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• Jake52 nativeImage format (ie. the "Insert standard items" menu icons)

  Hi, and thanks in advance for your help. What format are the icons/bitmaps that get inserted when you choose "Insert standard items" on a menustrip If you inspect the System.Drawing.Image's that get loaded, it's plain to see that they don't actually contain any raw data, but rather point to a nativeImage (some integer). I see that the format is RGBA. I want to be able make such partially transparent icons/bitmaps myself ...Show All

• hoowahfun Verisign Certificate unavailable in Store

  Greetings: I've purchased a Verisign Class 3 certificate for code signing. We've used it for deploying Win32 applications. If you right click on the installed certificate is states the following: Ensures software came from software publisher Protects software from alteration after publication 2.16.840.1.113733.1.7.23.3 I would like to use this certificate for deploying a VS2005 C# project. I understand that what I have is a P ...Show All

• phousley17 Please Any help (MdiWindowListItem)

  I am trying to use MdiWindowListItem and add it to menu in main form and it is working. now i have one problem. my main form is like this : on the right side a split container panel which displays all the child forms like this: dim child as new ChildForm Name child.mdiparent=Me (me is the main form) child.parent=me.splitcontainer1.panel1 child.show() the form will be shown in the panel but i cant see it in the MdiWindowListItem how can i solve t ...Show All

• Brent Snyder How can I control the spacing of items in ListView component? Thanks!

  How can I control the spacing of items in ListView component Thanks! I have set the View attribute of ListView as LargeIcon. After run, I find the spacing between icons is too wide. How can I control the spacing between icons in ListView component You're right! It doesn't work! Sorry, I thought it might.    I had some time to play around with it this weekend and couldn't get any of it to work. But, I thought I remembered using ...Show All

• Jay1973 Inheritence With Inheritence Picker????

  Respected GURUS                                 I am Kunal Mukherjee from India. though I have done a lot of programming in VS.Net 2003 [ framework 1.1] but  I am a newbee in vs.net 2005. I am currently using a beta 2 [the lates] copy of VC#.Net 2005. While playing with the software wh ...Show All

• C3i DataGridView Soring

  I really like the new DataGridView control, however, it always seems to sort columns containing numbers and dates as if they were strings.  The Windows Forms 1.x ListView control did the same thing so what I ended up doing was to create an ...Show All

• jstfsklh211 MouseMove fall through

  I feel so thick but I've been hammering this for hours now all the books I have and the net. I guess the solution is so simple nobody has thought to write it down!!! I'm writing a UserControl that needs to be transparent to the layers beneath it but it absorbs the MouseMove event! How do I ignore this event in the control and allow it to pass on to the control below to handle Any help greatfully received....... ...Show All

• Hong Ju Zhang How to insert, update, delete using DataGrid ?

  Hi I am develoing a C# and MS Access application in which I have to display table rows and columns in a DataGrid AND in the same form I have to perform insert, update, delete operations. Displaying the table's contents is not a problem but I need help in implementing insert, update and delete operations. Thanx. Hi, Yes, the DataGridView is a new control that supercedes the old DataGrid. In DataGridView you can ...Show All

• Arix Trapping Form Closing

  Hi, I am trying to ask my program users a Y/N question when they click the close button on any of my Windows Forms. How do I go about this Forms have a "Closing" event.  Prompt the user here and set Cancel to ...Show All

• shaper Need to build a listbox containing a checkbox and image

  I need to build a control that looks like a checked listbox but with an image between the checkbox and the label. I don't need any databinding support.  I tried to 'OwnerDraw' the CheckedListbox but it will not support owner drawing.  I&nb ...Show All

• Yaachiru Add a button to a DataGridViewCell

  Hello, I'm new to using the DataGridView so my question might seem to be simple for you. I'd like to add a button at runtime to a cell so that the cell has a standard input field AND a button (like a ComboBox). How to do that Till Thanks for your information, but I'd like to add this button dynamically. That is I'd like to use the base classes of the .Net framework because it is a lot of work to implement all ...Show All

• George Longmire ListView MultiSelect property issue

  Hello, When switching the MultiSelect to true, and then you start selecting a row it de-selects the previous selected row, if I hold the CTL or SHIFT key then it keeps the previous selection. I want to be able to just click on the row  ...Show All

• David So Windows Forms tip: use Spy++!

  I wanted to share a great little tip with all of you on how to debunk the inner workings of Windows controls. While .NET Windows Forms is a great library that makes creating forms very easy, there are limits to what you can do with Windows Forms. Luckily, it is just a wrapper around ancient technology, and we can still have a lot more control over the controls than you might think at first glance. Windows messages are still in the core of the . ...Show All

• vonWinter Detecting if DB resources exist

  Using VS2003 framework 1.1 MSSQL Server 7 and 2000 I need to be able to determine if a user selected database has all the tables and stored procedures required to complete a specific business task. What is the best approach to getting this information&nb ...Show All

• Chris Foley Repainting Controls

  Why would you want to call BOTH Invalidate() and Update() when redrawing a control   What does one do that the other doesn't that would justify calling them both Invalidate() will (sorry for the redundancy) invalidate part of the con ...Show All