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• Ohako CanConvertTo Not Called

  I have a collection with a custom type and the custom type is decorated with a TypeConverter attribute.  At design time, ConvertTo is begin called, but CanConvertTo is never called.  I'm trying to return catch a ConvertTo on an InstanceDescriptor&nb ...Show All

• coderkidd shellstyle.dll?

  How can you tell what the current systems style is, and when it is changed in XP  Some articles on the web mention "shellstyle.dll" but don't say how to use it. Is there an API call, or is it harder than that. Also, when run ...Show All

• Richard Cook - MSFT numericUpDown

  I use nud in databindings: numericUpDown.DataBindings.Add( "Value" , fbs, "Tamanho" , True ).NullValue = 0 When the Sql Server returns NullValue the nud not use the 0. The nud use the last value. Sample: Records Value in DataBase Value in numericUpDown when bindings (bindingnavigator) 1 121 121 2 20 20 3 Null 20 (repeat last) ...Show All

• EuphoricHed Adding more than 20 columnHeaders to a listView

  Hi, I trying to add more than 20 columnHeaders to a ListView but I get the ffg. exception InValidOperation("Item cannot be added to ListView.").  This worked in VS 2003 but not in 2005.  Any thoughts or solutions would be helpful.  Thnx! for ( int i = 0; i < 21; i++ ) { lvOverview.Columns.Add( new ColumnHeader ()); } string [] clientDetails = new string [21]; for ( int p=0; p < 21; p++) { ...Show All

• Wilson Chew Changing Mouse Cursor

  Hello ALL, I want to change my mouse cursor when I move my mouse on a control or when the control gets the focus Plz help me regarding this Anil K Dhiman You can use the Control.Cursor property to set the current cursor for that control. You can use the Cursors class to get a pre-defined cursor or use the Cursor class to load you own. To temporarily change the mouse cursor for all controls on your application set the Cu ...Show All

• Damien Please help with "Not a member of" error

  I recently upgraded from Visual Basic Express 2005 to Visual Studio 2005 beta2 and the project I'm working on, which had no errors in VB Express2005, now has all sorts of errors in VS2005. Not sure why, but the one error that keeps coming up is that somethings are not a member of "Forms".  In this case it's "AuthenticationMode" that's not a member of "Forms".  I'm not sure what this error means, or how to correct it (or why it hap ...Show All

• ch8anshetty DataBind Combobox with "Select One" as first item

  I have two comboboxes that are bound to datatables in a dataset.  The datatables have a relationship so when the user selects and item from the first combobox the items in the second combobox are automatically filtered.   What is the best  ...Show All

• Jim King 2000 Google Like deskbar application

  Does anyone know how to create a deskbar app  I would like to write an app that searches our company knowledgebase and problem logs. I have written a control for the web and a control for winforms that we develope, but when I saw Goog ...Show All

• bobba multiselect listbox producing duplicate index error

  multiselect listbox producing duplicate index error I did search before asking this question. I filled an AuthorsListbox with a list of Authors. I set multiple selection to simple, as an article can have more than one author. The article has already been saved and has a unique ID. Each author has a unique ID. When I select more than one author I get a duplicate index error. If I change mutlipleselection to one, and save the authors one at a ...Show All

• Jef Kazimer Image Box problem

  hey, I added a image box to my program, the image is an animated .gif file, but for some reason Visual basic 2005 express will not put the animated .gif onto the imagebox...what can I do to make it so it will accept animated gifs I looked, but what I found was no help... what I mean is, when I select the image it will now show it, as if I never selected one yet... If I put a non animated gif then it will show it in the picture ...Show All

• Tomas Kiss Playing with System.Net.Sockets

  Everyone, I'm doing a little experiment with sockets to learn how to use them. My sample is a application to check POP3 email. The whole thing came together easily and worked well when I tried to check my Roadrunner email account. Strange things&nbs ...Show All

• DHGood Dynamic ContextMenuStrip problem

  I am dynamically adding ToolStripMenuItems to a context menu during the Opening event and those menu items are coming from the main menu.  The problem is that the first time the right-click event occurs and the opening event is called nothing shows up.  Repeated right-clicks after that work but until the main menu is activated again.  To rebuild the menus during load, I have an array that stores all the menu items needed and use t ...Show All

• Nata Korshunova How to add a new line inside a textfield...

  Ok i'm trying to add a file list into a text field so i can cut and paste... I don't want the file list to be in one continues line, so I'm appending "\n" to the end...   This works BUT I get the new line character ...Show All

• John Perks giving a panel focus

  I am sure its simple, but I have searched about and can't seem to et something working. Simple window, i created a panel in. Here is what I have and have tried: The commented portions are what I have tried. [code]  private : System::Void IrrlichtPanel_Paint_1(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventArgs^ e) { ObjDisplay->init((s32) this ->MyPanel->Handle.ToPointer()); //this ->MyPanel ...Show All

• yai Advice: User controls or not...

  Hi. Iam working on my and my colleagues final exsam (administrative panel, windows app for colleagues web portal administation). I have devided administrative sections with tab pages and for every that section (14 of them) I have bunch a controls on main form and codes for that sections to work as they should. My question is: Is it better to create 14 user controls for each section and just to load them on to the panel (for exsample) Then I'll b ...Show All