Hi, How can I execute 2 GDI steps without update the screen and update them togheter?. Basically I have a form and I want to change the Form Region and change the Form Location, later show the changes on the screen. On the Following code you can see that the code is executed but where t...more >>

Greetings, I am not a Windows Forms developer per se, but I have a question on OpenFileDialog (and SaveFileDialog) objects. I invoke the .ShowDialog method on a OpenFileDialog and select my file, easy enough. But as I start processing the code after the file selection, the OpenFileDialog...more >>

Hi, If i start up my application when system boots up, and i want it to be hidden. So I did something like.. Form.Hide (); But I want it to show the form when user double clicks the exe So is there a way i can distinguish between system-automatic startup, and user-clicks exe? Thanks...more >>

I'm developing an application in c#. What I'd like to do is display a transparent window but remove all functionality from it, like being able to click on it, activate it, etc. That is, I'd like to display this transparent window, and then display another window directly beneath it which i can ...more >>

If this is not the correct forum for a msde question please direct me. Installing msde 2000 requires a strong sa password. Is there any clear guidance on how to accomplish this. I have failed several times. From what I understand the command line should look like: c:\msde\SETUP.EXE INST...more >>

I want to intercept Ctrl+C in a datagrid to prevent it performing its default processing. I have a click selecting the entire row (its uneditable), but only want to copy the 2nd column's value in my 2 column grid as opposed to the entire row. Currently with a boolean and text column I will ...more >>

Hi, we are developing an MDI application. We implemented some features in Modal dialogs. However when we do ShowModal(), the dialog is appearing in the taskbar too, and it can be moved out from the main MDI frame window. If I set up the MDIParent field of the dialog, than the application cr...more >>

Hi, I'm getting an ArgumentOutOfRange being thrown from a ComboBox that has a DataBinding on SelectedValue to a public property on a class. The DataSource of the ComboBox is a DataTable that has had a row inserted into it (via DataTable.Rows.Insert( row, index ) ). After a row has been in...more >>

Hi, The WinForms application that I'm designing must support online chat. I'm wondering what class to use to display the chat messages. The obvious choice would be a multi-line TextBox control which I could continue to append each time a new chat message needs to be displayed. The problem ...more >>

I'm working on a hex editor as a practice project to teach myself VB.NET. So far it has been going well, but I ran into something that I'm not sure how to deal with. I want to let a user type characters into the ascii panel to change the values, but I'm not sure how to capture their key events...more >>

Hi :-) From the Display Properties->Appearance dialog, it is possible to select a color scheme from a drop down list and change the visual style of XP. Is it possible to select/change color schemes with help from C# or dotnet sdk? regards - Morten - ...more >>

Hi Code Helpers, I'm sure this has been addressed before but can't seem to find any specific answers.... I have an MDI form and Toolbar that opens a child form which I have been delvelping in Visual C++ .NET. What I would like to do is have a child form event - happens to be a toolbar ...more >>

Hi, My application deals with the creation of images dynamically. The functionality is such that in the first page i upload my own image. In the second step, i write some text contents on to the uploaded image and in the third step, i save the changes made to the text content with the same nam...more >>

I have created a baseform (declared in a library) with a panel (TopPanel), docked Top. When I create an inherited form from it, in an Application, and I add some controls to the new inherited form, e.x. some edit boxes AND A PANEL (NewPanel), docked also TOP, and compile, TROUBLE !!! The ...more >>

Hi! We are now working on na application and we want to add an 'export to excel' functionality to the client side. The problem is, that the 'esport to excel' function should also be available to users, who don't have MS Excel installed on their computer. That's why we can't use the excel li...more >>

I've got a basic hex editor that I've been working on to help myself learn VB.NET. I have a form with 3 panel controls on it. The offset panel on the left, the hex panel in the center, and the ascii panel on the right. I've overridden the paint procedures for them, and I have been manually c...more >>