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• mrclennon Do Custom prereq's have to be located in ...

  [VS 2005 installation directory]\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages Is there a way to set VS 2005 to look in any other directory for custom prerequisite packages Thanks. John, There is a way to store packages in directory other than the default. Under HKLM\Softwar\Microsoft\GenericBootstrapper\1.0, set the Path string value to new location of bootstrapper packages. Please note that setting this re ...Show All

• mbeninca Hyperlinks in MessageBox

  Is there a way to include a hyperlink in the text of a MessageBox Like having an error message pointing to a website or local html document Or would I have to create a special form for this I'm afraid you can't. But it will be very easy to build a MessageBox-like form yourself. You can use the LinkLabel control to add hyperlinks. Maybe it is also an option to use the messagebox's help functions for error-speci ...Show All

• Ben S Problem with vertical scrollbar in virtual mode

  I encountered a very disturbing error. First the initial situation: The application displays data in a datagridgrid. The amount of this data can vary from 40 to 14000 datasets depending on the users selections. The data itself has to be processed in very specific manners so that I have to use the virtual mode. The height of the rows depends on the data in the row. So there are different heights in the datagrid. The problem: The display of the da ...Show All

• RoadHired Help with C# syntax

  Hi, i'm developing an ebay application and trying to utilise sample code from thier documention, however the samples are C# and I only know VB. Could anyone help me translate the following statement into VB, i've tried loads of combinations but always get a syntax error DetailLevelCodeTypeCollection detailLevels = new DatailLevelCodeTypeCollection(new DetailLevelCodeType[] {DetailLevelCodeType.ReturnAll}); Many Thanks Ben ...Show All

• Vincent123 How to create an object property for a custom UserControl?

  Hi all.. I created a UserControl where I implemented a property that if of a class type. I want that in VS.NET editor this property to be shown as a tree, something similar to Font property present in most visual controls. Do I have to include some attribute or to make something special with the property Thanks Jaime Hello.. Finally I've found the solution by seeing examples in http://www.codeproject.com/cs/misc ...Show All

• dwakefield7128 Drag and drop from a datagridview to another

  Hello, I'm having problems with drag and drop of a cell value (copy) from one datagridview to another, because id drops two cells below of the point I release the mouse. I calculated the difference of the hittest "y" coordinate and it's 50 pixels. The strangest thing is, that difference increases exponentially if the form is not maximized. The purpose of the code below, is to copy the value of a cell in OriginGrid to a specific ...Show All

• MBowen Embedd froms and design-time issues

  I've written a control that enables me to embedd other forms in it.  The problem is that the embedd form seems to run in run-time inside it's host, at design-time (ie. Textboxes can be filled, buttons can be pressed etc...). I don't really  ...Show All

• RuiDC Binding button.Enable with textBox.Text!=""?

  Is it possible to bind a button's Enabled property with a text box's unblank state The WinForm button does not have a Bindings property for me to do any binding. Is there any other way to do the binding Thanks! I usually string.IsNullOrEmpty( myTextBox.Text). Is it better Thanks, cgraus! In practice, I don't see a textbox having null for it's text property, but it can't hurt, and looks like a good practice to get into, so I'd s ...Show All

• Shan McArthur App.config ?s

  1] Are we allowed to write to this file from within the app at runtime 2] If yes to above how would you find a particular key and its value in the file 3] After finding it how would you update this value I have looked all over a ...Show All

• mister.manners ComboBox Binding with a Blank Selected Index Initially???

  I'm making a search engine windows app that contains ComboBoxes that are bound to my SQL Server database. It would be so much better that once my ComboBox is bound that I could have no item selected (so a blank) incase they don't want to include that in their search but I can't seem to do that without putting in a blank record in my database and that seem soooooo wrong. The only answer I can think of is maybe populate an RA with the data leav ...Show All

• hhhyz Help with clunky event handling

  Hi all. I come from a background of many many years of coding in Delphi using ADO to hook into SQL Server. Now I am coding in Visual Studio 2005 using the ADO.NET layer and .NET 2 components and it feels like I have taken 10 steps back. Typically, I used to have all sorts of events raised in my db componets (in Delphi). BeforeInsert, AfterInsert, BeforeDelete, AfterDelete, BeforePost, AfterPost etc... Simple and easy to use. How do I acces ...Show All

• BennyAndGisela e-Business Project

  Hi I have started a post graduate degree in MSc e-Business Systems Design, and I would have to develop a system of my choice for my final project. It has to be something not simple but not too large, and something that has real world& ...Show All

• ItsMe!!! PrintPreview multiPage .tif

  I can't get PrintPreviewDialog to display properly the pages of a multipage .tif. The following code displays the correct no of pages but they are all the first page. The same callback works fine to actually print the pages. Anyone have it working ...Show All

• rougiero Maximum form height bug?

  It appears that there is a bug in the vb.net form designer that prevents a form height from being taller than the current system screen height. For example, if you are working on a system that has a resolution of 1600 x 1200, and in the vb ide form designer you attempt to drag a newly created form's height, the maximum you can go is 1212 pixels. The value is always limited to slightly larger than the screen height. Changing your screen resolutio ...Show All

• Mike The Bike user32.dll Threads Issue from Upgrading from Vb6 to vb.net

  Hi I have a module that handles threading with user32.dll Api. The problem comes when each window calls this pSetForegroundWindow subrrutine to set the Foreground thread. The windows is displayed active but is not refreshed or painted, stays unresponsive. Why is that Can someone help Would I have to declare a system.threading instance to substitute this module functionality And not use user32.dll in vb.net How can I do that I have an ide ...Show All