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    - Drag/Drop an Image from a Web Browset I've implemented a drag & drop operation which allows an image (or a file containing an image) to be dropped onto a custom control. This works fine on dragging an image file already on my hard drive, but on dragging an Image from any web page in a web browser, I'm getting an "Out of memory" exception thrown, but there appears to be plenty of memory left. Why could this be happening ? NB. On dragging a web image, files[0] contains a reference to the image in my web cache (in short directory format), for example: "C:\\DOCUME~1\\JEREMYB\\LOCALS~1\\TEMP\\DisplayBannerImage.gif" Could this be why ? If so how CAN I implement dragging an image from a web browser ? Here's the relevant sections of code: public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); AlbumControl ac = new AlbumControl(p, atype, AutoLookup, cwidth /*, false*/); ac.AllowDrop = true; ac.DragDrop += new DragEventHandler(ac_DragDrop); ac.DragEnter += new DragEventHandler(ac_DragEnter); } private void ac_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e) { Image droppedImage = null; // Handle FileDrop data. if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop)) { // Assign the file names to a string array, in // case the user has selected multiple files. string[] files = (string[])e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop); try { // Assign the first image to the picture variable. droppedImage = Image.FromFile(files[0]); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); return; } } AlbumControl ac = (AlbumControl)sender; if (droppedImage != null) { // DO SOMETHING WITH IMAGE !! ac.MainImage = droppedImage; } // Force the control to be redrawn with the image. ac.Invalidate(); } private void ac_DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e) { // If the data is a file or a bitmap, display the copy cursor. if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop)) { e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy; } else { e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None; } } Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90079
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    - visual demo idea to shut up a mac developer?.... I'm porting a Mac application to window. Regularly I have comment like that: - (me): hum.. there is no shadow object in .NET's Graphic's object. - (him): what? but that's standart (mac) stuff!!! or - (me): well, the default RichTextBox doesn't handle kerning (character spacing). - (him): what? but that standart feature of Text editor! and that goes on...... that kind of irk me as well. I'm thinking.. well and what about code security? nice introspection, reflection & documented serialization? display control in a web page? strongly typed code collection? exception? remoting? (DO is crap) memory corruption free code? developer productivity? But he might not even realized what I'm speaking of.... (and the last one he said: ha, like java!) Grrmmrrbll.... I wonder, does any one has any idea of a simple visual demo .NET to shut this Mac gnagnagna? well, we browse through all the controls to look for an idea.. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90078
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    - render an Rtf string I have a text editor which returns me an Rtf string and I want to draw on my control. My control il a bit like a drawing program, with various shape. I can't put a RichTextBox on (or many for that matter) So, is there anyway, tutorial to render Rtf? Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90077
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    - Multiple Main Menus using VB.NET Code on WinForm Can someone post the vb.net code which creates dynamic multiple main menus on WinForm. In MSDN help, it gives codes which just creats only one Main Menu from the Code. I am looking for code to have Multiple Main Menus like given below. File Edit View Exit mnuFileItem1 mnuEditItem1 mnuViewItem1 mnuFileItem2 mnuEditItem2 mnuViewItem1 Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90076
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    - Listview, reselect previous item, Delegates, Invokes Win32, Postmessage etc. I've got a listview on a form in report style. It's populated with 40 items. I want to prevent the user clicking on some items, and if the user clicks on one of these items I want the selection to revert back to the old selection, hideselection property if false, listview is single select. In the OnSelectedChange() handler I test to see if the newly selected item is a selectable one, if it's not, I try to change the selection like so. private void OnSelectedItemChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if( listView1.SelectedItems.Count != 0 ) { int idx = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Index; bool ret = execScript.isExecutable(idx); if(ret == false) { listView1.Items[execScript.getCurrentExecNum()].Selected = true; listView1.Select(); listView1.EnsureVisible(execScript.getCurrentExecNum()); listView1.Focus(); } } This doesn't work. Neither does posting a user message to this function by overriding the WndProc and calling Win32 [DllImport("user32.Dll")] public static extern Int32 PostMessage(IntPtr Handle, Int32 ConnectionType, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam); ResetSelection() { listView1.Items[execScript.getCurrentExecNum()].Selected = true; listView1.Select(); listView1.EnsureVisible(execScript.getCurrentExecNum()); listView1.Focus(); } Neither does using a delegate like this listView1.BeginInvoke(new OnSelectedItemChangedDelegate(ResetSelection),null); Neither does adding a filter on to the listview control and trapping the LVN_ITEMCHANGING or LVN_ITEMCHANGED message in the WM_NOTIFY. Interesting to note though if I add a button to the form and call my ResetSelection() function it works fine. Three days I've spent on this. Can anyone help? Thanks Youngie... Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90073
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    - Accessing merge fields Word doc via VB.Net Given the following merge fields defined on a word document how can I acccess them via a Word document object in VB.NET? The data I want to subsititute is in a dataset. {MERGEFIELD "FirstName"} for example I would place row.FirstName in this field {MERGEFIELD "Picture1"} Here I want to place a picture loaded from a path for example contained in row.PhotoPath Any help would be appreciated. WR Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90068
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    - Listbox event for add/remove item? I want to enable/disable buttons depending on whether items exist in a listbox. I thought fore sure there would be an event anytime an item was added/removed from a listbox...and I could register for it to change my button status. But...I can't seem to find these events? Am I missing something? Is there any event that I could use? Amil Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90065
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    - PropertyGrid and UITypeEditor Hi! So I've created a custom class and I'm working on creating editor support for it. I've created and bound a custom UITypeEditor to it and everything. Here's the thing though: At design time, the property editor shows the little ... button next to a property of my type. I can clikc the button and a dialog pops up which I created. This is good and works as I expected. Here's the problem - at run time, I have a property grid control and I have SelectedObject set to an instance of an object which has a member of my type. However, when I select the property at run time using a propertygrid control on my form, the property is greyed out as if it was readonly, and the ... box doesn't show up. What do I need to do to be able to edit my control at runtime? Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90063
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    - PowerPoint and .NET - looking for components - do you know any? Hi I'm looking for a .NET commercial component that would allow me to create/edit ppt files, especially to handle emedded graphs - so far without a result. Do you whether such a component exists? TIA Simon Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90059
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    - How to force a datagrid to redraw? Hi, I've a datagrid bound to a dataview, the problem is when I cancel the row delete, one of the rows in the datagrid disppears. If there is only one row in the grid that row disappears. If there are three rows and I cancel the deletion of the first row then the last row will disappear. The funniest part is the row will reappear if I click on the column header to sort it. I read another post in this forum which mentioned forcing the grid to redraw after cancelling the delete will solve the problem, but I can't find a way to force the redraw. I've tried grid.refresh, currencymanager.refresh, even cleared the databinding and rebound the grid, nothing happens. Can someone help me please. Thanks in advance, Debi ******************************************* Private Sub OnGrid_RowDeleting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataRowChangeEventArgs) Try If Not Deleterow(sender, e) Then bUnDelete = True End If Catch ex As Exception WriteToErrorLog(ex.Message & "----" & ex.StackTrace) Finally End Try End Sub Private Sub OnGrid_RowDeleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataRowChangeEventArgs) Try If bUnDelete Then e.Row.RejectChanges() '''''''''''''''''''''''Redraw here???????????? End If Catch ex As Exception WriteToErrorLog( ex.Message & "----" & ex.StackTrace) Finally End Try End Sub Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90058
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    - restricting maximising child form in MDI app Hi, iam facing a small probelm ... iam creating an MDI application in .net ver 2 and IDE is vb.net 2005 express. whenever i creates a form i sets the formborderstyle as "fixedtoolwindow" so that only close button will be there. No maximise and minimise buttons. but at the runtime if i double click on the titlebar of the childwindow it maximising itself to fill itself in the MDI app. i want to avoid this situation. can canybody help me how to do stop this ??... thanks in advance -- Deepson Thomas Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90057
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    - setting datagrid column width according to data without looping Hi all, can anybody tell me any way to set the column width of all columns of a datagrid according the data. one thing i can do is check the whole data in acolumn and find the longest text and set the column width as the length of text. but if the number of rows and colums is more this solution not sounds good. basically i want to know any way to do this task without any loops ...iam using vb.net 2 in VS 2005 express beta 2. winforms. thanks in advance -- Deepson Thomas Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90055
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    - Datagrid column Resizing event Hi all, iam currently working on winforms and iam using a a datagrid. in that when i click on the border of a column it adjusts itz width itself according to the data of that column. What i want to know is what even is fireing when i double click on the column border thanks in advance -- Deepson Thomas Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90053
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    - Keeping track of checked nodes in treeview Hi I have a treeview where I want to perform some actions on only the checked nodes. I don't really want to have to traverse the entire tree every time, since it's a pretty big tree, so what I was trying to do was keep a list of all the checked nodes - I handle the aftercheck event so that every time a node is checked I add it to my list, and when it's unchecked I remove it from my list. This can become clumsy, though - for example, if I want to programmatically uncheck some nodes, I can't just iterate through my list and uncheck them, since that will modify the collection that I'm enumerating through. Is there a better approach that I'm missing? Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90051
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    - Graphing tool Hello there Can any one please direct me to a site where i can purchase a graphing tool. The tool should have features engineering graphs, probability, youzooming and dynamic views. Thank you Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90046
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    - How to lock CheckState in CheckedListBox? I have a CheckedListBox where some of the items are checked and some are not. I want the CheckState to be Read Only. Unfortunately, the Locked property doesn't seem to prevent the user from changing the CheckState. The CheckedListBox is on a Tab Control if that makes any difference. Any help is greatly appreciated. carl Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90038
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    - Which form event to use? I want to show or hide controls on the form based on the value of an exiting public boolean value. Me.btnAddRow.Visible = bDataEntry Which form event does this belong in? putting it in the Form_Load event does not work. Should it be put in just after the initialize component? (I have verified that the boolean has the value.) Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90037
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    - gdi+ book? Hi, there doesn't appear to be to many books on the topic. A couple of books had bad reviews on amazon. Im not wanting to get into really advanced gdi+ programming. I probably just use it to create controls. Nothing really advanced. Does Chris Sells book on Windows Forms go into enough detail with GDI+ Or do you need another book? If so which book would you recommend? Is " .NET Graphics and Printing: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference for Developers " any good? thanks, Brent Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90032
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    - Console window appear when starting a win forms inside IE We have a winforms application that is started from IE. When we start the application with the URL (like www.myapp.com/OurApp.exe), a console window appear before the first form of our application. The console window stay until the application is close. Why this window is here ? The project property of the exe is -Output type --> Windows Application -Startup Object --> CoucheClient.ApplicationEit (this is a class within the assembly. She as a Sub Main function. -Root namespace --> Mtq.Eit. Thanks for your help ! Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90028
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    - owner drawn ListBox repaint issues I am using variable height owner-drawn ListBox using new Visual Studio 2005 Beta. It appears to not repaint items in ListBox until I actually select them. In the constructor of my ListBox I call the following code: <code> this.DrawMode = DrawMode.OwnerDrawVariable; this.DrawItem += new DrawItemEventHandler(HandleDrawItem); this.MeasureItem += new MeasureItemEventHandler(HandleMeasureItem); this.HorizontalScrollbar = true; this.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(HandleMouseDown); this.MouseUp += new MouseEventHandler(HandleMouseUp); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw | ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer | ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true); this.UpdateStyles(); </code> Then in the DrawItem and MeasureItem code I do the following: <code> public void HandleDrawItem(Object sender,DrawItemEventArgs e) { if (e.Index < 0) return; e.DrawBackground(); //Draw control onto bitmap Control ctrl = (Control)this.Items[e.Index]; //using (Image tmpImg = new Bitmap(ctrl.Bounds.Width, ctrl.Bounds.Height)) //{ // using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(tmpImg)) // { // Utils.ControlPainter.PaintControl(g, ctrl); // } // ////map ctrl location to viewport coordinates // //Point loc = ctrl.Location; // ////top left of viewport corresponds to // ////location of topCtrl // //Control topCtrl = (Control)this.Items[this.TopIndex]; // //loc.Offset(-topCtrl.Location.X, -topCtrl.Location.Y); // //g.TranslateTransform(loc.X, loc.Y); // e.Graphics.DrawImage(tmpImg, e.Bounds); //} e.Graphics.DrawString("item: " + e.Index, this.Font, Brushes.Blue, e.Bounds); e.DrawFocusRectangle(); } public void HandleMeasureItem(Object sender,MeasureItemEventArgs e) { if (e.Index >= this.Items.Count) { return; } Control ctrl = (Control)this.Items[e.Index]; ctrl.Location = nextLocation; e.ItemHeight = ctrl.Height; nextLocation.Y += e.ItemHeight; e.ItemWidth = ctrl.Width; HorizontalExtent = Math.Max(e.ItemWidth, HorizontalExtent); } </code> However, the painting doesn't appear to be done until I actually select the item. Do I need to invalidate the whole listbox initially and then every time I scroll? Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90027
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    - *insert curse here* Hi I have a simple app where the user is prompted with a password dialog. When the password is being entered, the cursor is hidden as I assume is default XP behavior. The problem is when the user closes the dialog pressing the enter key (without any mouse movements done) the cursor will only reappear again when a mouse button has been clicked, not only by mouse movements. I have tried putting a Application.DoEvents() after the dialog closes but that only solves the problem when the cursor is located above the parent form. If the cursor is outside, it still won't reappear when moved back over the form. Any known reason for this? /Andreas Zita Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90024
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    - MAPISendMail Hangs Hello Group! MAPISendMail hangs forever. It only works if in the VS.NET debugger I hit a breakpoint anywhere *after* MAPILogon and *before* MAPISendMail. Without breakpoint the app hangs forever on MAPISendMail. Funny thing is, if the app starts a minimised Notepad just before MAPISendMail, it (MAPI) will continue after which the app kills the Notepad proces. This is a very ugly trick. This problem occurs in a large MDI app but not in a small test Windows.Forms app! (If the MAPI calls are put on a separate thread then MAPILogin fails). What could be the reason and fix? Thanx in advance for any pointers, Marius. ----------------------- Some code snippets: ' hwnd = IntPtr.Zero or MDI.Handle: No difference ' flags = MAPI_LOGON_UI+MAPI_NEW_SESSION: No difference ' no problem dim result as Integer = MAPILogon(hwnd, Nothing, Nothing, MAPI_LOGON_UI, 0, session) Dim msg as MapiMessage msg.Subject = subject msg.NoteText = body msg.MessageType = "" msg.RecipCount = 1 Dim recip As MapiRecip recip.RecipClass = MAPI_TO recip.Name = toEmail size = Marshal.SizeOf(recip.GetType) ptr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(size) Marshal.StructureToPtr(recip, ptr, False) msg.Recips = ptr ' *BLOCK* if no 'pause' msg = MAPISendMail(session, hwnd , msg, MAPI_LOGON_UI, 0) ' log off --- <DllImport("mapi32.dll")> _ Public Shared Function MAPILogon(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, _ ByVal username As String, _ ByVal password As String, _ ByVal flags As Integer, _ ByVal reserved As Integer, _ ByRef session As IntPtr) As Integer End Function <DllImport("mapi32.dll")> _ Public Shared Function MAPILogoff(ByVal session As IntPtr, _ ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, _ ByVal flags As Integer, _ ByVal reserved As Integer) As Integer End Function <DllImport("mapi32.dll")> _ Public Shared Function MAPISendMail(ByVal session As IntPtr, _ ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, _ ByRef message As MapiMessage, _ ByVal flags As Integer, _ ByVal reserved As Integer) As Integer End Function <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet:=CharSet.Ansi)> _ Private Structure MapiMessage Public Reserved As Integer Public Subject As String Public NoteText As String Public MessageType As String Public DateReceived As String Public ConversationID As String Public Flags As Integer Public originator As IntPtr Public RecipCount As Integer Public Recips As IntPtr Public FileCount As Integer Public Files As IntPtr End Structure <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet:=CharSet.Ansi)> _ Private Structure MapiRecipient Public Reserved As Integer Public RecipClass As Integer Public Name As String Public Address As String Public EIDSize As Integer Public EntryID As IntPtr End Structure <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet:=CharSet.Ansi)> _ Private Structure MapiFile Public Reserved As Integer Public Flags As Integer Public Position As Integer Public PathName As String Public FileName As String Public FileType As IntPtr End Structure -------- Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90022
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    - Adobe Acrobat won't close I have the following code in VB.Net 2003 to open up a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat 5.0. It opens up and closes pdf document and Acrobat application fine at the first time but the second time Acrobat's File->Exit or clicking on X to close Acrobat won't close application. The document is able to close and I have to use Task Manager to close application. Any suggestions? Dim AcroApp As Acrobat.CAcroApp Dim PDDoc As Acrobat.CAcroPDDoc Dim avDoc As Acrobat.CAcroAVDoc AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App") PDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc") If PDDoc.Open(MyPdfFile.pdf) Then 'PDDoc.Magnification(200) AcroApp.Show() AcroApp.Maximize(100) avDoc = PDDoc.OpenAVDoc("") Else MsgBox("Unable to open the PDF file", vbInformation) End If avDoc = Nothing PDDoc = Nothing AcroApp = Nothing Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90016
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    - Serializing changes made to control via custom designer to source Got a custom designer that changes the arrangement of subcontrols in a custom control. It works fine, but if I save the form/rebuild the solution, exit out, and re-open the form, the subcontrols are back to their original place. I know I have to change how the custom control is serialized back to the code, and I believe it has something to do with Type Converters, but all I can find is information on how to serialize properties. Since this is not a property, but the order subcontrols are added to the custom control, I don't know how to deal with this. How do I go about doing this? TIA. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90014
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    - How can I remove the System Menu? I have a mdiparent form without any controls. It contains one midchild form. When the mdichild form maximizes, its System Menu appears (in upper left and right corners) and the system menu occupies part of the mdiparent form. Is there any way to remove the system menu and the part occupied? Thank you very much. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90012
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    - Siziing UserControls via a custom ControlDesigner We need to know which edge of a UserControl is being stretched when in design mode. We've created our own CustomControlDesigner, derived from ControlDesigner for our UserControl. We can't find a way to determine which edge of the Designer/Control is being stretched when the control is being resized in design mode. We want to resize different fields within the UserControl, based on the edge being dragged. There does not appear to be a way to get a mouse-down event before the resize to see which edge the user is being dragged. Any Ideas? Thanks Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90011
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    - Can I Word document in a Windows Form in .NET? I have tried the Microsoft Web Browser Control (shdocvw.dll) but there are a few issues with this such as the missing toolbar buttons and so on. Has anyone created or know of a control that wraps Word but leaves all of it's power intact? Thanks. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90005
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    - Another 'The variable is either undeclared or was never assigned' Hi all, I've created an user control with an 'Enum' property in a windows lkibrary (dll), like this public enum ComboBoxTypes { Null, Task, Content, Language, Format, SectorType } private ComboBoxTypes comboBoxType = ComboBoxTypes.Null; // default public ComboBoxTypes ComboBoxType { get { return comboBoxType; } set { comboBoxType = value; } } So I've created new WinApplication and I've try to add my control to mainform, and by design set ComboBoxType property Now everytime I try to open mainform in design mode message "The variable 'ComboBoxTypes' is either undeclared or was never assigned." appears and inside InitializeComponent() function mycontrol.ComboBoxType resets to ComboBoxTypes.Null Why??? Thanks al lot Edo Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90002
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    - Reference to "My Pictures" folder From within a C# windows application, how can I get a reference (full path) to the current user's "My Pictures" or "My Documents" folder ? Please include any namespace references I'll need. Thanks. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90001
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    - StackOverflowException when creating a new object Hi all. I am creating an apliction dll for my project. the call lib use a custom class, when i try to create a new object of the class it wiill generate a StackOverflowException. i am not using any Recurse function in the class. the exception occures even befor exicuting the objects constructor. please help me Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 90000
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    - LongHorn Style Windows Form Hi Guys, After seeing a longhorn screen shot, I got excited by its windows style. The form of it is half transparent, and the client area is opaque. Did anyone successfully implement this style of form? I tried many ways, but can find the road to it. Kit Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89999
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    - .NET - MDI - Container - (Internet Explorer) ActiveX loses parent Hi everyone, We are currently developing an application in C# which has MDI forms. Each MDI form has a detach-button which removes the form from its parent and displays it as a regular form. In .NET, you can use the System.Windows.Forms.Form.MdiParent property. Everything seems to work when regular .NET controls are part of the MDI form. However, if there's an ActiveX control on the form, it loses its parent and gets drawn somewhere on the screen, floating, not part of the MDI parent and not part of the MDI form. This is the case with for example the Internet Explorer ActiveX (shdocvw), the Remote Desktop ActiveX (msrdp) and probably a lot of others. We did not have that problem with a third-party component, which seems to remember its direct parent. I guess we forgot something in the approach on how to handle the microsoft ActiveXs. Has anybody a clue for this problem? We already checked every property of the AxHost and Form (container, toplevelcontrol, toplevel, parent, ...) but they're all updated correctly after the detach. We also tried to toy with the SetChildIndex function... Here are the important snippets of a sample application, full source upon request. Project consists of 2 forms, MainForm (the MDI parent) and ChildForm (the MDI child). --- MainForm Load event : Start --- this.IsMdiContainer = true; ChildForm child = new ChildForm(); child.MdiParent = this; child.ShowInTaskbar = false; child.Show(); child.ChangeUrl(); --- MainForm Load event : Stop --- ChildForm has one button (DetachButton) and an Internet Explorer ActiveX (Microsoft Web Browser from the Microsoft Internet Controls) --- ChildForm : DetachButton event : Start --- private void DetachButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { this.MdiParent = null; this.ShowInTaskbar = true; ChangeUrl(); } --- ChildForm : DetachButton event : Stop --- --- ChildForm : Public method : Start --- public void ChangeUrl() { axWebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.microsoft.com"); } --- ChildForm : Public method : Stop --- Run the application and the MDI form will show the microsoft-website. Click detach and the form will be detached from its parent. The ActiveX starts floating and is not part of the ChildForm anymore. Thanks for your time! Wim Verbeke Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89996
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    - Howto :: Multiline DataGridView :: More precisely a Multiline DataGridViewTextBoxColumn Hi, I found less in the docs about a Multiline DataGridView. More precisely a Multiline DataGridViewTextBoxColumn --------------- I found the following infos: multiline datagridview cells? ... http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4334 DataGridViewCellStyle.WrapMode Property ... http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/P_System_Windows_Forms_DataGridViewCellStyle_WrapMode.asp Sizing Options in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control ... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/74b2wakt(en-us,vs.80).aspx --------------- This example works for me, but does anyone have any suggestion for improvement? dgv.AutoSizeRowsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode.AllCells; DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle = new DataGridViewCellStyle(); cellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True; dgv.Columns["LongText"].DefaultCellStyle = cellStyle; Greetings Gordian Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89994
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    - Performance of Panel.Control.Clear Hello folks, for showing data from my database i use a Master-Panel which have added Detail-Panels for each row of the dataset. Inserting the Detail-Panels running this code disDetails.Controls.Clear() For Each r As DataRow In myDataSet Dim p As myDetailPanel p = New myDetailPanel(r) p.Dock = DockStyle.Top disDetails.Controls.Add(p) p.SendToBack() Next If i chance to the next Masterrecord and displaying the new Detailrows (maximum 15 rows) i have to wait 1-5 seconds. Cause of this bad performance I inserted "Debug.Writeline(Datetime.now.ticks)" and found that most of this time (80%) will used for running the Controls.Clear() statement. Thanks in advance for any help to get a better performance. Niels Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89993
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    - Howto :: Multiline DataGridView :: More precisely a Multiline DataGridViewTextBoxColumn Hi, I found less in the docs about a Multiline DataGridView. More precisely a Multiline DataGridViewTextBoxColumn --------------- I found the following infos: multiline datagridview cells? ... http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4334 DataGridViewCellStyle.WrapMode Property ... http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/P_System_Windows_Forms_DataGridViewCellStyle_WrapMode.asp Sizing Options in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control ... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/74b2wakt(en-us,vs.80).aspx --------------- This example works for me, but does anyone have any suggestion for improvement? dgv.AutoSizeRowsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode.AllCells; DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle = new DataGridViewCellStyle(); cellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True; dgv.Columns["LongText"].DefaultCellStyle = cellStyle; Greetings Gordian Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89992
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    - Validating grid data Hi, I am using the winforms datagrid and want to validate the data in the cells as I leave them. If the data is invalid I want to notify the user and focus him back on that cell. I have a number of textbox columns and one combobox column. I configured those fine with the column grid styles and have validation code hooked up to them. My problem is getting back to the cell that was just validated. I use the CurrentCellChanged event to capture the cell change but the CurrentCell property indicates the new cell. I would like to set the focus back to the cell that failed validation but I can't seem to figure out where that information might be saved. I can kludge the recording of the cell prior to the cell change, but it isn't convenient. Also, the validation event doesn't get triggered unless the column changes. Is there a way to get the validation event going in this case? I'm brute-forcing a call to it from the CurrentCellChanged event. It seems to me that there must be a better way. Thanks in advance for all your help. -George Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89982
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    - UI Cues not updating in designer Got a custom container control that contains other custom subcontrols that have a custom designer. The subcontrol's designer has a couple verbs that fire off events that changes the order of that subcontrol in the parent custom control. It's another version of the collapsible panel bar, where in designer you can right click on a panel and move it up or down in the panel bar. The problem I'm having is that when I move a panel, the UI cues don't get updated. The panels will move, but the selection highlight will not move with the panel. It appears that a different control is selected than actually is. Clicking on a different panel will update the cues (except when you click on the control that is highlighted incorrectly -- the cues already indicate it is selected, so no change appears to have been made). I can't find any information on how to refresh the cues. I've tried Invalidate and Refresh in the custom container control, but they don't work. TIA. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89966
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    - NotifyIcon stays at sys tray Hi All, Does anybody found a way to remove the notifyIcon form the systemTray after the program has closed!? Mine is stay on the sysTray and is removed after the mouse pointed at it. thx in advance Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89950
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    - Form validation problem Hi, i'm trying to force validation of each control in a form by setting focus explicitly on each control prior to calling this.Validate(). The idea is to ensure that the data is validated when the user presses the ok button on the form. The problem is that setting focus on some controls alters the state of the control. For example, setting focus on radiobuttons sets the checked state to true. Is there anyway to force control validation without altering the state of the control? I saw one eample using reflection, forcing the control's validation event to occur, but i dont want to reflect into the private methods of the .net framework for future compability. Tag: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions Tag: 89948

Hi,
Our project requirement is to develop app for 2 different screen resolutions
1024x768 and .. 800x600.so basically I want my forms loaded with controls
behave expectedly when screen resolution changes..how can this be done?
thanks

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Re: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions by Mehdi

Mehdi
Fri Jul 15 05:58:14 CDT 2005

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:05:04 -0700, vishy wrote:

> Our project requirement is to develop app for 2 different screen resolutions
> 1024x768 and .. 800x600.so basically I want my forms loaded with controls
> behave expectedly when screen resolution changes..how can this be done?

Use the Dock and Anchor properties of your controls to make sure that they
resize and reposition themselves properly whenever the form is resized.
Resize the form manually in the designer to see the effects and correct any
mistake. The ideal would be to have 2 monitors connected to your computer,
one set to 1024x768 and the other set to 800x600. In some tricky
situations, you may have to handle the resize event to manually calculate
the size and position of some controls but in the majority of cases clever
use of the Dock and Anchor properties is sufficient.

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Re: Developing Windows App for different screen resolutions by �zden

Özden
Sat Jul 16 10:20:38 CDT 2005

Hi,

Take a look at Klik! SizeLib.Net, which is exactly what you are looking for,
at :

http://www.kliksoft.com/?S=2&SS=11

Regards,

Özden Irmak

"vishy" <vishy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DA7AA613-6CA3-40B0-ACAF-DB34A6359CDD@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Our project requirement is to develop app for 2 different screen
> resolutions
> 1024x768 and .. 800x600.so basically I want my forms loaded with controls
> behave expectedly when screen resolution changes..how can this be done?
> thanks

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