Is there a way to suppress the dropdown of a combobox. Instead of showing the dropdowlist I would like to show my own control. Thank you. ...more >>

Hi guys, When somebody clicks a menuitem or uses the shortcut, this is called private void menuItem1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { doStuff(); } I am doing quick watch on the sender object but cannot see any property that will tell me if they clicked it or used the short...more >>

Hi, Can any one help me in creating the custom control in C-Sharp .Net. I want to create a transparent resizable rectangle which when placed on any window should be able to see the contents of the window. Thanks in advance ...more >>

I can't access the rows of my dataGrid after I call a dg.Delete() on some of the rows. I populate a datagrid from a datatable like this dataGrid1.DataSource = dt; Then I loop through each datarow deleting some of the rows like this: dr.Delete(); I then refresh the grid to get the re...more >>

I have a Listbox control with an arraylist as the datasource. The Listbox does not update when the list is updated. What would be the best way to make this control update? Peter ...more >>

I have an application that's starting my C# application. The problem is that 3 out of 5 times, my application winds up *behind* the window which launched it because of the calling apps' behavior. I can't change the caller. I'd like to wait a second or two after the Visible state changed, and...more >>

Please, try to run following sample: /****************** Sample ************************/ using System; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form { ComboBox cb; Button btn; DataSet ds; DataTable InitTable(...more >>

Hi, the checkbox control has three status: true, false and something strange which is in grey when the application is in runtime. Is it possible to set only two status??? Thanks:)...more >>

Hi, is it possible to lock a MonthCalendar control in this sense: nobody is able to change month by clicking the two arrows (previous and next month)!! Thanks. ...more >>

I have an application that uses a tab control. Each tab on the control has 2 list boxes on it. There are over a dozen tabs involved in the application. Is there some way to define a list box on a single tab and then redraw it on the remaining tabs when they come into focus? I hate the idea of ...more >>

Hi all, i was wondering if accelerator keys can be added to winform buttons that have images instead on text captions... is there a way? thanks, Dan ...more >>

How do I use the Helvetica font on vb.net Forms? Matt ...more >>

Hi, I have 30 tabs in an win form application I am developing and the tabs will not stay in my desired order. I have tried selecting each tab and using the "send to back" command but the order will not stay fixed. How do I lock the order of my tabs so that they don't rearrange themselves. ...more >>

Is it possible and if so, examples please, to replace the (Select, Edit, Delete) button with an image? Thanks BrianDH ...more >>

Hi all I want to build a treeview class that will add some other properties for each node, like pathtype, kind, etc... What is the best way to do this, Illustration will be great Thanks in advance Waleed Seada ...more >>

Is it possible to display in a datagrid the empty cells for the Null values instead of (null) ? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I am running VS 2002 and need a FolderBrowserDialog . I could create one using a DirListBox and a DriveListBox but it does not allow browsing to a network. Is there a way to display the network using a DirListBox and a DriveListbox? Is there a way to use the VS 2003 FolderBrowse...more >>

Hello, I have a control that is instanced twice on a web page. I went to a local coffee shop to see if I could view the web page. The coffee shop's connection was DSL. It worked, but it took over two minutes before the control was loaded. On my local web server the web page loads in about 15 ...more >>

Hi everyone. I have an app where I need to create Winforms controls at runtime (dynamic layout), and the type of control to create is actually an attribute of my Entity object (the data object) that is being displayed. So the data object itself knows what kind of control is best to display...more >>

Hello, I have a CheckedListBox on a winform and some of its items are checked by default. I want to disable the checked items so that user can not uncheck them during selecting other items (as it is add dialog not edit). Is there any way I can do so. I tried to search about it on the internet ...more >>

How do I programatically get the text from a popup dialog box? Thanks. ...more >>

We are hitting a problem that we can't explain and wondered if anyone has seen this before or can suggest how we can stop it happening : Form 'A' inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form Form 'B' inherits from Form 'A'. Form C inherits from Form B. Form B (the one in the middle) has a TextBo...more >>

Hi everyone, I am troubled by a "feature" of the .NET Group Box control (Windows.Forms.GroupBox) which alters the font of every control on the group box if I change the group box's font. I have noticed that this seems to be general .NET functionality - changing the parent control font changes ...more >>

Hello I am AxWebBrowser in many places in my project, now i want to control the print output, so i can have custom header and footer. i heard the i have to use print templates to do that, so if this is true, how do i use print templates? thanks Mystique ...more >>

Greetings I want to display a listbox on the form which will include two columns from the data table" FirstName" & "LastName" What I've done now, is modify the DataAdapter to include two additional colums as: [FirstName] + " " +[LastName] As NameFN [LastName] + " " +[FirstName] AS Name...more >>

I am developing a Windows Forms application using c# in VS.NET 2003. I have defined context menus (popup) for several of my controls. I have noticed that my context menu menu items do not work when clicked with the right mouse button. However, I have noticed that most Microsoft application'...more >>

Hi, I must design a method that receive a Control object and return a single value if it is a TextBox object, another value if it is a ComboBox object and so on. If I try a "if-else-if" loop, this will be very unhappy! Can I use a foreach to make that? How declare and create the array for u...more >>

Hi, Because the blind are unable to use a mouse, keyboard navigation is key. A major difficulty is that not all windows forms controls are keyboard 'tab-able' or 'arrow-able' or have "tab order". The application is built and the next step is to create the custom JAWS (Freedom Scientific)sc...more >>

Searched for hours with no luck..... I am trying to create an app (win form) in c# with visual styles enabled but I cannot seem to "keep" my textboxes in the 3d border style. Is this just something that can not be done with visual styles or is it something that needs an override ? Any help/sugges...more >>

Hi,am have this requirement and it would be great if someone can= help=2E I have a parent and child form, from the parent, i have to= set the background color of the child form(and forms)=2E I cannot= write any code in the child form and it has to be done from the= parent=2E I'm looking for ...more >>

Hello, I have a WinForm control embedded in IE that crashes everytime I close my browser. If i click on a link in IE when the control is loaded and brings me to another page, IE also crashes. I don't get any debug errors from IE itself (via IEDebug). Does anyone have any idea why this would...more >>