finding resources to help out. However, most of the examples that I have located have been stand-alone forms, where the single form is the entire...more >>

I am entering the world of encryption in my windows form application and have a question or two about formats. I start out with a string that I would like to encrypt and store in my sql server database as an encrypted string. Dim MyString as string = "Now is the time for all good men to com...more >>

I have a treeview to show the status of a nework system. Periodically, my application receives an update on the status of the system and the treeview is updated. After the update, the treeview resets its' scrollbar to the top position. How can the treeview preserve the original scroll ba...more >>

I must run my Windows Forms APP from my local Intranet... But when I use Application.Exit or End (in VB.Net) to exit the App, it gives me an error when a run that from a file share... It's a SecurityException, I know, it's because it must call some UnmanagedCode and don't have permission to ...more >>

How can I force my form to re-read fields from the bound object? In my case, I have a form that uses simple binding to bind to properties on an object. I'm using the Format/Parse events to manage data flow in/out of the object. Everything works very well. Sometimes, I want to trigger the...more >>

Is there a way to resize a tabControl when the form itself is= resized? For instance, I have a tabControl with two tabs. Each= tab has a rich text box on them. If the form is resized as a= whole, i would like for the tabs tobe resized accordingly, and= then the text boxes resize according...more >>

Hi I Placed a lot of controls on forms.By default it is in maxmized position but when i reize form i want to adjust form controls to screen postion automatically but right now when i resize controls are staying like that. i tried with setting anchor property also but it is not working. ...more >>

Hi, [ BTW I'm using C# .Net 1.1 ] I'm using a TreeView and adding nodes programmatically. However even though the text for the nodes doesnt require a horizontal scrollbar it is also visible when I start my app. If i resize the TreeView so that I do need a horizontal scroll bar I get a ...more >>

Hello Friends Iam niranjan Developing MDI Application in vc++6.0 when iam displaying text in windows iam using OnDraw and OnChar functions. in OnChar function iam incrementing the x,y positions accoording to Key strokes. and making the string buffer to empty in "Enter" Key stroke in OnDra...more >>

I am writting a MDI application (like VS.NET) that uses the IE Browser Control. This is in .NET envoironment, but I have seen this problem on others (VB). I have a "file menu -> new" that creates a new MDI Child that contains the IE Browser Control. It loads www.yahoo.com and I can scroll righ...more >>

After increasing the system font size (e.g. 96 -> 120 dpi), the form will becomes larger. How can i know by what ratio the form is enlarged? At first i think it is 120/96 (= 1.25) but seems i'm wrong... Anybody knows the solution? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I can barely believe that searching for "contextmenu richtextbox event" in google groups found only a handful of results and none relevant to this problem... so it must be me doing something wrong (although, I can double-barely-believe that ;-)) The problem is, if I press the Apps key...more >>

Hi everyone, I have written a .Net WebControl that gets embedded in an Internet Explorer webpage, and it seems to work fine most of the time. However, recently my boss got a new laptop that came preloaded with Windows XP and when ever he browses to the webpage that contains the WebControl he ...more >>

Hi All, I was reading msdn documentation pertaining to macros. It says that VS macros currently do not support win forms. Actually I need to write a macro which will call a COM component and pass it two parameters. I need to use this macro in a winform application. Is above statement apply in...more >>

Hello, I am running VS 2002 and need a FolderBrowserDialog . I could create one using a DirListBox and a DriveListBox but it does not allow browsing to a network. Is there a way to display the network using a DirListBox and a DriveListbox? Is there a way to use the VS 2003 FolderBrowse...more >>

Problem: If I click to display list items in ComboBox, all list items are not visible to select. However, if I select one of them, then I can see it on ComboBox. This problem only happens in Windows XP. In Windows 2000 it does work fine. I can work around using DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed and O...more >>

Hi there, I wan't to run my application with argument that causes the application to do something without showing up gui. It works but in the end shows blank form and does not terminate (see code snippet). How can I terminate my application immediatly? -------------------- public Fyri...more >>

Hi, [ BTW I'm using C# ] I am trying to create a custom style tab control. I've managed to code it so far so that I can custom draw the TabPage dividers ( the buttons at the top of the TabControl that select the TabPage ). My ultimate goal is to have fancy style TabPage dividers which ...more >>

How do I programatically get the text from a popup dialog box? Thanks. ...more >>

Because the results to BeginInvoke occur async'ly, it stands to reason that each call of execute is actually a record on a queue, and therefor, each asyncResult must actually be a separate item on that queue. Conceptually, the nicest place to put the IAsyncResult to use for EndInvoke is with th...more >>

We are hitting a problem that we can't explain and wondered if anyone has seen this before or can suggest how we can stop it happening : Form 'A' inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form Form 'B' inherits from Form 'A'. Form C inherits from Form B. Form B (the one in the middle) has a TextBo...more >>

i have 2 forms and i would like to make the 2nd form listen for a change in the first form. is there a way to do this? i'm already passing "this" to the 2nd forms constructor so it will update when it has focus again, but would like it to change as form1 changes. thanks in advance...more >>

Does anyone know how to adjust the size of the propertygrid's help panel programmatically? I want to increase/decrease the size of the help panel when I load a specific object into the propertygrid. I tried getting the help panel in the propertygrid's control collection and adjusting the ...more >>

Before .NET, I used to use the registry to store app preferences. But apparently now there's some other way.. like storing the data in .xml files in \Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\<your app name>. Could someone point me in the direction of some info or tutorials on how to ...more >>

I am developing validation component, I want to be able to expose a property on every other control in the forms. Error provider and tooltip controls are examples of what I want to develop. when you add error provider to the form, every control in the form has few additional properties realte...more >>