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• Bradley Peterson Dynamicly add controls to a form from a thread

  I have a thread that runs in a loop and needs to cause some user controls to display in a winform periodically. The user controls are created inside the thread and passed to the winform to be added to the Controls collection and shown. Well that was the plan. Its not working at all and Im sure it has to do with the thread. I thought that setting Form. CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls = true would help, but it does not. I've tried checking for ...Show All

• Dio1961 Updating Textboxes when changing rows in Datagrid

  I know this was answered somewhere in this board before, but when I looked today I couldn't find it... I have a datagrid and some textboxes all bound to the same typed dataset (generated by VS). When the form open and I fill the dataset&nb ...Show All

• Mystikef UserControl Property Problems - Please Help

  Currently I am working on a user control that requires the anchor points to be "Left, Top, Right" and the Location to be "0,0".  So in the user control I override the Anchor Property as in the following code:     <Br ...Show All

• ChrisPat MSFT DataGridView and combobox

  I have a datagridview where a comboboxcolumn's values are relying on another comboboxcolumn like: CodeCategory            Code PRODUCTIVE              TRAVEL INPRODUCTIVE            ... The Code has to get populated upon the selection of the user in the ...Show All

• soanfu MDI mergeing owner drawmenu

  I have made a new class the overrides the Draw and measure routines from MenuItem so I can customize the look for the menu with eg. icons. I have a Parent form with some menuitems that I merge with a childform. My problem is that when ...Show All

• Perry_SSIS Problem in Opening Word on 98

  Hi, It would be great if some one help me on this issue. I am facing a problem in opening MS Word through vb.net windows form on O/S 98. I am opening Microsoft Word using Late binding. Installer also contains MSWORD9.olb. But when open Word fro ...Show All

• lGustavor resizing a user control on the designer

  Hi, I have a simple user control that consists of a few panels (to draw graphs on). When I drop this user control on a form designer, I am unable to resize the control such that the constituent panels are also resized. Does anyone have any ideas to go around this Also, is it possible to manipulate the size and position of constituent controls inside a user control, whe ...Show All

• Ron Chrisope passing variables to form

  I made my textboxes on form1 public. I was able to access them through my form2, after I made a statement like form1 form2 = new form1();   Problem is, the text boxes are all empty on form2. Is this because I initiated a new form1 and therefore the textboxes are set back to their default as empty How can I access variables stored in form1 from form2 thanks.   Form1 is the main Form in my progra ...Show All

• lfnovo Install from CD

  Is it posible to install an application from a CD (with a project setup) and then make it to update itself with clickonce I saw a property "Instalation URL" I've put there a UNC to a msi, I've installed my app from there then I publish the next revision on a site It's not working. How can I do that If I understand what you want to do correctly.. Lets try this.. Please replace the CD in your question with local machine for a second.. You ...Show All

• cbrad Copy/Paste/Delete/Undo in a MainMenu

  How can I utilize these commands using a MainMenu as seen in most of today's applications Hi, I checked out the Genghis project and I did get a chance to look at SimplePad. It's really straight forward on how it's done. However, ...Show All

• crnriman check all in datagrid

  Hi I wonder if someone could show me how to make all checkboxes checked in a datagrid. Or maybe show me a link on how to do this. Regards Hi, U can do this by Manually setting Value of bit column to 1 as 'pi_dtTable i ...Show All

• KhalidMirza DataGridView adds two new rows on 'escape'

  DataGridView control is adding two new rows when I press escape key. Following is the scenario:   I have a hidden column in DGV.   1. I enter some characters in first column and press tab.   2. Now when I am in second column I press escape without editing contents --> This adds two new rows (so after escape there are total three rows in my DGV)   I have handled following event ...Show All

• chalna Populating Textbox from Combo Box Selection

  Friends, Looking for suggestions on how to populate a textbox based on a combo box selection. My instinct tells me that I will need to have two seperate data tables...One to populate the combo box with values from a data table and another against the same data with a query parameter. For example, my combo box contains values from data table called Departments. In the combo box I would like to display all the department numbers available... ...Show All

• Pedro J. Molina sub columns into column

  Hi All. I am in big trouble here. I want following structure should be generated from the database. Means I have to generate sub columns within column and then place data according that. How can we make it possible with VS.Net to generate columns structure like that . I am sure that it'll be only possible with either DataSet or DataTable but how Any idea for this. If possible please provide some sample code. Column1 ...Show All

• Diester Webservice and VB.NET development to production

  I have developed a Webservice which is on my pc  (localhost) while I develop my VB.Net application which gets its information from the Webservice I have lots of code like: Dim pxy As localhost.GCG pxy = New localhost.GCG pxy.ClientIDValue = New localhost.ClientID( ...Show All