Is anyone aware of a way to make multiple glyphs show up. I"ve set all column's sortmode to programmatic and assigned each column a sort glyph direction, but only the first one shows up ...more >>

I am new to form and controls. I do C++ programming for more than 10 years. I noticed that there is no main function. Can anybody explain what I am missing. I am sure there is some kind of philosophy out there I would be pleased if you could tell me where I can find more informat...more >>

When it comes to forms, is there any practical difference between the Location and the DesktopLocation properties? And does the SetDesktopLocation() method do anything that can't be achieved by simply setting one of these properties? ...more >>

I have an app that has multiple distinct modules. Most users will need to have only one of the assemblies/modules available to them. Although other users will need multiple assemblies/modules available to them. Is it possible to build an application that upon startup checks what assemblies ...more >>

VB2005. I built a class inherited from Windows.Forms.Form and placed a Button on the form. The button.Text contains "&Quit". I create another class that inherits from the first class. In the IDE designer I see the button and its caption is Quit with the Q underlined, as I expect. When I ...more >>

Hi I'm currently working on an application which can be seen as sort of a modern version of Norton Commander - I have a file list of a directory on my local machine in a Listview in detail mode, and the same for a remote location (not via SMB but a self-written remoting based API). In order...more >>

Hi there, What is the best way of displaying part of an image? The problem is as follows: I need to show an area map with objects. Now I need to zoom in on a part of that map to show some more detail. eventually the object are placed based on GPS locations. Any help or direction would ...more >>

Hi I am using Tahoma 8 size for my text boxes which is changed to Tahoma, 8.25pt by the system. The height of my text boxes is 21 with this font size. Is there a way to reduce the height to 20 without much effecting the font size? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I noticed that the textbox autocomplete feature works only if multiline is set to false. Is there a way to have it work with multiline set to true. Thanks. Andrea...more >>

I was wondering about the reason why the control buttons (maximise, close (X), mininise) are not showing despite having the boolean property set to true? They appear on all of my other forms but not this particular form. Is there any reason behind this? -- yours sincerely Craig Hoy...more >>

I was wondering how to access by index of the screen in which the application is one when there is more than one screen attached to the workstation or notebook to get the bounds of the screen to resize the form to make most use of the screen resolution. I know how using the Screen class to ref...more >>

Using vs2005 and visual basic for a winform app: I have a form with a sqlserver datasource, tableadapter, bindingsource and bindingsource navigator. The column values are displayed in textboxes on the form. One of the textboxes is read only to the user. Wnen the user clicks the add new on th...more >>

I have a DataGridView with a DataGridViewButtonColumn that I want to use to enable and disable records in the grid. When the button is clicked I have code to change the value in a field called 'Enabled' from True to False, or from False to True. I can set the Text property of the button thr...more >>

1. What means "scrolled in" in this MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 explanation - "All - The data is copied, removed from the drag source, and scrolled in the drop target"? 2. What means "scroll" and "scrolling" in this MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 explanation - "Scroll - Scrolling...more >>

I need to read the icons from a secondary thread so that the file list is returned prompty in a listview. I'm using a background worker object to retrieve icons asynchronously. What happens is that the icons for certain files (I verified this happens for xml and sln files on my system) are not...more >>

I'm trying to program a form with a treeview. I have just created a root node in the control. Now I have called a routine to create a child node. As I create these nodes I want to keep track of their indices in a data structure. The code is roughly as follows: (Assume the original root ...more >>

Hello all I prepared a windows service and tried to install it with a small bat like this: @ECHO OFF REM The following directory is for .NET 2.0 set DOTNETFX2=%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 set PATH=%PATH%;%DOTNETFX2% echo Installing WindowsService... echo ------------...more >>

hi, i've used Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories) method to return the files in a given path.... but i've a small concern here...whenever I give path like "d:\", i'm getting an unauthorizedaccess exception...this is because i'm not able to read certain directories ...more >>

My app used to work perfectly, i have a picture box and an invisible panel which overlaws some shapes over an image. I wanted to add a TableLayoutPanel so i can add some additional controls, i embedded the picturebox in a cell and not it seems my invisible panel cannot display over my pictureb...more >>

I thought this was easy, just to SelectedValue in code for example Combobox1.SelectedValue= "ABC". Looks on screen like it works and the correct value shows in the combobox but the underlying datasource is not updated. It is like the usual order entry example where you have a combox disp...more >>

Hello, folks. I have an issue with OpenFileDialog. Let's say I chose a file at C: \TestFolder\TestFile.txt using OpenFileDialog. After I choose the file, I tried to delete the folder from Windows Explorer, but it says that another process is being used by another person or program. So I opene...more >>

Sorry for cross post - my other post produced to results. I need to create a C# 2.0 Windows XP SP2 application that has the following features: Sidebar - vertical bar on a desktop which basically functions as a control panel for other gadgets. I can drag and drop any of my gadgets into or ...more >>

Whenever you run CHKDSK one of the message lines is "usn journal verification." What is the "usn journal?"...more >>

Hello, I'm having difficulties with a customized help system we have. As it is common to different apps, there is a common entry point, a page called StartHelp.html which contains some scripts and has a table with corresponding helpID and help file names (not only html file. It can be pdf ...more >>

If a DataGridView row's index is known, how can that row's bounds be determined? -- Richard Lewis Haggard General: www.Haggard-And-Associates.com Please come visit here for a couple thousand good giggles!: www.haggard-and-associates.com/Humor/humor.htm ...more >>

Pls Help I want to create a Invoice form using vb.net pls tell which control i should use. I want item list also in in the invoice form thank you in advance ...more >>

Hello, I'm developping an UserControl, filled with child controls on it. I want to make the UserControl to display a message when user db-click on any place on it, but it seems now, all of those db-click events are hold by its child controls, what should I do to ask child controls ignore rece...more >>

Hi everybody, I have a RichTextBox in my form and I'm adding plenty of text (follwoed by \n\r) to it and want it to be scrolled automatically to show last texts. I have put it to my form and it should work like a logger. Can I achieve it by using RichTextBox? Thnaks in Advance: Afshar Mohe...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm having a frustrating problem with the datagrid control. I have added code so that the currently selected row remains highlighted even after a sort. This seems to work perfectly in all but one respect. After the sort, the row will move position and will remain selected. Th...more >>

I have a combo box in which I want to display the distinct values in a field in a table. Depending on the table name and the field name entered by the user, I build an sql statement _Sql = "Select distinct " + _fieldName + " from " + _tableName and fill a dataset with the results How...more >>

I am searching for an example where a combobox is extended to contain checkbox items. I've looked all day now, and so far the best links are: 1) http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CheckComboBox.asp?df=100&forumid=421877&select=2100429&msg=2100429 and 2) http://www.codeproject.com/combobo...more >>

I am rather unfamiliar with the DataGridView. I am trying to do a project with VS2005 and SQL Server 2000. Assuming a DataGridView bound to a table, what is the best place (best event) to catch new records and supply default values? (Also assume that several of these fields do not permit n...more >>

In VS05, I have a form that has a standard RichTextBox control in which my client wants to be able to type an Enter key and have the RichTextBox respond by inserting a new line instead of either moving to the next control in the Z order or closing the form. He doesn't want to use Ctrl+Enter. H...more >>

Just got a problem about "my.Computer.Screen.WorkingArea". It seems not to work properly. I have got my windows application developed with VB.NET in Visual Studio 2005. What I want to do is to change the size of my forms when screen resolution changes. With the application running, I changed t...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a loop that runs thousands of time an does IO operations. in each loop I update RichTextBox.Text but it does not take effect until the end of whole loop. It occurs about other controls too. How can I enforce these controls to be updated correctly? I'm using: VS 2005, C...more >>

Hi, I have an unbound DataGridView with just 1 column in it. The column is a combobox type, and I need to be able to attach the datasource to it programmatically. This is because it is a DataTable that gets built dynamically at runtime. But I can't see how to get at the underlying combobox t...more >>

I have a group of 7 checkboxes representing the days of the week. I have an enum that that corresponds to the days ex. DaysOfWeek.Sunday, DaysOfWeek.Monday etc. I have a library that has a function that I call and need to pass the days of the week that the user has selected concatenated by ...more >>

I am trying to change the column header text to red and I have this code: dCol.HeaderCell.Style.ForeColor = Color.Red; This change does indeed stick and I can see it in the debugger. However, the column name text is still showing up as black. I have seen this same problem asked around bu...more >>

I want to open an Excel doc from my .NET 2.0 WinForm application. I have a list of UNC path names of Excel documents a user might want to open. The way I'm doing it now works, but when the user closes Excel, it is still running; I can see it in the list of processes in TaskManager. My Win...more >>

Does any body knows how can I customize winform's title bar to add some controls. For example, I need to add a text box and a button. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi! I am tasked to write a Google-like toolbar application in C#. We explored using Google Desktop SDK but found it too limiting in the way it handles communications with the backend and too limiting with UI presentation. I need to create an application that has the following features: ...more >>

Here are the goals: 1) Give the user the means whereby a row's height expands to display the entire contents of its tallest cell. 2) Give the user the means whereby a row will shrink down to a single line. 3) Give the user the means whereby a row's height can be manually set by dragging the...more >>

I posted this a while ago with no response other than a confirmation from someone else. Has anyone gotten this to work? Problem: I've created a click-once deployed application that cannot receive paramters from the query string in the URL of the click once page. I've followed this to the l...more >>

hi, i've used a treeview control in my windows form.... i want to display the text of my treeview nodes as hyperlink..instead of showing it as plain text...... how can i acheive it? ...more >>

Hi I am trying to right all control properties on my form to an xml file. My complete VB code so far is given at the end below. I have two problems currently. 1. On the line PropValue = Prop.GetValue(Ctrl) I get the error "Conversion from type 'Padding' to type 'String' is not valid." wh...more >>

I have a combobox on a form that is populated with a bunch of items. A user can select an item, and other related things on the screen fill in. I am implementing an Edit mode, so that once clicked, the user can change the information and save it. While in Edit mode, I would like to disable the...more >>

Hi I am trying to save settings of controls on my form to a file so I can read them back later and recreate the controls on the form. I have figured out how to go through all controls and get their properties (see code below). What I am not sure is; how and what type of file format I need t...more >>

I have a controller class that creates an object and then calls a form for the user to fill in some information that will populate the object with after the form is closed. What is the best way for the controller to get the data the user entered into the form. Should the controller pass the ...more >>

I'm upgrading my C# project from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 and I've noticed the following. I have a base class called UserControl1 that inherits from UserControl. Then I created another class (BatchActionControl) that inherits from my UserControlDerived and, although the applications runs correc...more >>

hi! How to put this char buffer[300] = "ffffff" into label->Text? I need to convert it to system:string:/ regards, sonic ...more >>