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• Dwz2006 More of a Visual Studio Wish

  Why doesnt the "add new item" dialog have an "Interface" entry   We have to create a class and then go in and delete the constructor, and replace "class" with "interface". Its not a big deal, just one of those little ni ...Show All

• Craigeth Inherited ControlDesigner

  hi, i have implemented a control inherited from a SplitContainer and i want extend his ControlDesigner for more desing time functionality but the class System.Windows.Forms.SplitContainerDesigner is internal and i can not access to it. How can i inherited from this class tanks I created my own split container control and so came across a similar issue. You cannot inherit from the Window.Forms implemen ...Show All

• Manuel Feller Creating controls at design time: Error: 'child' is not a child control of this parent

  Hello all together, I am just having a little problem with my custom control and its control designer. My task: Writing a control (derived from TableLayoutPanel) which has the following behaviour: Other developers could select it in the Toolbox of VS.NET and drag it to the form. Afterwards they can drag other controls (TextBoxes, ListBoxes, etc.) from the Toolbox and drop them into my control. At this time, a control designer should ask the de ...Show All

• Jmontgomery webbrowser II

  Hi, how can i catch if a runtime created browser is trying to open a new browserwindow because in this case i want to create a new webbrowser for it inside my application instead of opening the default browser. any idea thank you; Atis ...Show All

• Nick Foster Visual Studio 2003 hangs up at start if I closed with a design view active

  If I close a solution with a form in design view, next time that I want start the vstudio 2003, it hangs up before loading the project. I need to remove the .sln file and open the project, just comes in seconds and then save the .sln. At times, this troubles me too. Looks like recurring issue, but could not get a hotfix from microsoft. In another forum, people said hotfix is likely in feb 2005. If any of you know the solution or hot fix, please ...Show All

• HansVonkeman Searching files in directories

  hi.. how do i search files in a directory using file attributes like modified date,file size,create date time using .Net. Regards dhn You can use WMI as well, but then you depend on things that can be there or can be missing. Indexing Services can be turned of and i don't see any bottlenecks in the way i provides. It is very fast and using something else isn't faster but adds only more dependenc ...Show All

• marklar Sample Code: TreeGridView - collapsing/expanding DataGridView

  I've just started a blog and the first main post is a sample that I wrote to customize the DataGridView to support collapsing and expanding. I call it a TreeGridView: http://blogs.msdn.com/markrideout/archive/2006/01/08/510700.aspx   Let me know what you think!   -mark DataGridView Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is"   hi mark, downl ...Show All

• AngeloSalaIT A working Terrarium with v1.1 framework?

  Okay, first off, it was annoying that this ".Net" site does not support the .Net Passport that I already have and required me to create yet another login. What's up with that ! On to the issue... I noticed they (the keepers of this site)&n ...Show All

• roneil 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

• James McKinnon Can't post pics when in MSN groups

  I recently downloaded Explorer 7 and now when I try to open the picture icon to copy, paste and insert while in an MSN group it will not open up large enough for me to access it. There is no way for me to drag it open. Any ideas Hi, This forum deals with only Winforms programming related issues. Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• C0BA1T Same App Several Times On the Same Computer

  This is something I find a bit troublesome, even with the gigabytes of hard disk space available these days. If you deploy an application using ClickOnce, the installation is done per-user, which means that each person who logs on will have to download the application from scratch which is bad enough if the download size is large. So we could end up in a situation where a single computer has several copies of exactly the same application on the ...Show All

• Samster Help! I want to Display parent/child data in a Datagrid

  I want to display parent/child data in a Datagrid control.  My problem is:  Using the below code my datagrid only returns data for the first instance of the parent record (projectNo). The parent table has 5 records (projectNo) in it and the child&nb ...Show All

• SelArom Location advice for a Custom Collection Class

  Hello, I have a custom collection class, which I plan to bind to a datagrid.  The datagrid will be used to present the end user with a list of customers stored in the system.  The datagrid will be read-only because its function is sim ...Show All

• FalconDW Visual Styles (Win32API)

  Hi. How to make standard windows control such as pushbutton to use visual style I'm writing in pure c/c++ with win32 api. I searched thought internet but couldn't find any helpfull example or good expanation. Thanks. Maybe this will help http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformsapplicationclassenablevisualstylestopic.asp Thank you. This would realy help, if i would work wit ...Show All

• PVL Message boxes

  How do I change the options of a message box ie The buttons (making yes and no buttons) The product that I'm using is Visual J# 2005 Express Edition Beta.  A response would be greatly apreciated as I am on a very tight schedule. Thank you Try: MessageBox .Show(this, Q1, "Question #1 for $100" , MessageBoxButtons .YesNo); where this should be any control, or: MessageBox .Show(Q1, "Question #1 for $100& ...Show All