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• SMPDave text based games for beginers

  i need to know how to make my text based games run on turns. in c++ like cout<<"you have 30 turns how many do u want to youse "<<endl; cin>>turns; cout<<"you have yoused blank turns"<<endl; cout<<"you have blank turns left"<& ...Show All

• Klaus Pruckl Why is VS 2003 Designer Mode so slow in loading some forms?

  On my forms with many (50+) controls it takes many MINUTES to load the form in designer view. The problem is magnified with forms using UserControl derived formss. I'm using a more than adquate system too. Is there a fix or a workaround to address this or at least improve it because it really hinders rapid development when you have to wait minutes each time the designer needs to be re-loaded, which is basically every time the header file i ...Show All

• bungalo101 Custom Control can't be used

  Hi, I've developed a simple control by inheriting from ComboBox. eg public class CatKeyword : ComboBox {} There's hardly any extra code to it. I've done it such that the new Custom Control appears on the 'My App Components' list on the toolbox - just like a real comboBox! It worked when I first created it. But I went to use it again today and when I place it on the form it says "Failed to load toolbox item 'CatKeyword'. It will be re ...Show All

• SpawnXXL Scrollbars and Custom Border Painting

  I've customized a panel to draw a custom border utilizing WndProc but I have a problem when the scrollbars are displayed, take a look at the lower right portion of my border.  I have attached a snapshot of the problematic control and a .NET pan ...Show All

• billqu Taskvision Installation - The parameter is incorrect

  I have gone through and found a number of references to this error, but no solutions. Help... I am trying to install a Task Vision Server on a Windows 2003 Server Machine running SQL Server 2000 with IIS and .NET installed on it. Unfortunately, every time I try to install it I get this error. Does anyone have any ideas about how to solve this problem Thanks for your help, Frank Hi, This issue is under investigation: htt ...Show All

• Saruk Maximinze Problem in MDI

  Hi, How can we restrict user to maximize a windows form in MDI application. Although we can disable Form control box, but when user double click on Form Caption, it get maximized. Can anybody solver this problem. Thanks Hi, Or you could just copy your form's current size and paste it in the Maximum Size property in the properties window... cheers, Paul June A. Domag Hi, Did you try changing the For ...Show All

• kingofnexus Limitations to FlowLayoutPanel

  I am using a flowlayoutpanel control to display a list of controls and it seems to only show the first 149 properly. Then it seems to chop the 150th in half and not show the rest. (My test case involves adding 395 buttons to a flowlayoutpanel). I was wondering if there was an express limit on the number of controls I can add to the panel or if it's a memory concern. Also, can I change the number of items allowed Any help would be appr ...Show All

• Zau What's going on with Terrarium?

  What is the future of this project is it dead Windows Forms Forums have no response for 3 months.. Why it is called sample application, but source code isn't published It would be very nice to have a source code of this interesting game application Any word on this Vaporware Mitch, you said in March (and a bunch of other times) here, on your blog, in articles posted all over the place, that you were releasin ...Show All

• Drewid registry in vb2005

  How could i get a registrykey's value E.g: " HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.gif\" and i need the (default) item's value... how can i do this Using the 'My' namespace you can access registry values.  eg. My .Computer.Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey( "NameOfSubKey" ).GetValue( "NameOfValue" ) but not with the (Default) value... any idea i got it NameofValue= "" empty string... thnx works... hell thnx :) ...Show All

• James Woodall DataGrid problems (bugs?) found in right-align columns

  There are 2 problems found when set the windows DataGrid columns to right. 1) The column header can not be displayed completely. The last several characters are hidden. 2) When calling the SetColumnError method upon the bound dataset, the last several characters in the right-aligned cell are truncated (actually, are hidden). Can some experts help This issue was posted to the Product Feedback Center. MS's answer was that this isn ...Show All

• Ernst Kuschke Embeding Word into an application

  My user wants to have reports in Word format.  Is there a way to embed the Word API into a .NET app   Are there any articles discussing this Your help is apreciated. Kaytrim Well, assuming that the end user will have Word&n ...Show All

• Carlton Lane licensing

  Im planning to change my licensing system in my controls. currently i use a lic file license derived system. the problem is that with this i need to distribute 1 license file per control that need licensing. if i want to distribute a package of  ...Show All

• ThorNGC Shell into my Windows Database App using preselected data

  I have a vb.net Windows App that I would like to preload from a run command or a desktop short cut with preselected record data and have that data show up in my app at start.  Bottomline is that I need to shell out of one&nb ...Show All

• perryf Bootstrapper downloads the prerequisite instead of installing from app folder

  dear members, although i'v configured the prerequisites (crystalreports,dontnet framework) and selected the option to download from the application folder, first of all it doesnot copy the prereqs on setup project build and even if i copied the two prereq in app folder it doesnt install from there instead it starts downloading from vendorsite, plz guide how can i direct bootstrapper to install prereq from app folder regards faraz ...Show All

• Den Jos Relational DataSet and Datagrid Insert

  Hey All, I am having some issues getting my dataset and datagrids working together to insert relational data. Basically I have a contacts dataset with two tables a "Contacts" table with name, email, etc info and an "Address" table with add ...Show All