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• Devin G Loading forms into a container

  In .NET does anyone know if there is a way to load a form, that is complied into a dll, into a container, like a panel. I am rewriting an application that loads forms in a dll into a pane object. Any help would be great.  & ...Show All

• Mark R. What is the proper way to change what ListBox.Items holds?

  In an effort to get rid of VB6.Get/SetItemData from a VB6 project upgraded to .NET, the project has been changed to use custom object classes (e.g., with Name and Data members) in collections. This works fine, but has the performance-overhead and type-unsafety arising from the ListBox.Items member being a generic ObjectCollection . What would be better is to create a subclass of a Listbox that is exactly the same as a normal one, except with a t ...Show All

• kalpa Whidbey BackgroundWorker component fails in Form Load event

  I'm trying to use the new BackgroundWorker component (Whidbey) in a sample VB.NET WinForms project. I've followed the examples on MSDN and can successfully recreate and run those examples. All of those examples though have the background process kicked off from a button on the form; i.e. the RunWorkerAsync method of the BackgroundWorker object is called from the click event of a button. If I do this same thing but instead try to kick off the b ...Show All

• mwrisner Newbie to Windows Forms...

  I would consider myself a high level programmer with VB.NET and ASP.NET, but I am new to the world of Windows Forms. Is there a book that offers great example examples on getting started  I am having trouble with finding code examples that  ...Show All

• PetePeterson Who's still using Terrarium?

  hey guys, i wondered if anybody is still "playing" the Terrarium game, since its already some years old. I noticed that david is running an own server and i'm connecting to this one from time to time. If there are still active players out there i could also install Terrarium on my 24/7 client. Well lemme know cause i was just about to install Visual C# again. BTW: whats wrong with the MS-Terrarium-Server, naka seem to overpopuplate the whole eco ...Show All

• richj OpenFileDialog Working directory?

  In my VB2005 programs, I like to have an "Last Used Folder" setting so the next time the program is used, the OpenFileDialog boxes will show the last folder used. I can do everything but figure out how to get the Folder Path out of the OpenFileDialog once the user has selected a file. I have pulled it out of the "Filename" member in which I would have to write code to manually remove the filename from the string. Is there an easier way ...Show All

• Ian Gitlin Text Formatting Problem

  I want to save a long text to the database without losing the format: font, bullets, etc. Any ideas could you kindly explain to me the code above so that i can understand it better. thanks. for example if i save the text property of a richtextbox to the database or load data to the richtextbox what are the necessary codes needed this link gives the rtf format standards http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm   T ...Show All

• RolfBjarne Visual studio type tooltip

  Hi I have a multiline textbox and i want to add a tooltip. I need this tooltip to be displayed at the position of the cursor  and not at the position of the mouse pointer. I want this tooltip to be similar to the visual studio ide tooltips that appear when i write code. Does anybody knows how can i do this Thanks OK. Thanks for your post. Is there any other solution usining VS2003 Thanks again. In Windows Forms 2.0 you can O ...Show All

• cliffy_1.rm work with resource files

  hello i need an article to teach me how to work with resource files for languages thank you for the help and for the time Check Visual Studio magazine, they had a great article about this a couple of issues back. -Edward ...Show All

• boone10 VS2005 RC SplitContainer Designer Bug!

  Has anyone tried using the SplitContainer yet   there is a pretty ugly bug in there that breaks the designer code.  I have come across this in my latest winform app that we're building.  I am trying to determine if anyone else has been affected by this problem.  I am quite suprised that I have not heard more about this issue in the .net community.  Maybe everyone is just in digging into ASP.NET 2.0 instead. The orig ...Show All

• xoqx close other form(C#).........

  Hi... I have two forms, Form A and Form B two buttons in FormA(open button and colse button), I want to click the open button then open the Form B , it is simple to do.... just like  FormB thisForm = new FormB() thisForm.Show();.... but I do'nt  ...Show All

• ChrisWFL "ToolTip on tooltip1": Bug?

  Hi, i've installed Visual Studio C# 2005, english version - and i guess i found a bug O_O After writing text, which contained a \n into the "Properties-Box" i compiled the program and the \n was ignored. Viewing the source i saw, that my written down \n went into text.\\ntextsomething instead of text.\ntextsomething... When trying to view the text in the Properties-Box again, the \n is displayed as an unfilled box or something... -> ...Show All

• JensLundberg Big Timer Problem

  Hello i'm trying to use a Timer in a Server Application by i'm having quite a difficult problem First of all because the Application.Run(formObject) method stops executing the rest of the program, i had to move everything related to networking to another Thread So my main is StartNewThread for Network; Application.Run In the Networking thread i wait for a message from the client (in a "endless" loop), when i receive that message i star ...Show All

• Luis D. Rojas Need help with VB.net involving Totals

  Okay guys, here I am again. I need help on adding totals together. What I want is to have a bsic commission calculator that totals different things and will display them later on. Here's what I have so far, some works, some doesn't. Public Class VBACComCalc Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form [Windows Form Designer generated code] Const Quota As Integer = 1000D Const CommissionRate As Integer = 0.15 ...Show All

• VK2ACP Any recommendations on troubleshooting a concurrency error?

  I'm trying to run an tableadapter.update after I've deleted a record (using the binding sources removecurrent) and it gives me a concurrency error under seemingly random circumstances. Here is the message I get: Concurrency violation: the DeleteCommand affected 0 of the expected 1 records. Since I haven't been able to determine the source of the error (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't), are there any places that anyone can recom ...Show All