I would like to make a my own control that can be added to other projects and used by other developers. When the developer is using the control at design time, I would like for him to use a "wizard" style program that would make the property settings for him, rather than using the propertygrid e...more >>

How do you find out the parent control that has the subject control in its controls collection? ...more >>

If a control is inside a group box, how do you find its absolute location on a form? The location values show its location relative to the group box upper left corner. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi everybody, The data (Richtextbox) has format like indentation, Butted list, Font Style and others. Is Windows.Forms.Label control be able to display the data with ints format intact? How do I do that, the usual way of using its Text property and just that. Thanks. Dennis M...more >>

Hi all, I am developing an app in VS 2005 and SQLServer 2005 Express I have a user control that is not bound to any data. I have a combo box on that UC whose list is databound to a clients table. Data is something like this: Value - Display 1 - ABC 2 - DEF 3 - GHI Sometimes I wa...more >>

Hi, I am developing a Windows Forms application which is the client of an XML Web Service. When running this application on my development system, forms and controls are showing as designed in the IDE. When I run my application on any other computer, every forms and controls are a little ...more >>

Hi What I need to do is as follows: I need to have a combobox in a grid with its list of items vary depending on another cell value in the same row. For example assume we have a table containning a person name, country, and city. When bounded to a datagridview, I need the city to be a combobo...more >>

I'm having a problem debugging a custom control. My breakpoints are not working with a message "The breakpoint will not be currently hit" etc. The fun point here, that when I test the application that contains the control, I can stop in the control. Only when I make the control a startup pro...more >>

How do i prevent the focus rectangle being drawn over a Button control? I don't want it!...more >>

We're looking at the possibility of replacing our very old third party controls, which we used in two Windows apps written in VB6. We've been using controls from Infragistics (they used to be called Sheridan back when we purchased them) controls, so we're likely to stay with Infragistics. ...more >>

I am writing a NotifyIcon app. I want to use Left mouse click to pop up a ContextMenuStrip. Currently, I use ContextMenuScrip.Show(x,y) to display it. But it always show a windows at taskbar like I popup a window form. Did I use the wrong method? SeraphJiang@hotmail.com 27th,Dec ...more >>

What I am doing is: 1. To a treeview, a number of nodes using AddRange method (Items are displayed in the treeview in the order in which added) 3. Remove some of the nodes using Remove() method 4. Again, add a number of new nodes using AddRange() method. This time the items are displayed in...more >>

Hi. Does anybody know where can I find somewhere on internet, source code of appliacation similar with Ms Paint, or something easy for drawing. Thanks a lot. ...more >>

[I posted this elsewhere earlier, but this seems a more appropriate group] Hello all, I have a tabcontrol with 3 tabpages. I want to hide (not just disable) the 3 actual selection tabs that allow a user to select a given tab page, but keep the page around and active. Instead I will be...more >>

Hi, The problem i have is to show a ContextMenu on a toolbar depending on which ToolBarButton is currently under cursor. Is there any way to find out which ToolBarButton mouse is pointing? ToolBar.GetChildAtPos() doesn't work as ToolBarButton is not a child control fo a toolbar... I am i...more >>

Hi all, On my Windows Form, I'm having a SplitContainer control. Each panel (top & bottom) has a ToolStrip that contains a TextBox and a button. When a user enters text in the TextBox and presses return, the action that belongs to the corresponding button should be fired. Therefore, I could u...more >>

Hi all, I've been trying to update the font style in a RichTextBox using FontDialog. But when I use this method (Rather than change each attribute individually) all the text in the RTB changes to the new font. Is there any way to just make the selected text change or the text from that point o...more >>

Hi, I have an XHTML document that I wish to display to the user in the .NET = 2.0 WebBrowser control, and allow the user to edit it.=20 I got everything working beautifully but noticed that the control = tampers with the !DOCTYPE definition. Here is the XHTML that I pass to the WebBrowser c...more >>

I'm using a TableLayoutPanel to hold +1000 rows at a time. With a row height of 36 px the total height of the table should be 50924 for 1414 rows, which "PreferredSize.Height" indicates correctly. However, when I assign this value to the "Height" property of the table it remains at 32767 eve...more >>

I'm trying to use the new tabcontrol in VB.NET 2005. While in design mode, it looks fine, using the same XP theme as the one I have set in Windows. The problem is that as soon as I run the program, the tabcontrol changes its style to the old gray classic-windows style. I tried playing around ...more >>

I have a textbox named textboxSum in a windows form. How can I format this textbox to show its value in local currency (from the control panel settings) with no decimals? Regards Tore...more >>

Hi all, I have created a user control and exposed a property on the property = window whilst in design mode. I would like to know if it is possible to = make this property in the property window have a drop down associated = with it so that the user using this control can only select a number...more >>

Hi All, I'm embedding a windows user control in aspx page and showing the user control in the IE, the problem that I'm facing is that the user session of the parent application is getting expired even if I'm working on the usercontrol window.How to handle this situation and how can I keep the m...more >>

Hi there, I have a custom component class already in the toolbox. When I add it to a Windows form, it seems that an instance is created by VS, as the code in the constructor gets executed. Is there a way to avoid this behavior? I have code in the constructor that needs the application to...more >>

I'm trying to add controls at design time to a panel that is wrapped in a user control. I'm creating a user control replacement for the .NET GroupBox control, and I want it to behave just like a GroupBox control--at design time, I want to drag it from the toolbox to a Windows form, then dra...more >>

Hi, I want to show a context menu when a treenode on a TreeView Control is clicked When a MenuItem is clicked i want to be able to determine the Treenode that was clicked from within the MenuItem eventHandler. I'd appreciate it if any one can point me in the right direction. Regards, N...more >>

Reposting to a larger audience - hope someone can help! This may seem a bit odd, but I'd like to set the text in a ComboBox control when an item is selected from the drop down list. I want the text to be different than the display text of the selected item. For example, if "x" is the di...more >>

Hi, How can I ignore the Enter/Return being pressed in a multiline textbox *if* the current line is empty? ie, to stop people adding blank lines? Regards, Daren ...more >>

Hi I am writing (practicing) a small game using user controls and some time my control whould become over another same type or another type user or windows control how can I modify the layout , some thing like Z coordinating in my controls??? Thank you ...more >>

Hi, NG! Does anyone have any hint on how to get the PropertyGrid control to display more user-friendly "property" names, i.e. names that contain spaces, just the way the VS IDE does when you select a file in Solution Explorer to view its properties ("Build Action", "Copy to Output Directory" e...more >>

Hi all... I have a windows form with a DataGridView on it. I have some texboxes on the form that are used to filter data shown in the grid after pressing a button. At the moment, I have not found the way to refresh the DataGrid in order to show the filtered data. I have tested a lot of thi...more >>

Anyone got a solution for having checkboxes on some (eg leaf nodes) and not on other nodes, in a winforms (not asp) treeview control Neil . . . ...more >>

I have a datagrid where I have created a contextmenu. It works, but when I select one cell in the grid I sometimes get a "default" context menu with menuitems like select all, copy, paste, delete etc. I don't want this default menu to be visible in my datagrid. How can I switch it off? The ...more >>

I have 2 tables in a dataset with a relation between them. The parent-table is shown in one datagrid, the child-table in another. The datagrid with the parent-table shows a plus-sign in the datarow header. Pressing the plus sign shows the child rows in the same datagrid as the parent row. I...more >>

Hello, i installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition today. Before i had Beta 2 Installed. When i open my solution i get the following Error-Messages in a MDI-Form: Type 'System.Windows.Forms.RaftingContainer' is not defined. 'Raft' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip'....more >>

Hi, Can someone give me a hlep on inherited user control? I try to inherite windows forms user control, like ListView. From Visual studio 2003, I right click a folder and selct "Add inherited user control ...", then I browser to c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\system.wind...more >>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok I'm trying to host a small windows forms control in an asp.net page. The control grabs an image from the clipboard with the click of a button displays it on the page and then allows the user to upl...more >>

Hello All, First I tried to inherit from the TabPageCollection class but received the following error message: No overload for method 'TabPageCollection' takes '0' arguments I also tried implementing a custom collection and the tabpages show up during design time in the properties but t...more >>

I would like to use a "drop-down list box" on a windows form, but it does not seem to be available in the tool box. I get it available in the tool box when I develop a web page and an InfoPath form. When I check to add it to the tool box, it is all ready selected - but does not appear. Does...more >>

I've extended (subclassed) a Button control and given it two new Image properties (for mouse over and mouse click images). These work fine but I've noticed that once I set one of my two new Images in forms designer, I cannot clear it since the Reset option is disabled on the right-click menu i...more >>

I was looking for the visual representation control to use on a windows.form. Much like the VSS Diff screen or the Wikipedia history screen. The user experience would be one or comparing evolutions of file versions, like browsed to csv files or I may persist each one of those csv as a version in ...more >>

hi all, how to export datagrid to excel, html, texte files. ravindra ...more >>

I'm using C# and .net 2.0. I want to use a TabControl, but I want to hide the tab (the part that sticks up with text and/or images) from view. Programmatically, how do I hide the tabs? Thanks, Justin...more >>

Hi, the tab character in a textbox is about I think 8 or 10 charcters long. Can I change that to 2 or 3? Thanks. -Ab. ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a control that inherits from combobox and that can act as a label. This might confuse you but I'll try to explain what I mean. The control has a property "ReadOnly": public bool ReadOnly{ get{ return _ReadOnly } set{ this.SetStyle...more >>

I have a StatusStrip where I added a couple of ToolStripStatusLabels. But when I try to change their BorderStyle it has no effect .... ...more >>

Is there a way to get the Control + C (copy) and Control + V (paste) back when building a custom control to only display letters and numbers in a text box? I have built a new control and it works fine to limit input to backspace, letters and numbers but I can't figure out how to enable the cop...more >>

Is there a way to get the current row (the row the cursor is on) without using sendmessage or some other unmanaged piece of code... i found the .lines() collection but i cant really find wich row im currently on... Thanks....more >>

I have a VB app hosting the Webbrowser control. I would like to add "something" to the requests that app is submitted to our web application to indicate that its from this webbrowser and not a separate instance of IE. Is this possible, keeping in mind that I cannot add anything to the regi...more >>

Hi, I am receiving data in a separate class and I need to forward that data into a usercontrol on which datagrid has been applied. I need to listen to the forwarded event, extract the data which is coming up, very very fast and send it to usercontrol to bind into the datagird. I am giving ...more >>