Hi, I'm looking for a DataGridViewColumn that has a Textbox for editing with a button so that I can use this as a prompt to open a selection form. Seems like a simple control, and I have seen similar in the PropertyGrid, but I am perplexed by the DataGridViewColumn/Cell/IDataGridViewEditing...more >>

I'm setting color on text in a RichTextBox and after considerable effort I'm convinced there's nothing I can do to prevent the text from repositioning (jumping up or down) after I do so. I've searched hard, but can't find a multiline text control that will simply allow for setting portions ...more >>

Hi there, Does anyone know if the standard "PropertyGrid" control is (foreign) language sensitive. If I display an object in the control, and my object has the native .NET "Size" struct as a property (which also contains its own ""Width" and "Height" members), will someone running my app o...more >>

Hi there, I'm currently using the DataGridView for some data display on my windows form. I'm looking to allow the user to hi-light a specific row in which they are working on, and then as they move from cell to cell within that row, the cell selection color changes. I've been working on the...more >>

This is really a two part question. I love the DataGridView for small amounts of data. I have some tables I'd like to load but they have many, many columns (900-1000) for some workloads. Running this code: --------- Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Ob...more >>

hello ng, i have the problem to insert a row into an datatable. using the method DataTable.Rows.InsertAt(newRow, position) this creates an new datarow at the end of my datagrid instead of the given position after executing acceptchanges the createdline is displayed at the correct position. ...more >>

Hi... any ideas on how to get a grip on the winforms control used by the ..net to show the details of an exception ?...more >>

I have a simple Form with a DataGridView; in VS2005 designer I change the Form's font size to 9, 10 (or more) points. When editing a text cell the TextBox editing control seems not have sufficient height: characters like 'g' are bottom cutted and text is not full visible! Is DataGridView t...more >>

hello, i have the problem that my clients want to copy content from an existing cell to an new cell using the shortcut ctrl-enter. i know how to move the cursor with ctrl-enter to the next cell, but the problem is that after execution of my code the datagrid focus lost and the focus is on...more >>

I want to save some data when my User Control unloads but I can't find an UnLoad event. Is there such a thing? If not is there another way of trapping when it unloads? -- Jeff Gaines...more >>

1. I apologize for the empty posting with a similar title. 2. I've long since mastered virtual mode in datagridview for doing lots of things besides what it was designed for i.e. handling large amounts of data. I have a couple of very clever data entry systems for engineers that make it look...more >>

I'm developing an application where there's a DataGridView and one of its columns is of DataGridViewComboBox type. The combo box behaves as it should, but I find it's a little too unfriendly to users, because of its very lazy-looking behaviour. I, as an user of the application, would like t...more >>

Does anyone know if AJAX technology can be employed within a WebBrowser control running in a rich client application ? If so, what's the best way to attach AJAX libraries and tap into their functions? And does this add any issues to deployment of the application ? ...more >>

Hello i have a MHT file in a stream like this using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"D:\@Visual Studio projects\test webbrowser MHT\test webbrowser MHT\test.mht")) { String line; while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) { Console.WriteLine(line); ...more >>

hello i'm looking for a solution to have a menustrip like word 2003 or other office 2003 software with expandable arrow in bottom of the menu...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to turn off that non data column all the way on the left of a datagrid? I'm talking about that thing that someone would use to resize the row height. TIA, Chris ...more >>

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When a dataset is created from a XML file source the data appears is the dataset but when binding the dataset to the listbox nothing is displayed. The code is created in VS.Net 2005 VB.net Below is the code used. filePath = Application.StartupPath.ToString + "\" + "myFile.xml" lstTextField ...more >>

Hi All I have created a ToolStripDateTimePicker with the following code: Public Class ToolStripDateTimePicker Inherits ToolStripControlHost Public Event ValueChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Sub New() MyBase.new(New DateTimePicker) AddHandle...more >>

I noticed that when I change data in control bount to datatable column and press Save button, data is not saved. The problem is that pressing a ToolBar button does not cause the ActiveControl to lose focus (same with menu items), thus not forcing the control's value into it's databound obje...more >>

Hi all, I want to change my TextBox.Height property in designer, BUT I cannot do it !!!??? It somehow related to TextBox.Font property, but I set the Form.AutoScaleMode to None and TextBox.BorderStyle = None. The only solution I found it's to set TextBox.Multiline = true. What should I...more >>

In Visual Studio.Net 2005 Windows Form (VB) I have a combobox which is populated from an arraylist of a user defined object. The values appear in the combobox. However when I try to select an option from the combobox based on a supplied parameter it does not select an option. I have used th...more >>

Hello, I have the following problem: I have a control or form what ever. I want that this is a part of the desktop window. Means all other normal windows on the dektop are over my application. I have tried to solve it with a little c++, windows sdk, but do not find a solution. I th...more >>

I have a desktop appliction currently compiling with Visual Studio 2005 written in C#. The client recently switched from Classic Windows to WindowsXP and many of the controls and background colors are washed out and can't be seen. Is there a quick fix or do I just need to go through all of the...more >>

Can someone direct me to a reference that describes how to create a context menu for a selected row in a datagrid? I have come across many threads regarding context menus and datagrids but they all seem to be how to modify the default behavior. I've gone through a couple of books and many thre...more >>

I'm developing a windows application using vb.net on SQL database, my database changes every second (like stock quotes), I need to reflect the data changed on my application using dynamic chart. I need addivce what chart control I could use? ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with memory when trying to load more pictures ..... So what I do is , I load images into PictureBox and keep them there for further processing ..... so user can see, select, add etc .... For testing I'm loading 1.3MB tiff's ... Now the problem occurs when I try to ...more >>

I'm trying to convert a WPF app over to WinForms 1.1, but I ran into a bit of a problem: WPF lets applications define a DataContext plus a path to the actual data. WF seems to do something similar, but without the robust pathing. What I want to do is pass an non-list and a non-listsource to ...more >>

Hi, I'm currently designing a user control that will draw some graphics like rectangles and such... The control can select the drawn rectangle and move it. The thing is, a control is a rectangle and cannot be rotated, so if my drawn rectangle is rotated 45 degrees, the bounding rectangle (th...more >>

How come I cannot find Statusbar in toolbox for Form Design? I am using VS.NET 2003. ...more >>

Hi I'm having problems adding items to a list view, I'm getting an occasional error and I suspect it is because items are been added before (or while) the listview is added to the control, how can I tell if the listview is fully created, and is there an event to catch this, I've tried using a...more >>

Hi all. I have an issue that maybe someone has seen before... The code below is getting the size of the sting using the listview font and it is about 2 twice the size it needs to be so I'm dividing by 2 and adding a 20 for good measure. Does anyone know how to convert the unit of measure ...more >>

Hello all ! I'm with a problem. I've created a Form with BackColor = White. When I drop a Button to it, the component assumes the same BackColor of this Form parent. How do I to avoid this behavior ? Thanx for all and sorry my english, it isn't very good ! :) Luciano....more >>

I have a large list view item containing many thousands of ListViewItems, and I need to be able to remove all the selected items. (The number of selected items could also be many thousands) The following code works, but is very slow: foreach (ListViewItem lvi in lv.SelectedItems) lv.Items....more >>

I have a parent form which contains a panel control. In that panel control, I load another form. The problem is that when the parent form is resized, the panel is resizing, but the form that is loaded within the panel is not. Anyone know how to get around this and make the child form resize wh...more >>

I have a project that unfortunately has some annoying constraint of "make sure this runs on a bunch of laptops where the users don't bother updating their machines", so I'm stuck with .Net 1.1 WinForms (which I'm pretty unfamiliar with because I quit using WF as soon as there was a choice be...more >>

I'm running an amortization calaculation out to 360 months. I'm finding though, that loading the Grid is unacceptably slow. The way I'm doing this is by sequentially adding a new row and loading the data into the grid as each month is calaculated. It takes 35 - 40 seconds! Would it be faster t...more >>

Hi I am almost finished with a vs 2005 (pre sp1) project which I need to deliver in the next couple of days. I am wondering if I should deliver project with sp1. Is it safe to install sp1 at this late stage? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I am looking for a way to hide a property I created on a user control from a property grid at runtime but allow it to be seen at design time. Any ideas? I tried setting the category of the property to 'Design' and that does not do it. I tried adding the 'DesignOnly' attribute and that d...more >>

Say cbRoadwayType is my combobox: for (int i = 0; i < cbRoadwayType.Items.Count; i++) { cbRoadwayType.SelectedIndex = i; int val = (int)cbRoadwayType.SelectedItem // INVALID EXCEPTION cast if (val != FILTER_ALL && val != FILTER_NOT_SET) ...more >>

Anyone know why the TextChanged event on the UserControl object is public but EditorBrowsable is EditorBrowsable.Never and Browsable is false? In Intellisense you can't see the TextChanged event but I can still to UserControl1.TextChanged += <subscribing method>. I get an error when I do t...more >>

Hi I have create an autocomplete combobox in VS.NET 1.1 based on some articles I found on the net. Every thing works fine except when you turn on DroppedDown=true to make the combo behave like an IE autocomplete combobox. The combox seems to be working fine but when you try to get combobox.Text...more >>

I'm modifying the form that documents an employees hours on the job. Right now the form uses 4 textboxes to get time-in, lunch-in, lunch-out and timeout for the day. I'm looking for an idea to replace those controls with something better, something that would ease the pain of validation would ...more >>

Hi I have two fields field1 and field2 on my form. Is there a way that the field names can be accessed via variable so that choice of the actual field to access is decided at runtime? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Is it possible? I'd like to view a datagrid not showing the "id" field of my entries... but I need that field when I select an entry! What can I do? Many thanks, Giuseppe ...more >>

I am creating an application to help design trouble tickets for my work. I have a webbrowser control to show a preview of the completed ticket. in Form1_Load, I am setting webbrowser.DocumentText to the basic text layout I want to have. The webbrowser control shows this text fine. Then as the us...more >>

Does anyone know if the attribute LicenseProvider can only be used for controls? I wonder as in every tutorial they mention and use controls. Is it required to derive your own class from System.Windows.Forms.Control if you want to use LicenseProvider? Thanks, Boris...more >>

Does anybody have a recommendation for proportional resizing components that automatically resize UI components as the user changes the size of the screen? TIA Brad ...more >>

Problem: Selecting / changing color of text in a subclassed RichTextBox on TextChanged. - Native suppress redrawing with WM_SETREDRAW - Make selections, set colors - Set position back to where user was using Select() - Unsuppress redrawing - Call Refresh() All works fine except the text a...more >>

I have a control where the user can use smart tags at design time to update something. This has an effect of changing a property on the parent control. The properties window does not notice this property change and the form design code also does not change. Is there a command I have to use...more >>