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• Guillermo D. Polonsky Control Design

  How I can design better controls without WinFX Become a better user interface programmer and then you can write better controls. There is nothing in WinFX you could not do by hand yourself, albeit taking much longer to custom write yourself. If you question is really, I want all the cool features of WPF in Windows.Forms then your never going to get it. Phil Wright http://www.componentfactory.com Free use ...Show All

• FranF Windows form keeps dissappearing

  Hi, Ive got a rather silly question... hope someone can help. I have created a project with several forms. One form in particular is causing me problems. I cant seem to find my main form (form 1). This is the second project this has happened in. The solution explorer lists all my forms except form 1 which is my main form. When i debug/run the code, my form comes up as per normal. Whats going on Why cant i find my form in solution exp ...Show All

• mohan_hu myPropertyGrid.SelectedObject = myRemotedObject;

  As far as I can tell, it is not possible to select a remoted object into a PropertyGrid.  I don't know whether this is an actual bug or just a wish-list item, but I would really like to be able to do this.  (If this see ...Show All

• Serioga What is "application framework"?

  I tried creating a new Windows Forms app and had a hell of time just getting it to run.  The trick was turning off something called "application framework".  Can anyone explain what this is   Or point me to some articles about&nb ...Show All

• mattwink truncated text in listview column

  Hello! I have a listview with one wide column (width = 2000), but nevertheless exists a problem to show a long text inside items. I inserts listviewitems with long text (about 300 characters), but this text is truncated during representation, though list ...Show All

• jpmoreno Accelerate File Upload/Download

  Hi all, I would like to create an application client/server that exchange files.  File size is beyond my control so the only solution I can imagine is to accelarate download and/or upload of this files. Any suggestions or recommendation will be appreciat ...Show All

• Dobereiner Miller Where does PrintPreview store the doc ?

  When we view any document in print preview dialog, where does it save the document  such that when me move to next/previous page where it reads the information from . If a heavy document like RTF file having images and large number of page ...Show All

• Chinh Cuong My Biggest wish...

  Hi all, To add to the global wishlist. I'd like to be able to use operators with complex types (color, IntPtr, etc.) in VB.net. The only way for these simple things is to use .Equals method or use some weird advanced methods like; op_LessThan, op_Ex ...Show All

• eamon12 setting textbox text onto a child Form

   I think I'm close : I have defined textbox1 in the Form2 class as a public, rather than private, member. The function X looks like this : BOOL X ( z, //other arguments//) {     Form2* pForm2; //more code     pForm2->textBox1->set_Text(z); //more code } Everything compiles :), but when it gets to the pForm2 statement I get an unhandled exception : object reference not set to an instance of an object. ...Show All

• Trentino Tooltip on ListView Item

  Is there any way how to set a tooltip on the specific ListView Item Thanks a lot. You could try handling the ListView.MouseHover event and then using the GetItemAt method with the mouse coordinates.  Then change the tooltip based on& ...Show All

• SillyEngineer How can disable the context menu?

  I have created a menu ContextMenu1, I hope the pop menu don't display in some situations, how I can do thinks! private void ContextMenu1_Popup(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (condition==true) { // Don't pop the menu, how can do I } } What is the context menu binded to How about trying this: private void ContextMenu1_Popup( object sender, System.EventArgs e) {      if (condition== true )    ...Show All

• AnotherRick Dataview Sorting problems

  Hi, Datagrid.Sort() doesnt seem to sort integers right. My code is something like this, this is a part of datagrid event: dgProductList.DataSource = catalogXml; dgProductList.CurrentPageIndex = e.NewPageIndex; //create a new dataview with xml data DataView dvCatalog= new DataView(catalogXml.Tables[ ...Show All

• _Quimbly_ Data Binding, Data Modules and designer support

  IDE: MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 Language: C++ . Hello there, I have a data module (assume its a component or a Win Form) that contains a Connection, Data Adapter and a Data Set . Also I have another form that contains a Data Grid . Now, how can I bind my Data Grid to the Data Set which resides on the other form and make it supported by the designer Thanks in advance . Good night brother, I found the idea man: add ...Show All

• hello frns Executing an external file from C#

  Hello everyone again! Thanks for the help on the last problem I was running into! This time around, I am trying to execute a file from my code based on its filetype. What I have done is: 1) Given a path, I have loaded the information into  ...Show All

• schmidj Form close event stupidity!

  Hi, I'm a PHP developer turned C# and its all a bit confusing.  (i've done a bit of VB6 so maybe it ain't so confusing). How do i add code to the form close event For example, frmMain contains a button to open frmLogin which disables  ...Show All