hi i'm using the rtf control - just wondering if there is a way in rtf to make specified words certain colors... just like a spell checker... thanks g -- i used to be indecisive but now i'm not so sure.... ...more >>

i have a picturebox on a form to which i write text with Graphics.DrawString. the text gets written to, but it disappears when i switch to another form! i must be missing something but can't figure it out. what do i need to do have the written text presist when the form gets covered and...more >>

Hi there I need to write .Net component (UserControl) that acts like ActiveX control. This includes: - drawing form with several textboxes, listboxes, comboboxes etc. and "submit" button on web page (<object classid="">), - gaining some info from user in that form, - when user presses "Sub...more >>

Hi, I am developing a component implementing IExtenderProvider with a property ImagePosition. For this propery i want to create a custom type editor but the problem is that when you implement IExtenderProvider you craete properties as methods e.g instead of property [Editor(typeof(MyCust...more >>

Hi, I have both a Customer and a Orders Table, the key field is CustomerID. I also have a DataGrid that uses a BindingSource which uses a dataset which uses a join between the Customers table and the Orders table. Everything displays correctly and when I double click on a row within the ...more >>

I have a DataGridView with some ComboBox cells. However, for the user to access the ComboBox menu, they have to first select the cell, then click the arrow button that displays the menu. Having the user click twice seems a little harsh. Is there any way to set this up so that if the user ...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to add a textbox to a status bar? If so, a code example would be much appreciated in C#. Thx. Andy Jacobs...more >>

Hey All, I have been requested to change the back color on various windows forms which is easy enough to do. However, the shadow border around the control buttons doesn't work well against the requested forms color. The bottom and right border in heavy black show up fine but the top and l...more >>

Hi, I hope someone could help me here: I have a CheckedListBox control (i'm using .NET 2.0 + VS 2005) which is given a DataSource: clbTest.DataSource = SomeDataTable; clbTest.DisplayMember = "SomeDisplayField"; clbTest.ValueMember = "SomeValueField"; Now the control populates items from...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to change border color for a control, e.g. Panel? Overriding OnPaint event and drawing a border doesn't help as you can only draw such a border within client area of that panel affecting whatever is in there, in other words it will not be a real border. I woudl assume ...more >>

Hello, Im quite new to c# windows application. i need to write a application which stays on the systray and listens to the SQL Table. (when the value is inserted as 0 - done thru Dataset and check it every2 seconds?) i need to open another application thru command prompt and pass the parame...more >>

Hello, I have a UserControl that contains some child controls (in more detail I programmatically add some labels arranged in a FlowLayoutPanel). When the content of my UserControl exceeds its height, it should be scrollable, therefore I set the AutoScroll property of my UserControl to true. T...more >>

I want to use sleep function to implement the progrss bar the progress bar. ...more >>

Hi All, Iam trying to create a listbox with buttons/tree control as items in a listbox(ownerdrawvariable) and iam having some problems.Below are my questions, 1.Is there a equivavalent of DrawFrameControl(a win32 api) in C#.If not how can button be created in the item rect 2.How to a creat...more >>

Hello, I can find any component to create a wizard interface with native vs2005 components, I am missing something ? CS ...more >>

If I create a new UserControl and set up its properties (color and width, for example), it looks just like I want it when I am viewing the control. If I recompile, the control appears in the Toolbox. If I drag an instance of the control onto my form, it gets added, but all the properties...more >>

hi i'm trying to work out the best way of developing an edit control (rich text box or whatever) that i can intergrate syntax highlighting into... whats the best way of doing this? should i parse the text with a regex or something or just wait for the space bar to pressed and then check th...more >>

Hi, I wanted to know if there was any way by which I could make a treenode control an item on my listview control. I have tried doing that..but the listview control does not allow me to add a treenode to it. This is allowed: item1 = new ListViewItem(p1.DisplayName); This is giving erro...more >>

Ok so I can't change the color of a button, so I want to change the color of a cell in the same row, based on the argb integer stored in that row everytime the DataGridView's data is refreshed. I'm looking to have the color displayed when the user selects the tab page, when data is saved to ...more >>

Hi How can I highlight (select) via code an item in a list box that has the value "Current"? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi I am new to vs2005 and have two questions re: chekbox list. 1. How can I check in code what item was clicked? 2. How can I access an item's value in code? Thanks Regards ...more >>

hi how do i get to use the collapsable panel like the toolbox etc is Visual Studio? thanks g ...more >>

For some reason my color Dialog Box Defaluts have changed. I think this is a windows setting but I'm not sure. I see the same screwed up box in VS2005 and in Excel. Question 1: Can I reset this to the default settings programmatically for my application? So if is a user has screwed up...more >>

DataGridViewButtonCellHey Linda, I am working on a bound DGV, I want the user to choose a color for each row. This will be helpful in reporting later. To do this I have implemented the DataGridViewButtonCell. What I want to happen is when the user presses it a color dialog opens up, whe...more >>

Could someone tell me how to write the code so I can copy cells from Excel and paste them into Datagridview cells? A user should be able to to to excel, highlight some cells, hit ctrl c, then go to the windows form and paste those in a datagridview control. When I try this it pastes everything...more >>

Hi all, I want to disable one or more items from a ListBox/ComboBox list. How can I ? In FoxPro, just adding "/" in front of Item.Text is enough for disabling that item. Thanks for any advice ...more >>

In VS.2005, Does anyone know what the difference is between the Listview.Items and the Listview.ListViewItemCollection It seems that they are the same thing? I can't get anything out the VS.2005 help. Thanks in Advance, Laurence...more >>

when my C# service impersonates a secondary account does the secondary account need any special permissions? what are they? ...more >>

Hello, I'm writing a windows forms application and have a custom user control built from multiple controls, including a picturebox control onto which I'm drawing a clock face. Each hour on the clock face represents a 'node' and I have the application switch cursors from the arrow to hand curso...more >>

I need to detect a right-click in a component. I've discovered that the MouseClick event will register a right click with some components but not with others. The simple code Private Sub control_MouseClick( _ ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseE...more >>

I want to clear some textboxes of previously written data. When I run the code below, only the txtBuffer text box is getting cleared. What am I missing? private: System::Void btnRead_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { clear_textboxes(); fd_rea...more >>

Hello, Note: I posted this message originally in the compactframework group by accident, sorry. I am having a problem with the Treeview control in Visual Studio.NET 2005. I have a treeview control which has two root trees and by default two child nodes indicating no items have been adde...more >>

Hi I have a check list box.When user selects a specific value '(All)' I want to uncheck all other check boxes in the list. How can I achieve this in code? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I'm trying to use a TreeView as part of a menu system. When a user clicks on a TreeNode, I need to open a new form. The problem I am encountering is that after the new form is spawned the TreeView object on my menu form will steal the focus back from the newly created form. I've seen sever...more >>

Can it possible to create a combobox control which always set datasource, displaymember and valuemember peoperties? For example: public partial class CurrencyCodeComboBox : ComboBox { public CurrencyCodeComboBox() { InitializeComponent(); ...more >>

I currently have an application that uses the Paint event to Merge Columns of the DataGridView when the data in adjacent cells are equal. I have two questions regarding this : 1) What is the easiest way to determine the last column that in in the displayable in the user area when the form i...more >>

I created a complex custom control using Visual Studio 2005 in C#. The control has numerous properties, some of which Visual Studio cant seem to create designer code for when I set its value in the property browser. Below is the property that is giving me the most trouble in the designer. ...more >>

I have a DataGridView with about 450 records. There are five columns: three ComboBoxColumns and two TextBoxColumns. When loading the Form, even after all the BindingSources are filled, it still takes a long time before the data shows (and I'm running on a pretty fast machine). Also, if you try t...more >>

VB 2005 (.Net 2.0) / Win XP Pro - SP2 The ListView contains 3 columns and on load the first 7 rows are visiable. The first 7 rows are of the correct Row Height/Col Size. As you scroll down, the next rows appear to NOT be of the correct Row Height OR there is an issue with a paint event as th...more >>

How does the WinForms PropertyGrid work? Do they use reflection/Reflection.emit, to get the props and their values? Can someone tell me? ...more >>

Ctrl-A selects all in the System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid. I am trying to disable this functionality and am having a heck of a time. I have a control that inherits from DataGrid I have tried to catch the Ctrl-A in the OnKeyDown and ProcessKeyMessage and it seems that something is getting to it ...more >>

VB 2005 (.Net 2.0) Mnu - Top Level = File / Report / Help Mnu - Under File = New / Edit / Maintenance / Inquiry / Utilities / Exit **Mnu - Under File/New = Core / Pay / Bill / Pass Programatically I can loop and find the Top Level items and then Items under File. The problem is tha...more >>

Hi all I've created a control dereiving from another control. This controls has data binding ability. Is it possible to be notified in code when the databinding actually is completed? I need this in order to perform some action based on the value that the control contains when loaded. My...more >>

I have a very simple UserControl (derived from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl) that contains several ListViews. The UserControl exposes a single public property: public ListView.ColumnHeaderCollection Columns { get {...} }; When I use VS2005 designer's proprtygrid for that UserConrol to ad...more >>

Have I posted the message to wrong newsgroup? Or Does the question is so much strage? Would someone please kindly direct me to a true newsgroup or resource? Best Regards Hamed "Hamed" <hamed@raymehr.com> wrote in message news:u0zFFR7vGHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Is it pos...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a custom winforms control that uses the Graphics objects to draw itself to the default UserControl panel. The problem is, even if I draw some very basic things (like 2 rectangles), it flickers when I move it... I mean, I can see some tearing in the control's image (or what...more >>

Hi, In the toolbox of VS 2005 all of the icons of the controls like "button", "checkbox" has turned into an icon which is shown at the error provider (red O with a white ! in it). Could someone tell me what happened en how to correct this problem? Hennie7863 ...more >>

Hi, is there a way how to move the "cursor" in a DataGridView to a cell on the right of the current cell after pressing Enter? The problem is it moves also downwards and I don't know how to tell it to move to the right only. TIA Will...more >>

Hello, When you show a Windows Form using Form1.Show, is there a way to find out if the window is currenlty open using framework 1.1? Thanks, Chuck ...more >>

I have a form. This form has a listview with virtualmode set to true, a button, and a textbox. it has mVirtualItems, which has several hundred items. private ListViewItem[] mVirtualItems; public frmMain() { InitializeComponent(); listview1.RetrieveVirtualItem += new RetrieveVirtualIt...more >>