Greetings all, I'm at a loss for fixing this problem, so I'm hoping someone out there has seen this and has a solution. Basically, I'm working on an app written in VB.NET 2005 which uses a mixture of native and custom controls. The app works fine and everything displays correctly until I dra...more >>

What is the best approach to start an external application from c#.net? Thanks....more >>

Hello, I am trying to get the following scenario to work: multiple gui threads, containing various controls bound to the same data source (BindingList<T>, with an exposed ICollection.SyncRoot), and a data thread that performs the updates on the data. The problem is that I cannot get the devex...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to run following command to execute SQLCmd command in a seperate process in a windows application. This SQLCmd command is intended to execute SQL batch statements against the sql server database. Process process = new Process ( ); process.StartInfo.Arguments = "-S psi-...more >>

In the code below, m_list.SelectedValue returns null in MainForm.valueChanged regardless of which value is selected. Is this expected behaviour? However, SelectedItem *does* return the correct value. [code] using System; using System.Windows.Forms; class Attr { // a simple name value c...more >>

I'm using the CalendarColumn from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7tas5c80.aspx I've found a problem where the date is not being retained if it's entered via the keyboard. If you enter a cell, type one number, then tab out, the cell loses its value. If you type TWO numbers (e.g. "12" ...more >>

Hi all I have a new laptop and lets say I am in my documents and I right click and choose 'new' and then 'folder', it should immediately show that new folder without me having to update the view under the 'view - refresh' drop down. My desktop running exactly the same Xp version SP2 does th...more >>

m_list.SelectedValue returns null in MainForm.valueChanged regardless of which value is selected. Is this expected behaviour? SelectedItem *does* return the correct value. [code] using System; using System.Windows.Forms; class Attr { // a simple name value class string m_name; string m...more >>

I have created a design surface that users can drop controls onto. I want the user to be able tp select a control and drag the corners to resize. WHen the designer does this the dotted line moves seamlessly over the top of multiple controls. WHen I Draw this expanding rectangle it moves beh...more >>

I am needing to Draw a Rectangle with a Dotted line. Where do I find the Brush that will accomplish this?...more >>

i have offline files in my computer, i left the company so there's no source to the offline files, i was working in the files till i deleted the user that made the offline files in my computer and created a new user account. and now i can access the offline files anymore. please help...more >>

I have a problem that I think codedom will solve, but it looks like a real mess to me, and I don't know where to start. I'm using .NET 2003 FW 1.1 VB. I have a few selection criteria, and each is easily implemented in 5 to 10 VB statements resulting in a boolean output (indicating selected o...more >>

Hi, I have experience with windowsforms but not with data binding. Before I take up with the subject I would like to ask some questions just to make sure I am on the right path: A data source (array or similar) is bound to a datagridview. If I change from GUI the value inone of the cells,...more >>

Hi, What is the difference between Form.Load and Form.Shown event? Thanks! ...more >>

Hello, I've posted this question on a couple of other newsgroups but no one has responded but I really need to know if this can be done and I can't imagine I'm the only one who wants to do it. I'm working on an application that is installed via ClickOnce. It has the standard .NET 2.0 prereq...more >>

Hi All, I am new to windows forms C# 2005, How can i have a combo box with image and text meaning * 1Star ** 2Start *** 3Star i have experimented something. but it shows only images. Any help will be appreciated Regards -Sajin ...more >>

Hi All, I want to use Flash interface in the C#.net windows forms, but in the manner that when ever i run the application i only wants to see the flash interface and not the whole form with background. Since I have done this thing with the static .bmp pics and it is wirking as i want, but the...more >>

I have a DataGridView on a form that will be required to show data from many different datasources so everything has to be done at run time. Primarily it will be bound by methods that return DataTables. I also need to create controls in some of the columns such as a combobox. I find docs ...more >>

Yesterday, all was fine with my project. I closed it and turned off the computer. Today, I try to open up a form and I get the error message shown here: "ObjectDisposedException" Cannot access a disposed object named "TextEdit". After clicking on OK, the second error message appears: "There...more >>

Environment: C# in VS05 I derived a class from RichText and added it to a project. There is something about the class that is confusing VS05. In the Solution Explorer, the icon associated with the class file is a gray rectangle with a small white rectangle with a red cross on it in the uppe...more >>

Environment: VS05 in a C# application. I have an unbound DataGridView that has a number of custom columns in addition to the default Text cell columns. In both the default standard text cells and my custom RichText cells, when a single cell is executing an inplace edit and some characters i...more >>

I have a smart client APP developed in .net 2.0, i want to invoke that from vb6. i tried shell but it is not working. how can i invoke smart cleint from vb6 ? -- n...more >>

Ok. I am new to desktop apps. I have a form with tool strip at the top and a split container below it. I have panels in the split container. When I click on a button in the toolbar, it opens up a user control in the left panel which consists of buttons. These buttons need to open user control ...more >>

I have a DataGridView on my Windows form with one ComboBox column. I have set the ComboBox to use the DropDown style, through the EditingControlShowing event handler: private void dgvSentences_EditingControlShowing(object sender, DataGridViewEditingControlShowingEventArgs e) { ComboBo...more >>

I have a DataGridViewComboBox in a grid bound to a datasource. The column is called Status, it can contain "accepted" or "rejected." I set this up at design time by entering those two values in the Items collection. The records being bound all have "accepted" in that column. When it runs t...more >>

Most of my .net experience is in ASP.Net. I don't understand why all of the dataaccess has to be different in forms but anyway... I have a DataGridView connected to a data source and I see it automatically binds (I don't like that). Now I have added more records to the datasrouce and I fi...more >>

Hi; I need to create an ImageCollection for use in my program that is not part of any form. What is the best way to put the images in a resource somewhere and then build the collection? -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://w...more >>

I am creating a windows .NET application (in C#) that uses a datagrid. I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003. In the title row of the grid, I'd like one of the headers to appear in two different colors. For example, the title of one of the columns is "Surplus / (Shortfall)". I would like th...more >>

I have a C# Windows Application and the solution in VS 2005 contains 2 projects. The first project handles the login and password changes and the second project contains the main application. When a successful login occurs I open the main application window, but when I close the login window...more >>

Is it possible to mix dynamically generated html code to be rendered in a control and interact backwards and forwards with the generated code? I'm planning to develop an application that uses winforms for data entry and once data is modified use xsl transformations to render a memory stream wit...more >>

Hi, I am a new guy in C#. (I am a c++ developer long time already.) I want to write a resuable 3 states treeview(check, uncheck,semicheck). I want to handle Click event and BeforeExpand event in my resuable treeview , and I want to handle these events as the last event handler in the treev...more >>

I have a user control, textbox and treeview. After selecting a node textbox.text is set to selected node.text. The next command is textbox.Focus(). After that textbox.Focused is true but the cursor is missing. Tried Refresh, Update, SelectNextControl, nothing helps. The cursor is missing. Any id...more >>

I need a control to select text foreground an background color, it should look and behave similar to the controls used in excel 2003. Does such control exist? thanks, /stephan ...more >>

I have a dialog with OK button as default, i.e. pressing Enter will close the form. I have added a TextBox to the form, with AutoCompleteMode = SuggestAppend, with a custom datasource. If I select an item in the suggest dropdown and press Enter, my dialog closes. How can I stop this happening?...more >>

I need create some application which will use webbrowser control and make some action with content. It should be something like this. 1) open in webbrowser page - http://msdn.microsoft.com 2) in code (!) I should put something in search text box some string "C# webbrowser control" 3) make ...more >>

Hello. I have a problem with transparent form. I set TransparentKey to pink, then in OnPaint I draw form background (some areas are pink in bitmaps I use to compose). All is OK, form is transparent in place where pink is. Problem is that sometimes, that "pink" is visible on form and there's no ...more >>

I'm having trouble with windows forms/controls and fonts. I want to allow font selection for a text-box, and then I want to save the user-selected font to a database. None of my database field-types obviously is "font". So I set up the database to store: -font_family_name as string -emSize as i...more >>

I have a dialog the displays info. When called from the main form I need to access the property values in my CurrentProject class. The values are null when I attempt to access them from the dialog class. I'm not sure how to make the properties accessible to all other classes in the project. ...more >>

hi, I need to open Product studio from my windows application and log abug... how can I do it? Any good samples......more >>