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• VipulR General question about an exe file

  hi everyone. i created an exe file using vb.net. if i delete this file, it will harm my computer  i mean some dlls could be deleted with the exe that my operating system(win XP) might use. This looks very strange to me. Your&nbs ...Show All

• ukrob Initial control settings in a composite control

  I am building a composite control that has a panel placed to the left of a label control. The panel is used to indent the label control. If indentation is turned on, then the Panel.Visible() is set to true, and the label is pushed to& ...Show All

• AaronL how can i deplay items from a database with a checkboxlist or checkbox in a DataGrid control

  Please i am writting a program on student course registration. In wicht i need to display the coures of the student with a checkboxlist or a checkbox in a DataGrid. so that the student will check those course he or wants to register. please can someone help me how to go about it. thanks Larry The article linked here describes the code for Checkbox column in DataGrids very nicely. [ http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms ...Show All

• Tjeez DataGridView and Heterogenous cell types

  Hi all, On the smart client developer center i read the following http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/understanding/windowsforms/2.0/features/datagridview.aspx The DataGridView comes with TextBox, Image, CheckBox, ComboBox, Link, and Button column and cell types. Addition cell or column types can be easily implemented to extend your application. Columns and rows both support heterogeneous cell types. For example, you can have column o ...Show All

• Rainz background processes

  How do I applow my applicaton to connect to the net without it freezing while it does so. If that doesn't make sense I will explain: - I setup a WebRequest to retrieve an image. - The application pauses for a few seconds - The Image appears How ...Show All

• MaTT_17 DataGridView Problem

  In my data grid view control have two columns (Column A and B) When I edit A column and press enter to end edit, the control will goto next row of column A. This is a problem that I want to goto column B when I finish to edit column A. But I don't know how to do it.... Please help me   Eagle - I moved your post to the windows forms forum.  They own the datagridview control so may be more helpful. Thanks! Karen No body kn ...Show All

• phc DataGrid Cells

  Hi! Everybody  I need help regarding data grid cells. I want the cells of my datagrid to be locked. As in the default behaviour, whenever we select a cell, the text is selected and highlighted as well, and looks to be editable, although it ...Show All

• bkork I'm going nuts here...

  Trying to find a control that will display nicely formatted text (preferably HTML) dynamically on a Windows form. Does anyone know or have experience with such a beast I have searched all over the Net and found lots of "browser" controls, but I don't want a Web browser - I just want to display nicely formatted text on a Windows form!! Like this: Dim sbText as New StringBuilder() With sbText    .Append("<p><b>This is a ...Show All

• johnalexander 100% CPU Usage in Design Time.

  Can anyone explain why sometimes when I 'Pin' the toolbar in design time, my PC hangs for a minute and 100% of the CPU is used   The RAM being used never goes over 350mb (got 750 RAM installed)  I wouldn't say I have a slow& ...Show All

• sat8003 SelectedIndexChanged event with ComboBox - How to know previous selection?

  Quick question here... I have a ComboBox (DropDownList style) and handling the SelectedIndexChanged event.  The problem is that this event is after the fact and there is no way to know what was the previous selection.  The event parameters (object s ...Show All

• macv3x Report Viewer prints different sizes according to screen resolution...

  Whatever size the computer desktop is set at affects the size of the reports I am printing. Maybe it is in the build of the report that is causing the problem, but i dont think so. I have it set to 7in wide and 9in high, and i'm not using percentages or anything, so i  have no idea why it would be printing in different sizes... I do know that if i change the desktop resolution to different sizes, the report size changes. Does anybody have ...Show All

• VaiTraFra Compacting Access Database

  Hi, I have an application that uses an access database on the client side, I am trying to compact the database but always get errors. My Code is :    Try                 objJRO = New JRO.JetEngine     ...Show All

• SriDirectX Changing a property of a dynamically added control

  Hi, I hope you can help me with this. I don't seem to be able to change the ".image" property of a dynamically added PictureBox. How do I refer to the "myPicture" PictureBox within a Module Private Sub MainForm_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load Dim  myPicture As New PictureBox() myPicture.Image = My .Resources.Picture myPicture.Size = New Size(10, 10) myPicture.Location= N ...Show All

• videsh RichTextBox.ReadOnly = True

  I am developing a chat application and I'm using a richtextbox to display the content of the conversation. I don't want the user to be able to modify the text in that field so I set the ReadOnly property to true. When I run the app, the richtextbox control is colored beige as if the Enabled property were set to True as well. Is this action normal for the ReadOnly property If so is there another way to make this field read only through code whi ...Show All

• LordActon Debugging a VB.NET "Windows control"

  Hi, I created a simple "Windows control", with a few properties, in VB.NET (VS.NET Professional). To be able to debug my control, I added a new "Windows Application" project. I added my "Windows Control" to the references section of t ...Show All