Is there a way to set tabs in the RichTextBox control? TM ...more >>

Is there a way to get the Top and Left attributes of a control on a web page in asp.net code? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I am new to vb.net (2003). I created a listview with two columns. I want to add an item and alter the text in both columns. I tried some code but could not find the right way. How do I change the first column text ? How do I change the second column text? TIA Guy -------------...more >>

Hi all... Lets say I want to add 100 items (e.g. Row1, Row2....Row100) to a listview and for each item I want to add two subitems (total columns=3). Do I have to declare a new listitem variable for each listitem ?.... TIA Guy ...more >>

I'm trying to make a basic document browser using the FolderViewer and FileViewer controls from the vbpowerpack Everything works fine if a start a new solution, add the reference and create the controls, however, when i try to do the same thing on my existing project, the icons do not draw!...more >>

If a screen is made up of several user controls and those user controls = contain various packaged or standard controls such as a grid, how do you = raise both standard and custom events from the user control so the form = containing the user control can see the events you want them to see. ...more >>

Dear all, I try to set the backcolor of user control to Transparent in design mode, but the system prompt me it's a invalid value. Anyone know how to do it? Thanks Best Rdgs Ellis ...more >>

I got from this newsgroup an object that will allow you to make a list view in detail mode sortable by any field. When I use it with more than a couple of items, it gets really slow. I know it's the sorter because if I comment out the line that turns the sortable on, it takes forever to load. ...more >>

Dear All, I'm writing a usercontrol which contain a combobox and a textbox inheriting from system.form.usercontrol. Anyone know when the textchanged event in usercontrol will be triggered? And also, if I want the textchanged event of usercontrol trigger when the textchanged event in co...more >>

Hello All! Production PC has 3 available ports(com1, com2, com3). Also there are three scan guns plugged to those ports. I guess my question would be: How can I set multiple connections to all ports with the single control? And have some kind of event that will fired up if data arrives to a...more >>

Hi, I'm having much difficulty binding a MaskedEdit control. I can't get it to format dates and times properly, and any values that are entered are immediately replaced by the previous value. Futhermore, if I set the PromptInclude property to 'True', I can't tab pass the control once it recie...more >>

Dear All, I want to build a simple user controls that with a combo box and textbox inside. The textbox is a component which inherit from system.window.forms.textbox and I just simply change its readonly property to "TRUE". When I try to use this user control in the form, I found I can'...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to write a simple user component that handles a stringcollection. I have looked at some examples and created a stringcollection and made it accessible in the designer. The designer shows a collection and opens the collection editor and lets me enter new values, however when I st...more >>

I have a Windows User control hosted on IE it works great, I can tested on my machine with VS.net, I upload it to my production server with no problems, and it works as well, but when I upload a new version of the control i'm having trouble seeing the new version, I delete files from internet (i...more >>

I have a datagrid that have some rows that can't be deleted (some can be deleted and some can't)... I want to know how to disable the effect of pressing 'DEL' ? ...more >>

Down below is code for creating a control, NumericTextbox Public Class NumericTextbox Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox Private Sub NumericTextbox_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyPress Dim KeyAscii As Inte...more >>

I don't know if anybody has any experience with using the TrueDBGrid = from Component One (I believe that it's included in some of the = Microsoft CD's as an additional component, but I've got the full = registered component). I use the truedbgrid in an inherited control with some additional =...more >>

Hi How can I find a Control faster in the Controls-Collection? Is there a default function to do this? Like this: dim c as Control = FindControl("myTextBox",Me) Public Shared Function FindControl(ByVal name As String, ByVal parent As Control) As System.Windows.Forms.Control Dim c As Con...more >>

Is there any way to put a hyperlink in the menu bar? ...more >>

Please help, I am trying to build custom control but have some problems right at the begining I did following: 1) Created a ClassLibrary project and added it to my solution 2) I created a public class as : Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.Drawing Public Class ClassName ...more >>

I have a form which consist of two User Controls. Each of the two user controls contain each a treeview control. we'll call the two controls UC_a and UC_b. When I drag and drop a node from UC_b's tree control onto a node on UC_a's tree control. What would be the most efficient way to remove the ...more >>

Hi all, I would like to add a click event for textbox. I know that it is a TextBoxBase.Click Event. But I am no idea how to do ?... Anyone can teach me how to do that .. Thanks Edmond ...more >>

hello all, Anyone know that how to get server date or date time from server ? Thanks Edmond ...more >>

Hi, can anyone tell me if it possible to autogenerate a treeview from dataset with realtionships, kind of similar to the way a datagrid handles it. If possible could you point me in the right direction too please. Thanks for any help Steve ...more >>

Hi folks, I'm have a user-control that imitates a thumbnail-listview. Within, I have a panel (pnlOuter) that represents the viewable area and another panel (pnlInner) which represents the list as a whole with a scrollbar that'll enable the user to change the viewable area. Hence, pnlInner wil...more >>

Hello all: I recently have converted from VB 6.0 to VB.NET. I was wondering if you can tell me how to obtain the value of an item of a listbox without actually selecting that item. For example, let's say that I have a listbox that lists the 50 states of the US. Currently let's say item 10 i...more >>

This is probably a very simple question but I can't seem to get a working solution. Is there anyway that when I click a dropdown box (whether or not I change the value in the box) I can get the name of the control through vb so that the control name can trigger different CASE options in a mac...more >>

hi, i have a problem using the openfiledialog in vb.net. The problem is that i use a lot of relative path in my program to reach informations in the directory that comes with the applications AND when the application is runing, opening a file with the .net control change the current path...more >>

I have a question. I would like to make the binding described in the following (just copy/paste the code to try). I have seen that binding usually requires the object has properties (which will be the different columns of the datagrid). However in this case I would like to bind the values cont...more >>

Hi I have a listview in the column mode and was wondering if it is possible to add a button to one of the fields so that it is part of the listview and will scroll accordingly. Peter...more >>

A listbox is not displayed properly on 1 of our client machines. There's a thin line where the list box should be. The client is a Windows XP machine. I applied SP1 to .NET framework but it doesn't help. Any sugegestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks Bill ...more >>

I'm trying to make a datagrid where only one of the columns is editable. What's the easiest way to do this? TIA. Jeffrey. ...more >>

Folks, I know that this is an easy question but I can't figure out how to do it - how do you have a datagrid where a person can navigate around it and change values (so readonly is not true) but they can't add rows? TIA Jeffrey. ...more >>

Need: Auto-logon to a terminal server, start a program, and, when the user is quits the program, auto-logoff. Problem: When msrdp.ocx is added to the Toolbox, attempting to draw the control on the form gives the following "Microsoft Development Environment" message: "Compiler errors occured...more >>

I want to write an application that will show in the system tray(the bottom right hand corner) when the application is minimized. How to do this? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi Below is a code for a combobox which acts like the comboboxes in Access. But now when I'm using the combobxes event KeyUp to get this action, I don't wan't programmers who uses this comboboxes to be able to use the event KeyUp for their own code. Should I use shadows or is there a better wa...more >>

Dear all, I want to create a user control including a textbox and a listview. When user typing words in the textbox, the listview will automatically scroll to the row that like the typed words. Anyone can help? Thanks Best Rdgs Ellis ...more >>

Hi, what's happened to my project: each time I try to change any property of a control, I get an error message: "Invalid property value" and in details: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object. " Could it happened after I'd moved the project to a different location? Please, help....more >>

Hi I have tried to create my own combobox, with properties and methods. But when I use it in a Form and try to use the KeyPress Event for the control in the Form, nothing happens. Do I have to do anything to make the KeyPress Event work for the control, I thought it inherited the event. Fia ...more >>

I have the following code and would like to optimize it (if possible) by looping through controls to see if the current control has the FlatStyle property, cast it then set the value. Any thoughts? Thanks, Kevin Dim ControlItem As Control For Each ControlItem In TheForm ...more >>

Hi, I dont know how to defrag and compress Registry to decrease its size, is there the component for selling? Thank you ...more >>

I keep receiving an SQL error. Not everytime but frequently. Does anyone know what to problem could be? This is the error i recieve: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and ...more >>

I need to create/acquire an up and down button to allow the user to manipulate the ordering of inforamation in a list box. I've played with adding a bitmaps to the button's image, but the coloring and overlay isn't very clean. I initially thought that this would be trivial, but I haven't c...more >>