I just downloaded the TaskVision smart client app for review. I think it was built in 1.0, however, i'm runnint 2.0. VS 2005 upgraded it and now I have a vew compile errors. One I dont know how to resolve is in the class SQLHelper where its trying to return a sqldatareader from a shared met...more >>

Hi all, I'm writing an app in VB.NET and want it to look and behave like a typical application wizard (i.e. with the usual Next, Cancel, Back etc). Should I be looking to use multiple forms or is there a better, cleaner way of doing it? Cheers Paul Taylor ...more >>

Sorry for re-posting in this newsgroup - but this group is more apropriate than dotnet.general I am developing a mdi application that will act as a front end to a database. I am finding that when i show any of the mdi child forms in my application it is noticeable that the form is shown ...more >>

Dear all In Dot Net windows Application .... what are the requirements to run the developed Dot Net project EXE file in the system which doesnt have Dot Net..... with out creating of Setup...... only with project EXE file........ please help me... regards krishnan ...more >>

Hello All, I am currently in the middle of creating a 'Framework' for my latest VB.Net project. I have always created such a tool for previous lauguages. This time I am basing it on n-Tier architecture. I will probably continue and develop my own version, but have any of you people dev...more >>

Is this true, is there no work around here? http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=122285&SiteID=1 ...more >>

Hi, Can we create our own customized MessageBox and Inputbox, in which icons = or images and custom message can be shown. Thanks in advance, Regards Swat...more >>

Is there anyway I can have a curved edge on a window - to round it out. (Kind of like the top edge of a window that hasn't been maximized). I have a window with no border and a back ground image that has curves on it. The image itself has the corners transparent but the form doesn't appear ...more >>

I have an app that opens a main window. There's a condition where another window will open and from that window I want to be able to close the first window. How do I do this? TIA - Jeff. ...more >>

I design my forms in Visual Studio, which has limited screen space for the form. After compilation, I run the project and expand the form to fullscreen mode, but the controls and other elements on the form remain fixed -- they don't expand to fill the entire screen. How can make the contro...more >>

I have a situation where I have a window and I want to put another window on top of it that opaque at 50%. That works fine. But I'd also like to have it that when I move the main window, the opaque one moves with it. How can I do this? Do I need to go to an MDI which I really don't want to. ...more >>

Hi : I have created a Class where this contains a timer , each time the timer control been activate or its interval time has elpased a new window must appear and deseapear ,, ( com kind of alarm) ,, I created another class (form) that is instanced when the peiod time from my Class A is execut...more >>

Hi all, I have a context menu and I wish its contents to be displayed in a ToolStripMenuItem. I simply assign the context menu to toolstripmenuitem.dropdown. This works fine, but it seems if I right click to open the context menu, the first time it opens is under ToolStripMenuItem rather...more >>

I have a VB app with a form under FW 1.1, sp1. In sub main, I do some setup processing that may or may not result in some calls to: Console.Writeline(...) eventually, I do: Application.Run(New Form1) All this works. If the app is run by clicking the app's icon, the console writes ...more >>

Good day all, On my base form I have amongst others, a BindingNavigator control. I have changed the modifier properties for all the controls to "Protected Friend", but for the BindingNavigator I cannot change any properties in the new inherited form. All other controls are fine. Has anybody go...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have a requirement of writing a WinForm application that should support "SKINS" for the UI. On applying a skin, the look and feel of the application can change drastically. Even the size and shape of the Main window and its child controls can change. I have NO idea about, ...more >>

Hi , all In non .NET world(WIN API) i could have a hidden modal dialox box. But ShowDialog in .NET is dependent to Visible property !!! Suppose i have a Modal form and i make it hide(via this.Hide()) from another thread , someone tell me why after that my form is closed. I'm so angry of ...more >>

Hi, When running this code, it's not possible to select the text using the mouse in the textbox. What's wrong with it? (This is just a code snippet. I can't use a MDI frame). Regards, Perry using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsTestA...more >>

I have a window with multiple inspector window. When the *Application* lose the focus I would like to hide all inspector windows. I cannot use the activate/deactivate event on the main window, because it deactivate if I click on any inspector windows. How could I do that? -- Regards,...more >>

Hi All, I need to be able to read a word document into a string, can someone post some sample code or point me in the right direction please. I've googled on this for ages and can't turn up anything useful. Many thanks, ...more >>

Hi, How can I make a ListBox multicolumn and insert values into multiple columns of the listbox? I want to select the whole row as one...... Thanx in advance.... Regards, Sandeep...more >>

I have encountered an odd behavior when using Me.Invoke and any help would be great. I am using a standard Me.InvokeRequired followed be a Me.Invoke to make sure a method runs on the UI thread. This logic has worked for me countless times but for some reason I have a problem with it in one ...more >>

Hellow , all How can I acquire the area where it is drawn to checkBox that changes externals by CheckState such as CheckBox and RadioButton? SystemInformation.MenuCheckSize ??? Thank you, Ken ...more >>

SelectedIndexChanged Event for Tab Control is not fired in .Net Framework 2.0 but it gets fired in .Net Freamework 1.1 and this behaviour happens till the form is not shown to the user. After displaying the form this event starts working fine. Is this a known problem. ...more >>

Hi I have an image that i want to use as a toolbar image. Its been created with a transparent background in Photoshop. I have tried saving it to both a png and a gif format and loading them into an image list and reference that for toolbar button images. In either case whenever i display it...more >>

Greetings, I was wondering if there is a framework in .NET world similar to what Eclipse is in a Java world. Could "Composite UI Application Block" be compared to Eclipse? Thanks. ...more >>

I'm trying to write a routine to tile a given image in a given rectangle: public static void DrawTiledImage(Graphics g, Image image, Rectangle r) { ImageAttributes ia = new ImageAttributes(); ia.SetWrapMode(WrapMode.Tile); g.DrawImage(image, r, 0, 0, image.Width, image.Height, Gr...more >>

I am creating a round edge panel by inheriting from the panel. What I do is create a graphics path with desired shape and in the Paint method I fill the graphics path and draw the graphics path border with desired color. This would look as if the panel has round edges. So far I have not set th...more >>

I would like to create a panel, completely through code (no designer!), that is the same size as the current winform, and has transparency set to 95%. I am using C# on Framework 1.1 and don't see how to do this. I am tryng to emulate some WebForm behavior where after a button is clicked a "pleas...more >>

How do I rotate focus among controls inside a groupbox/panel? I have 10 controls in my form. Once the focus reaches control5 (using my TAB key), I would like the focus to go to control1. Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi, We are trying to build a .NET MDI application with several child windows - some of which should be treated like dialogs and some as true child windows. We keep getting an error when we call Form.ShowDialog(Me) after having set the MDIParent property. Is it not possible in the .NET F...more >>

Hi, I want to copy some portion of a bitmap(source bitmap) to another bitmap(destination bitmap) using a reference mask bitmap. This task can be acomplished in GDI using MaskBlt function. Is there any such function in GDI+ for doing the same? I saw Bob's "Extract a region from a bitmap" artic...more >>

Would like to have windows form always as behind other windows (as the 'first' window on desktop) Is there anything like global 'z-index' for all the opened windows in the system? ...more >>

I'm having an issue with ListView control. THe list view contains items that are dynamically added and removed at run time. The problem comes when I try to remove an item. Whenever an item is removed, the ListView seems to automagically 'select' the item which sits in the same spot the recently...more >>

I use web browser control(shdocvw.dll) in my winform application. When I put a strong name into the project and change the assembly, I got following error message. "Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly 'Interop.SHDocVw' does not have a strong name" and "Assembly generation fai...more >>

I have a simple WinForms app which uses values from the appSetting section of the config file. When the exe is invoked directly, thes values are retrieved as expected. When I try to launch the app vi Internet Explorer, however, it seems that the appSettings collection i empty. A reference in th...more >>

I would like to create an Outlook style navbar on the left of a splitter bar (like Outlook's Mail,Calendar,Contacts categories). How do I do that? Thank you, -hazz ...more >>

Does anyone know of a simple method to allow you to change the row height of an owner-drawn listview control in .NET 2.0 (VS2005) ? Thanks in advance Steve...more >>

I can use a ClickOnce app I made fine, but I cannot seem to reliably access it via an asp.net app that redirects to it: I created a simple ClickOnce windows forms application in VS 2005 that deploys via IIS; that works fine when either type in the URL, for example "http://localhost/ClickOnc...more >>

Hello, I'm using VS2003 and SQL 2000. Is it possible for a SQL trigger to raise an event in my C# program? Thx. Andy Jacobs...more >>

I want to understand this..if i have 6 diif applications(exe),running on c aomputer..will they all run in 6 diff app domainin one single process? is this the default behavior?...more >>

I'm adding two sets of radio-buttons to a control (ie. each set of buttons should only have one selection). The problem is all the radio buttons within the form think they are part of the same group (only one button can be selected from all groups). With WebControls I would have used the "...more >>

Hi guys, i made an app using C# (vs2005) and i added some references to MS Excel in my project, when i try to install the app in a machine it begins but at some time it says "Cant find file My_App_Name.application" (that file exist at the directory when im publishing the installer), the closes...more >>

If you create a DataGridView and add a hidden column to it (a column with its visible property set to false), the DataGridView will make the column visible anyway if you make changes to the data source. For an example of this behavior, crate a new windows form project and place a DataG...more >>

The DataGridView doesn't show the datacolumn caption it seems to only show the name. Has anybody else seen this problem?...more >>

Hi, How I can get my Application physical Location (I mean the the physical path of my applicaion) with in my applicaiton programaticaly . Development platform = VB.NET Kindly help me out thanks regards noorali ...more >>

Hi, I m bulilding an application that take IP ADDRESS as input and that perform further functions on it . the ISSUE is I dont know how can I made a text box that will take only IP ADDRESS I mean how can I impliment form validation Plus that text box must take a formated text. how can I forced t...more >>

Hello, In my application, my main form creates some sub forms which are shown on top of that main form and all of those forms do have a timer on them. When the timer elapses, they do raise an event which is catched by the main form... My problem in here is that when all that events get r...more >>

hi, I'n my windows application I used colours for giving a good look to forms according to the requirment . Now the issue is I used Msgbox in few places they are appearing in TIPICALE WINDOWS FORMAT i mean that GRAY colour .I want them to be colour full can it b possible??? or can v used image o...more >>

Hi, I'm using the following visual inheritance classic: base form with two buttons 'apply' and 'cancel' anchored to the bottom right corner. You inherit this base form and resize the inherited form, the buttons move along. At least most of the time, sometimes the buttons do not anchor to the...more >>

I downloaded an example of a Windows Form (.net 2.0) that mimics part of Outlook. It was nicely done. However, I was struck by the performance. It was not good. What about performance of Windows Forms that are somewhat complex? For the last few years I have done nothing but asp.net prog...more >>