Hi; 1) Does anyone know of a control available like the rule description in the Outlook Rules and Alerts where it is a bunch of text but parts of the text are hotlinks where you click on the hotlink and you can then bring up a pop-up control? 2) A good control for creating SQL selects - for...more >>

Hi, I am creating some UI ideas for a scientific instrumentation product. I am having a problem with MDI child windows that contain statusStrip which in turn, contains a toolStripStatusLabel. The problem is that when the child windows drop below 640x480 (or so) the toolStripStatusLabel i...more >>

Is there any way to determine a NotifyIcon's screen position and size? -- Grant Schenck ...more >>

Howdy, I have 2 groupboxes on a form. I want one to be infront of another. When I am designing the form and move the boxes around, they sometimes decide themselves that one box will be in the other box, rather than just on top of it. How do I prevent this behaviour? Cheers. ...more >>

Hello I have a UserControl sized to 100; 200 When I drop it in my form the initial size is 100;200 (as I prefer). Then I decided to change the size of my UserControl to 200;200 but although I have not set any value to the size of the dropped control in my form, recompiling the project does...more >>

I am using a MaskedTextBox as shown in the code below. When I enter a date as 01/02/2003 and then move to another field it displays in the 12/20/03__ It's interesting that the bound data column gets the correct value of 1/2/2003. I have tried different masks (00/00/00 and 09/09/0099) and se...more >>

I would like to save the location of the splitter when an application closes and restore it when the application starts and cannot find the appropriate time to get this done. I have been able to save the value but have not found a good event to get my saved value and set the splitter location....more >>

Hi Has anyone noticed that if you double click a label, the text of that label appears on the clipboard? If so, how do I stop this from happening? I'm running VS 2008 on a Vista box. I get the same behaviour on another Vista machine but not on XP machines so I'm pretty sure my VS install...more >>

When a combobox's DropDownStyle is set to DropDown (the text in the textbox portion is editable), the combobox will select all of the text whenever the control is repainted. There are two unpleasant effects of this. First, all such comboboxes that are databound and have initial values start o...more >>

Help, please! I have seen a couple of threads about this message, but they seem to have a much more complicated situation than mine, and they aren't much help. I have a form from which a call is made to a serial port, using "Friend WithEvents sPort As SerialPort". This goes to a piece of ki...more >>

Hi I am using below statement to load an image; Me.MyPictureBox.Image = Image.FromFile(CStr(Me.txtMyPhotoPath.Value)) Problem is it is taking too long and slowing the app down. Is there another faster way to achieve this? or to degrade the quality of image on the fly to have to load sma...more >>

Hi Im usin a WebBrowser control on my C#/WinForm application. There are 2 options for user, 1) Print output to PDFPrinter or 2) Print output to default system printer. In code i change default printer and then call theWebBrowser.Print() method. All works fine but... browsercontrol "rem...more >>

Hi all, I have designed a dialog with a tab contorl with tab property "vertical" set to true. Now if I set windows xp as the backgroud theme, then caption of the tab disappears. Is there any way to have the tab caption with tabs at vertical alignment. Note: This issue occurs only in windows...more >>

Hello. I created a designer in c#. Everything is working excepted the property grid. I want to show only the properties I added. So I created a class which inherits of a button. And I added properties. But I want to filter the base properties. So to do this, I inherit my class from ICust...more >>

I have a requirement- need to display RTF content in context menu. I am able to host a rich textbox in a contextmenu strip using ToolStripControlHost class. But assigning some RTF content to the containing rich textbox control does not display in actual RTF format- it just dislpays as plain tex...more >>