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• Dpowes get template of a document

  hi, i develop an addin project. i want to find the template of a  document when document is opened. i could catch event when a  document activated with below event handler.  public void WindowActivated(EnvDTE.Window gotFocus, EnvDTE.Window  lostFocus){ gotFocus.Document.   ...Show All

• s_wtsu Project Outut Question, Please Help.

  Hey everyone how are you doing   I am new to the board, and I am new to programming and Visual Studio .NET 2003.  I am teaching myself both of them starting off using “SAMS Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days”. &nbs ...Show All

• James Phillips Rockland Form(s) trouble...

  I have a problem that driving me crazy. I have one form (main form application), splash form and login form. On main form, I have put Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.DoEvents(); and ofcourse, Application.Run(...);. What I want is this. I want the splash form start first, then to display login form and if all datas (from login form) are correct, proceed to that main form. All this is easy to do, but I encounter some problem. I put t ...Show All

• wjrichardlee Connect to SQL Server 2000 through an ASP.NET Web Application

  Hi! I am going to connect to "SQL Server 2000" through an "ASP.NET Web Application". My development environment is "Visual Studio .NET 2003". In my "Toolbox" -> "Data", I drag a "SqlConnection" and drop on the page.& ...Show All

• steady_pace problem with threads between framework 1.1 and 2.0

  Hi people, My small applicaton is working well on framework 1.1 but when I use 2.0 beta, it's giving me an exception:  Illegal cross-thread operation: Control accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. Does anyone have an idea a ...Show All

• Leonard French MDI Merging /w ToolStrip and ToolStripContainer

  Hello! Using Whidbey Beta 2 I built a simple MDI App with Menu- and ToolStrip-Controls on the Parent and on the Child. If the Child Form is shown, the MenuItems and the Tool-Items itself  are correctly merged with the main Tool-/MenuStrips placed&nb ...Show All

• armanddp ClickOne on the latest Community Drop

  If you have the latest community drop, there is a bug that you will likely hit.   If you have the community drop, set the following regkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ .NETFramework\ DeploymentFramework "SkipSignatureValidation"="True" & ClickOnce & VS Publi ...Show All

• Shoaib Shaikh Setting the Connection String Just Once

  I have Midi application that requires just two different connection strings, one for my dev environment and one for production.  The main form is frmMain. The main form has a function that detects whidh connection is sucessful.  This is called in&nb ...Show All

• gontran123 Groupbox...missing properties (text foreground & text justification)

  In the bad old days of MFC one could do things to a group box that seem to have gone missing in VS2003/2005. If anyone could direct me on work arounds for these issues I would appreciate it: I have a dark background color that hosts a groupbox. That color (dark blue) is close to the group box's description text foreground color (light blue). Is there anyway to change the foreground color programmatically of the text In MFC one could specify th ...Show All

• Erik Sorensen datagridview fit to content min size

  I noticed that when size to content is set for the columns, there is still some buffer space between the right edge of the text and right edge of the cell for all cells. What's the best way to size a column so that the longest string has to space to "move" in a cell I could use measurestring but I'm not sure how that takes care of the column that displays the row headers (headertext is offset by some amount I do not know). ...Show All

• Misha Shneerson Hidden Fields

  Hi, I have a problem with hidden fields. Is there a possibility to hide fields from the Designer, which have the Property visible=false I have dialogs, which have a lot of hidden fields, so that the designing of these dialogs is very difficult. Thanks for your help Thorsten I was on the right track. . . you will need to apply my approach of inheriting from each control that you want to be designtim ...Show All

• Jim Lang Cross-thread exception (beta2) / deadlock (release)

  I have a method where one control adds another control to its control collection. It looks something like: void Add(Control control) {    Debug.Assert(control.InvokeRequired == false);    Debug.Assert(InvokeRequired == false);    .    .       .    Controls.Add(control); // exception/hang } This routine will occasionally throw a cross thread ...Show All

• Sunilk_007 designer can't load form. Where is 'more information'?

  after going from beta2 to rc1, the designer all of a sudden cannot load my forms anymore. instead, i get the infamous window with the red top that says some errors may go away building the project, while other need code changes. needles to say: the file compiles fine, the form could be opened with the beta2 and vs2003 designers and obviously doing a rebuild doesn't help at all. now what the additional error message says; Unable to load one or m ...Show All

• InvestorDrew Memory management question -> Form.Close()

  Hello, In one of my winforms pages, I launch another form as follows   Private Sub btnExtract_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExtract.Click         Dim page As New ShowCourses         page.Show() ...Show All

• Rashad Al-Sabban A Grid in which an etire row can dragged n dropped to another row position

  I am looking for a grid in which the entire row can go through a drag-n-drop operation so that its final position is where it is dropped. Does anyone know of such a windows grid  Thanks Sunil I want the same code clip  ...Show All