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    - strange complation issue I want to be able to call my forms from all over in my application, usually that is easy to do, but I am running into this. One form I can add in my #include header, and in my button click event it will allow me to declare a reference to it, and even intellisense picks it up, but upon compilation, the statements error out. Anyone run into this? This only happens with this one particular form. The app is being done in vc++.net if that matters. Thanks for any help. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89211
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    - Form.Close I am trying to close a form from a button on another form. and it is not working i am using code like: dim frm1 as form1 frm1.close. But it doesnt seem to work, please help Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89209
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    - Click Event problem Hi [ Using C# in .Net 1.1 ] I have a usercontrol with a number of nested controls (listviews, etc... ). When the user clicks *anywhere* on the usercontrol I want the event to be handled by the usercontrol. At the moment if I click on the listbox, then the listbox grabs that click and it is not seen by the usercontrol. Is it possible to easily make the listboxes not grab the click ( I know I could forward the click on, but this would mean I would need to make every control on my form handle this which would be a pain ), so that I can have a single event handler in my usercontrol ?? regards, Rich. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89208
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    - WinForms Designer Prob: Change control Location at design time Hi, I am implementing a windows form designer that is based upon the designer sample from microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=813808). The problem that I have is that i would like to change the size and location of a certain control when I drop it on the form. In the IContainer.Add method of the DesignerHost I am able to change the size of the control that is to be added but I am unable to change the location of it, e.g. set it to the top. I change the properties like this: if(component is Panel) { (component as Panel).Size = new Size(10, 10); (component as Panel).Locaton = new Point(8, 8); } Does anybody know why I am able to change the size but not the location of the control? cheers, gunnar Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89206
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    - Prevent user from changin page Visual Studio 2003 .Net, C# windows based: I have a tab control on my main page, on the first page is a datagrid displaying records, on the second page is a detail page showing the record details for the record selected on the first page. The second page is for adding and updating the records displayed on the first. Once in add/update mode, I dont want the user to be able to change the page. I am new to the world of .Net, so I am not sure waht can and cant be done. In my previous language I could disable and enable the tab pages, is this possible here? Alternatively I guess I could just message out to the user and warn him not to, which event would this be in? Thanks Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89202
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    - menu shortcuts Hi I have an app with datagrids in it. Although you can directly cut, paste, etc elements from the grid using Ctrl-C and the like, I would like to provide the standard Edit menu of most Windows programs. The Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All menu options will perform the expected operation on the data grid. I have tried implementing this by focusing on the datagrid, and sending the shortcut keys for the operation using the SendKeys method. For example, this subroutine is called when the Cut menu option is clicked Public Sub Cut() myDataGrid.Focus() SendKeys.Send("^x") End Sub Alas, this doesn't work. The very first time I select a menu item, it freezes the program. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del unfreezes it, and then any other menu selection performed after this will not freeze the program, but it still does nothing. Anybody know why this doesnt work or a better way to do this? cheers MQ Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89199
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    - When BindingManager position changes, DataRow RowState changes to "Modified" Hi, When I scroll through the rows in a dataset using BindingManagerBase Position property, the DataRow's RowState property is changing to "Modified" even though there are no changes to the actual data. Iam using .NET framework 1.1 and C#. Thanks in advance. Regards, Srikanth. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89194
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    - Windows Form Application - Always on Top and other stuff Does anyone know how to make a Windows Form based application be optionally always on top? Also, I need to remove everything except a single text box which I want to make available from any application by poping it on top via a hotkey. Alternatively I would like to make the Windows Form app (whith only the textbox and a bare window frame) available on the right hand side of the screen if the mouse hovers over a very thin window handle that will stay exposed. Any pointers on these topics would be very helpful. Thanks, eXtreme Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89193
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    - FolderBrowserDialog often crashes on Windows 2000 FolderBrowserDialog often crashes on my Windows 2000 computer. Here is C# source code for a test case: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; public class InstanceForm : Form { private FolderBrowserDialog folderBrowserDialog; private String folderName; private MainMenu mainMenu; private MenuItem menuItem_Brow; private MenuItem menuItem_File; public InstanceForm () { mainMenu = new MainMenu(); menuItem_File = new MenuItem(); menuItem_File.Text = "&File"; menuItem_Brow = new MenuItem(); menuItem_Brow.Text = "&Select Directory..."; menuItem_Brow.Shortcut = Shortcut.CtrlS; menuItem_Brow.Click += new EventHandler (MenuItem_OnClick); mainMenu.MenuItems.Add (menuItem_File); menuItem_File.MenuItems.Add (menuItem_Brow); folderBrowserDialog = new FolderBrowserDialog(); folderBrowserDialog.Description = "Select directory:"; Menu = mainMenu; Text = "Instance Folder Browser Dialog"; } private void MenuItem_OnClick (object sender, EventArgs e) { DialogResult result; Console.WriteLine ("Entered Event Handler"); try { result = folderBrowserDialog.ShowDialog (); if (result == DialogResult.OK) { folderName = folderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath; } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine (ex); } } [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.Run (new InstanceForm ()); } } When the test program crashes, it crashes immediately after it displays the FolderBrowserDialog. The FolderBrowserDialog appears normal. An error message window appears. It says two sentences - The instruction at "someAddress" referenced memory at "sameAddress". The memory could not be "read". The two addresses are always the same. After closing error message window, a second error message window appears. It says - programName has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. The log file is a huge binary file. No exception gets written to the console. No difference if try/catch included or not. When I ran the test program under Windows 2000, it crashed on the first time I tried to display the FolderBrowserDialog (Ctl-S) 4 times out of 10 times. The times it did not crash, if I kept bringing up the FolderBrowserDialog, it always eventually crashed. I ran the tests immediately after rebooting the computer. No other problems with the computer, and I have executed lots of other .net stuff without any such crashes. The test program has not crashed on my Windows XP computer. The Windows 2000 computer says Version 5.00.2195 The Windows XP computer says Version 5.1.2600 *** Has this problem been reported before? *** Anyone know the cause? *** Anything wrong in source code that might cause crash? *** Any suggestions how to track down what is happening? *** Does this program crash on other people's Windows 2000 computer? Since I have not found any other reports of this problem, maybe there is something different about my computer, but as far as I know it is plain vanilla. Can readers test on their Windows 2000 PC? *** Is there a way to make the FolderBrowserDialog work on Windows 2000? If not, is there an alternative suggested way for selecting a directory? If this is a known problem with .NET on Windows 2000, please do not suggest users upgrade to XP. As far as I can tell, FolderBrowserDialog is advertised to work. And I think it is the responsibility of Microsoft to write software that does not crash, not customer's responsibility to buy something new in the hopes they will get it right this time. If there is a official statement somewhere from Microsoft that FolderBrowserDialog does not work on Windows 2000, I'd be interested to know. Thanks, Daniel Goldman Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89189
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    - App structure ideas Hi I am writing a vb.net app to which I would like to allow people to write add-ins by exposing various parts of the app. What sort of structure I am looking for to accomplish the exposure to third parties? I am new to .net and this is going to be my first serious app. Thanks Regards Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89188
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    - How to save data to datasource on click on the pencil Hello, I'm trying to allow saving data to datasource when user clicks on the "edited" pencil. The pencil is automatically shown by the datagrid when given row is edited and it is hidden when user clicks on it, so it looks like an obvious why to trigger saving modified data. But how to do that? I've tried to catch RowChanged event of appropriate DataTable, but it is lauched after user leaves the row, which is too late. Any hints? -- SÅ?awomir Piotrowski / Telsat GP Rejestracja Czasu Pracy i Kontrola DostÄ?pu http://www.ewidencja-czasu-pracy.pl Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89176
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    - Layered Window - Black Area Hi all, I have a form that I have turned into a layered window (the layered window is opaque). Everything works great except that if part of the form is covered and then uncovered, the uncovered area is black. I have tried doing an invalidate() but it does not update the layered window. Do I need to call an API function to update the layered window? Thanks, Cole Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89174
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    - Implementing a 3-tier client-server system All, We are trying to implement a 3-tier Client/Server Widows system in .Net. We have found that the middle tier can be implemented using Webservice or remoting. We are just wondering what other options we may have to implement the middle tier. Any help will he highly appreciated. Thanks, Mokles Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89172
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    - Dynamic Object Reference I have a menu form that has a number of buttons that each launch a different form. The syntax is the same except for the form name is different. How do create a common function that launches a new form that excepts the form name as an argument? My current syntax: Private Sub btnNewSearch_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnNewSearch.Click Dim applicantion As New applicantion applicantion.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent applicantion.Show() End Sub Private Sub btnDispute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDispute.Click Dim dispute As New dispute dispute.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent dispute.Show() End Sub Private Sub btnClientAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnClientAdd.Click Dim clientAdd As New clientAdd clientAdd.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent clientAdd.Show() End Sub I would like to create a VB function that works like this: Private Sub launchForm(ByVal formName as string) Dim form As New formName form .MdiParent = Me.MdiParent form .Show() Sub But the syntax wouldn't work because formName is not provided until Runtime. Any thoughts? Thanks. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89167
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    - How to keep a Child Form of a MDI Child contained I have an issue with a Child Form of a MDI Child staying contained within the Master Form. My first Form is called mdiMaster, which opens the mainMenu form with the following code: Dim MainMenu As New MainMenu MainMenu.MdiParent = Me MainMenu.Show() Then a button click event of the mainMenu opens an application form with the following code: Dim applicantion As New applicantion applicantion.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent applicantion.Show() The problem occurs when the application form tries to open another form, I have the following code: Dim searchForms As New SearchForms searchForms.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent searchForms.Show() The problem is that searchForms does not stay contained in the mdiMaster form. I tried the following syntax: searchForms.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent.MdiParent which caused a runtime error and hung the application. Also, I have the mdiMaster IsMdiContainer form property set to true. Any suggestions? Thanks. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89166
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    - Scroll bar in datagrid Hello, I am displaying one row in a datagrid, and i made its height larger than the datagrid height because it contains long descriptions, so a vertical scroll bar appears but with no cursor on it to let me move down the grid. How can i have access to the datagrid scrollbar? or what else can i do? Thank you. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89158
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    - How to show a form as system modal? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C573A1.3F4591E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The ShowDialogue method shows the form as an application dialog. How to = display the form as a system dialog? Mark ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C573A1.3F4591E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.3790.327" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>The ShowDialogue method shows the form as an = application=20 dialog. How to display the form as a system dialog?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Mark</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C573A1.3F4591E0-- Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89157
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    - Sorting in Combo Box After setting Sorted porperty of combo box to true, data in the combo does not appear. I have combo bound to Datatable. What is the reason for that? -- Regards, Lalit Bhatia Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89155
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    - Analyze https page activity Hello group I have a winforms client application. The customer now wants to have access to information that is on a web page via https. We have all the necessary account and password, but the problem is when we need to confirm some data, the user have to leave his application go to the web site enter the password and read the result and then confirm the information. What I want to do is all the manual steps of getting to the web site and get the information at run time from the main application. The main application is a c# winform, I have some classes to get the response from a http but the page have a button and I don't know how to analyze what is happening. Is there a way to analyze what is doing when the user click the bottom from the web page, and of couse the way to simulate that action from the main application. It's obvious that I don't have any experience with http protocol, and sorry for my English to. Thanks for your help MajorTom PD: I cross posting to 2 different group because I not sure where it's have to go. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89152
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    - Dropdown Hi I am not able to Insert a value at 0 index after i set a Datasource ?? Any alternatives.. cmbDomain.DisplayMember = "KEYNAME" cmbDomain.ValueMember = "SETTING" cmbDomain.DataSource = ds.Tables(0).DefaultView Dim obj As Object = "Select a Domain" cmbDomain.Items.Insert(0, obj) Thanks Vinay -- http://pathidotnet.blogspot.com ===== vInAypAtHi o__ ---_,>/'_------ (_) \(_) --------------- Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89151
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    - print button on printpreview dialog I just added a print and printpreview capability to my app. It's printing a nasty datagrid with hidden columns that may be filtered and sorted. Everything seems to work, but I'm having trouble with printing from the printpreview form. The preview looks right, I get the right number of pages, and the lines look right, but there is no text. Is there some trick to make this work? If not, how do I disable the print button from the stock printpreviewdialog. I can hear the users complaining about this already. Thanks, Mick. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89146
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    - winforms weirdness with context menu mouse up I'm seeing some weird business going on and I'm wondering if there's an easy workaround or if I have to go into hack mode. In non-winforms apps you must have a right mouse down followed by a right mouse up in order to get a context menu. One specific example is the tool bar which brings up the standard (Restore,Move,Size,Maximize,Close) context menu. However, it seems in winforms you only need a mouse up. Now in the control I'm creating I capture the mouse on mousedown and do seperate actions on mouse move depending on whether the right or left mouse buttons are depressed. But when I've pressed the right button, capturing the mouse, and then released over the toolbar(in order to release control) I get the context menu popping up. Oddly enough, after dismiss the context menu the mouseup event for my control fires. Obviously this is not the behavior I want. Seems weird the winforms team decided to raise context on mouseup alone. But fine. Do I have any options besides installing a message filter? Thanks in Advance, Robert Conde Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89144
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    - How to make a floating toolbar Hi, I'm a completely new for VC++.NET programming. I made a MDI application with a toolbar on parent form, but I can't move the toolbar at run time. It seems moveable toolbar is called floating toolbar. I wonder how to make a floating toolbar with VC++.NET managed C++ instead of MFC? Thanks in advance. Bin Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89143
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    - detect row selected in datagrid Which event is fired when you select a row in a datagrid? Or if there is not one, how do you achieve the same? many thanks Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89139
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    - ShowDialog, SEHException and Timer control I know the SEHException when calling ShowDialog is quite a common problem, generally associated with EnableVisualStyles, but I've just been having a problem with it, and I'd already added the DoEvents call before Application.Run, so it wasn't that. I'm working on an application which uses a timer to poll a database at regular intervals. There is also an override button to force an immediate check. When a dialog box was shown from the Timer control's Tick event, I got the SEHException, but when it was shown from the manual override, I didn't. Strange, thought I. As an experiment, I replaced the System.Windows.Forms.Timer control with a System.Timers.Timer object, and the problem went away. I post this in the hope that it might help others in the future. Cheers, Mark Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89137
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    - VB.NET problems displaying custom dialog box I added a form to my project to use as a dialog box. The form is simple, 2 text boxes, 1 checkbox, 3 labels and 2 buttons. It will eventually allow a user to reset a password, but I haven't added the functionality yet. I have the dialog created when the user selects Tools - Reset Password from my main menu control. When Reset Password is clicked I execute: Dim frmResetPassword As New ResetPassword frmResetPassword.ShowDialog() Where ResetPassword is the name of the new form. When launched it's generating an error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. The error is generated from an unknown module. Now here is where it gets weird. If I add a button to the form and run it again I don't get an error. I don't put code behind the button or change anything else (I still execute from the menu item), I just add it to the form. I have no idea what is going on and would be most appreciative to anyone who can point me to a solution. Thanks. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89119
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    - How to get rid of scrollbars in datagrid? I have windows form with datagrid control. I don't want the datagrid control to display vertical and horizontal scrollbars. I wonder whether there is a way to get rid of scrollbars without deriving my own class from System::Windows::Forms::DataGrid? The problem is that unless I derive my own class from DataGrid I don't have access to scroll bar objects. The HorizScrollBar and VertScrollBar properties of VertScrollBar are protected! Can anyone recommend alternative way to get rid of scrollbars? Thanks Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89118
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    - PropertyChangedEvent I read this article called "Windows Forms Data Binding and Objects" by Rockford Lhotka wich in an MSDN article. It makes a custom class that can be bound to. If a value in the class changes from code or an other control it needs to be updated in all bound controls. ThatÂ´s where the PropertyChanged event comes in. The article says that de bindingmanager listens for those events. Now, the sample code (I didnÂ´t run it) is in VB.Net. I would like to do the same thing in C#. And guess what, it doesnÂ´t work. I donÂ´t know what i am doing wrong and canÂ´t find any samples. Anyone there that can give me a hint? Much appreciated, thanks. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89112
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    - Null reference exception on main form. Help please... .I created a VB.net Windows application using Form1.vb as my one and only Windows form. When I go to run the application I receive the following exception: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." When I opened up the Windows Form Designer generated code region I have a constructor function that looks like this: "Public Sub New() MyBase.New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call End Sub" Any ideas on how to remedy this? Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89109
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    - ListBox component and underlying Items objects Hello, I've run into a brick wall in working with a standard ListBox. I'm loading lightweight objects into a ListBox component - call them Elements. The Element class has an ElementName property and an overridden ToString() method that displays the ElementName. When I load Elements into my list box Items collection, the ElementName displays and all is well. My problem occurs when I change an ElementName property programatically. The underlying Element does indeed change, but I can't get the text displayed the list box to reflect it! I can delete and re-add the Element and the change will show up, but neither ListBox.Update() nor ListBox.Refresh() change it. I've considered a custom draw method (which I may have to implement anyway). But is there another way of changing the text I'm overlooking? I'm not using data binding - can a ListBox programatically bind to its own Items collection? Any help appreciated. Thanks much Jim Stanley Media Services, Inc. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89108
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    - Is "colspan" in ListView possible? I am working with MS Visual studio C#.net, .net framework 1.1. Do you have an idea, how can I use the ListView (details display mode), that it does similarly as an html table do? Or there is a better container which would fit my needs? What I need in the ListView is: 1. Above some subitems, a common header should appear (above the actual column headers). 2. In some rows I don't have all details (texts for all subitems), but instead I have a commentary, common for some subitems. So, I would need a kind of "colspan" in a table. I would be grateful for any help/ Jola ---------------------------------------------------- I want to obtain that (example): <html> <table border=1> <tr> <th colspan='2'> </th> <th colspan='3'> Block 1 </th> <th> </th> <th colspan='3'> Block 2 </th> </tr> <tr> <th> Main item </th> <th> </th> <th> Subitem 1 </th> <th> Subitem 2 </th> <th> Subitem 3 </th> <th> </th> <th> Subitem 11 </th> <th> Subitem 22 </th> <th> Subitem 33 </th> </tr> <tr> <td> First entry </td> <td> </td> <td> 1284 </td> <td> 4352 </td> <td> 3214 </td> <td> </td> <td> 3421 </td> <td> 2412 </td> <td> 3421 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Second entry </td> <td> </td> <td colspan='3'> here comes the commentary </td> <td> </td> <td> 4536 </td> <td> 9867 </td> <td> 3910 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Third entry </td> <td> </td> <td> 3424 </td> <td> 3334 </td> <td> 3214 </td> <td> </td> <td colspan='3'> here comes the commentary </td> </tr> </table> </html> Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89104
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    - RichTextBox with OLE functionality How do I implement the kind of OLE functionality found in MFC (CRichEditCtrl, CRichEditView and CRichEditDoc) in a RichTextBox? Are there any samples available (e.g. Wordpad for C#)? -- Arild Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89103
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    - different levels of opacity in a Form I'm trying to create a form with different levels of opacity. Is this possible? Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89100
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    - Text formatting in Menu Hi, I m using Menu in my vb.net application. I want to increase the text size, and font,change text color, increase the gap between two consecutive menu items. Is it all possible with the menu provided in vb.net? If no then how can I do this? Thanks in advance, RbanBph Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89098
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    - Unable to set the ValueMember of a ComboBox to a non Browsable property Setting the ValueMember property of a ComboBox to a name of a property that is not browsable throws the following exception. System.ArgumentException: Could not bind to the new display member. Parameter name: newDisplayMember It works fine if I set Browsable to true. Has anyone encountered this before? Seems like a bug to me. This is how I set up the DataSource: ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); list.Add(new Person("John Doe")); this.comboBox.DataSource = list; this.comboBox.DisplayMember = "Name"; this.comboBox.ValueMember = "Name"; This is my Person class: public class Person { string _name; public Person(string name) { this._name = name; } [Browsable(false)] public string Name { get { return this._name; } set { this._name = value; } } } Here is the complete code listing: using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; namespace BrowsableAttributeTest { public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form { private System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox comboBox; private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); list.Add(new Person("John Doe")); this.comboBox.DataSource = list; this.comboBox.DisplayMember = "Name"; try { this.comboBox.ValueMember = "Name"; } catch(Exception e) { MessageBox.Show(e.ToString(), e.GetType().ToString()); } } protected override void Dispose( bool disposing ) { if( disposing ) { if (components != null) { components.Dispose(); } } base.Dispose( disposing ); } #region Windows Form Designer generated code /// <summary> /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify /// the contents of this method with the code editor. /// </summary> private void InitializeComponent() { this.comboBox = new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox(); this.SuspendLayout(); // // comboBox // this.comboBox.DropDownStyle = System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList; this.comboBox.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 32); this.comboBox.Name = "comboBox"; this.comboBox.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 21); this.comboBox.TabIndex = 0; // // Form1 // this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13); this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 266); this.Controls.Add(this.comboBox); this.Name = "Form1"; this.Text = "Form1"; this.ResumeLayout(false); } #endregion [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.Run(new Form1()); } } public class Person { string _name; public Person(string name) { this._name = name; } [Browsable(false)] public string Name { get { return this._name; } set { this._name = value; } } } } Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89097
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    - How? Using a custom TypeConverter in custom grid column style. I have bound a grid column to an enumeration data type. I derive from DataGridTextBoxColumn and override GetColumnValueAtRow and call a function I wrote to convert the enumeration value to a descriptive text for display in the grid cell. This works well. Even though the grid is not editable, and the column is readonly, when one clicks on the cell I get a type conversion exception. Looking at the stack I see Edit calls GetText which uses an "EnumConverter" to convert the descriptive text to an int32, which ultimately tries to parse the descriptive as an int32, and of course fails. I see that DataGridTextBoxColumn has a PRIVATE type converter member. I am seeking any pointers to examples, or samples, or explanations of how to intercede the conversion of the descriptive back to an enumerated value for my custom column type. I think I need to implement a type converter, but I don't see how to tie it in. Or even just to know "it can't be done" would be helpful. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89091
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    - check box in data grid How do you get a check boxs to appear as one of the columns in a datagrid? many thanks in advance Rod Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89090
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    - No Touch Deployment and web server authentication Our app is No Touched Deployed from a web server. We leave the default Anonymous Access set on the web site. So far, 4+ client installs, no problems. I did an install on a client's web server last week, leaving Anonymous Access checked. I did some tests, all worked fine. Today, the app is crashing. I asked the client what's different on the web server. Per the client they can't leave anonymous access enabled so they unchecked it. So, now I am seeing 401 Returns Codes in the IIS log file for our files. How do folks work around this? It's a 2000 server box so this client cannot create another web site. I have no idea how to how to 'log in' to the web site when the client is making a request for a file. Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89089
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    - How to Assign Connection Param for CrystalReportViewer?? Hello! I designed a crystel Report and run normally in my Computer. But when I bring it to the user computer (The SqlServer name is diffirent). So My Report is not working. I want to know how to do to assign the Connection param to CrystalReportViewer dynamically in order to run the report in anny Computer??? Thanks! Tag: Form inside of another form Tag: 89088
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Hi people,

I´m newbie in .NET and I´m using Visual C++.
Can I to insert a windows form inside of another windows form like a panel?

Thanks for help!

Wellington Eliel Lopes

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Re: Form inside of another form by Tim

Tim
Mon Jun 20 10:20:50 CDT 2005

Try something like this (in C#)...

Form2 f = new Form2();
f.TopLevel = false;
this.panel1.Controls.Add(f);
f.Show();

In addition, since the title bar will show up, you might also want to add
the following line...

f.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;

Is it absolutely necessary to keep the functionality within a Form, or could
you design this as a UserControl instead?

--
Tim Wilson
.Net Compact Framework MVP

"Wellington Eliel Lopes" <welopes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OwodwaadFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi people,
>
> I´m newbie in .NET and I´m using Visual C++.
> Can I to insert a windows form inside of another windows form like a
panel?
>
> Thanks for help!
>
>
> Wellington Eliel Lopes
>
>

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Re: Form inside of another form by Herfried

Herfried
Mon Jun 20 11:26:47 CDT 2005

"Wellington Eliel Lopes" <welopes@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> I´m newbie in .NET and I´m using Visual C++.
> Can I to insert a windows form inside of another windows form like a
> panel?

You may want to use a usercontrol (composite control) instead of an embedded
form. Usercontrol can be added to a project by selecting "Project" -> "Add
UserControl...".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

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Re: Form inside of another form by Peter

Peter
Tue Jun 21 10:42:53 CDT 2005

> You may want to use a usercontrol (composite control) instead of an
embedded
> form. Usercontrol can be added to a project by selecting "Project" ->
"Add
> UserControl...".

I can second that. This is far the easiest way.

PeterV

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