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• vanita AutoToolboxPopulate not working

  Hi One of the great things I liked when beta testing VS 2005 was the AutoToolboxPopulate feature that would populate a special tab in your solution toolbox whenever you create a new Control or Component. The feature seems to still be there (seen it in the Windows Forms Designer UI options tab) but it is not working properly. Whenever I build my app, the controls built in are not showing up in the toolbox. Is it related to the fact that I create ...Show All

• KatyB Starting an Application

  I would like some tips and tricks about starting an application that needs a splash screen because of the size of the main form.  Many of the things that I have tried gives me too much flicker or loads chunk by chunk.  Is there&n ...Show All

• newone Some interested problem

  Hi, I have installed my application to Laptop IBM R40e. When I installed it I was connected to the lan. After it I run my application and it worked perfect. After it I took laptop to client to show my application. There I have connect display to laptop. After the XP have found display I have tryed to run application and on some step it sent me to debugger. Why And how can I solve it Thank's Alexei Hi, My application is winforms applicatio ...Show All

• Guillermo D. Polonsky Fast replacement for CollectionBase?

  I have a Windows.Forms form with the GlacialList control on it.  Iterating through a list of 1,000 or so GLItems to set the checkbox on the first GLSubItem seems very slow. I was wondering if there are any better performance replacements for Co ...Show All

• Shailesh Patel ComboBox Data Binding Problem

  Hi guys! I have a question about using Datatable. Right now I am adding a static value to my dataset using Datatable like this:   dataRow("NAME") = "No Selection" dataRow("ID") = -1 datatable.Rows.Add(dataRow) For Each row In dataset.Tables(0).Rows()        dataRow= datatable.NewRow()        dataRow("NAME") = row ("NAME")        dataRow("ID") = row (" ...Show All

• Neilgd Working with SQL Database

  Hi everyone, I am new to windows forms application. I don't have enough time to read a book I just want to know how to work with an sql database: delete, create,update from a vb.net application (I know sql, I just want to know how to update and create record from the vb.net application) Could you tell me about an article or a website or a tutorial that deal with this. Thanks a lot. Hi, look here: http ...Show All

• Mel MacMahon Typed DataSet problems

  Hi, I'm having some serious problems with a Typed DataSet, it's rather hard to explain, but please do try to understand. I have an MS Access Database, all the tables and relations in that database are without errors, I checked this a a thousand times and ...Show All

• Christopher Chan Databound listbox not updating

  I have a list box bound to a Name property in a custom class. How do I make it show changed data  I have a NameChanged event and when I trap that in the form and show the listbox.text value in the debug window it is differen ...Show All

• Vittorio C. Twips, Pixels, WTF????

  Hello all, Can someone please explain to me how I can get my form to look the same on everyone's pc   I understand that I am sizing my form to pixels and that it is displayed using twips, which seem to be different based on the u ...Show All

• imec Dataset

  helo i have defined a dataset and i have filled this dataset nad i close the connection,then i read  from the dataset,according to my understandings the dataset will still take a space in the memory if it is true so how can i find a&n ...Show All

• EBIZME Bad organization of ToolBar

  1. No "text-only" mode of buttons 2. No ability to set Text property without painting it on the button 3. No ability to set individual size props of buttons (especialy wrong on separators) <b> 4. Very wrong organization of it's "click" ev ...Show All

• Nils Loeber Close button problem...URGENT!

  Anyone know how I can conrol what happens when a user presses the close button on the for ( the x int the top right corner). My problem is that the form doesnt close when the button is pressed.  Please help!!!!!  N ...Show All

• ruckazz Making a custom control work with 'tab' press focusing

  How can I make a control similar to (or using) System.Windows.Forms.Picturebox that users will be able to focus using tab key I have made a custom control inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Picturebox. It does everything I want except allow users to cycle focus to it using the tab key. What determines if a System.Windows.Forms.Control-based control can take focus with tab Is it just certain controls that do this If so, which 'tabbable' co ...Show All

• Omen Transparent layer control

  Hi all, I would like to place a transparent layer over a number of panels which I can then mouse click on to carry out an action.  I understand that I just set the background, colour, etc to transparent.  However, the layer seems to&n ...Show All

• Simon_C System Tray

  Can anybody pls show/tell me how to reduce/minimize my form to the system tray.  I also want to click on a button a fourth to the minimize/maximize/close buttons so that this fxn can be implemented. I've been lookin around but I saw the VB version but I'm interested in the C# version. Anyone wit a hint This works quite well! protected override void WndProc( ref Message m) {     const UInt32 WM_SYSCOM ...Show All