Is it possible to compare user input against the Keys enum if the user input is lower case?...more >>

I posted this in the "framework" group yesterday & got no nibbbles. So I have a form with a TreeView control. When the user chooses a leaf node an "AfterSelect" event is triggered where I take some info from the leaf's tag, Create and show a new form, and call this.Close() on the treeview for...more >>

Hello, Are there some published design guidelines for windows forms? From Microsoft would be best. Design guidelines like, what should be the spacing between buttons and the border of the form, which button between "Cancel" and "Save" should be on the right-side, what size should buttons be...more >>

Hy guys I am using a ListView that displays files from the file system. I succeeded in loading the icons from the system. But when the Items are displayed, the have are very nasty black shadow at the right. Do you know, how this can be solved? Thanks for your advice. Chris...more >>

I was not quite able to find good search terms so sorry if this is redundant. What I am trying to do is have my form load cleanly. I have many controls and I literally watch the form draw before my eyes. This happens on several test machines with ngenned code. We use VB.NET. I load the val...more >>

Hi, as nobdoy answered again, again the short version: 1. Add a Timer (System.Windows.Forms.Timer) to a new WindowsApplication. 2. Set the timer's Enabled property = True. 3. In the timer's tick event, write: Throw New Exception 4. Start How can I have the IDE handle the exception? T...more >>

as I know that there is a little diffrient about C/S and B/S in LongHorn , is it meaning that it's no usefull to learn winform now , and just study the xaml in longhorn ? -- FireCrow Studio Kylin Garden QQ:462042991 MSN:GaoTianpu@hotmail.com http://spaces.msn.com/members/gaotianpu/ I...more >>

Hi, in one of my Windows Forms I've got a label displaying URLs. When the URL displayed becomes too long, the letters' kerning changes, i.e. the letter spacing gets bigger. Did I set some property wrong? Or what makes the letter spacing change? TIA, Axel Dahmen ...more >>

Is there a font dialog winforms control at all or am I going to have to create one? Cheers Ollie Riches ...more >>

I already had implemented Drag & DRop successfully it's why I'm flabergasted... I have a ome made control which accept Drag&Drop. OnDragEnter(), OnDragOver() & OnDragLeave(), are called correctly. However OnDragDrop() is never called!! (if I drop the dragged stuff, I mean). What's puzzlin...more >>

I've got a GDI+ image made of squares, circles and basic shapes. When I make an ScaleTransform on it, everything works fine, but texture bitmaps are also scaled, so it looks horrible!! Is there any way to scale the image but not the textures brush? Thanks in advance, Alejandro Serrano...more >>

I have a DataGrid that has a ComboBox for a field. For simplicity sake Column 1: Text Column 2: ComboBox Column 3: Text If I "Click" on the cell in column 2 for a pre-existing row, the ComboBox appears and allows me to select what I want. Life is Good.... Until... I am on the c...more >>

Been using a System.Windows.Forms.TextBox in a standard System.Windows.Forms.Form. This TextBox gets written to quite frequently during the app lifecycle with myTextBox.AppendText(msgText + System.Environment.NewLine); On occasion it seems to stop appending text, and I have to quit out of t...more >>

I am upgrading a VB6 application to VB.NET. In the VB6 application I have a form with a sub called ShowScreen that takes arguements. This has always worked with no problem/ When I try to upgrade I get the Buil error "'ShowScreen' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'". How do I res...more >>

hi, i have a keydown event in my user control, and i want to trap Ctrl+Shift+v. if(Control.ModifierKeys == (Keys.Control & Keys.Shift)) if(e.KeyCode == Keys.V) this.htmlEditor1.Paste(); it never gets past the first condition. i have also tried: if((Control.ModifierKeys & Keys.Control &...more >>

Hi, We have written a simple user control which we are hosting in IE which allows users to upload files by browsing or drag / droping files onto it. We have done a fair amount of work before with hosted controls in IE and have an MSI which is installed for all users which gives Full Trust t...more >>

I've seen several people post ideas about this, but I haven't seen anything that actually works for what I'm trying to do. (Or I just haven't searched on the right thing) This problem is very easy to reproduce, create a Form application. Leaving everything default, add the following two li...more >>

I'm writing a winforms app in vb.net 1.1 and need to get the number of lines of text in a label control. How can this be done? Thanks. -- moondaddy@nospam.nospam ...more >>

I have a drop down list that I have bound to a table. When I pick the dropdownlist, I would like to fetch the following: - Index, which I can achieve through the SelectedIndex - Value, which I can get from the SelectedValue - Column, a specific column value from the bound data ...more >>

I'm new to .net so please be gentle. I'm using vs.2005 beta 2 and attempting to develop a vb app that will require the capturing of html element ids that are clicked on within a webbrowser control. As an example, to try an understand the process, I've created a new project with only have ...more >>

is there any event that raise when any control changes in the form or should i check the change event for each control? Regards OreN101...more >>

Hi, I am creating a small window form with a tab control in it, I found the tab page's Load event fire only when the tab page is become visible, I remember in the MFC we can set the PropertyPage to initialize when the PropertyDialog create,no need to wait for become visible. Could we get ...more >>

hi, when form is loaded i would like to popup a message box to the user after the form is shown to him/her. there is onLoad event but it occurs just before form is displayed. how can i popup message box just after form is displayed?...more >>

I have 2 questions with toolbars 1. How can I set a button to 'disable' mode. I want to see an icon, but I dont want to be 'clickable'. If I set the enable property to 'false', the icon disappear 2. Whenever I resize my windows, the toolbar flickers a lot. How can I reduce that flickerin...more >>

I have a form, that I want to be sizeable, but not smaller than a specific size. How do I enforce this? Right now, in the ResizeWindow event I check for the size, and set the minimum size whenever it gets under it. But the result is awful -- with a lot of flickering. Any tip? Thanks....more >>

Hi All, Relativley new to .NET and I'm wondering if its possible to enumerate all instantiated WinForms so I can determine if a window has been created, and if possible obtain a reference to that window. Basically having knowing if a non-modal dialog is open without having to use variables ...more >>

Hello I have controls on a winform that use top,botton left achors. Once i save the form and close and reopen it (in design mode) the controls are all oversized such that half of them disappear beneath the panel/tabcontrols in which they are contained. This occurs with both user controls and t...more >>

Hi All, [I mistakenly posted this to microsoft.public.inetserver.iis first.] Is there on-line documentation for the permissions available in IIS for a Virtual Directory's Local Path? Specifically I want documentation in relation to developing Web Forms using Visual Studio .Net. I'm devel...more >>

I recently started a new solution and decided that it was time to give Beta 2 a try. I encountered a situation that is more than slightly disturbing and I'm hoping it's simply something that I'm missing. Try this: 1) Start a Windows Forms application 2) On the default form hook the Resize...more >>

How do I enumerate all running processes in Windows TaskManager and kill a specific process using VB.Net on an XP? Thanks...more >>

hi, i am accessing some html (originating from MS Word) in the clipboard in my winforms app. i catch it before the paste, clean up the html, set the clipboard with the cleaned Html, and then paste. here is my (simplified) code: string html =3D Clipboard.GetDataObject().GetData(DataFormats.Ht...more >>

Since the visual display of a SplitContainer is not that great, I'm trying to do the drawing myself. I made it that it will paint a nice 3D border arround the rectangle that can be dragged (SplitterRectangle) and three 3D Lines in the middle of this Rectangle. This works so far but the Spli...more >>

Hi, In my program, I'm displaying a data grid with 1000 rows. The 100th row should be selected, so I use select method of datagrid to select it. However, I also want the datagrid to scroll that row. How can I accomplish? So far could not get it. Thanks...more >>

I built a windows form c# application. If I launch another application, such as a Firefox browser, and select that application, my windows form application stays top most. I have to minimize it to the task bar to get it out of the way. How can I make it "play well with others"? ...more >>

I have a vb.net 1.1 winforms app and want to put a vertical scrollbar in a panel for a scrollable container. are there any code examples showing how to do this? Thanks. -- moondaddy@nospam.nospam ...more >>

Does anyone know how to return a value from a form? Thanks, Jose...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to have Min/Max AND Help button in the title bar? If so, how is this accomplished? If not, why does this restiction exist? Can the functionality of the HelpButton ("?" cursor, control specific help, etc.) be assigned/mapped to another button or control? Can the question...more >>

I have an MDI child form which sometimes refuses to close. When the problem occurs, e.Cancel is set to True on entry to the OnClosing method. I could just set this False which fixes the problem, but would rather find out the cause of this. It only seems to happen under the following conditi...more >>

Hi I am opening a Modal window from parent window. I am adding some data in the Modal window and closing it. When the modal window closes, i want to refresh the parent window to see the latest changes made in modal window?? i tried Me.Parent.refresh() But nothing happens?? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I am creating textboxes on a windows form at run-time as: For intCount = 1 To intNumberOfBoxes - 1 Dim txtNew As New TextBox txtNew.Name = "txtChild" & intCount + 1 txtNew.Location = New Point(intInitialTextX, intInitialY + (intCount * 25)) txtNew.Size = New Size(intTextWidth, int...more >>

Hi everybody - here is an easy one (hopefully) I have a funny error, that is driving me nuts !!! I have a application that I have written on a Windows XP SP2 machine, and tuned to near-perfection - then I copied the program to the target system, a Windows 2003 standard server, the program w...more >>

I need to know if its possible to make the text for column headers in a datagrid to be vertical. Could this be done in a Listview with View set to Details? If necessary I could use images if this is feasible? Does anyone know of a 3rd party control that does this? Does anyone have any i...more >>

Can anyone think how I could get a user control to host a Windows form? In fact, what I actually want to do is have a docked toolwindow within a user control, along with another user control. The reason I want to do this is because I am creating an add-in for the VS IDE, and when creating a...more >>

I want to follow a GraphicsPath and put little visual mark every.. some distance... I found 2 handy properties: GraphicsPath.PathPoints GraphicsPath.PathTypes where the data seems to be stored as curve, line, bezier, and so on. I have one problem with GraphicsPath.PathTypes thought. It h...more >>

Hi, Can any one point me to any Windows forms 2.0 quick starts/samples? Thanks and Regards, Reshma ...more >>

Hi I often have a form with a number of databound textboxes. The problem is that when the user edits a textbox and then closes the form without first leaving the textbox, the databinding is not commited and the property not set in the bound object. What I do now is to run EndCurrentEdit() o...more >>

HEy Im having problems with setting the width of my columns of my datagrid. Here's the code resultatGrid.DataSource = getFirms(0) // gets metaData from database Dim tableStyle As New DataGridTableStyle tableStyle.PreferredColumnWidth = 100 tableStyle.RowHeadersVisible = False ta...more >>