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all groups > dotnet windows forms > august 2007 > threads for august 15 - 21, 2007

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To Check Already Shown Form?
Posted by wrytat at 8/21/2007 11:22:17 PM
How do I check whether a form is already shown (open)?...more >>


Opening Form By Name?
Posted by wrytat at 8/21/2007 8:46:00 PM
I have the name of the form (in String) that I would like to show. How do I show the form, if I only have its form name in String?...more >>

How to hide/remove an inherited control using the Designer?
Posted by Jeff at 8/21/2007 3:18:46 PM
My derived Form inherits several controls, including a Panel that is Dock.Top. Using the Designer on the derived From, how can hide/remove that inherited panel that this particular derived Form does not need? Setting the panel.Visible = false, prevents the Panel from drawing, but the Panel still...more >>

Disable code generation on double-click of control
Posted by Dan Reber at 8/21/2007 10:32:18 AM
There are times when I mistakenly double-click a control and then VS goes to the code window and either generates the code signature for the default event or it navigates to the default event. Is there a way to disable this feature? Thanks Dan ...more >>

ANN: VintaSoftTiff.NET Library v2.2 has been released.
Posted by ygpriv NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 8/21/2007 5:05:55 AM
VintaSoftTiff.NET Library will help you to work with multipage TIFF files. You can add or insert image into multipage TIFF file, delete image from TIFF file - no temporary file is necessary. Image processing functions are also available: despeckle, deskew, border detection, rotation, blank page ...more >>

Convert from C# to VB
Posted by Chrysan at 8/20/2007 9:04:00 PM
How to convert the following code from C# to VB. var photos = (from photo in xroot.Element("photos").Elements("photo") select new PhotoInfo { Id = (string)photo.Attribute("id"), Owner = (string)p...more >>

Example of binding XML node to comboBox?
Posted by rj at 8/20/2007 8:58:01 PM
to Is there an easy way, to bind some xmlNodeList? I tried to write a public class property that read the xmlNode and returned List(Of String) containing the element names, which are what I want to display in the comboBox. I'm finding millions of examples of simple databinding to a text box,...more >>

Databound Checkedlistbox - Check certain boxes
Posted by aaapaul at 8/20/2007 1:31:42 AM
VS 2005 I have a databound checkedlistbox: With Me.LCheckedlistbox1 .BeginUpdate() .Sorted = True .DataSource = objB.Benutzertabelle .DisplayMember = "Nachname" .ValueMember = "Persno" .EndUpdate() End ...more >>



Bitmap.MakeTransparent() and Bitmap.Save()
Posted by Dylan Nicholson at 8/20/2007 1:15:35 AM
Hi, I've found quite a lot of messages and posts by developers at a loss as to how to use MakeTransparent() to generate a GIF89 image with a transparent color...but I've come across a particular problem that I've yet to see mentioned, namely that using bitmap.Save("filename.gif") works j...more >>

Setting Tab Size in TextBox
Posted by mj2736 NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 8/19/2007 10:22:57 AM
I need to write a function that will set the width of tabs in a multiline textbox windows control to a specified number of characters. Here is the code I've tried; it is changing the tab size, but not to the size I'm expecting. Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks. private const int E...more >>

WinForms with one thread per window?
Posted by Hans Merkl at 8/17/2007 2:01:52 PM
My app displays real time data in grids on several forms. Each grid usually contains several thousand records. When we open a lot of forms the GUI thread can't keep up with updating all the grids (data decoding is done on a separate thread). Our clients have multi core CPUs but because the single...more >>

Can't load .dll after changing version
Posted by Jack Jackson at 8/17/2007 10:57:53 AM
I have two assemblies, AppObj and AppControls, that originally had the default version of 1.0.0.0. Another assembly, AppForms, references AppObj and AppControls as Project references, and contains a class that inherits from System.Window.Forms.Form. If I change the version of either AppObj ...more >>

Iterate child ToolStripMenuItem
Posted by Tergiver at 8/16/2007 9:12:02 PM
I have a MenuStrip with a bunch of menus and sub-menus. On one of the top-level menus I want all sub-items except the first to be disable/enabled based on Checked setting of the first. Like so: foreach (ToolStripMenuItem item in designToolStripMenuItem.Items) if (item != topDesignToolStrip...more >>

ClickOnce bootstrapper fails with empty error window
Posted by Stefanie Mehl at 8/16/2007 6:03:57 PM
Hi, currently I encounter the following strange behaviour: When I publish a simple windows forms application with the publish wizard from Visual Studio and doubleclick on the generated setup.exe, I get an error window with no message at all. The publish wizard worked for me before but som...more >>

How to draw custom title bars on MDI child forms?
Posted by Dave Leach at 8/16/2007 6:00:59 PM
I am doing .Net Windows Forms development using VS 2005 and C#. The application I am working on uses the MDI pattern. The original implementation was done using .Net 1.1 and VS 2003. How can I customize the title bar of the child forms such that the following the following is achieved: -...more >>

DataGrid Question NEWBIE
Posted by esebastian NO[at]SPAM esolutionsgroup.ca at 8/16/2007 11:38:11 AM
Hi all, Quick question, probably easy for most of you but i can't see to get it. I have a form with a datagrid, the datagrid is bound to a dataset with 2 tables in it and the tables are related through a datarelation. I am wondering the following. how do i know when the views have changed? i ...more >>


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