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plopes Form freezes on new thread
Im having a little difficulty Show()ing a new form on a thread separate from the one called by application.run(). Here's basically what im trying to do: I have my main UI thread, and i have a server runing on a separate thead in the background. Everytime my server accepts a new connection, I want to open up a window for that client. When i make the new form and use the Show() method on my server thread, the form opens but it doesnt draw an ...Show All
dkw81490 versioning in .Net
I wrote the following code to display the version number of my app: strMajor = System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo _ (Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.Location).FileMajorPart strMinor = System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVer ...Show All
joblini Outlook Feel and Look
Where I can find a Sample Outlook Feel and Look Application developed with framework 2.0 http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx tabindex=4&tabid=49 -mark Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is" perhaps somewhere like www.codeproject.com . However, I don't think that all parts of outlook would be supported by .NET 2.0 without some custom contr ...Show All
cfBianchi How to hide/unhide a column in a listview?
HI.. I have a list view and it contains some columns - Column1,Column2,Column3,Column4. Now i want to hide any of the columns if it is visible or unhide the columns if it is already hidden.How can I do this Any help is highly appreciated ~nhd This link will help you- http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/listview.asp Set the width of your column to 0, this ...Show All
sahan How Can I make the event of Activate Windows to run only one time?
In order to make the event of Activate Windows to run only one time, I write the code below this.Activated-=new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Activated); Is it correct but It certain can work well. but it seems it is not a good code. using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; namespace WindowsApplication1 { public class Form1 : Sys ...Show All
vicster Desktop Shortcuts
Does anyone know if there is a way to programatically create a desktop shortcut from within a dotnet application I specifically need to modify the Target property of the shortcut in order to apply some command line switches. Any help greatly appreciate ...Show All
stwenter Good way to expose properties of members in the property grid?
Hi, I have a UserControl (inherits from UserControl) that contains a few member variables. These variables are of custom types defined in various assemblies. These custom types have their own properties. Is there a good way to expose these low-level properties to the Property Grid without wrapping all of them in the UserControl If I wrap them, all properties of all low-level assemblies will be exposed at the same level, which is not des ...Show All
Venom ThreadStateException from background thread manipulating its control
Hi, I came to this exception: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. and I don't know what to do with it. My application creates some Panels with a lot of components at run time (according to the database entries). Each panel takes a second or two to load so I decied to use multithreading and choosed the ThreadPool. S ...Show All
gzinger ComboBox events in IE
I'm new here, so forgive me if this might be in the wrong forum... I have a really awkward problem, and although I believe it to a limitation or bug within IE, I can't find any supporting documentation. I have a C# windows control I ...Show All
A.Carter Windows Forms autotab
In Windows Forms is there an autotab capability It existed in MFC where when typing into an Edit control (textBox), once the max number of characters for the control was exceeded, the focus went to the next control and the characters were&nb ...Show All
EvO99 .NET & WinForms for touchscreen applications
Hi All. I'm just learning WinForms with C# and I am primarily concerned about creating applications to be deployed on a touchscreen. I have a few questions that I hope somone can shed some light on, point me in the right direction for additiona ...Show All
Moustafa Typde Untyped DataSet
Hii All... I still less be clear with real implementation of dataset in VB. Basically, we can make dataset through Visual (template) and programmatically. When I using Visual, I can chosen typed or untyped. Then how with programmatically If I create dataset programmatically, is named typed or untyped What the especial characteristic to differentiate both Please help me, Thank's didik If you normaly creat ...Show All
Michael Vanhoutte checkedlistbox
I fill a list with some data and then checked some depending on the information i need. Now, I would like to be able to go through that list, but not beeing able to change items value. If it's checked it should stay checked if not it should stay unchecked. I tried with selectionMode, but it doesnt work. I tied with e.NewValue = e.Current value in ItemCheck method of the listBox, and it also doesn't work. What's the problem Hrcko ...Show All
Clemens Kolbitsch Should be simple: frm1 Save As... frm2, but leave frm1 "as is"
I tried to save Form1 as Form2, leaving Form1 "as is" (it's OK whether IDE leaves Form1 in Project or not). Seems VS.NET merely renames Form1 to be Form2--not what I'm trying to get. (I want to experiment with the UI on Form2, but&nbs ...Show All
BinduV extendeding the TextBox control
I get the feeling we aren't supposed to extend the TextBox control very much because there seems to be a lack of functionality available that I want and cannoy find. Either that, or I'm looking in the wrong place. One things that I want to do is find out where the caret is in the text box because I want to implement an INSERT and OVERWRITE mode for the textbox. There are ways to see what is selected, but no way to see where the cursor positio ...Show All