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• Josh Petrie Edit text during design-time

  Hi I'm creating a component inherit from Panel under the .NET Framework 2.0 in C#. This component have a title bar in which I draw a text. I would like to allow other developper who will use my component to edit this text directly via the designer and not only by the propertygrid. For exemple, I would like to do the same thing than in a Menu where you can write the title of your MenuItems in the designer. Is there anybody can help me ...Show All

• Logicboy dirty system.drawing.systemicons

  Hello.  As part of my application I need to ask for passwords at certain stages and so have rolled my own messagebox-like window complete with textbox for the password.  However when I try to use a system icon to complete the messagebox&nb ...Show All

• London_Paul message box dose not display.

  I have a really bad issue. All of a sudden the pcs in my company are no longer displaying c# .net controls. For example the message box or the list box. The box appears however with no text. I have some that do and some that  ...Show All

• Boycey How difficult would this be? Drag/Drop with DB update?

  Here's the basics.  I have an asp.net aspx page that for the most part does what I need it to do, but it's clunky and since asp.net is not frame aware, a pain inn the ass with mixed scripts etc. The application is a utility to&nb ...Show All

• Gyeon Picturebox control

  I'm making a 2d Game and I have run into an annoying problem I can't fix... Well this is my code for making the bitmap in the picturebox transparent, but its only transparent to the form's color and not when its overlapping another picturebox. The color of the form is silver, and there is just a big grey box around my creature that overlaps the other pictureboxes when i set the order to "bring to front", im too lazy to use anything else than pic ...Show All

• bjquinniii Source code, server and future

  So as several of you have noticed, the source code for 1.2 hasn't been released yet.  I am trying to figure out what is the best approach for releasing the source code and the future of Terrarium 1.2.  Here are the current thoughts.&n ...Show All

• FETUS How to make toolbar drop-down menu?

  In VS2003, a toolbar button can have a drop-down menu by assigning a contentMenu to its DropdownMenu property.  However, I fail to do this in VS2005 beta 2 in which I cannot select my ContextMenuStrip(replacing old ContextMenu) as the DropDownMenu property. How should I produce drop-down menu for toolbarbutton in VS2005 Public Sub LoadToolbarList( Optional ByVal bMenuExtensions As Boolean = False ) Dim ...Show All

• JenJH LoaderExceptions?

  My app has a base Form class, called FunctionForm, from which all forms inherit. This worked fine last week, when I was using VS.NET 2005 Pro but this week, while using VS.NET 2005 Team System Developer, I get the following while working in the designer. The form compiles and runs fine, but I can't design it. Firstly, is the stack trace the LoaderExceptions property Secondly, how do I approach a work around Unable to load one or more of the re ...Show All

• midavis 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

• Payam Shodjai how to block ctrl-alt-del??

  I'm writing an application for XP Embedded, but the user can still get in and do things with Ctrl-alt-del that I don't want them to do. How do I block this (and other critical hotkeys) from working hmmmmm mind my asking why ...Show All

• tracyfm dataGridView; changes by the end user

  I have a dataGridView with many records. How can I change those cell values to red color that has been either added or edited by the end user This is to get the user a summary of changs made to the grid prior to saving the grid.   You need to listen to CellValidated event (fires before validation) and  CellValidated event (fires after validation). in the CellValidating, you take the value of the cell that was edited ...Show All

• JustinJ97295 DataBindings TabIndex DataTable Modified Problem

  I have come across a very bizarre problem with data binding a windows form controls Tag property, let me explain. 1. Bind the tag property of a textbox to a column in a datatable. 2. Set the tabindex of the control to be 0. 3. Call the&nbs ...Show All

• Deepakc Set SelectedItem on DataGridViewComboBoxColumn When DataSource is Set

  Hello, I am having a devil of a time setting the SelectedItem on a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn when the grid datasource is set. I have one ComboBoxColumn that is bound to an enum and it just binds the value from the db with no extra effort. I set the column datasource and the grid datasource and the grid just knows how to load the right option when it renders the grid. My problem arises on two other columns that are bound to arrays of custo ...Show All

• learn25 inserting cell values in DataGridView manually one at a time

  Hi, I am new to vb.net programming and have the following question. I am getting data from database into 3 separate components. These components are basically getting populated from separate sql queries. I want the user to double click on one item per listbox, so that the item automatically populates respective cell of the datagridview. Question is how can I add datagridview on cell by cell basis ( given there is some default dat ...Show All

• The Beast Update database structure

  Hi, I am exploring Clickonce and Im wondering how I would update the database with it. How can I convert data from the old database to the new one AFAIK there is no "data merge" function with Clickonce, so you'll have to make a custom solution. If you're replacing an entire database then if it's SQL Express you can detach the old one and reattach the new one (make sure you use AttachDBFilename in the ...Show All