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• Stano Runs local but not by IP

  I created a Windows Form Control.  It contains a DataGrid that gets its data from a web service.  The control works in IE but as long as I run it by using localhost.  If I try to hit it from another machine by using the ...Show All

• Jim Carnicelli How do I set the background colour of a scrollbar?

  Hi, I have a form with three horizontal scrollbars.  The form has a colour scheme supplied by my client which specifies a background colour of AliceBlue for controls.  The other controls all display this as the background color but when I set&n ...Show All

• live cricket audio commentary How do I use Treeview to represent a folder and its contents?

  I have been looking everywhere, and even though it seems like something that would be pretty common, I cant even figure out how to get started doing this. I just want to have a treeview that loads a certain folder and its contents, and let ...Show All

• mandoman Generic DataGrid binding without a DataSet?

  I'm writing a generic piece of my application that needs to take the results from a stored proc and display them in a read-only DataGrid. Now the easy way is of course a DataSet ... retrieve the stored proc into a DataSet, and bind the DataGrid to it - done. However, I really need to cut down on network bandwidth, and I understand DataSet's come with a lot of extra overhead - data that it requires for updating. As I only need ...Show All

• Beerka Show last played video

  Hello all, I have several different lots of video files that I like to watch from time to time and am constantly forgetting which file I last watched which can be rather frustrating. I was hoping that there was some kind of variable or cache that windows has that stores the most recently played video files for any given folder or all over the entire system prehaps. I know windows media player has a history of the last played files, and I'm thin ...Show All

• cristib Windows Application Deployment

  Hi Windows application developers :) i'm web developer guy, i just wondering if i can run a.net window application without .net framework,, mmmm for sure not without framwork ( sure we need the framework, mscorlib.dll, system.dll  ...etc ) in other word  ...Show All

• greekgoddj DataGridView IsCurrentRowDirty

  VB2005 I have a DataGridView bound to a dataset. If I add a row, and do not move off the row, an Update on the dataset does not record the added row. In my save logic I can test IsCurrentRowDirty = True but what do I do then CommitEdit() or EndEdit() features are targeted for cells. I update my rows programmatically and I face the same problem, the row is dirty if I don't move the CurrentRow. * C# 2005 P ...Show All

• Kishore Ramakrishnan right click context menu

  hey all, how do i get the right-cliked menu pop down to include options from my application. Like winzip and other application, do it  i believe it's handled by windows and you need to edit some entry in the registry for th ...Show All

• aalford Office-style buttons

  Hi, I'm making an application which I want to have Office-style buttons on (actually, Visual Studio has the same kind of buttons). There is a drop shadow on hover, the buttons look flat and have a highlight box around them when you roll-over. Can&nb ...Show All

• Jan van der Peet Find textbox

  Is it possible find a textbox inside a windows form with a function like findcontrol("namecontrol") without a loop through the control collections thanks in advance!!! as far as I'm aware.. No. ...Show All

• Remeard Requesting a computation to wait

  This concerns a windows application in which I want to do a short computation, display a message based on the result, and then go into a longer computation. However, the second computation apparently pushes the message off the queue, so that it does not appear until the second computation is finished. If I don't start the second computation until I click a button, everything works fine, but that's not the way I want to do it. Can I somehow tell ...Show All

• Michiel Wories printing

  Hi This is the first time I am using the printing class. What I want to do, is perhaps like everyone else, customize the layout of a page and print that page, putting in the appropriate values and so on. How do I go about creating such a page, where I can position, say, a logo on the top center of the page, then a line below that, the address and so on - like an application type form layout. how can I achieve this in C# (.NET 2.0 ...Show All

• Steven Johnson GDI+ slow!

  I'm writing a drawing application using Visual C#, GDI+. My application has features like MindManager (www.mindjet.com). In my application, each topic is an object and it has Draw() method to draw itself. User can move topics on document by mouse. When&n ...Show All

• kul Forms designer error when trying to display

  I have a Windows Forms project in a VS 2005 solution along with a Class Library project. The class library contains a class with the following static method: public static void LogError(string strSource, string ErrMessage) { //write the log message to the log if ( !EventLog.SourceExists(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ApplicationName"]) ) { EventLog.CreateEventSource(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[" ...Show All

• sdbleier How to: part of the form is opaque, and the rest may have a 50% opacity

  Dear All, After I saw a screen shot of Longhorn, I started wondering current .net framework offered feature for us to implement that style of forms. Hi David, Maybe I stated not very clearly, you can find the screen shot here : http://files.serenity-x.com/lh1.png This is true. We have implemented a TranslucentWindow class in VG.net. With this class you can use various VG.net Pictures, which are like windowless controls, but it is ...Show All