Hello Everyone, I have created a very simple window service. This window service in turn is calling a function that exist in a windows form. When I am trying to run this windows service. window service does not run and start throwing error message. Once I remove the windows form and put...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make a multilanguage application. I manage to create the forms resource files for each language and to read them (rm.GetString("Label1.Text", pCultureInfo)), but I need to change all objects after changing pCultureInfo. Is it possible to change the forma language in code? Wh...more >>

Hi guys, i was working with Enum and one Question strike, i thought it would be good idea to ask more experience guys around. the scenerio is like this : [System.ComponentModel.DefaultValue(check.None)] public enum check { No, None, yes, why ...more >>

Hi, I am using .NET 2.0 and a datagridview in panel. The datagridview is bound to a datatable which is populated through a database. The first column should be a combobox column. The combobox column has a datasource which is another datatable so an integer is mapped to a string (easier for ...more >>

(VS.Net 2005/Visual Basic) I've got a MDI application which, after about 3 months of development, I changed the name. I looked through every file, every config file, every xml file, every directory, to remove any reference to the old application name. All the assembly information references...more >>

in VB6, I could set my applications, so that, with every build, it would increment the version number. However, I can't find that capability in VS.Net 2005....I can find it if I publish the applicatioin, but I don't have any need for my users running the application from my website - I want i...more >>

Hi, I have an application that recently has received a few complaints because of slow repainting/refreshing of certain forms. For example, I am throwing up a messagebox that prompts the user to perform an operation, if the user clicks yes, I perform the operation which is rather resource i...more >>

Hi all, I render different views of the same data using different forms (coincise view, detailed view and so forth...), and I would like to avoid to fill in the table adapters going back and forth among views. The forms are built using standard components (dataset, datagrid, bindingSource...more >>

VS2003, C#. I have a user control that has a TreeView. Depending on user role (rights) this TreeView can be either visible or invisible. After 3 hours of trying to find out why this control does not work as intended I discovered that when the TreeView is invisible changing SelectedNode does n...more >>

Hai dear all,. How can i capture child form close event in parent form in c# 2005, I'll make it some more clear , I have one master form with 40 text boxes, and one 'search' button , in the search button im calling child form (Form fReg = new frmRegistration(); fReg.Show();) ,the...more >>

Hai dear all,. How can i capture child form close event in parent form in c# 2005, I'll make it some more clear , I have one master form with 40 text boxes, and one 'search' button , in the search button im calling child form (Form fReg = new frmRegistration(); fReg.Show();) ,the...more >>

Hi there, I'm a newbie to C#. I was wondering how I can change the individual color of nodes in my TreeView control which I'm using to read in an XML file. Any ideas? Thanks! ~ Maryam ...more >>

Hello! I'm trying to introduce an action in the group line in ListViewGroup. It´s possible? For Exemple + Men Sam - 12/08/2000 Joseph - 15/08/1950 Stalin - 12/04/2004 - Woman Sara - 15/08/2000 The idea is: When I click in group (men/woman) call a determinated function. Any Ide...more >>

I have quite a complex form - build part in the designer, and part dynamically. The tabbing basically works - but when I tab off the last control in my work area panel the focus disappears. no matter how many times I subsequently press tab - it never returns...... This is tough to debug - h...more >>

Can anyone help with two basic questions about deployment? First question. We deployed a WinForms application recently and it was successful. We opted for the simple "publish" method via a CD. This created an installer which placed the application in the folder C: \Documents and Settings\[user...more >>

Can anyone help with two basic questions about deployment? First question. We deployed a WinForms application recently and it was successful. We opted for the simple "publish" method via a CD. This created an installer which placed the application in the folder C: \Documents and Settings\[user...more >>

I have a .NET 1.1 Windows Forms app that is called through the following chain: - Start the program, which is a VB6 app - VB6 app calls CreateObject on .NET dll - VB6 calls .ShowDialog on the instantied object - OnLoad is overridden in the Windows Forms app - it spawns a thread that does wor...more >>

Hi, I have a ToolStripMenuItem ('A') with a sub menu ('B') (also a ToolStripMenuItem), their parent is a ToolStripDropDownButton. Both ToolStripMenuItem use the check mark (property Checked). After the sub menu 'B' check mark is clicked, the menu disappear. But when the menu 'A' check mark i...more >>

-- I am programatically capturing image and then transfering it to another machine. but the size of image depends on the screen resolution. I want to keep the size of image very small and still it should also maintaine it's clairity so that it can be transfered faster. Can anyone tell me...more >>

I am programatically capturing image and then transfering it to another machine. but the size of image depends on the screen resolution. I want to keep the size of image very small and still it should also maintaine it's clairity so that it can be transfered faster. Can anyone tell me the ...more >>

If i want to excahnge data between my application and WM 5.0 Native SMS application.How can i do that? i.e sending data from my application to the Windows mobile Native application such as SMS or phonebook .... and receive some data from Native SMS application. I have taken SMS application jus...more >>

Dear All, I have struck up with some probs, I m using c#.net (VS2005) I have a form for employee details which is having 65 fields, from there i'm calling a child window with a data grid which will display only emp_name , id designation , my requirement is I need to fill all fields in the p...more >>

Hi , someone brought to my notice sometime ago that the SelectedValueChanged and SelectedIndexChanged event acts slightly wierd. Firstly ,the events fire even if you click/select the currently selected item. And secondly ,they fire when one clicks the white space!!(which is horribly pec...more >>

Hi: Where do you find all those cool icons used in Visual Studio? I want to use them for my menus and buttons. Thanks, Charlie ...more >>

I have a form that has 2 listboxes on it. The user can click a button and send an item from one listbox to the other one. When the user clicks the button, who should handle the move? Should the view move the item into the other listbox or should an event be fired and have the controller add...more >>

I am using VS 2005 to develope a WindowsForms application. In the application I have a TextBox control which I am trying to use as data input to an incremental search and positioning of the current row in a DataGridView, which is sourced through a DataSource to a DataSet containing a DataTable...more >>

Does anyone know if it's possible to prevent a user from entering a particular "DataGridView" cell. I simply want to redirect them into the next available cell but nothing I try works. Setting the "CurrentCell" property for instance causes no end of problems. If I call it in a "CellEnter" ha...more >>

I'm writing an application that will need to run on about 150 existing pc's. The problem is that the window loads slowly. You can see the controls painting. I just have one background image and then some buttons, labels etc. I'm pretty sure that the problem is the slow graphics card that th...more >>

Hi I have a custom usercontrol (a sort of grid) in which I want to store the width of all columns. I only want to do this during runtime, when the user has adjusted them to whatever width he/she prefers. Elsewhere in my application I use a custom class, which inherits ApplicationSettingsBase ...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to develop an application which is replacing an obselete application running in DOS on old hardware. We are replacing it with a system running Windows XP, and my new software which will be written in Visual C++ ..Net. The old system has a number of screens, each of wh...more >>

Hi there, Setting the splitcontainer panel2 minsize to 0 appears to reverse the drawing operations of the controls contained in both panel1 and panel2. i.e Everything goes all Japan kneesy!! Frankly this control sux. For the amount of time ive wasted so far I could have built my own........more >>

Hi there, If the splitter panelheight cannot be set then why at this Url http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.splitterpanel.height(VS.80).aspx does Microsoft provide example code on how to set the splitter panel height.... and why is the property caption written up...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to retain per-user column widths for the datagridview in a windows forms application. I know I could do it with a lot of database programming and what not, but I was hoping there would be a much easier solution. It seems like such an obv...more >>

Hi there, I have a custom progress bar control that is supposed to draw itself via OnPaint whenever an internal timer ticks. Its for situations in which the amount of time remaining cant be determined so it "progresses" in a loop. When theres other more pressing work the internal timer tha...more >>

I have a form with a number of textbox controls, all of whose values need to be validated. The form also has a menu with a menu item named Save, which persists the form data. If I type a value into one field and then select the Save menu item without leaving the TextBox, the TextBox never gets...more >>

Hi, I am trying to follow some MSDN articles on multi-threading as I need to tryu and do it, but I am working in VB.NET and the articleas are in c#. The articles are here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951089.aspx In c# I have this code that works delegate void ShowProgres...more >>

Hi, I have defined a delegate like this: Delegate Sub ShowProgressDelegate(ByVal dblPctDone As Integer, ByVal iMax As Integer, ByRef bCancel As Boolean) Private Sub cmdExecute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdExecute.Click Dim dbl...more >>

I 'm writing an application with a time consuming rendering alghoritm,so generating in one shot all printpreview pages is very frustrating. There is a way to draw the page only on demand, when it became the current page in PrintPreviewControl? I know the number of pages at begining of prin...more >>

I need to reset ttlInseconds in my project. I don't have big ideas how to do it. Only thing I changed it is in app.config, but it doesn't seems to working. App.Config <microsoft.web.services3> <tokenIssuer> <ttlInSeconds value="3600" /> </tokenIssuer> </microsoft.web.serv...more >>

Hi, I have one split control in which there are two panel(that is it is split into two)In left panel there is treeview control and in right panel there is datagridview control.Now there can be thousands of records in both panel.What i want is that if i drag or move scrollbar of right panel th...more >>

how to control MPEG in vb.net app? ...more >>