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• Axoren MessageBox.Show Focus Problem

  I have a strange problem with a C# Windows Forms application. I have a MenuStrip, a ToolStrip right below it, and another ToolStrip down the left hand side. The rest of the client area is taken up by a panel control set to Dock Fill, so it fills the entire client area. I am displaying custom user controls in the panel control. The problem I'm experiencing is that whenever I call a MessageBox.Show, the message box is not visible - it is not ...Show All

• CodeRipper UserControl Reset problem in VS2003

  I designed a user control in VS2005 and it works fine. Then I migrate it to VS2003(Someone need to use it in an old program) and the strange thing happens. When compile and run the program, all the properties set in the properties window got reset. I mean after running the program, my user control is reset to the default properties. Can anyone tell me what is the problem And other question is, how can I build and compile a program in VS2005 tha ...Show All

• CasuaLXX right mouse click on treeview

  can anyone show me how to display a context menu after a right mouse click on a specific node.  This is what i have been able to acheive so far  If e.Button = MouseButtons.Right Then             TreeView1.SelectedNode = ...Show All

• ChrisWFL Accessing list of all controls for a form at design time

  I am creating a modal custom UITypeEditor.  Is it possible to walk back up the context tree and access all the controls that are on a form   Is there a proper and not proper way to do this   Any push in the right direction&n ...Show All

• Burlow remove disconnected devices

  I have a scanner that was plugged into a 5 port USB PCI card that I had. I remover the card to put it into another computer and plugged the scanner into the onboard USB ports. The problem is that now it comes up as flatbeadscanner_23 #2. is there a way to remove the flatbeadscanner_23 from my comp so that this one will take that name now I need this done because I am trying to scan with Photoshop and all it sees is flatbeadscanner_23, which isnt ...Show All

• ReeseHodge Compiling Joe's OLAF 2003 sample under Beta 2

  After seeing Mark Rideout demo Joe's Outlook 2003 at TechEd, I downloaded the code and tried to compile it. I got about about 10-12 errors and 213 warnings about obselete elements. Could you release a new version I'm looking to it as possibly the only useful documentation for menustrips and toolstrips. Checkout the Joe Stegman version @ http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx tabindex=4&tabid=49#User% ...Show All

• Jamie Garbutt selecting an object

  Hi, In VS.NET, when you select an object on the form in design time, object was focused. You see a frame wit dots. I want to do same thing in runtime:) any idea ...Show All

• s441 MDI background

  For a MDI application, how can I set a background image for the client region of the main frame window Although in Visual Studio.net I can assign an image to that main client, it fails to show up when the program is running. Thanks! Have a look at the following article: Getting a "Handle" on the MDI Client There is lots of good info in this article, but setting the BackgroundImage property in the design ...Show All

• Irina! date column in webdeveloper VB, how do I only show date?

  Hi, I'm creating a webform in webdeveloper 2005 express. There is a column in a gridview item that is suppose to show the date. However, for some reason it also shows 12:00:00a.m. after the date by default. How can I show only date (mm/dd/yyyy) This is bound to an access 2003 mdb file. In the data access table that it is reading from, there is only a date (mm/dd/yyyy) in the column. I found similar threads where users were pointed to here ...Show All

• citizenDAK ConfigurationManager class not available in VS2005??

  Hi, I've been doing web applications in C# for ages and took up on .NET v2.0 / VS2005 as soon as it came out. I've been using the ConfigurationManager class in my web apps for AppSettings and ConnectionStrings without any problems. I've recently had the need to write some Windows Forms apps in VS2005, and everything was going well till I wanted to retreive some info from the app.config file. I added a new app.config to my project and ...Show All

• Pavan Kurimilla 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. The DataGridView does not support this. It only supports showing one table at a time.   -mark ...Show All

• kwilk DataGridView and ComboBoxColumn problem

  Hello I've been trying to use a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn in a DataGridView for a couple days now.    No matter what I do I get an error when the grid is being populated saying that the value is invalid.    On the database (Oracle) there is a field called BlocksRule that is number based and has a Check constraint to only allow a 0 or a 1.    These two values correspond text values of "All Locations" ...Show All

• Eric Richter Photo Printing Wizard

  It seems that the output from the desktop source, with or without installer, lacks the ability to configure a client to support WIA, whereas the msdn FotoVision Desktop.msi distribution does. I created a custom version with installer and deployed on client.&n ...Show All

• Cindy06 How to handle Ctrl-Drag on design surface?

  Hi, We've got a custom designer working, we can drag items from our toolbox onto the design surface without any problem. However, we want to handle dragging while holding down control - this should create a copy of the control. When ctrl-dragging, the icon changes to a + to indicate that this is what it's going to do, but on releasing the mouse, nothing happens! The MSDN magazine example from March 2006 has the same 'feature'. Wha ...Show All

• Hoopla highlight text in textbox

  i wish to highlight the text inside my textbox programatically, how can i do that can anyone help me thank you i try with TextBox1.SelectAll() but it seem does not work Set the textboxes hideselection property to false so the text will be selected when the textbox does not have focus http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformstextboxbaseclasshideselec ...Show All