I am looking for a .NET or COM component to read, extract and modify cab and zip files. Is there anything in the .NET classes to accomplish that or should I look for a third party software? If so, can you recommend anything? Thank you Cezar Mart...more >>

Hi Everybody! I am displaying the properties of my class in a propertygrid in my winform. Its a simple thing to do, I just set the 'SelectedObject' property of the propertygrid as my object. Later, I wanted to show the Filedialog (for easily locating the path instead of typing it in the...more >>

I'm setting a form's "FormBorderStyle" to None. When I do this, what I'm finding is that the corresponding button in the TaskBar provides no options (like Close, Minimize etc.) when right clicked. Is there a way to still have this context-meny appear with a borderless form? Many thanks....more >>

I have a number of win-forms projects in a solution. They all have fairly similar AssemblyInfo files, for instance: <Assembly: AssemblyTitle("My Smart Client")> <Assembly: AssemblyDescription("My Client User Interface")> <Assembly: AssemblyCompany("My Company")> <Assembly: AssemblyProduct("...more >>

Hi there, Can some one point me toward detailed tutorials / resources as to how to use the COM based web browser control (not the manged WebBroser Control in C# 2.0) in wnforms ? How to access the contents of the page that is being visited by the user ? is there any sample code that shows how...more >>

I have an application that when it starts it displays a splash screen. This splash screen is running in a separate thread. It displays fine and as my application is loading it is updating the status on the splash screen with what it is doing. Then when my application is loaded and displayed...more >>

Does anyone know how .Net calculates the ratio it uses for auto scaling. If you use the examples and documentaion available you never get the values it actually applies. For my app I need to know precisely what autoscaling values will be applied. I'd really rather not rewrite the entire aut...more >>

I'm having this weird problem that occurs with items in a combobox. When I open the combobox list, I see that the list is trying to show items because it has a defined lenght but I cant see any text in it. I can still select any of the blank item and it then put the text in the combox just as ...more >>

hi guys!! i saw recently a document explaining how to send ""events"" from a flash swf to a .net app using C#, now im interested in know if is possible to send "events" from my app .net using C# o VB or J# to the same flash movie without use a web server, flash remoting, orbe or aspx, php...more >>

I have a Rectangle object and want to fit some text in it so that the text's height matches the rectangle's height exactly. I'm not sure what graphical unit the Rectangle object is measured in (pixels?), but none of the enumated settings for the Font's GraphicsUnit property seem to be the s...more >>

One of our WinForms applications is having strange icon problems, and any suggestions would be appreciated. We have a custom user control which contains a ListView. The ListView is using the large icon mode, and the icons are stored in an ImageList (as usual). For an unknown reason, the icon...more >>

Is there a way to change the background color and other properties of the main menu to look like any office 2003 application? -------------------------------- From: Avo Meguerditchian ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>MwTM5UF7c0G6xMScbemT...more >>

How do I access my form controls in a static method? Thanks Gav ...more >>

I am posting this here and in Windowsforms as I dont see a SmartClient group. Ok on my work Pc I have a test page with links to a number of smartclient exe's. With some security mods the rest of the PCs in work can load page and launch the apps no problems. Works real nice infact. Bosses lov...more >>

Hi there, I need some help with the followng two things: 1. How can my application keep track of the websites visited by the user in internet explorer and also get access to the IE history folder programatically using C#. 2. Is there a "web browser" component that I can use in my winf...more >>

Hi, I have a VB.NET Windows-Application. I am trying to write an application which can only have one instance open at a time per user.I found some code on the internet and this seems to work fine but there are some problems. this is my code: Dim ok As Boolean ...more >>

Hi... I wanted to remove the title bar from my applicaton, and I have done that by setting control box to false and form.text to "". But because of doing this, i c no text on the taskbar button when i minimize the application; and also no context menu on rightclick on taskbar button. I need ...more >>

I have an issue where I have a external bmp file that I am calling via my application. Called (@"whatever.bmp"); But when I compile and use an installer to send it to another directory folder the file is copied but the program will provide an exception based on the error not finding this fi...more >>