Hi, I am using winforms, smart client application. I want to generate activity trace of all the events whiich are being called and time they are taking. Is there any config section, enabling which should generate the trace automatically to some file or I need to write to trace listener in eac...more >>

If you paste from some sources, such as a post on this forum, to a RichTextBox, all line feed information is lost (I believe they're replace by spaces). I've noticed the same behavior with WordPad, but NotePad does not lose the linefeed information. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Pasti...more >>

Hi guys, What I'm trying to achieve is to detect if a key is pressed when I load the app. The idea is to be able to access to some debuging information if desired. But I don't know where to start... I found information on keypress/keydown/keyup, but always when a control has focus... Th...more >>

Hi What are the advantage of vs2008 over vs2005? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I have a long running loop in a Windows Form (VB2005 code). I want to be able to terminate this loop when the user presses the ESC key. Can someone tell me how this can be achieved? Thanks,...more >>

Dear all, Is there any way to start a screen saver and then stop it? Do I need to use Process? I tried to use Process to start a screen saver but could not stop it even I killed the process. Thanks for any help, Tedmond...more >>

Hallo, there is an error in the TreeView control when checkboxes are enabled. When the checkbox is double clicked the node is visibly not checked, but the Checked property is still true; I'm using Visual Studio 2005. Windows Vista und Vista 64 has this error. Windows XP works fine. Is t...more >>

Hello, Is there any way to make the tab control, when a control within it's bounds has focus, respond to control+tab? I am hoping for a codeless solution, but if one is not possible that is fine too. This is taking place inside an MDI application, so currently it is changing the selec...more >>

I've got 2 problems trying to get an MDI child form's menus to merge with its parent's. First, I created a simple MDI app with 2 forms, just for testing. The parent form contains a menu with the following items: &File &New &Open The second form contains the following menus: &Fi...more >>

hi, i have an ActiveX Html Editor control developed X-Standard.com. i'm trying to program in keyboard shortcuts via the KeyDown event attached to the form that contains the editor control. KeyPreview is set to on, but the KeyDown event does not fire if the focus is inside the editor. is t...more >>

I want to output text in a multiline scrollable read only textbox, but the text is always selected which look strange and is hard to read. How can I deselect the text programatically? ...more >>

Is there any way to step through a Windows Service, so I can see which events are firing and when? ...more >>

I have installed a winforms net 2 app on a windows 2000 server. I am just trying to run it on the server at this point and I am getting an error as soon as the program tries to start. I know that its a security error which I can see from the error signature in the sendto Microsoft dialog box...more >>

I am messing around with Windows Services for the very first time - I'm getting to the installation part, and when I install, it asks for a username and password. Is this absolutely necessary? Also - is there any way to get around it, so that it just runs? ...more >>

Hi all, I want to write a function that gets the following parameters: a string "s" a font "f" and returns the EXACT width and height of the font. I tried first with MeasureString but it adds me extra space; then I tried with MeasureCharacterRanges but I didn't manage to get rid of an...more >>

Hello guys, C#, VS2005: I'm trying to send an email containing an image. I use "new AlternateView(imgStream, Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif);" to do so, fine. The problem is before this, when I try to create the Strem (imgStream) from an embedded resource (myImage) I have in a resource fi...more >>

I have a "Main" ASP.NET 2 Form that could spawn off other forms using //e.g. NewSubForm myNewForm = new NewSubForm(); myNewForm.Show(); myNewForm.Activate(); The other forms perform something intensive "e.g. Invoke Oracle Stored Procedure that take more than 10 seconds to bring bac...more >>

I'm searching for a component which is able to show very large JPG images (sometimes more than 30 MB). These are professional scans of large drawings from an archive. I tried DotImage from Atalasoft, but it needs to map a huge block of memory for displaying the image, which often results in...more >>

Hi; Is there a good url somewhere that walks through how to localize the resources in a C# forms app? -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm ...more >>

I'm writing a Winforms project in VB/Dot Net 2.0 and I'm having some trouble handling the Data Error event. The grid is bound to a filtered binding source. Part of the primary key is set by one of the cells in the grid which is in combobox mode. Add is enabled. What I want to do in...more >>

Hi, I am working on an app which - for a given period of time - frequently receives messages in background thread (every 2-5 ms). These messages are then translated and should be sent/added to ListView. I understand that I should use VirtualMode here because there will for sure be a huge nu...more >>

Hi, my small app listens on a channel and then writes all incoming data (formatted in text strings) to a multiline textbox. Now I am trying to set limit on this textbox buffer (i.e. max number of lines in textbox). It should work similarly to screen buffer size in DosBox, once the limit is re...more >>

I don't know where to report a bug to MS. Here is the bug description: I have an activeX created by ATL/C++, which shows a tree view with multiple state checkboxes and icons. It works fine to embed the activeX to the main form of a C# form application. If I create another subform to host the...more >>

Hi, I have a user control, which is a bunch of textboxes and dropdowns. I also have a bindingsource component, to which an object is bound. Also, an ErrorProvider component as well. The bound object correctly implements IDataErrorInfo as well. When changing a property, the data is validat...more >>

Hi. Is there any way to prevent standard .NET localization from "lozalizing" control locations and sizes? Or, preferrably, all the properties that are put into "other" resource type in resources. We have an application where the changes to control positions on the form are done very often as...more >>

Hello, I am am trying to come up with a way of securing controls inside of a VB.Net 2005 application. I have searched and found information on Window Security but it all seemed based on ASP.Net. I am looking to have a user log in and obviously verify the username and password. Upon successful l...more >>

I have a couple of textboxes and a button. I also have other controls in the same form. When I click on the button, I want to know the previously selected control, specifically I want to know if it was a textbox. If I use the .Focused method for example: If txtBox1.Focused then .....never ...more >>

I have defined a picturebox control defined in the common class and i am loading the picturebox to a panel defined in form1. Now when i load two form1 screens at the same time only the last displayed form shows picturebox. How can i show the same picturebox on both the screens of form1. Any ...more >>

I have a custom control that I'm working on. Everything was going swimmingly until I needed its containing control to subscribe to an event. The problem has to do with a separate event being raised unexpectedly. This is some code in the control: /////////////////////////////////////////////...more >>

Scenario - I need to open up (dynamically) an xml file - in this case I'll use the infamous 'books.xml': - <catalog> - <book id="bk101"> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01...more >>

Hello, I have a DLL Project with some user-controls which implements a Interface (Exit), this is used to warn the user if any changes done when trying to close the user-control. the interface is defined in the DLL project it self, but the when the 'Cancel' buton is pressed from the us...more >>

Hi everyone, I am having a problem with a user control. I have a winform roject and I built a user control for it, the project builds fine and I was able to drag the user control from the toolbox and drop it on another Winform. Later on, something happened in that project( my mistake for not ch...more >>

Dear all, Is there any way to get the encoding info from a HttpWebResponse? Should I use HttpWebResponse.GetResponseHeader? If yes, what is the parameter should I use? Thanks for any help, Tedmond...more >>

I have a series of graphical User controls on the screen which which do not posess any user input controls so no tab stops. I need to have them respond to key press events to move left or right (arrow keys) or Delete. My problem is I can't get the KeyPress event to fire for any keys standard ...more >>

Dear all, Is System.Net.WebRequest the correct class that I can use for downloading file over http? I can easily get a page contents using that class but have no way to get a file from the web server. Can anyone give me an idea how I can do that? Thanks for any help, Tedmond...more >>

I have a control (derived from Control class) based on SysListView32. The LVS_EX_INFOTIPS style is ON. I select an item and hover mouse over it to shows its infotip. Then I move mouse outside the control and use the arrow keys to select a different item. Now, the tooltip for the item appear...more >>

A remote user is having problem with RDP randomly. She told me she was unable to get to her office computer thru RDP, so I walked to her machine and tryed to log on to take a look. But there was no logon window anywhere, her desktop was a blank. I forced the machine to shut down and then retar...more >>

Hi, In the past, I've designed single screen interfaces, without much need for allowing the user to customize anything except the size/state of the main form. However, I am redesigning the application and hope to allow the user to both select and position elements out of a list of possible on...more >>

I get this error whenever I close one particular form in my Windows application; however, I can't find the error in the code. Setting a break on the dispose event doesn't catch it and the error does not occur on any other event on the form. I've unchecked the 'My Code only' debug option, b...more >>

VS2005 question. I have a form with 5 panels on it, top, bottom , each edge and in the middle .. The middle panel's DOC property is set to FILL. Inside this middle panel is a Datagrid, if I leave the DOC property of the Datagrid set to NONE then the column headers and scroll bars show just ...more >>

Hi, In the resize event handler of my Windows form, I want to replace a portion of the form's title with ellipsis when the form is too small to completely fit the title. What's the easiest way to generate a trimmed, best-fit caption title? I'm using .NET Framework 2.0. Thx. ...more >>

Hello, I have an activeX control created by ATL, which shows a treeview. It works fine on my development machine for a C# form to embed the control. If the content of the treeview beyonds the visible area of the form, the vertical or horizontal scrollbars will be showed automatically on my ...more >>

I am noticing that it seems to take windows a long ass time to paint a ComboBox control that has say, 32000 items in its dropdown. Yes, I know that's a lot. However, I have a VB6.0 application that uses DAO to access an Access database, and it can load up a 32000 item combobox in a fraction ...more >>

I have a basic help system set up for my program (Winforms, VB/Dot Net 2.0). Hit F1 and get help for each current screen. Now my boss has suddenly decided the help needs to be more 'granular', for lack of a better term. While I can and have set help for individual controls, what she wants is...more >>

Hi. I have a webshop that runs on .net c# and uses cookies to get the cart id my customer now changed web hotel and this new hotel provides a ssl security solution that makes my customers domain subdomain to their domain.. I.E http://www.customer.com and to use ssl https://customer.webh...more >>

I am very new to C#. I need to create a Windows form that will read a SQL table and populate a treeview. I can connect to the DB, create the dataadapter, populate a data set. The problem is how to use the dataset to populate a treeview. I have looked at a few examples but none use a dat...more >>

I've been working on a Windows application for several weeks now. Starting late yesterday, I started getting the dreaded "Object variable or with block variable not set" error when I close one of the forms. By process of elimination I determined I found that if I commented out one datatabl...more >>

Dear all, Is there any easy way to split a file into several smaller files and then recompose it? Which namespace should I use? Thanks for any help, Tedmond ...more >>

Hi, I have a set of forms in a windows application which I'd like to localize. Some of these forms contain the same strings, for instance - "are you sure?". I would like to put this string in one place which will still be autoselected by the CLR relevant to current language and culture but re...more >>

I have a derived combobox with locking property. The user can see, what items are in the combobox but he can' t change them. This is my code: Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.ComponentModel Public Class LCombo Inherits ComboBox Private m_blnLocked As Boolean Priv...more >>