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• M_Hagen Longhorn style Breadcrumb Bar

  Anyone have an idea for how to implement a Longhorn style "breadcrumb bar" in C# for Windows Forms  Basically, the idea is: - A parent window that can spawn child windows of the same style. The child windows will append their title/location&nbs ...Show All

• KPMA-JKO .NET Memory Consumption

  Hi All Here's something interesting:  Launch your Winforms app. Open task manager, look at the memory used on this app/process. Minimize the app, look at the memory. Restore the app, look at the memory! Why does it take SO much memory to "launch" ye ...Show All

• Supavan Binding to custom collection - select columns to display

  Hi - I am trying to bind a datagrid (windows forms environment, VS2003) to a custom collection(not an arraylist) - it works, and I am really happy about it, but when I bind the collection the grid shows all of the additional columns that i don't want displayed. Now I've read loads of articles about binding database tables (Datasets) to the grid and using the TableStyles collection, however all of these notes are(like i said previously ...Show All

• WinL async sockets

  Hi, I'm running into problems with using async sockets. I've only recently started playing with these so I'm a real novice at this. My server is pretty basic for now. It accepts a few commands and sends back appropriate response. For ex. when it&nbs ...Show All

• Kafmil How to code a procedure to select all items in list box?

  How to code a procedure to select all items in list box Seems to be quiet easy :-) Try it like this: dim iLoop as integer = 0 For iLoop = 0 To Listbox.Items.Count -1     Listbox.SetSelected(iLoop, True) Next Hope this helps! ...Show All

• Pieter Germishuys Textbox scrollbar

  I have a textbox set to multiline and am adding content by code. When the text gets to the bottom of the textbox is there a way to make the scrollbar automatically move down to read the current text as the text is added to the text box In the TextChanged event of the textbox, private void textBox1_TextChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) //Fired when text changes { this .textBox1.Select(0, ...Show All

• v-lo Design Time Events

  How do I go about creating a control whereby I can drop it on a form and then find what other controls are on the form (at design time). I am trying to create a control which sits in the ComponentTray and when the user clicks it, it relects through the container form and shows all the controls on that form. Does that make sense Regards Si Hi, I am not really sure what you are trying to do. Where a ...Show All

• SaliDM Accessing a listview like control in another application using C#

  Hi I have a program that needs to capture data in another applications listview like control and then display this in my own program. I have managed to get the window handle and I realise that im probably going to have to use the windows API however i do not know what funtions i need to use or how to get the data from the control. I have used Spy++ and have found the control is on the fith level. Can anyone give me any pointers or link me ...Show All

• Krishna Paripurnam A Form owned only by MDI child

  Hi, I would like to know how can i display a new form (NOT one of the MDI Childs) above only a specific child, i mean when i will select a different MDI Child form i will not see the new form and when i will switch to t ...Show All

• Ivan Martinez ADO.Net question

  I am building a form on the "tab" control. I have almost 20 drop-down listboxes. I would like to be able to pull all of the data that I need for the listboxes in one call to the database. When I tried to create a datase ...Show All

• meetshums How to skip User Interface dailog box depends upon some condition?

  Hello Friends, I am creating .NET project installable using MS setup project. In this project I am using one user interface dialog box (Text Box 1). This dialog box will ask “SQL Server Name” and other details for creating one application configuration file. What I require, if this configuration file already created then this user interface (Text Box 1) should not be display. Can we call such user interface dialog bo ...Show All

• luniv04 possible to use VS 2003 IDE "server explorer" behaviour?

  hiya, I really like the way that server explorer: 1) stays collapsed at the left hand side of the screen when it is not in use.  2) expands to cover a tiny area when the mouse hovers over it. I have a fairly busy winform where this&n ...Show All

• James Lau How to attch another form to main form

  I have main form A. When click button on Form A , it will show Form B. I like Form B to show in a split panel on Form A , so user do not feel difference to work on different forms. How I can attach Form B to Form A Please help! If you want to work with multiple forms in the same enviornment, I would use a MDI (Multiple Document Interface) form (Form Z). You can then use the location and sizing properties of Form A and Form B to d ...Show All

• bkuwhopper Help stored in database, not file - how can HelpProvider be leveraged?

  We have an app that has the help (HTML format) stored in a database rather than a help file. Can HelpProvider be used, or extended to use, ADO.NET or a Web service, to display help that's not stored in a file The only thing that comes to mind is creating an inherited HelpProvider control that overrides whatever method does the work where you get the information from the database. Don't know enough about the ...Show All

• Jim Smith UI not Displaying

  I am seeing an intermittent problem that I'm losing sleep over:  I have a Windows Form application that is being called by a login script.  Occasionally, I am seeing where the .EXE will load, execute a couple lines of code (that are o ...Show All