Can anybody help me i written one stored procedure which its working integer values if i go to strig its not working (Multiple select) i read some articles i dont understand i will put my code here just check it. Here Problem is @OPN_GROUP its actually as a string value i should passing her...more >>

Hi, Using C# and Windows Forms, how do I disable the window resizable option? I want my form to be fixed size only. Thanks, Janiv Ratson. ...more >>

Perhaps one of you geniouses can help. I have a panel whose AutoSize = true. This Panel is originally empty when the program starts, and it is programtically populated with my own User Control. The User Control is inherited from a Panel itself. I programatically add each of these User Cotnro...more >>

..NET 2.0 I was hoping the CopyTo method would be just what I needed to create a new user in the same container and with the same properties as an existing one. Rather than have to create the user and configure all the properties manually. Something like the code below. However, when I try t...more >>

Hi, I've just run into a problem where my windows form displays correctly in the VS IDE designer (#2.0), but has started appearing as a blank (default) form at run time (it used to work). Using break points I've noticed that InitializeComponent() does not appear to be called for this form,...more >>

Hallo experts How can I test if a control is currently visible on screen and not hidden by other windows? ...more >>

Hello, I have found that should i set the icon property of a form, it will often only show up as the default icon. If i then restore down the form, the icon shows properly. If i then maixmise the form the form icon shows but is very large possibly 64*64 (its only a 16*16 on the file system)...more >>

I remember an old technique from my old MFC days to have a dialog that occupies a part of the windows desktop and actually resizes its available size, thus always being on top, kind of docking to the top of the screen (or any other side). Does anyone remember what these types of windows are...more >>

Hello. I am developing my first Forms application in C#. When i execute this app, a cmd window shows in the background. How can i get rid of this cmd window ? I just want my Forms window to show. Anyone ? Thanks. k4iz3r ...more >>

hi, This is the real workgroup of Visual Basic 2005 express goto : http://groups.google.com/group/VB2005 thank you ...more >>

Hello I have a mdi application. I set the form.showicon=false of a child form. So now the child form shows a default icon???? This makes no sense. Why have the property at all? If me.icon is null its just the same thing. How do I prevent any icon from being shown on the child form. me.ic...more >>

Hi, I have a StatusLabel with an image and a ProgressBar on a StatusStrip, both are not visible by default. When user decides to save the edited data to a file, both StatusLabel and ProgressBar are set visible and ProgressBar indicates the save progress. The problem is that if the save operation ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use the autocomplete feature of the dotnet 2.0 combobox. Everything works fine except when the strnig contains a forward slash (/). For those items, the autocomplete text ends at the forward slash. i.e. If the Items contained the string "My event 5/6/2006" The autoco...more >>

What would prevent a DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn control in a DataGridView from being bound to its data in the Datasource table?...more >>

Hello, Im want to fix the width of a dashboard. I have a field which has a field (in this dashboard on the left part of my screen) which could be long and make the right side of the screen out the display. I wanted the size of the fiedl QueuedCountLabel fixed and the text inside wrapped u...more >>

I have a typed dataset which was created from views in our database using the IDE automation. I would rather not modify them because if they ever need to be regenerated I don't want to have to continually add in extra fields that don't exist in the database. My problem/question is this, in a...more >>

hoping anyone might be able to shed some light on the situation i am seeing... i am working on developing a custom data ETL app for in-house use. The three relevant objects in question are... my form the database mapping object the table mapping object The form invokes the DbMapping.Run...more >>

Dear all, I would try to export SQL result from Access DB by following SQL statement: Select row1 into [Text;DATABASE=c:/tmp].[result.csv] from table1 row1 is in datatype currency. I have tried this statement and the result shows "HK$ XX.00" for the column row1. However I don't want to...more >>

Hi, I would like to simulate UI events on UI controls. For example, I would like to make a button control think its been Clicked (from an outside class), so it would go through the click animation, raise the associated events etc. Is there a way to do this? Regards, Pieter ...more >>

Hello, I created an panel in my form. In the Paint event of this panel I created a gradient rectangle... Like you can see in this code: Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, this.panel1.Width, this.panel1.Height); LinearGradientBrush m_brush = new LinearGradientBrush(rect, SystemColors.H...more >>

I have a ClickOnce application code-signed with a code signing certificate from Thawte. When a user (running IE on WinXP SP2) tries to run the app, if they click the Publisher hyperlink a warning is shown in the "Certificate" dialog with the warning "Windows does not have enough information to...more >>

Does IMessageFilter.PreFilterMessage not work with all messages? Consider the VB app at the bottom of this posting. The WM_ACTIVATE in the overrided WndProc gets printed, but not the one in the message filter (the message filter works for other messages like WM_MOUSEDOWN). Is this behavior by ...more >>

Using Visual Studio 2005, I've placed a few NumericUpDown controls on a form and bound their Value properties to user-scope application settings. The bindings seem to work fine at design time, but only work in one direction at runtime. When I open the form, the control values are correctly set, ...more >>

Hello, I use the web browser control to display some html reports in a winforms application. The problem is this kills security because anyone can read the reports just by accessing the file system. The reports are generated dynamically at runtime in memory and then saved to the file syste...more >>

Hello, I am trying to customize the appearance of a textbox but with overriding the onPaint Method it doesn't work! I have read that drawing of a textbox is done by Windows and not by .Net and therfore the WndProc method has to be overridden. Now my question is where to start getting informat...more >>

Hi folks, Consider a UserControl (containg a textbox, and 2 buttons) that's being placed in a windows form. The AutoValidate property is set to Disable, for the form. However, the same property is set to EnablePreventFocusChange for the contained UserControl. The problem is that when I try to...more >>

I am having a hard time getting the value of the primary key of the selected row in a datagrid. The datagrid is just displaying a dataset. Can someone ease my pain? ...more >>

What I am trying to do is to store some sort of a Reference to the Menu in the database and then based on permission I can either Enable or disable them. I am specifically looking for the Name/ID/Tag property, but unforturnately could not find one for the Mainmenu or Menuitem. Any ideas. ...more >>

I am working on a Windows Forms application that uses the MDI style. I am using C# in VS.NET 2003 . I want to provide a feature that allows the user to capture the entire form's image and save it to a file. The problem I have run into is that I am currently only capturing the client area ...more >>

Hi, 1. I want to change the alpha value of fore color of a button at run time to fade it. 2. I have a button and some text is assigned to it`s Text property. 3. I wantto fade the color of this text OnMouseMove event. 4. When i change the alpha value of backcolor of the button, it shows same...more >>

Hi, I have the following problem: I have designed a custom UserControl. I arranged all my buttons, text boxes labels and so on in a nice way. Now when I use the control on a windows form everything is rescaled and displaced. The control is bigger as it was in the forms designer and it ju...more >>

It seems that when setting the form ClientSize property, the Form.Visible property is set to True. Is there a way to create a form such that it does not show at all until it is explicitly told to show? In my app, the form shows up on the InitializeComponent() method! ...more >>

I have one form calls another form, which adds data to a couple tables, then the first form doesn't see the new datd till i clos and reopen the program. The data is in the table though from looking through the SQL Server Manager. Why wont it show up? ...more >>

Hi, Ok so i have a datagrid which displays a bunch of rows. I want to get the visible count of rows the datagrid control is currently displaying. i was using the VisibleRowCount property, but it will only return the correct value if the number of rows does not exceed the datagrids size (by ...more >>

Hi, I have a splitter pane that has a tree control. I'd like to add a raised text caption panel above that tree control. Any recommendations for a control? for some reason I couldn't make the panel "raised". Thanks a bunch Ron ...more >>

If I want to add code to allow the user to select an item that was added to the database in the last x number of days, I assume I need to add a dateadded field to the database, or is it already there somewhere? ...more >>

Does anyone know how to customize the standard file open/save dialogs using C# or VB.NET? Specifically, I would like to: 1. Add a couple buttons in the toolbar along the top, next to the "Create New Folder" and "View" buttons. 2. Hook into dialog events such as when the dialog is closed and...more >>

Hi, I have created a console application in c#.net. I also scheduled it in the windows scheduler. In the scheduled task i will specify the command line arguments. When I say "Run", I am getting the command window, which I dont want. I need to run my application in silent mode. My sys...more >>

Hello friends, actually i want to create a custom control in c#.net.But the problem is that -----when i create custom controls and use them in the windows form then they craete errors in the designer of the form..............for example if i create a control which shows three images and we ca...more >>

Hello, Using the .NET 2.0 datagridview with databound combobox columns, I can display the human-readable value for foreign keys in my dataset. However, each of the comboboxes has a dropdown button that cannot be used, since the gridview is set to be read-only. I would like to remove the dro...more >>

I am making a simple program that displays a warning message for 10 seconds when a user attempts to run an unauthorised program. (I may also log to a file, but I want the simple warning message working first). I have made a windows form Form1 which contains a label Label1. In my code I make...more >>

Why does WinForms in .NET 2 paint container controls more times than necessary? Steps to reproduce: 1. Make a UserControl called 'Widget'. Put some buttons / labels / etc inside this control. 2. Make a UserControl called 'Container'. Place a bunch of 'Widget' controls inside here. ...more >>

My .NET 2 winforms application is extremely slow at rendering itself. I loaded my application and then got a small notepad window and dragged it infront of my main application window for a while - making circles. I could get a 'drag effect' over the entire application window because my app did...more >>

Hi everybody, I believe something weird is happening with my windows forms desktop application. I have a main form (Form1, shown using Application.Run) and this main form opens a modal form (Form2), using ShowDialog(this) so that the owner of Form2 is Form1. Form2 does the same thing with For...more >>

I've developed an application in .net 2, and to support multi-size client windows, I used the winforms layout managers (flowlayout/tablelayout). They are extremely slow - it looks like the paint method is called multiple times on these containers, and i can see scroll bars appear in the middle o...more >>

ok... My memory's a little hazy on this, but I recall reading an article (I think it may have been on windowsforms.net) regarding a library which enabled the programmer to report errors (for instance, exceptions) in a consistent manner via a nicely configurable interface; I think a SQL DLL may...more >>

Using VS.Net 2005 Pro. When I create a new project no solution is visible. If I create a blank Solution and try to add a new project to it, the solution disappears and only the project is visible. How do get the solution visible so I can add new projects to it? Thanks ...more >>

Hello I have this code in a newly created web form: private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { // Put user code to initialize the page here ArrayList values = new ArrayList(); values.Add("hi"); values.Add("hello"); this.cbBranches.DataSource = values; this.cbBranches.Da...more >>

Hi, How can i create bitmap of a window form with all its child controls without showing this form? 1. I am trying to create bitmap image of a window form. 2. I am creating a new instance of Form at runtime. 3. But it is not visibile on UI. 4. Then adding several controls like Button, RadioB...more >>

Hello all, I have a WYSIWYG editor which uses Graphics.DrawString to render it's text. The Font size is scaled based on the sized of the form and everything looks the same, no matter how you resize the form (i.e consitent word wrapping). I tried switching to TextRenderer.DrawText and ca...more >>

I have a ToolStripContainer on my form and have several tool strips in the container. Among these I have a MenuStrip and StatusStrip. my MenuStrip I want to always be at the top of the top container and the StatusStrip I always want to be at the bottom of the bottom container. Now I can disallow...more >>

I am dynamically loading a DLL and opening a form/user control using Reflection. This loads a form (3rd Party) which is created right outside my Application. Is there any way i can force/restrict this new form to stay within the bounds of my MDI so that it doesnt look like a seperate applica...more >>

Hi all. I have one picture box of size(135,100). I had kept PictureBox.SizeMode = CenterImage. If Image size is greater then PictureBox size then i set PictureBox.SizeMode = Zoom If Image size is less then PictureBox size then I set PictureBox.SizeMode = CenterZoom. But if image is Square the...more >>

Hi all, I wanted to find out what the best way to print user customized pages from a windows forms application would be. The user would customize :- 1. what size of print they want in centimetres. if less than normal A4 size it should then customize how many prints on one page 2. what ...more >>