Hi there, Has anyone noticed that the "Form.CancelButton" property occasionaly resets itself to "(none)" in the form's property window for no apparent reason (at deisng time using VS 2005). Has anyone had this problem as well. Thanks. ...more >>

Dows the DataGridView control provide a way to symbolize the location between the two rows where the user is targetting a drop? For example, in iTunes you can drag a song in a set from the bottom of the list to the top and as you drag it the space between the two rows were it can insert is symbo...more >>

hello. i have a CheckSecurity method that does nothing but iterate thru every Button control and, after a security level checking, i want to keep or overwrite the Click event handler. i can manually doit for one button and it works perfect. but i don't know how many buttons i am gonna ha...more >>

Tried setting the cell value = to the button control, no luck it appears to convert it to a string.... I just want to set the image property of the button. ...more >>

I am trying to figure out what .NET does to a class that is marked as Serializable in order to get the class to serialize. I know I can implement the ISerializable interface, but I don't want to hand code all of the classes that I have marked as Serializable, the standard .NET functionality ...more >>

Hello! I have a huge problem! I have a custom-shaped form with no borders and some transparent controls on it. I implemented the resizing functionality via sendmessage: private void resizeBorder_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { ReleaseCapture(); Send...more >>

I have a form with a listbox. The listbox is updated with status text that logs the progress of a tight loop that is executed from a button on the same form. The updates don't appear on the form until the processing is complete which is 10 or more seconds later. I'm not too surprised to ...more >>

Using .Net 1.1, I have a WinForm app that shows a list of documents: Word documents, Excel documents, PDF documents, etc., whatever documents the user wants. In this list I currently use a default icon that I made that is specific to my WinForm application, however I would prefere to show w...more >>

I have an MDI app - the main control in the one MDIchild form is a RichTextBox in the form load event of one of the forms I call/show, I want to grab the selected text in the Rich Textbox I've tried: With DirectCast(ActiveMdiChild, frmMyForm) label4.text=.RTB1.seltext end with But I get a...more >>

I need to know, in several places in my code, what a variable is. In Vs6, I would just enter a debug.print line for that variable, and it would appear in the Immediate window. I've tried debug.write and searched for something that will do the same thing in VS.Net 2005, but as of yet, have not ...more >>

I'm looking for a safe and maintainable way to store connection string info (connecting to SQL Server 2005 from .NET 2.0 Windows Forms client app); things like server name or IP address and database name. I need to provide the client application with this info for connecting to both a test SQL...more >>

Due to bug with DateTimePicker I can not deploy mt app on Vista until NETFX 3.5 is release. Is there anyway to disable XP theme dynamically, although it is a Vista theme that is screwing things up? Thanks in advance Jared ...more >>

Hi, I have a scenario where there are dual/multi monitor systems. I have written a nag (like a message box) application, which prompts the users with a message. Now, in a dual monitor scenario this message gets always prompted in the primary monitor of the user. Is there a way to identif...more >>

Hi, We are using panels and SplitContainers in my WinForms application and we are looking for some simple way to change the border color from Black to Blue. I know that we can override the Paint event and have our own painting methods, but I expect there should be much easier way to chan...more >>

I have a databound form that when a user clicks the button to add another record, a new dialog box opens. This form requires a few pieces of information to insure that the new record does not already exist. What I want: 1) If the record does not exist, this form should return the new record...more >>

hello, how can i make to write my text with a color in my datagridview ? for example, i want a text in blue if it ok for one condition, green for an another condition.... thx ...more >>

Hi, I have an application that connects to a server. The server might send an event that should cause my app to go offline. However, the user could have at that particular moment a wizard (in the form of a modal dialog), which also could have other modals or message boxes on top of it. When I...more >>

Hello, In the Validating event of a TextBox, I am displaying a Yes/No message box. If clicked on No, I cancel any subsequent events. This works just fine. If clicked Yes, I want to go on. This doesn't work if I click on a button (like a Save button). The focus stays with the Save button ...more >>

Hi all, I am wondering if anybody has ever solved the problem with the Assembly Download Cache not really caching things? Here's what's happening... I have a winforms based usercontrol that I am displaying in IE6. When IE is launched, it fetches the new version of the usercontrol from the...more >>

Hi! I am trying to write a program to visualise data using DirectX. I have written a class derived from Form that creates a window, initialises managed DirectX and draws the appropriate animation. I want the user to be able to spawn as many new forms as they want. They are essentially ind...more >>

Hello: Just recently installed the 2005 and trying to use it when I found that I don't have any toolbox items when in the window designer. I research online and found links that said the form need to be in IDE.. how do I put it in IDE? I normally don't work with window form. But for this pro...more >>

I'm using Delphi 2006 and I have a class defination like this: TPerson = class fPersonName : String; fPersonSurName : String; fPersonAge : Integer; published property PersonName : String read fPersonName write fPersonName; property PersonSurname : String read fPersonSurname write ...more >>

hi, I have ListViewItems that consist of nothing more than text. I am setting their BackColor property to System.Drawing.Transparent. however when they're loaded their BackColor appears to be white. does anyone know why this is? would it have anything to do with the fact that I'm dynamica...more >>

In the following VB.Net code; how do I invoke the TV_Click event in Button2's Click event. Thans Private Sub TV_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TV.Click MsgBox(TV.SelectedNode.Text) End Sub Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As ...more >>

I am trying to do what Javascript does to a textbox control, that is getting the control to focus AND place the cursor right inside the textbox. textBox.Focus() does not cut it. Thanks. ...more >>

I'm having a problem with a simple ListBox control. When I try to update an item in the listbox, and only the case of the item is changing, the displayed contents do not update. The simple app below can be used to demonstrate the problem. It simply adds one item "Page 2" to a listbox (listB...more >>

Greetings, I have an application which uses multiple forms, but with one being the "main" display form. I would like the main form to always have the appearance of being focused. How can this be achieved? I do not want to make that main form actually be always focused, because the secondary...more >>

I have a long database search operation that I am running in a separate thread using a BackgroundWorker component. I need to give the user the ability to cancel the operation. However, the BackgroundWorker doesn't seem to have enough functionalality to solve my problem. I start the thread w...more >>

Hi, I would like to create a treeview with folder nodes just like the one used in "Explorer :: Folder options :: View :: Advanced settings". Basically, I want it to look like this: My first folder |_| First item in first folder |_| Second item in first folder My second folder ...more >>

I have a split container, with a tree view docked on the left panel and a drawing panel docked on the right one. I need to synchronize vertical scrolling for the tree view and the drawing panel. Is there any way to get access to the tree view control's vertical scroll bar? Although the vert...more >>

Hi, I have a usercontrol (UsrCtrl1) that contains some labels. I have another user control (UsrCtrl2) where I have six UsrCtrl1 controls named objUsrCtrl1 to objUsrCtrl6. I have added a Tooltip instance in the UsrCtrl2. ToolTip1.Active = True Public Sub objUsrCtrl1_MouseEnter(B...more >>

As described in parts I and II of the subject thread I have a program that displays images whose source is not under my control. Current batch of test images contains an animated gif that is not well behaved. We see the first frame and eventually it causes the subject exception. (IE 7 and Wind...more >>

I am getting the subject error message when an animated gif is displayed in a picture box. I did not create the gif and in general what will be displayed in that box is NOT under my control. (Other animated gifs jpegs etc display fine.) The ugly thing is that other Vista programs, namely W...more >>

I have written vb.net code to add toolstripbuttons to a predefined toolstrip on my MDI child form. I can assign them a .bmp file from a global ImageList etc. I used the 'behind code' to get a code sample to do this BUT, I cannot see a way to add a single event handler to deal with the vario...more >>

We are having good results with ClickOnce deployment of a Winforms application on our intranet, using VS2005. However, we mistakenly published a new experimental build. How can we "unpublish" it? Can someone tell me what the correct procedure is? Is this documented somewhere? Would the foll...more >>