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• kckc Related ComboBox with BindingSource filter

  I have a form that shows 3 comboboxes and some more fields. These are Country/State/City. The binding source has only IDcity (not IDCountry and IDState) and somemore fields. I'm loading the main dataset and 3 more datasets for countries, states and cities. I've implemented on SelectedIndexChange on country and state combobox and did this for each one   if (stateComboBox.SelectedValue != null )       &nb ...Show All

• Virtlink Painting of controls

  I have a Combo box and other controls on a Win form and on its "SelectedIndexChanged" event, i am doing some time consuming operations (connecting to db to fetch data, etc). During this time, i do not want the user to click on other controls on the form. I tried doing a call to the SuspendLayout method on the form at the beginning of the event handler and ResumeLayout at the end of the event handler and is not helping. I also tri ...Show All

• Bhavin B - MSFT usercontrol

  I'm using a userControl to fill the table with data from dataset. When I click a button in that userControl I want to see results in another userControl where I have a grid. How to see if a user clicked that button You should check to see if the srcResult event is NOT null. If it is NULL, it means that there is no event handler attached, and raising the event would throw an execption (object not se ...Show All

• peishores how do I respond to events from a dynamically created control?

  I'm still relatively new to the .Net world so forgive me if there is an obvious answer to this question... I have a form with a dynamically created listview control.  I would like to respond to this listview control's events (i.e. double-click,  ...Show All

• Regeneratez Toolstripmanager and Visibility

  First, please forgive me for making a second independent post on the same topic. I have new information and my sense is that if I reply to my own posting the automatic procedures at MS won't pop it up for action. (Correct me if i'm wrong and there is a better way to handle this.) Second, please forgive the bright red print below. It separates the new stuff from my original post. I wrote: It's clear that loading and saving settings with ...Show All

• Agni how can i programaticaly delete the selected item (row) from a listview with 3 or more columns ?

  Hi. I make a form with a listview. I managed to programaticaly add items on the listview but dont know how to edit or remove the selected rows. Can anyone help me Thx. Thx man To remove the selected items, try this: For Each lvi As ListViewItem In Me .ListView1.SelectedItems    Me .ListView1.Items.Remove(lvi)   Next lvi   The ...Show All

• alohasurf Smooth Edge Form VB.NET

  How can I draw form with smooth edge like Winamp Skins when alpha blending is enabled. I tried with this code but when I drag form graphics are invalid. This is the code of Form which I tried to draw Protected Overrides Sub OnPaintBackground( ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Me .SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, True ) Me .BackColor = Color.Transparent e.Graphics.DrawImage( My .R ...Show All

• Walt Parkman Custom displaymember and valuemember in a bound Combobox?

  I have created a form with a combobox that is bound to the database table field "State". The State field use numeric values 0,1,2,3,4 according to the state. The problem is that i don't want to show the exact same values it retrieves from DB, i rather want to display a list of possible "States", with custom text corresponding to the value. Example: The value 0 actually means "Stopped". So i want it to add the ...Show All

• Sangeetha_AS question about class attributes

  If you open the object browser and look at microsft's classes, in the lower pane of the browser it shows comments about the selected class, and then if you select a class member, it shows info about the selected member. Summaries and even argum ...Show All

• Yael P control character to Hex

  Hi, Does anyone know in vb.net how to convert string "control character" to their hex number Example: character             Hex       ESC               1B       GS  ...Show All

• stargate1 ForeignKeyConstraint problem...

  Hi, I'm using a dataset to manage an MS Access db. I create two tables, I fill them with data, and I relate two fields: Table1:                Table2: CustomerID         ProductID (AutoNumber)   &nbs ...Show All

• mrboldt Trouble accessing correct row in sorted DataGrid

  How do you access the correct row in a sorted DataGrid   I have tried: Dim bm As BindingManagerBase = Me.DataGrid1.BindingContext(Me.DataGrid1.DataSource, Me.DataGrid1.DataMember) Dim dr As DataRow = CType(bm.Current, DataRowView).Row As far as I can see, there is no usable  ...Show All

• Michiel000 modifying control properties

  when I create a simple form application project in vc++ express I have these two files created by default, form1.h & project_name.cpp now suppose i add a text box in form1 I'm not able to change the properties like text of this textbox from anywhere else other then form1.h (say if i want to change properties from this file project_name.cpp) its a very basic doubt but I've done evrything from making textbox public t ...Show All

• Alan S Duplicate banner image when making an MSI.

  Hello, when I create an MSI with customized banner image it shows both images over lapped. Is there a way to remove the default image or do I have to change the custom image properties and set the transparency layer to white and not clear as it is set to now. Thanks for any tips. Tim ...Show All

• Chris Drie How did they achieve the Windows XP Look?

  Does anyone know how they got the controls on the forms to take on the Windows XP appearance. For instance the combobox controls take on a flat border style appeareance which isn't even a DropDownStyle option.  All the controls seem to take&nbs ...Show All