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• RHodnett OT: Help us choose a General Threaded Discussion Solution for Beta 1

  First, I'll apologize for the multiple postings. I want to be sure I reach a  diverse set of users for getting this feedback.  We are currently working on  new discussion solution, but this solution won't be ready until around the  Beta 2  ...Show All

• Christian Warren Text position in a rich textbox

  Hey, How do you Aline Text to the left or right, or center it with a RichTextBox control I tryed this: RichTextBoxPrintCtrl1.Text.somthing the somthing is nothing, I could not find a option for .Text that would Aline it... Thanks :) SelectionAlignment is a property. The type of this property is HorizontalAlignment, which is an enum . So the correct syntax is: richTextBox.SelectionAlignment = HorizontalAlign ...Show All

• Robert McIntyre - MSFT New Window

  i am making a browser in vb 2005 beta but sometimes when i click a link it opens in a new window in Internet Explorer now how can i have it so it opens in a new version of my own browser or a browser on a second form any help would be greatly apreciated. I already tried that but it didn't work for me as it started opening in IE again. Do you have another solution to just close the screen that popups saying t ...Show All

• Ram Prasad Cannot write to a richtextbox

  Hello guys, I'm just a newbie as far as VS2005 and winforms go, so please bear with me on this question. I'm implementing a windows forms application that has tab controls and one of the tabpage containing a rich text box. I have a public function in "Form1.h" that takes in a string as input and outputs it to the text box. public : property String^ AppendValue // PassedValue property { void set(String ^va ...Show All

• Edward Clements User Preferences

  I'm still very new to writing windows apps so go easy on me.  I'm writing a program that is basically a food journal for people doing low-carb diets. There are several things that have been asked for that should really be options and I'm&n ...Show All

• Rhialto Slow Database Update

  Hi there I have a SQLExpress DB with a number of tables. Most are for user entry and that all works fine. I have 2 tables that are connected to datagridview. They are both feed data from a TCP connection. The feed sens on average 20-30 packets per second. The data comes in on a seperate thread and I do a BeginInvoke to populate the grids with the data. Each row of the table has about 15 columns. After each row is updated I do an Update() to writ ...Show All

• B Sutton Inconsistent set of Dlls

  When I started up the terrarium client v1.0.21 a message box comes up that says this: "Your runtime has file version: 1.1.4322.573 but you are picking up these dlls with a diferent version: Version: 1.1.4322.573, Assembly: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dl ...Show All

• brunic Problem with UserControl and Panel, C#

  Hello, I have a silly problem :(  Windows Application at C#.Net Main form - border: None in this form is object - panel, i'm calling some UserControl to this panel But if I'll call a some usercontrol and press Alt + TAB or lost focus, I'll&nbs ...Show All

• GrizzlyAdams Is ListBox the only control in Forms to allow multiple selections?

  I'm having a terrible job getting a mutli-select listbox to work from a dataset... just keeps crashing my app and it appears to be something to do with the fact I have SelectionMode = MultiSimple.  Before going into my crashes etc here is  ...Show All

• lindah Can't hide first column in DataGridView

  I am unable to hide the first column in a DataGridView. I am not referring to the header column but a databound ID column in the grid. As a general rule I put the ID column at the front and hide it so I can always reference the ID column in column [0]. For some reason I am able to hide any other column by setting the visible property to false except for the first column. I was just getting ready to post about t ...Show All

• inetcnslt Web Forms Editor

  Hi, I'd like to create a control to design ASP.NET web forms like vs.net or webmatrix does but I have no idea of how I can do that. Is there someone that can help me.... or tell me where I can find such a control Thanks Fab ...Show All

• Shortty Question

  Hello: I am new to .NET and I am trying to create a simple application where i developed a control that allows you to draw different drawings. The control is derived from Control base class and I am doing my own painting logic. I have prov ...Show All

• Teodora open file & mycomputer

  I hope someone can help me, i have made a contextmenu and i want it to goto the mycomputer folder and then when a file is selected that it starts the file now i already have the openfiledialog and such and i use the code listed below. But it will not start in the mycomputer directory and it will not open the file if i change the > to < then it won't cancel if i choose not to open a file can anyone help me get the code fixed Private ...Show All

• Mika Joronen Advantages and disadvantages of using images for controls instead of GDI+ features

  Hi, not long ago I had a discussion with a friend of mine. We discussed whether using images for control states or draw all the control states with the GDI+. For example, if you want to design your own button with two states (clicked or no ...Show All

• Crazy_Aardvark Pixels

  How can I do math operations on pixels.  Such as 16px - 10px and get 6px.  I'm stripping the px and then doing the math but I sure that there is a better way using the unit namespace. Thanks, Bill The only Unit cla ...Show All