Hi, Winforms has the new StatusStrip control that replaces StatusBar in 1.1. I've looked high and low but can't seem to find how to get separators (|) in my status bar, eg Info1 | Info2 | Info3 | Info4 where Infos 1 to 4 are StatusLabels. Any takers? Stew ...more >>

I have a small windows form application. I have a main form and a second form that I open from the main form menu. The second form opens in a fully maximized windows. I cannot figure out how to activate or show the main form from the second forms menu (ie, what code to put in the menu event...more >>

Following MSDN articles like "New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005", by Jackie Goldstein the following question arises: What do the Insert / Delete / Update Icons in the BindingNavigator do implicitely? Change the underlying DataTable? Or do I have to write the code to insert/updat...more >>

C# question: Is there a way to prevent a button from getting the focus and from being painted with a rectangle of small dots when clicking on it? Specifically, I have a form with 2 TextBox and a Button: say I am in the first TextBox and the Button is the next control in the form. What d...more >>

Hi, I'm wonderring how can I ask to the user after he had click the X of a form if he really want to exit this program? Thanks for your help Sylvain Bissonnette ...more >>

I have an understanding of being able to build a console application. My challenge is, how do I take data being entered into a text box assign it to a variable and then have the final calculation be display in another window on the same form (using tabs) in a label. I'm at a lost. Any assistan...more >>

HI, I am having my user control on my form. My user control hosts a custom build panel that gets dynamically loaded with ListView controls when form is opened, maximized, resized. ListViewItems of each Listview have their ForeColor properties set to different colors and fonts. ...more >>

Im creating a dotnet windows form app that will run a given TSL script across a domain of sql servers with the same login credentials(for this version at least) I would like the Runallservers() below to run in a backround worker to keep my ui responsive. but within the for each loop I wou...more >>

Hi all, The following are my need: 1. When a PC starts, my software should come up directly without any user interaction. 2. Only my software will be accessible to the user and they will not be able to access anything from Windows - nothing at all. 3. A super user can access the software as we...more >>

I am using Visual C# 2003. So replies in C#-speak would be appreciated. I have a function that is passed an object. The object is tested with the property IsArray. If this test returns true, I need to operate on each of the elements in the object individually as an object. So I would like...more >>

Hello All, I am interested in writing an .NET application that is started whenever the machine is powered up. The machine is a WindowsXP system or Windows 2000 system. When this custom program is started, it would display a user interface to interact with the user. The user would not able...more >>

Hi. Anyone have sample code for grouping rows in a DataGridView? We're evaluating 3rd party grids and want to compare them to the built in grid functionality. Thanks kh ...more >>

I've successfully published 12 version to a live environment and today I ran into a problem. I updated my app by adding a report component and a few forms based upon it. Checked my required Apps, etc. (I have been successfully publishing since RTM). Now, when I press "Publish", the app gets...more >>

Hi, I understand that GroupBox provides a caption and border around a group of controls, but other than that, what is the different between a Panel and GroupBox? Thank you, Alan ...more >>

Here is the info: ..Net 1.1, C#, Windows Forms I have a single windows form. I load in a dataset with some data. I bind the dataset to a grid to a particular DataTable. All works as expected. I create a user control, stick a text box on it. Expose the Text Property of the text box as ...more >>

Hi, In my application I have placed some labels on a picturebox in a usercontrol. And I have kept this UC on a form. I want to handle label's mouse up event in UC, but I am unable to do so.When I insert a break point on label's mouseup event handler, and click on this label (when application ...more >>

Hi, I would like to reflect on multiple objects and filter their properties based a criteria, consolidate these properties and show them in the Property Gird. Is there any way to do that ?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Ramesh...more >>

I'm trying to convert a VB6 DLL (that someone else wrote) - many lines are parameters that need converting that have 'System.DBNull.Value' in the original - - the report says this is an erroneous use of the Null/Isnull . Here's the code: If BillCust > 0 Then Call colParams.Add(objDB.Creat...more >>

I'm using the PropertyGrid within a test harness I've whacked out to test some controls I'm creating. [and it's really cool]. One thing I was wondering was if the control that is passed to the PropertyGrid (SelectedObject) it loads itself up, exposing all the properties. If one of those ...more >>

I want to create a custom user control to be used in a web page (by object tag) as an assembly. The user control needs to have a web browser control in it. Having tried with the managed System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser or AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser, none of them worked from IE invocation unfortuna...more >>

I have a window with no border. But I'd like to be able to have the user be able to move it. In the window I've got a background image if that makes any difference. I'd like to have it so that if somebody clicks and holds the mouse button and drags it, the window moves (just like the top bar o...more >>

hi to all! is it possible to add a web interface to an existing windows form? thanks for help! b ...more >>

Hi, I can't seem to get ExpandAll() to recurse through and expand all my nodes and children in a tree view. I don't have a single root node, I have several at the root level and then they have children e.g.: Level1a Level2a Level2aa Level1b Level2b Level2bb Level1c I wo...more >>

Use the following form initialization and try to change UseSystemPasswordChar to "true". As a result the value of PasswordChar property starts blinking in loop. Looks like a bug... Any comments are welcome... =================================================================== priva...more >>

Hello.. ..Net RichTextBox (and so Win32 Rich Edit control) does not responds to WM_PRINT message. MSDN provides an article for printing the content of the RichTextBox by using the EM_FORMATRANGE message. So it looks like only the content of the control can be copied, but not the screen shot...more >>

Hi, I have a C# windows desktop application that will be used only by one user at a time. The database server (SQL Server 2000) also resides on that machine only. This application has three logical layers (UI, Business layer and DataAccess layer). Currently, SQL Server connection is ope...more >>

Hi All, I have an application that we're developing. Whenever the application enters the "Not Responding" state (ie. windows appends (Not Responding) to the title bar text and the taskbar text), after the application starts responding again the (Not Responding) text never goes away from the t...more >>

Good afternoon all, I am trying to work out the best way to create a chart/graph on a Windows Application. Previously I have used Microsoft Excel to create programs which had a Chart or Graph included. However, I wish to break away from the hassle of being tied to Excel; as such, I am now work...more >>

Hello All, I have been playing with a combo box for the last day or so, attempting to get my head around the best or the recommended way to update them. I had problems setting the .Text and also the .SelectedValue and also the ..SelectedText. Following comments and suggestions on the news...more >>

Hi I have tried to use a Thread.Suspend in .NET 2.0, and am presented with the warning message: Warning 1 'System.Threading.Thread.Suspend()' is obsolete: 'Thread.Suspend has been deprecated. Please use other classes in System.Threading, such as Monitor, Mutex, Event, and Semaphore S...more >>

I am using the PropertyGrid to handle management of the various configurable properties on my class. I have noticed however, that when you assign an editor to a given property that it does not use the set method. With the property I included below, I set a break point on the 'set' method. D...more >>

thanks for Enable bit but I only want to restrict access to particular pages not the whole control. ...more >>

Does anyone know if there is a way to resize a panel so that all its = children are visible? --=20 J.P. Hamilton...more >>

Hi, I'm loading a modeless form from a dll using a App/Security portal and have run into an issue with the tab key. At first the tab key wouldn't register, at which point I was able to find an article about hooking into the message pump and passing messages. I was able to get the code the...more >>

how can I do a databind to object (datatype)? can you sent me a reference about this....more >>

I'm trying to use the User.config file to save a form's size and position. According to the documentation, the application is supposed to produce a user.config file and save any settings with user scope to that file . but that file doesn't seem to be being produced. I've define...more >>

Is there any other way to display an asp page on a windows form without using the Microsoft Web Browser control? This is a COM component. Is there an equivalent dotnet control? ...more >>

In vb.net I'm trying to loop through textboxes using variables. If I try the following, I receive the error "Value of type string cannot be converted to System.Windows.Forms.Textbox dim theTextBox as textbox dim strName as string dim i as integer strname = "txtclorderfield" & i & ".text" ...more >>

Hi, I've set up an errorprovider on a form, but I have the following problem. I've got a button for the user to cancel the operation, but if there's an error in any of my textboxes, the cancel button doesn't work, and the user can't leave the textbox. Is there any way around this? Prese...more >>

In a Windows form, I am using an unbound Datagrid object like a simple table with two columns to display data like 1 string1 5 string2 11 string3 I want to eliminate the fixed row at the top with column captions and the fixed column at the left. Also, if either column is selec...more >>

Hi We have a WinForms application. Embedded in the application is a web page viewer control using AxInterop.SHDocVW.dll. In our DevStudio project we have references to AxInterop.SHDocVW.dll and Interop.SHDocVW.dll Both of these references have CopyLocal set to true. When I try to load a form ...more >>

Hi All, on a tab page , how can I refuse access to a particular tab, I have tried the Enter Event but the controls on the page are still receive focus. many thanks thank you. ...more >>

Hi to all, I have a question related to drag'n drop of many small bitmap on a picturebox : introduction I've write a small windows c# application that place a small bitmap inside a PictureBox. The code places it in a virtual grid (for example if I have a picturebox of 400x400 I assume i...more >>

I was running into a problem with the DataGridView while binding it to an object Collection. I got it working and I thought others might like to know how. -------------- Problem ------------- The grid was bound to a simple object collection. The object contained string and decimal proper...more >>

All, How can I retrieve the remote location for the ClickOnce deployment? I tried the following code, but it does not work: System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment ad =3D System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment; MessageBox.Show(ad.Activa...more >>

Hello Guys and Galls, I use combos on my forms. The code to initialise the combos is as follows Dim dsPIDTypes As DataSet dsPIDTypes = PartDB.GetPIDTypes ' Returns a dataset object cboPIDType.DataSource = dsPIDTypes cboPIDType.DisplayMember = "tlkpPIDType...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to add items to toolbox from my dll. In Choose Toolbox Items dialog->.NET Framework Components->Browse I'm selecting my dll to add my windows forms controls => and always it gives me an error :"Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 has encountered a problem and needs to close". Of...more >>

Hello, My dataGridView is configured with the "ScrollBars" set to both. When the form is displayed no scroll bars appear. Therefore I don't have access to the columns beyond the right side of the window! If I set the property in code "dgv.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Both" The scroll bars *sti...more >>

Hi all, How would I go about mimicking the system drawn clickable style when ownerdrawing the column headers? I.e. the mouse over changes the column headers colour, and clicking it changes its style. Any help would be appreciated. Chris ...more >>

Is there a free download Sql Predictive Typing (silimar to autocomplete, with Color) to be used in code? Thank you in advance for replying. ...more >>

Hello, How can I make my app stay in the desktop working area? I don't want the users to be able to hide part of the app by dragging it away. Thanks ...more >>

I like to assign a particualar value with not more 4 decimal points with the textbox. How to assign it? Please suggest! Thanking you in advance, David S.Noah...more >>

I want to cause a form to come to the top of the z Order when it is notified by another task (i.e. I want it to be right under the user's nose, not having its title bar blinking on the task bar). If the window is minimized at the time, then WindowState = FormWidowState.Normal works perfectly....more >>

Hello, The new WebBrowser control in .Net 2.0 is great... does anyone know how I can view an xsl-transformed xml file in it? Ideally I'd set the XML file, set the Xslt file, and then view the result. The xml file does not initially have a reference to the Xslt file. Thanks, Mark ...more >>

I hope this is right forum for this... I have the below block of code in my Main. When I compile in debug mode, I get to run one instance only. When I compile in release mode, I get to run more than one instance of my application. These are the first lines of my application.. I tried to set ...more >>

Hello All, I have a modeless child form displayed on top of an owner form. I am seeing the strange behavior of the modeless form's Closing event being fired in reponse to the minimize button being pressed on the owner. Pressing the minimize button of the child works as expected however. T...more >>

We are moving from a Windows 2000 Server to a Windows 2003 server. Our ASP.NET web applications work fine on IIS 6.0 on the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server. All of our no touch deployment .NET Windows applications work fine on Windows 2000 server but when we move them to Windows 2003 ...more >>

Hello, >From time to time my vb2005 form disappears and is replaced by the following errors. Rebuilding the application never helps. However the errors never affects the operation of my application that I notice, but it is very anoying. To get rid of the errors I must close the form, close ...more >>

I need to tie together two apps; a thin (HTML) client and a smart-client (running on the user's machine) deployed with click-once. My question is: does anybody know of a good way to communicate between the two? The thin client is HTML generated from an asp web-site (not asp.net) [can eas...more >>

Hi, i am very new to data binding and am a little confused! I have some properties in a class which i would like the user to be able to edit. I can bind these fields to a control and then show the form, the user can edit the data in the text boxes and the class's data members get set ok withou...more >>

Yes works fine if you don't show the messagebox ...more >>

I have a VB .Net Windows application that accesses an Access Database using ADO.Net OleDB .Net Data provider. Users are running Windows XP with the .Net Framework installed. It works fine on user's PC who have MS Access installed. However, when I distribute this to a user who does not have ...more >>

Hi, I'm writting a system, in which I need to create my own dialog. It is activated by ButtonClick event. I've tried to create another one form, and then in event handler I've wrote Application::Run(gcnew myDialog()); But as you know, this makes an error compiling. How can I create ...more >>

Hello, I have a C# App with no toolbar and no border. How can I make it possible for the user to move the app if there is no title bar? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, Is there a selected items property or something like that on the datagrid control. I need to be able chck if there are multiple rows selected in our datagrid control in the popup event of a cont3ect menu, and modify items on the menu... Also, how do I retrieve all the selected rows?...more >>

Hi all, I've been testing a listview control on an app I'm creating which is in 'details view' with 3 columns. It can contain string information from 4 different objects (linked with Tag), each drawn with a unique colour. When I load in 2000 (or even as low as 500) objects the performance ...more >>

I have a problem with stored procedure, i created a stored procedure to create and select records like create procedure s ...... begin create tale s ( i declared al the variables) insert into s(i inserted values) select * from s; end and i called the procedure in my asp and it says ob...more >>

Hi All, Can anyone explain the behaviour of the program below, I have two textboxes and in thier lostfocus event I am displaying a message box and then setting focus to the other textbox but it seems to be firing the both textboxes lostfocus events when they have values set, WHY ?? ...more >>

I have created a sample Windows Forms Application, on mouse right click i create a new ContextMenuStrip and shows it. I close the ContextMenuStrip by clicking outside it or by clicking an item. Even after a GC.Collect call, the ContextMenuStrip is never disposed. Analysing with a .NET Memor...more >>

I have implemented a custom date control; it's a UserControl containing a MaskedTextBox control. I have created a DataGridView custom column using this UserControl. DataGridView is very demanding of its custom column controls. But I have finally modified the UserControl so it mostly works c...more >>

I have a .NET 2.0 form that parents a message box. Neither is currently active. How can I programatically activate the message box? I can't seem to do it via the .NET Framework, since message boxes aren't .NET forms, so I've tried doing it via the Win32 API, but still no luck. Here's what I've...more >>

The following code only "binds" when the toolStripComboBox1 is at the top of the toolStrip1 hierarchy (i.e., ToolStrip > ToolStripSplitButton > ToolStripComboBox). Why will the control NOT bind when it moved (recreated) as a child control of a toolStrip control (i.e., ToolStrip > ToolStripS...more >>

Hi As part of a system I need to create a file uploading application - User should be able to select few files ( or a whole folder) and upload all the files on a server using web service. I wanted to know if it is possible to mimic basic functionality of windows explorer - show files with co...more >>

My form gets a resize message after completing a button click event and I cant find the source of this resize message. My button event makes same calls to directx device and resizing or maximizing the form. Yes these calls can be source of the unknown resize event but I see my resize event ...more >>

Hi, I have a richtextbox which I have modifyed to enable scrolling (ie text gets added to the bottom and gets scrolled upwards when new text is added). I have also modifed so that cirtan text can be a different color using the SelectedStart, SelectedLength and SelectedColor properties. ...more >>

Hi, I want to capture the move of a form with an override of OnMove, which works fine. But I want to register also when a user starts moving a form and when he releases it, any idea how to accomplish that? Here is what I tried so far without success: - Capturing the OnMouseCaptureChang...more >>

How would I go about crating a folder during installation of my application? Currently, I save files in my users MyDocuments folder, but they're loose. It would be better if I could create a specific folder to hold them, but I'm not sure how I'd go about this. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

The underlines for the Access Keys in a Windows Forms menu are not visible in even the most basic application on my system. I created a Windows Forms application and added a menu strip with a &File menu item and &New, &Open and E&xit subitems. The underlines are visible in design view but disa...more >>