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• MartinUSS AutoScrolling

  Hello, ScrollableControl provides an automatic mechanism for handling scrolling, but I am having the following issue: When I have a panel with autoscroll enabled, I put some controls inside it, when I start the application the panel scrollbars are always at t ...Show All

• mkbbrt input not going to text box with the caret!!!

  This is kinda hard to explain, but here goes. I have a user control, with a bunch of text boxes on its surface.  The user control is one of several in a tab control.  Sometimes, when I first bring up the usercontrol, if I click&n ...Show All

• itmik3 FlexGrid / Datagrid question

  Hi, I know that there is no Flexgrid in VB.NET 2003, and most posts I have seen are directing people to the datagrid. My problem is that I don't think the datagrid is an option in my case. I have recently upgraded my VB6 app to VB.NET 2003, which uses a FlexGrid. I populate the grid at runtime...and NOT from a database table The grid uses column AND row headings, which I need to be fixed in place...ie when the user scrolls horizontal ...Show All

• Rajesh Kannan DataGridView with a column ComboBox...

  I have a table in a DataGridView. One column is a Foreign Key-field to other table, so I want to have a selection-ComboBox in that column with the values to the parent table. It's possible to do it with no code or I have to write code to load the values in the combobox (Excuse my english... ) Thanks. Check out the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=220950& ...Show All

• Yasser Shohoud Can't hide first column in DataGridView

  I am unable to hide the first column in a DataGridView. I am not referring to the header column but a databound ID column in the grid. As a general rule I put the ID column at the front and hide it so I can always reference the ID column in column [0]. For some reason I am able to hide any other column by setting the visible property to false except for the first column. I was just getting ready to post about t ...Show All

• Ray Ray FileDialog and Listbox

  Hi I have a button which opens a file dialog and  allows the user to select multiple files. But instead of opening the files I need a list box to display the list of files selected. Is this possible if yes how do I get the list box to display the list of files.What objects should I be using . Thanks in advance. Hi, the OpenFileDialog has an array (FileNames) that holds are the selected file names, ...Show All

• CleverCoder Initial Position of BindingSource

  Is there a way to set the initial Position of a BindingSource without binding to position zero first I have an application that displays a list of objects.  When the user double-clicks a line in the list, we open a dialog box and bind the fields in the dialog to the list (IBindingList).  In general, this works but, one problem we see is that the framework calls BeginEdit on element zero in the list when we want to start at some othe ...Show All

• dirtyKarl Smart Client Deployment

  Greetings. I've created a little application that fires from a web link and does some functions.  I cannot get the application to fire consistently on all machines in my office.  I followed all the instructions for setting security and such on  ...Show All

• Mark Flickner Illegal Cross Thread Call

  Why is thrown the illegal cross tread call exception if I want to set text property of label after DataReceived event was fired of SerialPort Matja I had a very similar problem a while back and just couldn't figure it out. Without rambling too much, let me see if I can help you. So, yea the migration from .NET 2k3 and 2005 had a change with the way Threading goes. So look at this example --- private void ...Show All

• auky How to access textbox on parent form?

  I'm trying to access a textbox on a parent form from the child form. Seems pretty simple, but I just can't find how to do it. This is how I'm opening the child form: Form fRoom = new RoomAllocator(); fRoom.ShowDialog(); How do I access the parent form's text box from the child form Somebody please help! Thanks, but that is a very long and complicated article! I just want a simple code snippet in C# that shows me how I can get my child fo ...Show All

• Tim1 Designer Verbs for Forms

  Is it possible to add designer verbs to forms  I see lost of examples of adding designer verbs to other kinds of controls but not to a form. Thanks. If that works then it works,  Sorry I was thinking of documentdesigner. From&nbs ...Show All

• SenthilP - MSFT Pop up notification

  Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to call a pop up notification window (not MessageBox) with a message. Preferably the pop up you get when somebody signs onto MSN Messenger. If there is no such way to call it, could anybody tell& ...Show All

• Steve-x I love MS and Windows

    Filiberto Selvas MSFT wrote: Thanks for the note; we are definetely watching performance. Could you provide me more details on what operations were too slow and what specifically too slow means   knowing some details on your connection speed/location coould help too Thanks Hi Filiberto, I dont have troubles with my connection speed. It is ok. But I have one issue: (1) When I enter Members List. Later, I enter to Se ...Show All

• haircuttedfreak Checkboxs, PropertyGrids, Oh My!

  Hello there! I just started work on an application that makes extensive use of the .NET PropertyGrid control provided by Microsoft with the 2.0 framework. This app utilizes the SelectedObject field along with custom TypeConverter s and ICustomTypeDescriptor s to properly display and manipulate the desired objects. Everything works great with the exception of one desired feature: We want to be able to disable any of the individual properties i ...Show All

• tushka read CSV or an easy way to convert to Access

  I have to import files into a database, and i have that capability but i would like to do some checks before this takes place, such as verify that the appropriate columns are present, verify that the number of rows are a certian number,&nb ...Show All