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• Jerry Langley III GDI+ Text spacing issue

  Ive had this problem with GDI+ for as long as I started with GDI+. When I draw text, especially long strings of text, the characters get closer and closer to one another. Now I know this is something that is rather well known, but is there any nice way of fixing it I've tried to change the text drawing mode, but that made the fonts look horrible (although it did fix the squashing up of the text). It really screws up alot of stuff, not ...Show All

• tfinniga cruisecontrol, msbuild, obfuscate, clickonce

  I'm looking to setup an integrated deployment scenario using cruisecontrol. I would like the build process to build the release version, obfuscate the code (including dependant project dll's) using Dortfuscator CE and finally publish the app for Clickonce deployment. Does anyone have any info on how to set this up I've looked into using an msbuild script but hit a couple of problems 1. I'm not sure how to run ...Show All

• Bontempi add items to databinded combo...

  Hi, I have this combo box which is populated by a datasource. However, I want to add an item to this combobox, that is not in the datasource. I want to add a blank line as the first item of the combobox. But if I try to add& ...Show All

• Bruno Braga Comparing strings

  String comparison Is there any way so that all the below conditions give me true results. String  val = “Hello” Now comparing val it with the following code. 1“Hello “                //Note white space at the end o ...Show All

• Shrikant24227 I wish to hide the desktop's taskbar

  I wish to claim the whole screen for my application. I have succesfully gotten rid of the ugly MS Window borders, but the desktop's taskbar remains. How can I get that out of the way Regards,   Guido Never mind. What had happened is that my form had somehow self-resized even though I had locked it. I gave it full size again and this time it held. ...Show All

• neauva Storage and Syc of local data

  Does anyone know how IssueVision is storing its local data   Also, how is it synchronizing with the web service First, let me say that I appreciate the work done to get this application out there for me to look over.   I continually refer to it and I think I am ready to design an application using this model.   ...Show All

• ashg657 Problem Implementing IButtonControl

  I have a control which acts like a button in some regards, now to recieve information on when a control is the default button the SDK says to implement the IButtonControl which I did. The problem is that if I place three of my button& ...Show All

• steveareno Tooltip

  Hi Have a question regarding creating a windows form in vb.net with visual studio.net. I would like to add a tootip to a label. I have several labels with the text " ", and when I move the cursor over them I want a text to appear ...Show All

• Brian Dreeszen Calculate Width of a String in Pixels

  hallo, Given a Font and a string, is there any ready-to-use function in .NET which can compute the resulting width of the string in pixels So that I can adapt say a Label, MenuItem or Textbox to the new size of a string. thx, Steve ...Show All

• Steve Schofield Datagrid bindings

  I need some help: I've datagrid on form & I want to populate it from data retrived from MSSQL database. I've tried with .DataSource property & .SetDataBindings method, but both didn't work :(  Any tips, sample code or something ...Show All

• Mike Gold EventDescriptor and discovering attached handlers?

  Given an EventDescriptor, how do you discover the attached event handlers I had orginally thought this might be impossible since you don't know how the event is implemented (i.e. it might not be backed by a Delegate) but I suspect CodeDomSerializerBase.SerializeEvents is doing it somehow.   Thanks, Ray The IEventBindingService helps you do this. See this doc for details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/libr ...Show All

• tdanley Inner join in a Datagrid

  Hi everybody .... First of all I'm sorry for my bad English ..  My problem is tha I have 2 datatables in a dataset they are like: Table1: "Employees"  with columns :"ID" (long), "Name" (string) ,"Job" (long) Table2: "Jobs" w ...Show All

• Yasir Mahmood Maximinze Problem in MDI

  Hi, How can we restrict user to maximize a windows form in MDI application. Although we can disable Form control box, but when user double click on Form Caption, it get maximized. Can anybody solver this problem. Thanks That won't stop the user from double-clicking the titlebar to maximize the window. Try setting the Form.MaximizedBounds to the largest size you want the user to be able maximize to. Its a prot ...Show All

• Ashish Adkine Eliminating flicker in transparent controls

  Hello all, I am working on an application that requires transparent controls.  I have used Bob Powells method (http://www.bobpowell.net/transcontrols.htm) and it works just fine. However, it is not possible to use double-buffering.  This is mostly not a problem, but fo ...Show All

• David OShaughnessy Datagridview and search

  I got a search on my datagridview and I need to be able to pull the record up in the screen so that the user can see it. An example could be looking from an order number 30033 which is off the screen it finds it but you have to scroll down to it. I want the program to find it then go down to the record that is in the datagridview. I believe Billy Hollis is writing a good book on data that includes DataGridView content. Also, Rockford Lhot ...Show All