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• Greg Balajewicz Alpha Transparency in 2000 with .PNGs

  Hey guys, I'm using a .Net ListView with an associated ImageList set to 32bit colors.  I'm also using a manifest file to enable visual styles.  My ap runs great in XP, but as soon as I run it on 2000, some of my custom Bitmaps lose th ...Show All

• thunderchicken DataGridView Row Select with EditMode=EditOnEnter

    I have found that if I set a DataGridView's EditMode property to EditOnEnter then the user cannot select an entire row by clicking on the row header. This prevents the user from being able to delete a row.   When the user clicks on the row header, all of the cells of the row become highlighted, but at least one of the cells always remains in edit mode and thus pressing the delete key does not delete the row. The keystroke is ...Show All

• vanRepin Multiple Layers!!

  This is what I should do: I need to paste an image and on the form. On top of that the users will scribble something with the Pen tool. If they want to erase it they should just erase whatever they have scribbled and not the image that I just pasted. How would I do that Thanks for your time, You can 'erase' by repainting/redrawing erased areas with Color.Transparent If all you need is one drawing surface, ...Show All

• Drew P Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

  What I want to know is when can we expect the desperatly needed service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 I've had so many errors so far when working with the Windows Forms designer, it is not only VERY frustrating and wasting my valuable time, but, it is also embarrsing when my projects and clients are being delayed because of a low quality tool. I expected higher quality standards from Microsoft! Don't get me wrong, I love .Net and especiall ...Show All

• DaFeiFan DatagridView column format for passwords

  How can I change the column format from an Datagridview to display the password char (same as UseSystemPasswordChar in a TextBox) I have a column of type DataGridViewTextBoxColumn, but there isn't this property. I want display only * with the same length for all fields. It's for inform users that there is a password. Thanks for replay, but my datagridview is readonly, and I ne ...Show All

• nateraaaa Database question

  I am writing a program that will allow you to create new databases on a SQL server. However, I am getting an error that says the database 'MODEL' is being used, and we can't get an exclusive lock on it. I have no problem creating  ...Show All

• GNE Calling a form from within a form in VB 2005

  Howdy, What i want to do is, when a user presses a button on form1 it opens a new form that will be a numberkeypad to enter severals values, which i need passed back into form1. is it possible to call a form2 from inside a form1 (and how) , or is there a much easier way to acheive this by using something else many thanks Dwayne The way to do this is to create the Form2 class, and have it ex ...Show All

• MikeCai URGENT:System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter

  hi all, I am using .NET framework2.0, according to MSDN there is a class ResxResourceWriter in the namespace System.Resources, but i am not getting any such class here, what could be the problem, i am using WINNT operating system. Thanks in Advance -Rahul got the solutiong actually ResXResourceWriter is in System.Windows.Forms MSDN says wrong ...Show All

• Ranj DataGridView, DataGridViewComboBoxColumn

  Is it possible to select a value in a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn. Example I currently have a text box a DataGridView with a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn When a user enters a value into the text box I want to select an appropriate value in the combo box column in the DataGridViewComboBoxColum If someone could help, I would be most greatful as I have spent ages looking through MSDN and trying to find examples. Cheers Kris-UK ...Show All

• ejay "Cannot find keycodev2.dll or invalid keycode"

  Hi,    I created winforms and was able to deployed it using NTD. I used VS.Net 2002 and VB.Net. I have crystal reports in my forms. Everything is working except when i tried to view the reports in client (Win 2000, installed w/ . ...Show All

• Westerberg Calculate Width of a String in Pixels

  hallo, Given a Font and a string, is there any ready-to-use function in .NET which can compute the resulting width of the string in pixels So that I can adapt say a Label, MenuItem or Textbox to the new size of a string. thx, Steve ...Show All

• Sorin Varzaru Page navigation like avalon

  I am wanting to create a page navigation system (like Avalon) using Windows Forms (.Net 1.1). Has anyone done something similar  Considering that MS is pushing the Inductive User Interface philosophy so hard, I would have expected to see some examples&nb ...Show All

• awturnbull Datagridview Column Format

  Hi I have a datagridview which I am binding to a data returned from web service. Once I bind the data I use the following code to format the datagridview columns. 1 ) dg.Columns[1].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "#,##0" ; 2 ) dg.Columns[1].DefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment .MiddleRight; Second line works for me but the first line which I am using to insert thousand separator does no ...Show All

• eeevans Terrarium Server Temporary Difficulties

  I am trying to access the terrarium server without much luck. I get the following message on the screen. The Terrarium server is experiencing temporary difficulties.  This is why you are probably not receiving any animals.  Please bear with us while ...Show All

• PeterHup Looking for a control, or information about one

  I want to add colour support to my whiteboard user control and I would like to adopt the colour selection mechanism Paint has (the standard MS Paint program that comes with all versions of windows). I’m familiar with the colour selection dialog  ...Show All