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    - ClickOnce and not IE Does ClickOnce work with browsers other than IE now (didn't in January). If not what's the best workaround? thanks, Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98058
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    - My website : Opinions please. Please, I have just created this site and am wondering what your opinion is from both professionals and amatures or the curious alike. Any opinions? www.integrated-dev-sol.co.uk Remove 123 from email address to reply. Anti spam and virus measure. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98046
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    - trouble with events (Paint event) question - please help Hi, I have a Splash form in my Windows Forms app. It has a label on it, and in the Paint event of the label, I draw some text on the label. But I also want the Splash form to load my MDI form and carry out the initialisation of the application... Trouble is, it only paints the Splash form with the label and text, then it does nothing else, even though I have code in the splash form Paint event like this: Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor If m_blnPaintOnce = False Then Call DrawStringFloatFormat(e) Else If m_blnAppReady = False Then Label3.Text = "load management form" ManagementForm = New frmManagement m_blnAppReady = True Else Cursor = Cursors.Default Label3.Text = "finished, hide and show" Me.Dispose() ManagementForm.Visible = True End If End If I don't know what is wrong, it never shows the MDI form, just shows the Splash form then stops. I just want it to paint the slash form once, write the text on it, then laod the main form, wait while it does it's work, then hide itself, but it never does it. Please help, this is really a strange problem. thanks, Philip Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98045
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    - Problem: Serialization using "<NonSerialized>" Does this attribute really work? I'm trying to "deep" serialize one of my objects which has a member variable pointing to a Form object. I don't want to serialize this form (and I know that I can't do this anyway because the Form class is not marked as Serializable). I try marking this member variable with the <NonSerialized> attribute, but the BinaryFormatter seems to be ignoring this attribute; It throws an exeption "Class frmReport {some info about the class here} can not be serialized, because it is not marked as Serializable" Is there any other way to prevent the serialization of a member variable that I don't know? Thanx everyone. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98043
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    - generate Word from application I'm building an windowsforms application in dotnet2.0. I would like to generate an invoice in Word for printing with data from the sql server database. Is there a good totorial on how this is done? thanks! Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98042
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    - Slide-out and Splitter Two questions. First, what does MS recommend / offer for creating those nifty slide-out dialogues (?) that Visual Studio has? Yes I'm talking about, for example, the default behavior of the Toolbox, or Properties dialogues in Visual Studio, which slide back and forth (Unless you select the push-pin). I don't even know what that "sliding" control is called, no less how to put one on my WinForm. Help? Second question: what effectively is the difference between a SplitContainer and a Splitter? Why choose one over the other? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98039
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    - Third time to ask this question,can anybody help me? I want to run my ClickOne applications with command line arguments.I published my application by visual studio.net 2005,and my application url is http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.application?myname=sunny. I have read the article about no-touch deployment applications : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms05152003.asp and followed his steps.My code is below: AppDomain domain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain; object obj = domain.GetData("APP_LAUNCH_URL"); string appLaunchUrl = (obj != null ? obj.ToString() : ""); But I can never get the value of appLaunchUrl.The method domain.GetData("APP_LAUNCH_URL") always returns null.I could not find any description about APP_LAUNCH_URL data variable in MSDN. When I copied myapplication.exe to IIS directory and run the application from the url of http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.exe?myname=sunny , I could get the value as the article said. So why? And how can I get the value if I use the publish function of visual studio.net 2005 and run the application from the url: http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.application?myname=sunny Thanks! Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98036
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    - Desinger view error with simple inheritance: Constructor on type '' not found. I have a class that inherits user control: public partial class ValidationSubDesigner : UserControl { It works jsut fine, the problem occurs when I try to inherit it: public partial class FieldCompareFieldDesigner : ParamDesigner { //public partial class FieldCompareFieldDesigner : UserControl { The top line is required in order to compile, the second line is required in order to get the designer view to work. I get the error below when I try to bring up the designer view. The full eror and stack trace. One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. Constructor on type 'AbacusControls.PropertyEditors.Designer.ValidationDesigner.SubDesigners.Test' not found. Hide at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes) at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes) at System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignSurface.CreateInstance(Type type) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.VSDesignSurface.CreateInstance(Type type) at System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignerHost.System.ComponentModel.Design.IDesignerHost.CreateComponent(Type componentType, String name) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializationManager.CreateInstance(Type type, ICollection arguments, String name, Boolean addToContainer) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializationManager.System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationManager.CreateInstance(Type type, ICollection arguments, String name, Boolean addToContainer) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.TypeCodeDomSerializer.Deserialize(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, CodeTypeDeclaration declaration) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager manager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager serializationManager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.DeferredLoadHandler.Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop.IVsTextBufferDataEvents.OnLoadCompleted(Int32 fReload) Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98032
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    - IME window question I wrote a text input aware control. in C# 2.0, inheriting from SWF.Control. Users eventually use the IME input window to enter text. I would like to be able to do just like Notepad (or the text boxes), that is position the IME window at the position of the caret and set its font to the current selection's font. How do I do that? C++ tips welcome as well ;-) Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98030
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    - DataGridColumnStyle Format Property One of the columns of my datagrid is an account #. The actual field which is coming from a sql server database is defined as a character. Within the database the account # 200300001 come across in our financial system as 20030000.1. How do I define a character field format, as an example (XXXXXXXX.X), in the datagridcolumnstyle format property using the designer? Currently I can format numeric fields in the a datagridcolumnstyle format property with, as an example, "###,##0.00". Thanks in advance. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98028
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    - Setting a control focus in OnLoad event. Based on data present when I load a form, I need to be able to set focus to a specific control. I have added code as the last line of my Load handler setting a control to have focus. e.g. control3.Focus(). But when the form is displayed, the first control with tab stop has focus instead of the control I set. This should be a very basic thing to do but I can't figure out how. In the WIN32 API, you would return false form the OnInitDialog() method to allow retention of focus you set programmatically. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Tony Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98027
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    - Opening a ContextMenu without a parent control Hi, I am writing an Excel addin with C#. I have some ActiveX objects embedded within the spreadsheet and when the user clicks on one of them I want to show a context menu. Now the problem is that ContextMenu.Show() needs a Control object as parameter but in my scenario there is no Winforms control object. I have the HWND window handle of the ActiveX object but I can't figure out how to pass it to the ContextMenu object. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks Hans Merkl Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98026
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    - VS.NET 2003, Format functions... VS.NET has format functions for the Forms Designer, like Align, Make SameSize, Center in Form, etc... I am just looking to see if there is any standard library I can use to do these functions at runtime. I googled, but could not find anything... I know I can write these in a day or 2... but just thinking why re-invent if something is there... Can somebody point me to the right direction? VJ Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98025
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    - ListView SelectedIndexChanged firing twice Hi, I have a Listview that is firing an event twice and both time the selecteditems count is = 1 In the call stack there is form.show Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98023
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    - The dreded EnableVisualStyles and External exception error We really want to use the visual styles in our app but get that stupid external exception error at the weirdest times. I call it like this: static void Main() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.DoEvents(); Application.Run(new MyForm() ); } The problem seems to occur sometimes when DoEvents is called again within the application but not actually at the call. The exception is throw during other code execution. Although, if I comment out DoEvents() it will work in most cases. I need to call DoEvents in some cases so I can't completely remove it. Any suggestions? -Joe Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98021
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    - Start and minimize another application From within my .NET forms application I want to start and minimize another application, so I go: string eprog = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles) + @"\EvilLyrics\EvilLyrics.exe"; if (File.Exists(eprog)) { ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(eprog); psi.UseShellExecute = false; psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized; Process.Start(psi); } This starts the other application OK but doesn't minimize the window. Why? Do I have to minimize the other application via Interop? If so how? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98014
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    - Drag&Drop problem I have following code: private void listView1_DragEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e) { if ((e.Data is DragDropPackage) && (((DragDropPackage)e.Data).id_typ_krw == this.id_typ_krw)) e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Move; else e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None; } But even when e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None happens, mouse cursor shape stays like DragDropEffects.Move. I am missing something? -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98010
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    - how VB.NET to generate excel report(office 2003) how VB.NET to generate excel report(office 2003) what component i need to reference into the asp.net application and the application will distribute to the client , does it free? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 98002
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    - CurrentCell cannot be set at this time. Moving ??? Hi guys, I have a small problem. When I assing values for some of the rows I am getting this error message ? grdQuantities.Item(row, col) = "NI" Additional information: CurrentCell cannot be set at this time. Moving your code to FormLoad should solve this problem. how do i solve this ? please help Thanks -Aruna Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97998
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    - A Java implementation of CLR? Hi, Is it possible to make such a gift so that MSIL programs can run on JVM? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97995
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    - MAskedTextBox Custom Mask Hello, I am implementing a MaskedTextBox control in a Windows Form application. The valid userâ??s input is : [1-9] , namely: a single, numeric character, excluding the digit ZERO (0). Using a numeric mask (â??#â??, â??0â??, or â??9â??) does not provide the answer, since these masks do allow enreing ZERO (0). Any idea how to implemt it? Thanks! Shaul Sondak Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97983
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    - Client Requirements? I'm trying to find a site that will tell me exactly what the requirements from a OS perpective is required to run a .net 2005 smart client windows application from the clients machine. I know the developers machines need XP SP2 to install the IDE, but with the clients running the application do they only need the 2.0 framework and it doesn't matter if XP SP2 is installed or not. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97982
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    - VB.NET Screen rendering issues. Folks, We have written a VB.NET application with Access database. When we open any screen (Form) all the text fields and grids (we are using ComponentOne TrueDB Grid) and some other controls render as a "hole" and then once all the data is retrieved then the complete screen rendering is done. We tried to hide all the controls before it loads all the data and then show all the controls once the data is retrieved but it still does that empty control ghosting display issue. Because of this the application appears to slow even though the screen load time is just 3-4 seconds. Has somebody faced this kind of issue before? Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, D Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97979
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    - Wierd sorting in DataGridView I have a DataGridView control on a form which is bound to a class that is derived from CollectionBase and implements IBindingList. This works okay except that the sorting acts really strangely in certain situations. To sort my class I implement IBindingList.ApplySort and in the method I use CollectionBase.InnerList.Sort and pass it an instance of a class that implements IComparer to sort the data objects in my list. The implementation of the IComparer.Compare method is relatively straightforward: object a = MyType.GetProperty(PropertyName).GetValue(x, null); object b = MyType.GetProperty(PropertyName).GetValue(y, null); if (a != null && b == null) return 1; if (a == null && b != null) return -1; if (a == null && b == null) return 0; return ((IComparable)a).CompareTo(b); Now this sort of works okay. For example, if my data object has properties a, b, and c which are displayed on the DataGridView like this: a b c 100 1 1 90 2 1 80 3 1 70 4 1 60 5 1 50 6 1 40 7 1 And I click on the header for row a I get this: a b c 40 7 1 50 6 1 60 5 1 70 4 1 90 3 1 90 2 1 100 1 1 And if I click it again I get back to the original. So far so good. If I click on column b, I get the expected behavor too. However, if I click on column c (where all the values are the same) I get this: a b c 60 5 1 50 6 1 40 7 1 70 4 1 100 1 1 90 2 1 80 3 1 Clicking a second time gets me to the second table above. Clicking a third times gives me this: a b c 80 3 1 90 2 1 100 1 1 70 4 1 40 7 1 50 6 1 60 5 1 And finally, clicking a fourth time gets be back to the original order. Does anybody have any idea what is going on here and how I can avoid it? This doesn't seem to ever happen if I use a DataTable as a data source. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97978
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    - Business Object Model Did a little searching on Google for business object model in vb.Net but didn't find much. Anyone have some links and samples for this and as a last resort, a book title? I need to start at the bottom... Thanks, Brian Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97972
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    - Control Flicker while switching TabPage Hello, I created a windows form with vs.net 2005 / c#. This control has a TabControl with 16 TabPages. On every TabPage there are a diffrent number of Controls. - Every TabPage has a background picture. they are all the same picture (from a resouce file). There seems to be no way easy to make a TabControl transparent... my problem: while switch the visible TabPage the form / TabControl begans to flicker. it takes a second (and I mead "1 sec") before all controls of the TabPage are drawed. I can see, who one control after another appears. - while switching there is only standard code executed, no code written by me. has anybody an idea how to remove the flicker? thank you ingo beyer Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97966
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    - Display List<int> inside DataGridView Hi, i have bound my list of objects to a data grid view (i have actually used BindingList) and can add, edit objects ok. Sample object is given below: class MyObject { string m_Name; public string Name { get { return m_Name; } set { m_Name = value; } } List<int> m_List = new List<int>(); public List<int> MyList { get { return m_List; } set { m_List = value; } } } I can display and edit the name field ok. However, as you can see my object also contains a List<int> but i am not given the option to display this in the properties when i goto add a new column. How could i go about displaying a list of ints (ideally i would like a custom display, where i can list the ints, one to five in this example, in a text box seperated by commas ie "1, 2, 3, 4"). Do i need to add the column manually, hook into the format event or define my own cell types? Thanks in advance, Chris Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97965
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    - help with .NET TreeView control - rightclick/mousedown & context m Hi, I have a tree-view control on my form, showing two levels of nested nodes. I want to show a different context menu depending on the Tag of the selected node. The trouble is that the tree-view doesn't change the SelectedNode on a (right-click) mousedown event, only on the left-click. How can I force the selected node to be the one that the user has right-clicked on during the mousedown event, so when I test the tag of the selected node in the context menu popup event it is correct? This is .NET Framework 1.1 we're using. thanks Philip Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97964
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    - transparent background hello everyone, i have a gif image with a transparent color. now the only thing i want is to put that image in my application and all the panels and stuff under it should shine throw the transparent parts. is that so hard? i couldn't find a solution for that. there must be a simple way. greetings juergen Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97963
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    - .Net 2.0 Rich Text Editor Is anybody aware of a component or sample application using a RichTextBox with a formatting toolbar using the .Net 2.0 framework. (Much like WordPad) .. I found one control, http://www.textcontrol.com/products/dotnet/, however this control is using the 1.1 framework and would cause deployment issues. Thanks for your time Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97959
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    - Open Documents of Arbitrary Type from .Net I'm developing a win form based add-on to a document management system using the .Net runtime. When a user is using my add-on they could be dealing with documents of many different types, e.g. Word, PDF, Excel, RTF. I would like to add a "View" button to my add-on that will open whatever document they are currently handleing with that document's associated application. I'm not trying to control the document after that point; I simply want to launch the associated application and forget about it. What's the best way? Any thoughts? TIA// Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97954
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    - Datagrid and custom collection as datasource All, I have successfully used custom collections as the datasource for a datagrid previously however this one is causing me problems as one of the properties of the objects within the collection relate to another custom object as follows Public Class OrderNumber Public property Number As String . . End Property Public Property Type As OrderNumberType . . End Property End Class Public Class OrderNumberType Public Property ID as Integer . . End Property Public Property Description As String . . End Property End Class I have a collection that inherits CollectionBase called OrderNumberCollection that I can add individual OrderNumber objects to and everything is OK. However when I then set datagrid.datasource = OrderNumberCollection I can see all the properties of object OrderNumber as columns, however within the grid rows the value of the OrderType column is "<namespace>.OrderType" and what I want is for it to be OrderType.Description Any thoughts welcomed ! Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97948
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    - Updating Property Inspector Is there a way to update the Visual Studio property inspector when you change properties behind the scenes? Example: I have an enum that defines color schemes, when changed it changes two properties "StartColor" and "EndColor" but the new values are not reflected in the VS.NET property inspector until I click on them. Any info is appreciated! John Parrish Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97947
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    - Timer problem Hello who knows ? when I am Hiding the Form the Time Control Associated with that form stops ? Regards FOX Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97944
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    - ClickOnce - Application.restart Hi I'm getting the following exception when a ClickOnce application has been updated and tries to restart: System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. at System.Collections.ArrayList.ArrayListEnumeratorSimple.MoveNext() at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExitInternal() at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Restart() I suspect the problem lies with a couple of background worker-threads that won't die, but I can't seem to find the solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Erlend Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97941
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    - DataGridTextBoxColumn Abort() ?? Hi guys, I have a custom class(DataGridColoredTextBoxColumn) which is derived from DataGridTextBoxColumn & it is binded to a datagrid. When I enter a value in datagrid it's firing the Abort() method ... not all the time.. sometimes only ?? any idea how to get to know why is it calling abort method ? Please help. Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97940
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    - errorProvider I've got an error provider that I want ignored if somebody tries to close the application. Right now, when bad input is given, I'm simply setting e.Cancel=true in the texbox_validating handler, and then setting e.Cancel = false in the FormClosing handler. Is there a more correct way to do this? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97939
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    - IME window and custom text SWF.Control I wrote a simple control doing custom text handling. (No, I can't use a text box). I have a problem with it when entering international text through the IME window. If you test the very simple sample below: class MyControl : Control { protected override OnKeyPress(KeyPressEventArgs e) { base.OnKeyPress(e); Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}({2})", e.Handled, e.KeyChar, (int)e.KeyChar); } } And try to activate, say, the Japaneese IME window and enter some text, you'll see that the text entered through the Japaneese IME goes twice in OnKeyPress. I tried something like protected override bool ProcessKeyEventArgs(ref Message m) { if (m.Msg == (int)WindowMessage.WM_IME_CHAR) return false; return base.ProcessKeyEventArgs(ref m); } It seems to work. But then I don't really understand what's going on.... Care to comment? -- Regards, Lloyd Dupont NovaMind development team NovaMind Software Mind Mapping Software <www.nova-mind.com> Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97938
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    - Toolbar Image Distortion Hi I have an image that i want to use as a toolbar image. Its been created with a transparent background in Photoshop. I have tried saving it to both a png and a gif format and loading them into an image list and reference that for toolbar button images. In either case whenever i display it in the image is rendered with blue swiggles/distortions around it. There is any work around? -- 56456 Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97937
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    - Auto Shut-Down to Windows Forms App After N Minutes of Inactivity I'm creating a new Windows Forms MDI application... How can I add cause the application to shut itself down after a period of [no user activity]? I did this in an old COM/VB6 application and I had to have code behind practically all visible UI controls (triggered on the Mouse_Move event) that reset a global variable monitored by a timer. If the global value incremented past a certain point, then a Timer event procedure would cause a dialog to appear. If the user failed to respond to the dialog after 10 seconds, then the app would shut down. Does .NET give us an easier way to accomplish the same? I don't want to have to detect the mouse_move event of practically every UI control and have a timer running in the background the whole time, if possible. Thanks! Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97924
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    - Show date as DD/MM/YYYY in DataGridTextBoxColumn Hello all, We have a DataSet bound to a DataGrid, this DataSet has a datetime column, coming from SQL Server. We want to show this field on the DataGrid always as "DD/MM/YYYY", ignoring user's regional configuration. For example if the user has the date regional configuration as "DD*MM*YYYY" (with stars), the DataGridTextBoxColumn shows the date as "DD*MM*YYYY" even if our code is: DataGridTextBoxColumn oTextBoxNatural = new DataGridTextBoxColumn(); oTextBoxNatural.MappingName = "datetime_field"; oTextBoxNatural.HeaderText = "Show date as DD/MM/YYYY"; oTextBox.Format = "dd/MM/yyyy"; oTextBoxNatural.Width = 100; dty.GridColumnStyles.Add(oTextBoxNatural); How can we show the date always as "DD/MM/YYYY"? We do not want to depend on user's regional configuration since in our environment each user configurates this as they want. Thanks a lot. Joseph Toulier Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97923
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    - DataGrid Header Won't Right Align When I set a column in a DataGrid using DataGridColumnStyle.Alignment = Right the last character in the text of the column header is cutoff. Left and Center work fine. Also values within the cells display correctly. Anyone know how to get this to wokr when using right alignment? Tag: DrawString method - diagonal text? Tag: 97919
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Hi,

I am using the DrawString method to add 2 strings to a label at right-angles
to each other (so one is horizontal, and the other string is vertical)

Both strings start with 'S' - now, is there any way to make that 'S'
diagnoal instead of vertical ? That way it would really appearf as though
it's between both strings...

thanks

Philip

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Re: DrawString method - diagonal text? by Bob

Bob
Sat Feb 25 10:22:23 CST 2006

You need to draw the S seperately in another call to DrawString and use a
transform to change the angle of the string. See the GDI+ FAQ for an article
on how to draw text at an angle.

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"Philip" <Philip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D9347591-F6A8-4505-8FBB-0365B70ACD95@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am using the DrawString method to add 2 strings to a label at
> right-angles
> to each other (so one is horizontal, and the other string is vertical)
>
> Both strings start with 'S' - now, is there any way to make that 'S'
> diagnoal instead of vertical ? That way it would really appearf as though
> it's between both strings...
>
> thanks
>
> Philip

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