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• SQLDBAs client vs. non-client area of control

  I am creating an owner drawn control where I want certain parts to be active and others to be inactive. However, I want to be able to draw within the whole control. This means that I can't just use the standard region property to desi ...Show All

• Toby Tellier 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

• dollinz TransparencyKey usage consuming memory

  I can open up to 5 Webbrowser controls on 5 separate forms.  A medium size panel control on each form is transparent.  I can only open up to 3 forms before memory is exhausted.   As a test, when I eliminate the transparency  ...Show All

• pcprof Custom prerequisites?

  Hi, I'd like to add custom prerequisites for ClickOnce deployment like WordViewer and ExcelViewer. Is that possible or would I have to do that on my own Thanks, Tom The one I have public right now is built using Beta 2. And, it should just work with RC/RTM .NET Frameworks, and I just tested it on a machine. I do have an update built on RTM (with a few small enhancements), but I can't really realease it unt ...Show All

• wpzhao Data change not being saved if control not exited before clicking Save button

  How do I get my form to update a record if I only edit data in one control (say a textbox), then click the Save button that I added to the BindingNavigator As I haven't tabbed out of the textbox, the validation event doesn't fire and so the BindingSource doesn’t pass on the changes I made. If I tab out of the control first and then click Save it works fine. My code is: Private Sub UspWorkOrderBindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click(ByVal se ...Show All

• teacake.the.cat ToolStripControlHost with custom dropdown

  The typical samples for ToolStripControlHost show how to host a MonthCalendar control, but adding this new control to your toolbar has the effect of increasing the height of the toolbar to an unreasonable size. Let's say for example I would like just the date to show as a label, and when the control is clicked, the calendar would appear/dropdown. All my attempts to design such a toolstrip item cause the toolbar/container to grow when my control ...Show All

• Anjan Das Navigating Master-Detail record

  Hey there, someone pls point me at the right direction. I have a form holding master-details record. master record is bound to textboxes while the datagrid is used to display the details. My problem is that, I am only able to scroll the master  ...Show All

• cvajre User controls with wrong namespace

  When I am using the WinForms designer with a few user controls, I notice that each time I go into the design view, then try to compile my application, the .Designer.cs file can't can't compile because it can't seem to find the class. But when I remove the default namespace value from the namespace of the usercontrol, the class can then be found and the form will compile. Example... Project Default namespace as defined in proj file: Orde ...Show All

• BrianMitchellTX NullReferenceException - DataGridView

  I have a strange case.... I have bound a DataViewGrid to a dataset. If I double click on a column seperator or cell I get this: System.NullReferenceException was unhandled   Message="Object reference not set to an instance of an object." The message does not point to a line of code. The IDE is displayed, the code is still "running" and form is not visible. Any ideas I found the "cause" but I'm not s ...Show All

• AaryanW What folders or files an executable is running?

  Is there a program or batch file that tells you what folders or files an executable uses Any suggestion would be appreciated. Hi Sox Im scratching my head here, I really don't understand what are you trying to accomplish. A piece of code or a detailed description please. Probably you are looking for Application.ExecutablePath: string exepath = Application.ExecutablePath; MessageBox.Sho ...Show All

• Martijn Iseger SelectedIndexEvent for DataGridViewComboBoxCell

  Hello All. I've added a DataGrivViewComboBoxCell to a DataGridView, and I want to listen to SelectedIndexChange events (same as normal ComboBox). Is their a straight-forward way to do so  Some event that is equivalent   Or, anyone knows a way around to solve& ...Show All

• GiannaCampbell Detecting events of remote control

  I got a remote control with my tv card and would like to use it for other purposes than with the TV prog that I got. Could any one tell me how to go about to do it. I looked in all the DLL's and couldn't find anything.& ...Show All

• Renis Cerga vb2005 datagrids, datasets, datatables

  I am new to VB (2 weeks old). I am using VB2005 to create a GUI representation of data in my data base which is built using my applications in "jBase", a MVDBMS. Since this db is not the standard SQL server, that MS seems to believe that everybody is using, I can't find the examples that I need in the help files. Here is what I can do: I can open a connection to my data base.  I can read the information from my data base and pop ...Show All

• kidd second form setting first form field

  Hi Everyone - I have two web forms Form1 and Form2 On Form1 i have a textbox and a button the button click simply does a showmodal on Form2 on Form2 i have a button that when pressed - I would like to populate the textbox on Form1 with a  ...Show All

• Adrian_Moore Datagridview and scroll bars...

  First... very cool component!  I built a very quick webservice which returns and imageid,category and imagedata(thumbnail size)  Created a winform with the datagridview set the rows autosize property to display the whole image (small) the Scrollbars property was set to ...Show All