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• chpe Form.Focus() and Textbox Enter event not working

  Hi everybody,   I am trying to put focus on the second form called from the first form. I am not using MDIForms. How exactly to fixed this Focus() and Activate() does not work. Also, the enter event of Textbox is not working as it should, when you pressed enter it should execute the codes inside it. This works in C# fine. Thanks in advance. This code below place on Load event or constructor has the same effect [code]  &nb ...Show All

• xiaopang change not reflected in the underlying data object

  This is a basic question.  Maybe there is a simple solution, but I just cannot find it. I have a TextBox which is bound to a data object's property.  This data object implements IEditableObject interface.  So this is a two-way binding .  The data can be shown in the GUI control and the changes made through the GUI control will be reflected in the underlying data object.  The code to bind is shown below. nameTextBo ...Show All

• Pr1nce How can I open Form2 from Form1???????

  Hi, I am a newby in .net developing and windows forms. And sorry for my bad english. But how can I open Form2 ( it is in the same project folder ) from the Form1 I thought, that I must use this: #using "form2.h" //somewhere: form2->showDia ...Show All

• Siliconxp Merging Menu strips

  I have an MDI child form which contains a menu strip, and an MDI parent also containing a menu strip. When I open the child form, the menus merge correctly. However, when my child form contains a usercontrol with its own menu strip, the menustrip from the usercontrol gets merged with the MDI parent menu, and I lose the menus from the child form. Is there anyway that I can get all three menus to merge together correctly As I would like to crea ...Show All

• Pidster Wheel mouse event

  Hi, How can I catch the wheel mouse event on panel (or user control, or every othe control) Thank's Alexei After a bit of testing I found that the MouseWheel event will only fire if a child control within the control (ie Panel, UserControl) has focus. Hi, I am drawing some picture on panel. I want when mouse wheel event heppands to move the picture. My problem that the event doesn't appear. (I can't use the image object becouse the ...Show All

• cristms Delay for Enter Key C#

  Hi all, Does anyone know how to set a delay to the enter key in C# without using the sleep method   I would like to hit the enter key in succession very fast without causing unexpected results.   regards James You could star ...Show All

• Mitch076 Limit number of lines in a TextBox

  Is there a simple way to limit the number of lines in a multi-line textbox that wraps  I want to be able to look for soft returns as well as hard returns. Thanks, Erymuzuan. Turning WordWrap off isn't an option. I've already ...Show All

• amhaskar application learning question

  Hi, I'm trying to develop an app, and I'd like to acheive the same thing MS does, with my menus showing only the items which are used most often. At first the full menu will be visible, but then after a few uses, lets say 5, the  ...Show All

• Kelba SelectedIndexEvent for DataGridViewComboBoxCell

  Hello All. I've added a DataGrivViewComboBoxCell to a DataGridView, and I want to listen to SelectedIndexChange events (same as normal ComboBox). Is their a straight-forward way to do so  Some event that is equivalent   Or, anyone knows a way around to solve& ...Show All

• wll Storing and retrieving cursor icons using an ImageList

  Hello everyone! Is it possible to store and retrieve cursor images using an ImageList control  (The images stored in the ImageList are bitmaps.) Since both the cursor and icon formats work for a mouse cursor, I have pulled the bitmaps out of the Ima ...Show All

• E.T. determine if toolstrip is overflowing

  is is possible to determine if a toolstrip is overflowing You can check the ToolStripItem.Placement property using the ToolStripItemPlacement enum for each ToolStripItem to determine if the item has overflowed. foreach ( ToolStripItem tsi in toolStrip1.Items) {    if (tsi.Placement == ToolStripItemPlacement .Overflow) {         &n ...Show All

• baron5038 BackColor of MDI Parent Form

  Hello, When my main  top-level form is not MDI the backColor is changeable.  But when it is MDI it becomes slate grey and doesn't respond to the backColor property.  How can I control the color Many thanks. Regards, Clayton Rkimble, ...Show All

• Jean-Marc Flamand dit le_beluet "The value violates the MaxLength limit of this column"

  C#, VS Pro 2005, Windows app with a datagridview: Simple form with 5 fields. The database is empty. The field that generates this error is formatted varchar, length of 6. The field is the second on the form, and is the only field complained about. Tried both a combobox lookup table and typing values into the table (textbox). Same error. This has stalled me for several hours. I tried printing out a message box with the cells data, but ca ...Show All

• boriss why is Tables[0].TableName.ToString() = "Table"??

  I have a stored procedure that returns up to 3 rows of data from a single table. I have a data class method that calls this stored procedure and returns a DataSet. However, when I call the method and attempt to return the table name, it&nb ...Show All

• Wreckage8 Custom Controls

  Hello, I was wondering if anybody knew of a free docking control, similar to the pinnable menus that Visual Studio .NET has.  Also, if anybody knew of a tabbed editor control, similar to how VS.NET opens different pages, for free. Thanks. Easy, fast, free: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockpanelsuite/ Hey, Thanks.  Anybody see a tabbed panel window, like the tabbed browsing for firefox   ...Show All