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all groups > dotnet windows forms > april 2008 > threads for april 15 - 21, 2008

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Books recommendations please
Posted by John at 4/21/2008 5:50:32 PM
Hi I need to develop winform database applications and wondering is these two books will get me there; Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .Net http://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Binding-Windows-Forms-2-0/dp/032126892X/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid...more >>


Available Bluetooth Serial Ports in Vista
Posted by Dave Harry at 4/21/2008 11:45:40 AM
I'm using the following code to determine the available serial ports: ComboBoxPort.Items.Clear() For Each sp As String In My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames ComboBoxPort.Items.Add(sp) Next It worked well in XP, but under Vista (now with SP1) the Bluetooth ...more >>

ComboBox LostFocus
Posted by Arne Garvander at 4/21/2008 7:21:00 AM
1. I make a selection in a combobox 2. I click outside my window on the desktop Result: The Combobox lostFocus fires multiple times until my application blows up. How can I work around this problem? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>

Egghead Cafe copying messages on this forum to their web-site
Posted by Bill Woodruff at 4/19/2008 9:10:10 PM
Hi, Recently I posted a message here on issues with setting ShowInTaskBar at runtime; no one's responded yet, but I am not complaining :) I've always felt that getting a response in groups like these is a "bonus," and I'm always appeciative of the generous gift of time by experts that goes...more >>

Datagridview sort
Posted by Arne Garvander at 4/18/2008 2:33:02 PM
When I click a column in my datagrid a sort occur. If I click the column with dates, it sorts in m/d/y order. I would like it to either sort in y/m/d order or I would like to turn off the sort. It seems like by date is in a text format. Maybe I can change the data type to datetime and the sort...more >>

Menu Item Access Keys Not visible
Posted by xakee at 4/18/2008 7:25:20 AM
Hello, I know this topic has been discussed before but my problem is kind of different. I have the following menu items, File View Tools Help Now i have checked "hide underline letters for navigation until i press the Alt key" in the desktop appearance effects. Now when i "click" on file...more >>

Bug in VS.NET 2005 for click-once deployment
Posted by CSharpner at 4/17/2008 4:26:24 PM
It appears there's a bug in Visual Studio 2005 when trying to deploy a click-once application (this is a completely different issue than my last post, in case anyone's keeping track). When I set my publishing settings, the first time, it works just fine. When I want to publish to a different ...more >>

isDirty
Posted by Arne Garvander at 4/17/2008 10:52:01 AM
Does a windows textbox have a property that tells if the user has entered anything into a textbox on a windows. -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>



Application.DoEvents() throws null reference exception
Posted by Bharathi at 4/17/2008 6:46:21 AM
Hi, I have an application where I have used Application.DoEvents() method on the click event of a NumericUpDown. This particular method is throwing "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.. Does anyone have any idea about it? Regards, Bharathi...more >>

Deploying native code.
Posted by Lamrin at 4/16/2008 11:36:00 AM
The scenario is we're about to release an exe to our clients. It's a winforms application that uses reflection, remoting, generics, and serialization. We want to protect the intellectual proprety rights of our code. One solution is to obfuscate the exe. I've come across some 3rd party so...more >>

s_URL’s_to_one
Posted by Mohammad S Najdawi at 4/16/2008 12:23:01 AM
Hi Guys, I have multiple domain names www.alnajdawi.com, alnajdawi.com, www.alnajdawi.net, alnajdawi.net as a host headers in IIS 6.0 I want to know how can I redirect all these URL’s to one URL www.alnajdawi.com, so if a user entered one of these URL’s he has to be redirected to www...more >>

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist?
Posted by DR at 4/15/2008 2:04:18 PM
GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist? When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then: GC.Collect(); and then GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); but it still shows that my process takes 400 MB of memory. Is there any ea...more >>


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