Hello, One of the WindowsForms controls that I developed uses a richtextbox as an editor in one of it's properties. As it does syntaxhighlighting, I get a lot of flicker at this operation. Using LockWindowUpdate API helps a lot but at the same time causes the desktop to flicker like a hell....more >>

Using VS2005, .NET 2.0, making a WinForms app. This seems pretty straight forward, but all of my icons in large icon view in a listview (and a treeview) look horrible. I've got an ImageList component with several imported icons... all 32x32 and 32bit color (from the icons collections in VS20...more >>

Ok, consider the following EXAMPLE code: WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser(); HtmlDocument document = browser.Document; IHTMLDocument2 docElement = document.DomDocument as IHTMLDocument2; IHTMLElement newElement = docElement.createElement("BR"); // The next line is illegal. AppendChi...more >>

Hello all. I've created an HTML document on-the-fly using xsl. Now I want to display it in a web browser control. The HTML is in a MemoryStream. This is what I tried to do: ------ xml = new XmlDocument(); xml.Load("test.xml"); xslTransform = new XslCompiledTransform(); xslTransform....more >>

I want to be able to display a quick little window indicating that the app is doing something and the window will only be up for a few seconds. Like a MessageBox but I don't want the user to have to do anything, the window will auto close in a few seconds. Is there anything built into the ...more >>

Hello! I have developed a custom component to be used with window applications, do you know if there is a way to write to the calling assembly resource file? I want to persist global data in the windows application to be used by this component at design & runtime, Or not necessarilly wit...more >>

I am developing a windows forms application using VS 2003 in C#. The controls in this application each have a ContextMenu. I have created a derived version of the MenuItem class to allow customizing the appearance of the individual menu items in the context menus. The main objective in usin...more >>

I am developing a windows form application using VS 2003 in C#. I have created a form that contains a ListView control. The ListView control View property is set to Details. I need to know when the user resizes the ColumnHeaders to perform some formatting of item text. I could not find ...more >>

Hi, One of my developers are facing an interesting problem regarding UserControl invalidation. The problem is: We have two forms in our application. Form A does nothing except loading of Form B and Form B contains an array of UserButton kind of contol (we have created our own buttons deriv...more >>

Hi, I have a datagridview and a Refresh button on my window form. When the user click the Refresh button, the datagridview will be loaded with the latest data from the database. After refreshing, I'd like to go back to the sorting order that the user last sorted. For example, before he clicked...more >>

Anyone any idea, how to remove all of the underlining from a RichTextBox without upseting any of the other formatting? Thanks in Advance. -- #####-----#####-----##### POV Tips and Hints at ... http://povman.blogspot.com/ ...more >>

Hi, I posted this message last week to the dotnet.framework.windowsforms newsgroup and I didn't get any answers, so my apologies if this post looks familiar. I'm trying to change the background color of a row in a DataGridView based upon a value in one of the row columns For i As Intege...more >>

I have 2 datagridviews on my windows form both bound with data that are related with 2 tables (1 parent 1 child). I have a button to add a new child to the parent. When I press the button, it will add a row into the respective table stored in my database. However, this new row will not be refl...more >>

Hi all, I need to place a title for my datagridview control , i kept the property like Rowheadersvisible and columnsheadersvisible property false . I want to keep a header (Title) for my datagridview (vb .net 2005) Regards Sajin ...more >>

Hi All, I have a windows form (vb .net 2005) , after loading the form i can move the form here and there in the screen , i want that to be not done , meaaning that the customer could not move the form even if they move it should not go Thanks Sajin ...more >>

Hi All I have developed a custom user control for onscreen Keyboard functionality. When user clicks any button then it should act accordingly and add the appropriate character into the string or do the appropriate action(Delete, Backspace etc). Now if user sets cursor in the middle of the str...more >>

I noticed that there is a control called "ReportViewer" (Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer) and other report related controls under the "Crystal Reports" section called "CrystalReportViewer" and "ReportDocument". Could someone tell me if these two are related? Are these controls bot...more >>

I am searching for ImageButton control in the VS2005 toolbox, but can't find it. Anyone has any idea where it islisted? I checked for it by right-clicking the toolox and going into Choose Items.. dialog box. It is there and selected, but somehow it is not listed in the toolbox. Any ideas? An...more >>

Hi! I would like to draw a Tab Control myself (instead of the recatangle, for example, I would like to draw a rounded Rect). Is there any way to do this or should I create my own Tab Control? Thanks. Martin ...more >>

Hi all, I am new to programmimg with windows forms(visual studio 2005 , VB ..Net) , I have a form in which i drag and drop the DataGridview control from the toolBox , i want to give the background image to my DataGridview , but i can do this for the Form background by setting the prope...more >>

I am trying to do something ever so simple. What I want to do is use one checkboxlist to filter another. I have a list of areas in one checkboxlist, and a list of stores in the other. When you check on an area, I want to filter the stores. However, when you consume the ItemChecked event,...more >>

Is there any generic code to get an image of the contents of any System.Windows.Forms.Control on a form? Michael ...more >>

I have a DataGridView that will contain a custom control that I have written (a MinoBox). I have made a MinoEditingControl that inherits from MinoBox and implements the IDataGridViewEditingControl interface. This works fine, and creates the MinoBox control with the default constructor. But ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating some controls that basically draw shapes with/without text inside/outside etc, pretty customizeable shapes including square, circle, star... I'm having a problem when their anchors are set so they resize with the parent control, they're flickering like mad and I cant seem t...more >>

is there any limit to how long of a string SqlDataReader.GetString() can return? ...more >>

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 to do some programming, and is currently exploring the ReportViewer control. I'd like to ask the method to parse a parameter from the form to appear on the report. And also, is it possible to format the report and link the data to the report with codes?...more >>

Hi, I am using a WebBrowser control in my win forms application and would like to supress the behaviour of the Open/Save dialog box that appears when I attempt to navigate to a document, for example a Microsoft office word document. Rather then the open save dialog box to open i would like t...more >>

Hi I have a form with 10 textbox controls. They all have a contextmenu to replace the standard copy/paste rightclick menu, and that works ok - but how to I get a ref to the textbox from wich the contextmenu was activated and a menuitem clicked? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I've implemented a TreeView that underlines the node under mouse location (like Windows Explorer does), but I have a flicker problem, because the entire TreeView is repainted whenever I change the NodeFont property of any of it's child nodes. Whenever the mouse moves over a tree node...more >>

Hi everyone I have a problem with hosting windowsforms controls on IE web page, the control is displayed properly, but i cannot get the "Ctrl+C" message. I can get the "Ctrl" key or "C" key message, but if I press "Ctrl+C", it can only get "C" message, but strangely the "Ctrl+V" works OK. If ...more >>

I fill the list control with hundred of lines and it takes some times. The user should see the last line in the listbox. In C++ I force the list scrolling to the last line via: CListBox listBox; listBox.SetCaretIndex(listBox.GetCount()-1); listBox.UpdateWindow(); Is there are any si...more >>

Anyone know how to create a round PictureBox? Basically I'm trying to create a control that when an image in loaded into it, only the round circle part shows the image and everything outside of it is transparent to the rest on the control. ...more >>

Does anyone know where I can look to find out the following 1. How to get rid of the first column in the datagrid view that has the ">" in it. 2. If #1 is not doable, how to unselect all items in the datagridview. I had to add tab order within the datagrid view. When I tab out of the "l...more >>

Salutations, ..NET 2.0 ListView suffers from severe flicker. As a test, I wrote two apps, one for .NET 1.1 and one for .NET 2.0. Both apps added exactly 50 items to a 4 column ListView in Details mode. Then, run each app and start resizing things - the .NET 1.1 example has no noticeable flicke...more >>

Hi, I got a challenge with the ListView. When using the Virtual Mode and OwnerDrawn the images flicker very strongly. When using the normal mode and OwnerDrawn there is no flicker. I would need to use the Virtual Mode though :). Could anybody help (please use the code below as an example)...more >>

Hi, I know how to clone control in runtime with PropertyDescriptors. But my question is, how can I clone control event handlers? Ie. I have an instance of button with OnClick event handler, I want to clone it and the cloned button should have also the same OnClick event handler. Thank ...more >>

Hi, How can I check if my control is visible at run-time BEFORE the form is fully loaded? In design mode you can create a window and put a Button inside, set the property Visible to true. But at run-time at least the Button is fully visible this property will return false. ...more >>

For a few days now I have tried to do the following: I have a custom collection that implements the IBindingList interface. This collection is bound to a DataGrid. The collection items have a property "Position". When I change the position property, I want the collection to rearrange the item. T...more >>

what permissions does a windows service need to execute another process? System.Diagnostics.Process process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(info); just local administrator? any specific permitions? ...more >>

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start fails on windows server 2003 the process returns process.ExitCode == 0 but executing any process with System.Diagnostics.Process.Start on windows xp works fine. anything to do different for windows server 2003? some special permission for the process that ex...more >>

VB2005 - standard textbox, DataViewGrid, Windows Forms Sorry if this is answered already - my serach terms didn't turn up anything. Setup: toolbar with button, unbound textboxes Change some text and tab out of textbox and validation events fire. Change some text and click on button on...more >>

I have drag and drop basically working but I need to prevent the situation where the user drags a node into a node under that node because that it not a valid case (the whole subtree disappears). Is there any easy way to find out if the destination node is a descendent of the node being mov...more >>

System with Intel 2.0 GHz Dual Core, 2GB RAM ..Net Framework 1.1 and 2.0 VS2003 and VS2005 I converted a large project from VS2003 to VS2005. After fixing all errors and most warnings, I can run the program with no significant problem. But when I try opening any Form or UserControl in th...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a RichTextBox with some "in-program" style-features (e.g. *no way* becomes bold : like MS Word does). Got everything working fine, flickerfree and reasonable fast, but in order to set the style of some part of the text I use the "Selection" method (in the case of *text* the...more >>

In VB6 ToolBox displays all controls you selected. If you are trying to remove any of them used in your application, it doesn't allow you to do that. ToolBox in VS2005 works different way. It looks like even if you placed one of the controls on the form, you can remove that control from the t...more >>

I am seasoned Web\SQL Server developer and most of my experience is in ASP.net Any good referece book for windows forms controls and data binding to those controls? (controls like tree view, status bar panels etc..) I am thinking of buying but if any one have any suggestions Windows Forms...more >>

Is there any way to find out when a control is finished loading and its properties all set? I have controls that interact with another class and need to get some details about their initial state with regards to the database... but I'm getting exceptions about the Windows Handle not being crea...more >>

Hi All, Is it possible to resize an embedded control in a HTML page, whenever the page is resized. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance, Chris ...more >>

I have a datagridview on my windows form and i want it to be such that when the value of a column is 'Y', the row will be in blue color. Otherwise, all other rows will be in white. Is that possible? How can I do that?...more >>

Despite searching for the past 2 days I have not found any solution to what should be a simple task: Create a PictureBox which renders its Image with an alpha value so that other control underneath it can show through, similar to what you get by setting a Forms opacity. The usual recommendati...more >>