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• Windows Forms How to change color of control's border ?

  Dear all, As you knew, the BorderStyle property of controls (Ex: panel, textbox...) is : None, FixedSingle and Fixed3D. With FixedSingle, the border of control's color is black. I want to customize border of control is another colors, so what i should do Thanks for your help. Steven Hi jelle, I think you got me on that one :) Sorry, I forgot what was I thinking when I posted GetWindowDC thing, probably lack of sleep lately. Cheers, -chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Erroneous "Avoid unused private fields"

  I get an erroneous "Avoid unused private fields" problem with the following: class Application { private const Decimal conversionRatio = 0.621371m; [STAThread] static void Main( string [] args) { if (args.Length > 0) { Decimal newValue = Decimal.Parse(args[0], System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); newValue *= conversionRatio; } } } Consts don't get converted to a literal in DEBUG, do they The decimal is an interesting type. Unlike, other numeric types (such as Byte, Int32, Double, etc), decimal is actually a 'pseudo' primitive type. That is, the ...Show All

• Visual C# Question about objects behavior

  I have a Class called animation.  This Animation has a member of type Bitmap.  It also has an arraylist member that holds objects of Frame type.  When creating a frame object, a parameter of the constructor is the bitmap which is passed in as the Bitmap object that is part of the Animation class.  Some operations need to be done on the Bitmap for the entire animation and thus these are performed by the Animation class.  Some operations are done on the frame level so these are done by the individual frame objects.  Here comes the question... I pass in the Bitmap to each frame (I've tried by value and by ref) and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Complex automated build environment, conditional dependency resolution, multiple SCC branches

  I'm trying to set up a fairly complex build environment consisting of multiple configurations. The details for this environment are as follows: I need to have two branches of source code for a project in our SCC system. One for current stable code, ready for release to customers, another for "bleeding-edge" code containing our latest and greatest fixes and features. I need to build each branch independently, but using the same VS Project regardless of what branch of code is being built. This product that spans multiple projects, most of which are evolving independently and some of which are shared among other products ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Install issue - ServerDocument cannot write to client's Manifest

  First off I know that my VSTO solution works locally and will work with remote assemblies, on my machine and anothers client. But on a third machine (the client), I have run into a situation on a where I am trying the methodology of "Quick Start #3: Deploying a Document to a Local Folder, and an Assembly to a Network Folder" I have created the console application to handle the writing to Excel's manifest using the ServerDocument class. When the process attempts to write to the client's manifest to inform it of the remote dll this exception is thrown: Exception Caught: Could not create a persistence object for the specified fi ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with Find-Method and binding

  Hi, I'am using following code to search for a special string and bind them to a DataGridView: Dim drv As DataRowView() dv.Sort = strCol Dim val As Object val = strCol drv = dv.FindRows(val) Me .DataGridView.DataSource = drv First the searched data is displayed correctly, but after a few seconds the error "IsNew" is no member off ... ouccured. The datagridview changed the columns to IsEdit, IsNew, and so one. Can somebody explain me why this error is shown Thank You!! Hi, I'm not quite sure why that's happening. But you can instead just change the RowFilter propert ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom help filters option in Beta 2 help?

  In VS.NET 2003 I was able to create my custom filter using Help|Edit Filters and then use that filter in search. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do the same in VS 2005 Pro Beta 2. I've installed VSIP for VS 2005 (aka VS SDK) and would like to search on VSIP only. But there is no search filter available for VSIP and w/o any way to create a filter it searches on the whole help system. That returns hundreds of results and it's close to useless. Does anyone know how to create a custom help filter Thanks. I've been trying to set up a custom filter for newly integrated help documentation, and have been running into de ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to read exe file header?

  Hi,  How to read exe file header using compact framework Hi,      I also have the same problem. Is there is any method  to prevent the opening of the exe file other than the owner(who creates it.). I have no idea. if any idea please..... Regards, Bala. ...Show All

• .NET Development Compiling individual code-behind using Visual Studio

  Is there a way to compile individual code-behind using Visual Studio The build solution feature in VS  compiles all of the code behind in one .dll or .exe. ( i think.) Also, if I compile the entire application into a .dll, does Asp.net engine use the .dll when an aspx page is requested or does it compile the requested aspx page thanks... Hi! Thanks for asking!  I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on.  The best place to ask ASP.NET questions is over on the ASP.NET forums at http://www.asp.net/welcome.aspx tabindex=1&tabid=39 The short a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Question...

  Hello all... I am writting a application that will utilize XML databases for the information that will be entered into the application. What I would like to know is what steps should I take in order for the user to be able to create new user files that impliment new xml database files by a preset layout and design in order to have a empty&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms mask in DataGridView

  How can I check the mask when the user edit the cell. I already set the custom format in DataGridViewCellStyle using CellFormatting event. But, when I key in the value, it doesn't check the format. ( for example, maxlength... ) ( EX : 1. CellFormating Event - format  setting : AA-AA-AAAA          2. When the data display : in Database&nb ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Using of APC.IDE.PreventShow property

  I have integrated VBA 6.2 into my application. All works normal, but I have a little problem. To prevent VBA IDE to be shown when VBA runtime error rises, I set APC.IDE.PreventShow property to True, so this successfully overrides error displaying (and stops vba code execution), but doesn't give me any sign of this (in other words I can't catch any event reporting me about the error generated by VBA). Can someone help me to handle to problem Thanks in advance. Ilya. FYI: this was resolved via email so I wanted to post the rest of the thread in case it's helpful to someone else. *** In my letter ,I wrote " [you] can customi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error when trying to access Form components

  Hi, I am developing an windows application in C#. I have encountered problems when trying to access the form and the controls from the code. I get the error message: 'FactoryMethod.Form1.rtbCodeBody' denotes a 'field' where a 'class' was expected I don't know what I am doing wrong. Most of the code is created by Visual Studio.NET. The code from my Form1.cs  ...Show All

• Visual C# .net 2005 beta 2 resources static class

  hello    I have a question about the static class that is auto generated when you create strongly typed resources. The question is how do i make the class and properties stay public in shared resource-only assemblies, when i need to update the resources, becasue the code is auto generated when you update the resource. So the class and properties change back to internal is there a work around thanks in advance kered   Hi Kered - Take a look at this thread, it should help you out. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=132678&SiteID=1 Than ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Dynamic Link Libraries (dlls) - What ones must be given to the end user?

  Compiler: Visual Studio.NET 2002 Hi everyone, You will probably think I am a bit dim for asking this question but it is one that does confuse me. How do I know what standard Microsoft dlls (Dynamic Link Libraries) must be sent out with my software so Windows users (even the previous Windows release users) can use my programs I was going to link statically (as I got the impression that doing so would automatically put the dll in the final executable). Then I got some errors which got resolved when I linked dynamically instead. So even though the optimal answer would be to link statically, please answer assuming I link dynamica ...Show All