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• waGordon Install package with .NET Framework

  Can someone please tell me,  are there possibilties to create an install package wich will include the .Net framework I would like to run my application on a windows 2000 machine and not first install the .NET framework seperately. I ...Show All

• BobishKindaGuy Formatting data before binding

  Hello, I have a business object returning a datatable back to a bindingsource, which a datagridview uses to bind the results.  However, certain fields are yes/no, which I want to convert to true/false.  Is there an event that fires before the binding takes place where I can switch it Thanks. There are several approaches you can take here: Use the System.Windows.Forms.Binding class (extens ...Show All

• Ian Espiga Linked Scrolling of 2 TextBoxes

  I have 2 TextBoxes with content of the same height.  How do you link the scrolling so that scrolling one also scrolls the other   Best example use of this would the diff comparison feature of SourceSafe.     I've created a new sample with realtime scrolling. I put it in the original post . Yes, I will try to make a sample asap. I have a piece ...Show All

• MichaelZ Strongly Typed Dataset Problem

  Hi, I’m trying to generate a strongly typed dataset using the Server Explorer in Visual Studio.  It works fine when I drag a table to a form to begin the process.  But I get the following error for both the update and delete statement ...Show All

• Would you really like to know? maskedTextBox 00/00/0000

  when mask format is like 00/00/0000 it is not accepting the date 01/01/1982 it is taking as 1/1/1982 and it is raising exception Hi Have a looksie here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=334434&SiteID=1 Can you be more specific. I have tried the same thing nut its working fine. Hi I have also got the same problem, I only got away with it when I'm saving/Displaying the date as a string. ...Show All

• David McComb Unicode Form Text

  When I set the Text property of a form in VB.NET with an Arabic or Russian text string I just get a row of boxes wheras everywhere else I have tried - menus, edits, labels, combo boxes etc they are displayed correctly.   If it is ...Show All

• codrakon How do you make a ToolStripComboBox behave like a simple drop down list box

  I want the end user to be able to see the value like any ordinary drop down list box but I don't want them to be able to edit/type in the text box.  This is just like the "Show output from:" drop down on the VS Output Tool Window's tool bar.  I don't see a simple property to enable this sort of behavior.  Doh! To quote Chris Farly from SNL - "I'm an idiot!".  Thanks.  :-) ...Show All

• jmilten playing alert sound

  Hi, I simply want to play and then stop an audio alert message without opening media player or any other sound player application. How can I do this Thanks, I am using framework 1.1 See http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=83764 ...Show All

• Reece Williams How to make a usercontrol to act as an container?

  Hi I've made a usercontrol with a specific caption and furthermoer empty space. Now i want to use the control in my form. Placed the control on the form and now i want ot add an butoon to the empty space, but the button is drawn on&nb ...Show All

• fwpi Terrarium command line option question

  Does anyone know the command line option to load an existing terrarium when starting terrarium.exe Thanks, cybersol Hmm, don't remember how I originally found this, but it was still in one of my VS projects... /loadterrarium <path to terrarium file> Enjoy! ...Show All

• TheBigOnion Client metainfo

  Hi, Is there any metainformation available to the clickonce deployed client   I mean the files listing of the application manifest and the download status for each item. I have 3 possible scenarios 1.   Large application with a lot of assemblies is  ...Show All

• Senormic Dynamically creating user-scoped settings...

  How do I programmatically persist settings in an ApplicationSettingsBase-derived class   The ability to create type-safe user-scoped properties at design-time is great, but I need to allow third party controls to create them at runtime.  I've also tried adding a UserScoppedSetting of type NameValueCollection and adding values to it at runtime, but the values don't seem to be persisted. Che ...Show All

• TKAP ListBox - More than one selected

  I would like to know how can I get all the itens selected in a listbox...And put all together in a string Thanks.... PS: How do I make to on a postback action the page come back to the exactly place where it was.... Thanks On postback: String s = ""; for (int i=0; i<ListBox.Items.Count; i++) { if (ListBox.Items .Selected) s += ListBox.Items .Text + ","; } For the second question, use S ...Show All

• ks06 right click event ??

  Is there any way to capture right click mouse event Yes. On MouseDown Event you have access to a MouseEventArgsm that allows you to get the type of the mouse button that was clicked. the code should be: private void myControl_MouseDown( object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) {     if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right && e.Clicks == 1)     { &nbs ...Show All

• Zero1 Hosting a designsurface within a designer

  Hi, I'm not sure if this is supported but I've been trying to do the following within VS2005: - I have a custom component that has a custom root designer. To properly design this component, I need to host a new form designer within a portion of my component's designer. I need to track changes to the form to properly manage the state of my components. The embedded form won't be serialized. I've had partial success by creating my ow ...Show All