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• Chris Biles redrawing buttons?

  HY, I'm interested in How can I iherit and redraw a controll > button, textbox, toolstrip menu etc. I have been searching for tutorials and documentation and I haven't found anything yet. I'm trying (for example) to make a hexagonal button.> to redraw it (not to draw one whith the gdi....i know how to do that)....I whant to inherit it from vb and redraw it... How hard is this Are there any tutorials Have you done this before Please help m ...Show All

• DarkBls control changed

  There are several controls on the windows form (i.e. textboxes, datetimepicker, etc...) on clicking a button such as Apply button, how can I find out if the user has changed the values in the controls Thanks Hi, You have several ways of doing this. There isn't a instant kind of solution for this. First you could get all the values by default either in your form load or after you've populated your controls. And ...Show All

• JayJay What clients can Terrarium Server serve?

  Can I host 1.1 and 1.2 clients with the Terrarium Server Beta 1   I had a Terrarium Server setup for my 1.0 clients a couple of years ago, but have not tried since then. Thanks, C.D.Edwards The Beta 1 server *should* be able ...Show All

• Mr-T DataGrid word wrapping

  Could anyone post an example os a word-wrapping datagrid If not, and because I need to implement it, I'd like to know where the row height can be altered, since that all i need to override the Paint event of DataGridTextBoxColumn object. I've been& ...Show All

• Dylan Phillips Prevent the child control is deleted at usercontrol

  I'm making a usercontrol. it has a child as tabcontrol has tabpage. the diffencies between tabcontrol and my usercontrol are 1. my usercontrol has only a child. (this child is also usercontrol and its designer is inherited from ParentControlDesigner) 2. the child must not be deleted. in order to prevent the child from being deleted, I tried to add a logic into IComponentChangeService.ComponentRomoving event like below * ...Show All

• mrb280 ToolStrip

  Hi all, i have a toolstrip with a toolstripdropdownbutton. I'd like to know how can i know if the Toolstripdropitem are visible. Like when the user click on the arrow. it show a submenu ... id like to control the show and hide of that submenu ... i can't find a property in the toolstripdropdownbutton to control the show and hide of the submenu .. please help won't that affect performance it seems like doin ...Show All

• Niglix Threading and server pings

  I am using a window form for a program to ping servers - many at once so I'm am using a tread. The ping class is this one.... http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/29/149256.aspx I set up the threading this way.... The button click event.... th = new Thread( new ThreadStart(pingServers)); th.Start(); And then... void pingServers() { p = new ping(); string reply = ""; try { ...Show All

• t0PPy Installation of Windows service

  I have writen a windows service and made a setup project for it. My problem is that i need to run the installer classes for the service without running installutil.exe from the comandline. Consequently I need to run this automaticly when the us ...Show All

• Skip_Frog JIT Debugging

  Ok im still new to this but how in the world do i enable JIT debugging on my windows form application and where do i do it. i have the following code <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> But i place it in my form but it doesn't work anyone know what i should do or where i should place it Anyone that knows the answer ...Show All

• Meher Icons in Datagrid like in Outlook

  Hi, Basically I want a datagrid, which looks like the inbox in Outlook, where I have an icon in the first column, which shows the status of the line. So I have two questions:  1.) How do I show icons in a datagrid column 2.) What is&n ...Show All

• hanshanshans Outlook Style Custom List Control

  Hi, I'm relatively new to .net, but I'd need to make a list control that looks a bit like Outlooks mail list. E.g the one in the middle showing from, subjects and some icons... What I need to have is few labels and few icons, on  ...Show All

• aaronxramirez Picture Box Page Flipping Method?

  I'm just wondering.  I want to do page flipping on a picture box.  For those not familiar with page flipping, it's the method by which you draw in the background and then once all things are drawn you simply bring the page to the front.  It keeps the flickering down when doing animated drawing methods. So the question is, is there  a way to page flip a control surface Thanks, Devin You're t ...Show All

• tommy khan Binding the DataGridView control an array.

  I do not get what I expected when I attempt to bind the datagridview control to a class property that returns an array. I have a simple example class that has two properties that return arrays.   The arrays are defined within the class  as follows ... Private m_dataDouble() As Double = {1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0} Private m_dataString() As String = {"Red", "Green", "Blue"} The Properties are... Public Property Dbls( ...Show All

• Todd2000 Window forms: close one instance, open another

  Hi all,  My scenario is as follows: User enters search criteria on a switchboard form (formA) which returns a form (formB) that contains a number of listings to choose from.  From this form the user then clicks the desired listing which brings  ...Show All

• Erin Geaney MSFT Checking if a form is Shown or Hidden

  How can I check if a form is hidden or shown through code Also, how could I use variables in between forms, like have formshown as boolean inside form 1, and use the same variable with its value associated with it inside form 2 here is a small sample, I have created a project with 2 forms, one called ParentForm and the other called ChildForm... Here is the code that has a button and a label on it, whn ...Show All