Hi, all How can I prevent form maximize when double- clicking title bar ? thanks ...more >>

Hi there, Sorry if this is inappropriate for this NG but I'm looking for samples of form-based ".resx" files that were created in a non-English version of Visual Studio 2005 (or 2003 if necessary). If anyone has access to this could I trouble you to send me a copy at lsmith999999@hotmail.co...more >>

Hi I'm trying to detect if the current culture support 12h or 24h? I need to change string values based on the hour formatting. I tried to DateTime dt = new DateTime(1,1,1,14,0,0,0); string s = string.Format("{0}:00", dt.Hour.ToString()); // I want s to output 14:00 when using 24h and...more >>

Hello i am creating an application. It's an MDI parent with all the child. I have been trying using the OnClosing event in every child. It works OK BUT not the way it should be. The problem is that when i close one child form individually, it works fine. when i close the mdi parent, it als...more >>

Hello There, Can anybody help me in reading through large csv files size of about 200mb, with 200 columns. I have tried with streamreader object parsing line by line but its bit slow, does anybody have a better solution. I dont want to landup using 3rd party component. Regards, Sarava...more >>

Hi, my problem was already posted here in a similar manner, but I didn't find a convincing solution for it yet. It's about the following: I use in C# a DataGridView for displaying data, and one of the columns is a byte array (it's a tinyblob in MySQL, I use it for simulating GUIDs in MySQL, b...more >>

How is this done? I want to define some variables, then let the user edit a formula using the same UltraCalcManager formula editor that appears in design time. ...more >>

Hi, Looking for a coding standard/guidelines document which talks about Control Naming Conventions.(ex: Label - lbl). If any, kindly provide me the link. Regards, Baskar C.G ...more >>

I laid out all my form widgets based on this.ClientRectangle. I expected that when adding a Menu this would decrement from the Form's client area, since that's what I'm used to from my years of VB6 development. But this didn't happen. So is the difference between the Form size and its Client...more >>

Hi all, How to Add Icon into EXE Assembly without referencing an external *.ico file? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I need to call a method on an owned child form, and am wondering if the best way of doing this is to capture the Closing event of the form that passes control back to the form where I have the method. The structure is like so: frmMain (MDI, runs on app start) calls frmB (MDI child), whi...more >>

My DataGridView is set up like this: * Main row background color = white * Alternating row background color = light gray I also have a read-only (non-editable) column I want to show up as solid dark gray (i.e., no alternating row colors), but it shows up as alternating dark/light gray. Is ...more >>

All, I have the following: BindingSource bs = new BindingSource(); private void initDataGridView(DataGridView dgv) { // dsForDGV is a datset object on the form dsForDGV.Tables[0].Rows.Add("abc"); bs.DataSource = dsForDGV; bs.DataMember = dsForD...more >>

I have a need to cycle through the compoents on the form in my program at run time to check for the existence of certain components. I do *not* mean the Controls via the form.Controls array, I want the non visual components. I know the components are not technically part of the form but th...more >>

Is it common practise to begin the name of form classes with "frm" (e.g., frmOneForm, frmAnotherForm). Or is that generally considered an outdated convention? If not "frm" what is a common or recommended practise? Thanks. ...more >>

hello i been trying to get this done but so far... unsuccesful. What can i do to prevent the user close my Main MDI form by pressing Alt+F4, or clicking on the Close button of the form? thanks in advance ...more >>

I am having the same issue. I set the Header colors in the style using the Properties tool, but the new colors do not show up at runtime. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com...more >>

I fill an arraylist from a function ArrayList ar=Kleur.FindAll(Artikel.Nummer); And set the data source comboBoxExKleuren.DataSource=ar; But this combobox changes the visual text field to the first field in the array Any solution to stop this? ...more >>

Hi all, I have encountered a problem on running my vb.net application on vista. The problem occcurs while writing the data to xml which I create in my application path. It fails to modify the xml and gives error as failed to write the data to xml. Same scenario works on other PC's who ...more >>

I have a weird situation... I have a unicode text file that contains Latin-1 characters. This code displays fine in unicode text editors, and when converted to ANSI by a tool like EditPad, it looks correct as well. But when I use the code below to load it into a Text box, all the extended char...more >>

I have a very simple user control. I want this control to act as a sort of container so that I could drag/drop other components (from the toolbox) onto this control and then dock them etc within this user control. What do I need to do to achieve this? I can mimic the behavior that I want at...more >>

Hi there, I need to iterate all "TreeView" nodes on a worker thread. When doing so, I'll call "InvokeRequired" and route all method/property calls through "Invoke()" as required. However, for each "TreeNode" object I encounter in the tree, must I also route method/property calls on this obj...more >>

Hello all, In my Windows Forms app I'm opening an OpenFileDialog. This throws the following exception because I have the MTAThread attribute on the Main method: "Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has...more >>

Hello, I'm seeing some weird behavior and the MSDN documentation is lacking in an example of actual usage. What I've done is create a custom control that derives from either ScrollableControl. I want a vertical ScrollBar that I can control the visibility and parameters of. To accomplish this ...more >>

Working with a thrid party control (Sybase DataWindow.Net). It is a great component but I found something really wierd and need help. The object has a field inside of it called PrimaryBuffer. This field is null when it shouldn't be (I wont go into the details). However, when I inspect the o...more >>

Is there a property to set in order to make it so the user can not edit the value of the currently selected item in a ComboBox, default is editable. ...more >>

I have a TreeView that displays a very big amount of complex hierarchical data where the elements in the tree represent all sorts of different datatypes. These datatyps again store one or more typed lists of other datatypes wich will appear as childitems in the treeview. E.g. the datatype "Build...more >>

Hi, I am trying (with little (no) success) to create a transparent form that can capture mouse events. Put another way, i would like to show the other windows that are behind my form (like setting the form transparency key to the form backcolor), but i dont want the mouse clicks to pass through...more >>

I want to populate the main menu strip based upon the user's status (i.e,. "user", "administrator", etc.) at time of login. The main form is running with the login form as an owned form, so I'd like to trigger this menu population at the time the user clicks OK on the login, closing the login ...more >>

Hello, I have a small VB.Net application that I've built in VS2005 that indexes and helps me to work with various collections of files on my network. It works great at first, especially with small collections, but after a time, or immediately after import of a large collection, the application...more >>

Hi, I want to pass a variable to a new form like this: MyForm form1= new MyForm(customerid); and the form is defined like this: public MyForm(int customerid) but I want this variable to be available in the MyForm_Load class as well because this variable must be a comboBox's SelectedValue. If I...more >>

I have some .NET Control on my form. this Control open some dialog. How i can get control on this dialog like send key to it? how I can get Handle to this windows dialog? ...more >>

Here is a puzzler! I have a read-only textBox which shows the results of a selection on another form. When the selection changes from the saved data, I wish to show it a different colour. So I have set the user style: this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true); and overridden the OnPa...more >>

Hi, The UpDown buttons of the NumericUpDown control don't look right on Vista with VisualStyles enabled and with certain combinations of DPI and screen resolution settings. Specifically, with 96 DPI and 1680x1050 resolution the UpDown buttons are shifted and clipped. The same settings work ...more >>