Hi guys, I show my Form in dialog mode. So I have "Ok" button on it with DialogResult = Ok. What is the right way and how can I abort form closing from the button click event. Thanks a lot Aleksey ...more >>

I have a popup window created from a form that contains a progress bar and a label field. The problem is while the progress bar updates fine, the label field does not show up at all on the form. I have tried a couple of different things, but nothing seems to make the label field to show. ...more >>

I have a number of controls on a tab page. I want to validate them all when the user tries to leave the tab. I then want to highlight the first control which fails validation. How can I do this? I try setting focus but something seems to set the focus back to the control which had it before va...more >>

I want to programmatically generate the Windows datalink window, so the end user can choose the database of his choice, and get back the connection string he generates, using the DataLink window. I had some old COM code a long time ago (with vb6) - - but I need to know how to do it at least...more >>

Hi there, Does anyone know how I can trap F1 to activate help when a menu item is active, preferably without creating a "ToolStripMenuItem" derivative (so I can quickly wire this up using the designer). I'm doing this when my users activate a menu from my main form. I simply want to activat...more >>

PropertyGrid has property SelectedGridItem, that lets you get and set the selected GridItem. Fine, but where do you get the GridItem? I know you can get sub items of a Griditem by its GridItems property and its parent with Parent property, but where do you get the initial GridItem? -- Arto Vi...more >>

Hey guys, Lets say I have an object, MyObject, that has a couple of public properties. I want to serialize this object and include it in a larger xml message. So, I have some elements in the xml message that have nothing to do with the object, whose values are retrieved elsewhere, and some ...more >>

I am trying to set a Combobox's SelectedItem property to an object but without any success. Code Example: for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++) { Person p = new Person("JDoe" + i.ToString()); Combobox1.Items.Add(p); } ...more >>

I have a datagridview with datagridviewcomboboxcolumn bind to a nullable integer datatable field When I add a new row I can do it without select any item on combo and the NULL value in inserted on the datatable But if I select an Item than there is no way to unselect it and choose null Even ...more >>

The following code is giving me a timeout problem., no matter what I do I can't send a piece of mail using .net2.0 System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient via port 465 and using ssl, if however I try using outlook or outlook express it works fine.. System.Net.Mail.MailMessage msgMail = new S...more >>

I need to allow the user to select a folder for further processing of a procedure. How do I do this in C# code? Thanks in advance. Andy...more >>

Hi all, Can I get "design verbs" from a control (System.Windows.Forms.Control) ? How ? I would like display them in a popup menu. Best Regards, Luis F. (Indusoft Team) ...more >>

Hi guys, I try to adjust columns order in DataGridView via DisplayIndex property and it doesn't work me properly. Here is the code: protected override void AdjustGridColumns() { foreach (DataGridViewColumn clmn in _grdCustomizations.Columns) clmn.Visible = false; AdjustColumn...more >>

Hi, Before my main form is opened, I have my program check some things. One of the checks will open a form and when the user clicks on a button on that form, it will open another form to fill in some data. On the last form there 2 buttons, one to save and one to cancel. On save the data is s...more >>

Hello guys, got a weird problem here. On sucessful saving operations i'm showing a messagebox with the use of MessageBox.Show(...); The problem is, when the messagebox is shown and the user clicks ok, the main form minimizes. That is very annoying. Any suggestions? Thanks in a...more >>

So I have my notify icon, the form, the context menu all that jazz working fine. My notifyicon has a context menu with an Exit option. Works fine. If the form is current visible and you close is (X)...it hides itself rather than close. Double click on the notifyicon, and it reappears. All i...more >>

I have made a user control that is full labels. How do I drag this control unto a form? I envision a windows form with about three user controls, each user control has 5-10 labels. User controls works great in ASP.Net, but seems less flexible on a windows form. What am I doing wrong? -- Ar...more >>

Hi, Found some code to do this but seems to be causing a stack overflow due to a loop somewhere. Code is: .... public event EventHandler Minimize; .... //in form constructor .... this.Minimize += new EventHandler(Form1_Minimize); .... void Form1_Minimize(o...more >>

When I power up my computer and hit F10 the computer will not bring up the system restore screen? It brings me to the safe mode start up which will do none of the comands offered? Is there a way to force it to the restore besides F10 on start up? I don't have a xp disc because its on the har...more >>

Hi. Using C#, receiving input ocx or DLL file that has an ActiveX How can verify that has already been registered in the system? tks. Alvaro....more >>

I am looking to get a good set of third-party controls for use in .NET that can simplify programming WindowsForms in C#. Controls like Browse for Folder, Button Edit, Grids, etc. would really help in creating applications. Any recommendation is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. A...more >>

Hi all, I developed a form designer using the PropertyGrid control. The commands pane is not appearing for controls that have "hot commands" (example Tab Control: AddTab and RemoteTab). I set the "CommandsVisibleIfAvailable" property for true. Anybody has some idea (or sample) of what it ca...more >>

How can I dynamically load controls unto a windows form? I need to write some custom controls that are a composite of other controls. These custom controls needs to be dynamically loaded into a container, maybe a panel. I know this can easily be done in Asp.net. Now I need to duplicate this t...more >>

Heya, I encountered one problem today. I am using ListView for storing some items here. View mode is List (to show as many items as possible), however view is trimmed (instead of TestPackageXXX it will show TestPacka...). Is there any option to change this behavior? Thanks, Martin...more >>

Hi this is my code DataGridViewButtonColumn buttonupColumn = new DataGridViewButtonColumn(); buttonupColumn.HeaderText = ""; buttonupColumn.Name = "btnUp"; buttonupColumn.Text = "Up"; I want to have a background image to my button instear ...more >>

I have a common mousemove/down/up handler for any control placed on the panel at runtime .It's Working fine . I need for moving and resizing controls (labels/textboxes/checkboxes/etc) and shape controls (LineShape ,RectangleShape, OvalShape which are from powerpacks.dll ) which i place on the...more >>

I would like to impliment cut, copy, paste functionality on selected nodes (and sub nodes) of a tree view control that resides on a windows form. How can I do this? -- Steve H....more >>

Hi All I want to publish my application in such a way that at the time of Install it should ask for password.Means If put publish URL then will ask for password if i click on Install button .So without password no one can download my application.I do not know it is possible through publ...more >>