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• AdrianMorris child hides behind horizontal scroll bar

  In my main application, if the user moves an MDI child past the left/right edge, then a scrollbar appears at the bottom of the MDI parent (main application). Then if the uers minimizes an MDI child form, it ends up behind the scroll bar&nb ...Show All

• Joseph123 Applications Settings shared between projects

  I have a VB solution with two projects in it. How can I access the settings of the second project from the first   Thanks... ShadeZero I found this post to answer my question http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=396611&SiteID=1 I have created a vb.net Windows Application ("NVChart.exe") and a Class Library("NVLib.dll") in my S ...Show All

• RickInHouston how to raise picturebox_Paint event from a timer's tick event

  show me how to raise picturebox_Paint event from a timer's tick control please The problem with pictureBox1.Refresh() is that you are forcing a redraw to occur immediately. This sounds good, but in fact its a bad thing. It can cause performance problems by forcing the control to redrawn multiple times when not needed. Whereas with multiple Invalidate calls, Windows may choose to batch them together into one redraw. It also ...Show All

• Rincewind60 DataTableAdapter Update

  Hi, I tried the following. I added a SQLExpress Datafile to my app. Therein a simple table and then I built (with the desinger) a DataSet. After draging one Edit to my form and databinding it I can change the values in the table of the dataset. With EndEdit() it marks the row as modifyed. Till now it works fine. Now to the update. I can iterate through the modifed rows and use the generated Update(Field1, Field2, OriginalKey, NewKey) method. The ...Show All

• Damian Otway Drag & Drip File From Explorer

  Does anyone have an example of draging & droping a file from Windoew Explorer onto a DataGrid -- all I want to do from there is capture the file name into one of the grid cells Some of the problems are just a t ...Show All

• Ken Adams Toolstrip & Menu Header

  I am trying to create a "header" like VB Studio 2005. For example the dark gray box that says "Toolbox" and has the three buttons on the right hand side. Is that a menu Toolstrip How do i create a control which looks like that Grant, This is basically a custom area on the side of the window. You could place a concealable panel on your form to similate this, or use a ToolStripDropDow ...Show All

• Charles Levy How to: Webbrowser NewWindow and Navigating equivalent to axWebbrowser

  At first, I enjoyed the new webbrowser control but then I noticed that the args provided by the events NewWindow3 and BeforeNavigate of the axWebBrowser had not been implemented in the new control. Arg. Good news, the guys from Microsoft gave us the a workaround recently in C# and said they will publish a sample soon on MSDN. In the mean time, here is some VB.net code inspired from Microsoft's C# that will give you 2 new events an ...Show All

• soundindepth MouseLeave event stops working for MDI child forms

  Hi, I have a simple MDI application, where a child form is hidden and then re-displayed at a later time.  After the child form is re-shown, the MouseLeave event no longer fires for any of the controls on the form (no matter how deeply  ...Show All

• xstos value and button in datagridview column

  I am looking for a way to store a value and a button in the same cell of a datagridview. basically, I have a column that stores a document path (unc), but I also want a button in that column that opens a browse window to change the path. I remember seeing something like this before in a thread or msdn but i can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated. Never mind. I think I can just use a link button ...Show All

• Jason88 Bindingcontext

  hello everyone,                   can someone pls tell me the difference between me.bindingcontext(datasource.datatable).addnew and me.bindingcontext(datasource,"datatable").addnew becoz only the latter one works and the other gives errors.( Only the one with comma and qoutes works whilst the fullstop one doesnt)       &n ...Show All

• johnd2 Crystal Report:Logon Failed

  CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed. Can anyone had experience with Oracle Let me know how to get rid of this error  Any help would be apperciated.... I don't suppose you've figured this out yet I'm having the same problem and ...Show All

• goishin Windows Service

  Hi, I have created a Windows Service using VB.NET and it works fine on my Windows XP machine. I then installed it on my Windows 2000 Server which install fine. However, it does not run my code. I have set the Account=LocalSystem but it&nb ...Show All

• AndySchumann Does anyone knows how to read from a dataset table using a datareader???

  I do know how to use the data reader to read from a SQL database table, however, I lack the expertice to do it from a Table residing in a DataSet. Can it be done Can anyone help Hi Neftali, The DataTable has a property called Rows , which is a collection ( DataRowCollection ) and implements IEnumerable , so you may iterate through items using the foreach statement. Here a sample code which does what you need: foreach ...Show All

• Raiden Socket programming

  i have created an application that uses socket programming for sending data from one computer to another on a network. the server sends an serialized object to the client every 1 sec using the networkstream. the client recieves and stores the data&n ...Show All

• Bkss resizing constituent controls within an instance of a userCtrl

  hiya I have a userCtrl that contains: 1) a label 2) a combobox   I want to be able to resize the label, making it a different size on  different forms.   So, I:   1) drag an instance of the userCtrl onto my form 2) make the userCtrl modif ...Show All