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    - DataGridView's selected row after a sort How would I persist a DataGridView's selected row after a sort? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97087
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    - CloneMenu in ToolStripMenuItem? In the framework 1.1 I liked using CloneMenu() to clone menu items from a main menu to a contenxt menu during a contenxt menu pop up. Is there anything like CloneMenu in 2.0 for ToolStripMenuItem? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97082
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    - ComboBox and Tab character '\t' Hi, I am trying to show TAB character (char(9) or '\t') in a combobox dropdown list, but it doesn't show it. Is there anyway to show '\t' as a TAB in dropdown list text? If I can show \t in dropdown text, then I can make it like multicolumn list. This trick used to work back in win16 days. Thank you, Alan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97081
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    - Tactics for Debugging Custom Components with CodeDom Serialized State I have a custom component which has a complex internal state that is serialized using CodeDom serialization. It is part of a library used in a moderately complex project. The component has a custom design-time interface displayed within VS2003. All of the library assemblies are loaded into the global assembly cache on my development machine. This is all under VS2003 and .NET 1.1. Unfortunately, for reasons I have not been able to fathom, the project is very "touchy". Changes to any one of the library assemblies (there are 17) tends to break the deserialization process. I suspect this is due to known problems with VS2003's synchronization of changed global cache assemblies. The resulting error messages are not at all helpful (e.g., Method not found, object cannot be converted to target type). What's worse, I can't seem to "break" on where the problem is occuring, and single-stepping through the component's initialization process doesn't run into any problems. The only clue I've been able to find is that commenting out the following line in InitializeComponent() makes the "object cannot be converted to target type" error message go away): this.AccessControl = new OlbertMcHughLLC.DBFramework.Security.AccessControl("acl", "idnum", "name", "acl_detail", "acl_id", "name", "can_read", "can_write", "can_add", "can_delete"); What's weird about this is that the object being created >>is<<, in fact, of the correct Type...which is why I think the problem is with VS2003's support for syncing assemblies. I'd appreciate hearing any tactics/strategies which others have found helpful debugging these kinds of problems. - Mark p.s. and please, MS support staff, don't ask me to send the entire project to someone -- it's megabytes of source code, and it'd take me a week to explain how it ought to work. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97078
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    - Auto Complete/Suggest (On Steroids) I am looking to implement a search feature into a Windows Forms MDI application. Specifically I plan to embed 3 textboxes into a toolbar; one for LastName, another for FirstName, and one for CustomerID. When the user starts typing into any of these textboxes I would like to pop up another form that shows the user a dynamic list of the closest matches. The user can then use the up- and down-arrow keys to select a customer from that pop up form. To see an example of similar ("close-but-not-quite") functionality, go to http://www.thebusco.com/ and in the upper left-hand corner there is a textbox with 'Enter Part Search Here'. Start typing 'air vent cover' to see the behaviour in question. Yes, it's a Web application and I'm doing a Windows Forms app, but it shows you the general idea of what I'm trying to accomplish with Windows Forms. Please note that I am familiar with the new 2.0 features: AutoCompleteMode, AutoCompleteSource, and AutoCompleteCustomSource. But those won't work for my situation because I'm *not* looking to simply populate a textbox or a combo box from the list. What I am needing to do is let the user select the customer for which info is to appear in the currently active MDI form (and not only the control into which they are typing). The idea is that the user starts typing into any one of the 3 textboxes; as they type - the pop up window appears and shows the closest matches. The user then hits the down arrow key a few times to select the desired match, then hits Enter to (1) close the popup window, and (2) trigger logic that shows the selected customer's info in the currently active MDI form. Note that I want to pop up another window [for the closest matches] so that I can show the user many property values for the possible matches (and not simply show them a list of names similar to the one they are searching, for example). What do you see as the biggest challenges in accomplishing this dynamic search capability (and reasonable solutions)? What are the building blocks you might suggest for the solution? Thanks for your time and consideration! Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97077
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    - ComboBox: How can I limit user to list items? Hi, How can I limit user to only available items in the combobox list? By default user can choose one of the list items and also type anything she/he wants! Thank you, Alan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97074
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    - Mdi Form How can we Run one Mdi Form Witihn Another ... ? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97070
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    - X2h ***Hot stuff - check this out !!! X2h http://www.kaneva.com/checkout/stream.aspx?assetId=2017&free=0 Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97067
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    - Generic windows error message I've built a windows app on .NET 2.0. I have a few users that run it without issue. One user reports that it immediately pops up the standard windows window that reports: <program> has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. What does this possibly mean ? How can I trace the problem? NB. I have a "run in debug mode" option which writes to a debug log file but even that is not generated. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97066
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    - Security Model I am designing a new Windows Forms client application (with SQL Server db on the back end) for which users will authenticate via NT authentication (network), or SQL Server authentication. Users who are granted access to the application must also be granted access to specific forms and controls on forms. The menu must show/hide items based on the user's access level. Also, some controls should allow editing by some users but not others (based on their security level). My first thought is to have a static class that gets populated when the user is authenticated. This static class would contain "user profile data", one piece of which is some "security access level" value. Then the menu and all forms (in their form_load event procedure) look to that static class to determine what controls to enable/disable/hide. What do you think about that? Is there some [other] standard/better way to accomplish the security objectives? Thanks! Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97065
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    - Prevent scroll into view on getting focus Hi all. I have a scrollable panel and a bunch of controls on it. When one of the controls gets input focus the panel automatically scrolls so that the control becomes visible in all it entirety. I have a listbox which is originally half-hidden, when a user clicks on it to select an item, it suddenly jumps up (according to the logic I described above) and the user ends up with selecting wrong item. Is there a way to work around this behavior? Any help is appreciated. This is VS2003, .NET 1.1. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97062
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    - Can a windows service msg via smtp? Is it fairly straightforward to write a window service in either .net 2003 or 2005 that periodically interrogates a local data store (Access mdb) and based on records from that, sends emails out to a smtp server ? The idea is to send email reminders based on data in the db. SMTP server is probably another box. If this is not a great route to take, what would be more appropriate? And if .Net is a good approach, is 2005 going to make is much simpler than 2003? A SQL server job could initiate emails too; that would be simpler; but I need an alternative to that approach. Not sure if this is the best ng to post in for this? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97058
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    - code clean up Hi, I have added some buttons and boxes on the VB.net form. After deleting these buttons and boxes from the form, I find that the code is still there. Does VB.net have a feature to clean up these unwanted codes? thanks Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97057
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    - 'DisplayMember' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.ListView'. Hi, I am trying to display the processes running on my system to a listbox. but i got 'DisplayMember' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.ListView'. during debug. any clues? below is the code Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click Try Dim prc As Process ' Remove existing items from the control. ListView1.Items.Clear() ' Fill the control. Indicate which member of ' the items added to the list box should be ' displayed. ListView1.DisplayMember = "ProcessName" For Each prc In Process.GetProcesses() ListView1.Items.Add(prc) Next ListView1.Sorted = True Catch exp As Exception MessageBox.Show(exp.Message, Me.Text) End Try End Sub Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97055
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    - ToolStripStatusLabel blinking tooltips Does anybody know how to get the blinking to stop. When I hover over the ToolStripStatusLabel sometimes it blinks and sometimes it doesn't. So the tooltips seem to behave inconsistently. The blinking is very annoying and makes the tooltip unreadable. And what does AutoToolTip property do. The help says "true to use the Text property for the ToolTip; otherwise, false. The default is true. " Umm what does that mean? Use the Text Property of the ToolStripStatusLabel for the Tool Tip? I tried both and true and false and it made no difference. It seems to always display what I put in ToolTipText Property. Any tips to get rid of blinking would be appreciated Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97054
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    - Alternative .NET smart client bootstrapper - LagLoader.NET Hi there. In last January, My previous employer got a proof-of-concept project requiring hand drawing on the web; the customer is a fashion design house. I created a .NET Windows Forms control based smart client, encapsulating Tablet PC InkPicture. It worked well (at least for demo) on all my computers. Since .NET framework runtime is a Windows Update optional install, and in the impression that everybody should update their operating systems often with Windows Update, before that project, I got a wrong image that .NET framework runtime should be available easily on every Windows XP PC. No, it is not that case. My customer is no where close to IT industrial; they just made enough bucks, and their younger new boss (whose university major was computer science) decided to invest in a design workflow system. Even though every designer of that customer got a Windows XP PC on each of their desktops for long, and they do have a MIS group doing Windows Update time from time, no .NET framework runtime was preinstalled; they just not awared of that optional install. We found no way to automatically install .NET framework runtime in Windows XP machines of my supposed-to-be users, having to install it one by one, MANUALLY. There were 20+ machines with no .NET framework runtime preinstalled. Remember, this is a smart client solution integrated with a back-end workflow web application solution. It is suppose that no explicit install/setup files should be run on every possible user's Windows. Anyway, even though I have best performance over the category of hand drawing/writting in all competitors, we failed to get that customer to adopt my solution. .NET framework deployment is really an issue. No, it should not be an issue. It was already 1 year ago. Now, .NET 2.0 was released for weeks, ClickOnce is out there, and I got the image that ClickOnce does not support .NET 1.x smart clients. So I am still glad to share my solution to every .NET smart client developer: LagLoader.NET 1.0. Features of LagLoader.NET 1.0: + Detect if the required .NET framework version is installed. Automatically download and install it if not installed. + No code modification is required in existed .NET Windows Forms controls, only minor change in the OBJECT tags in web pages needed. Javascript code worked in the same way to script Windows Forms controls deployed in web pages. + In case that some smart clients are not compatible with the latest version of .NET framework, they may be run fixed to a compatible version of .NET framework, while others being run with the latest version of .NET framework, all in the same web page. + An optional FULL TRUST mode to run Windows Forms control based smart client fully trusted. Smart clients run as fully trusted as their desktop/local peers, but loaded from remote servers. Sure, the full trust mode may hint a security issue, but if you have to do so to perform some tasks, then let it be. The product web page of LagLoader.NET 1.0: http://en.ezlag.com/site/335/lagloadernet.aspx Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97048
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    - Opening, Closing, Launching Forms I'm an experienced ASP.NET C# developer who's just beginning to develop applications in Windows Forms and I would appreciate some references to online material on the above topics. The information is not as prevalent as I would have expected (or maybe I'm searching the wrong topic.) Basically, I'm looking for everything you need to know to launch a Windows Forms application using the static Main() method, how to shut the applications down properly, and specifically how to shut down applications using COM Interop and ActiveX controls. In other words, when working with classes that implement Systems.Windows.Forms.Form while interfacing to unmanaged code, how do you determine at which class level you need to call Dispose() or do you just call it on the Control, the Container and the Form? -- Regards, Fred Chateau fchateauAtComcastDotNet Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97046
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    - Project Data Source Using Derived Interface I've created a project data source based on an interface that in turn derives from another interface. When in Visual Studio Data Sources view I examine the properties exposed by the data source, I see only those properties in the derived interface and none from the base interface. A data source created from a class that implements the derived interface exposes properties from both the derived interface and the base interface. Is it possible to create a data source based on a derived interface that also exposes properties from the base interface? At the moment the only work around I see is to use a data source based on a class that implements the derived interface. Since at runtime I may be displaying data from one of several different classes that implement the interface, I'll be running the risk of a runtime error if I happen to select at design time a property exposed by the class I used as the data source type but that is not declared in the interface. Thank you, Mike Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97039
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    - multiple forms/common menu structure I have project where I need multiple forms using a common menu structure (like a web solution but with WinForms). Is there a best way to do it? I'm currently trying inherited forms, but I'm not sure that's the best way as it seems to present challenges. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97038
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    - DoubleClick Event Won't Fire I have a form with labels that can be dragged and dropped onto different regions of the form either individually or in groups. I signify labels which have been selected by toggling the BorderStyle between FixedSingle and Fixed3D. Upon a single click the toggle occurs. Upon a double click I display a simulated tool tip (label) containing more information about the label selected. I am using the MouseDown event of the label and am using if conditions to branch the single and double click logic using e.Clicks. When the BorderStyle is changed (toggled) on every single click, the double click will never fire. I need to find a way around this without introducing a delay equal to the DoubleClickTime. I also thought I should post this so Microsoft can add it to their patch list. Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide. Here is a sample of code that will reproduce this "feature". Private Sub Pallet_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) '// FYI - handler to this event added elsewhere in code '// closes any open tool tip (not necessary to reproduce bug) CloselblOverFlow_MouseDown(sender, e) '// branches based on # of clicks (type check not necessary to reproduce bug) If e.Button = MouseButtons.Left And e.Clicks = 1 And sender.GetType.Equals(GetType(PalletLabel)) Then Dim lblPallet As PalletLabel = CType(sender, PalletLabel) '// change BorderStyle of sender If lblPallet.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Fixed3D Then lblPallet.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle Else lblPallet.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Fixed3D End If '// iniate drag (not necessary to reproduce bug) lblPallet.DoDragDrop(sender, DragDropEffects.Move) ElseIf e.Button = MouseButtons.Left And e.Clicks = 2 Then '// this code will never execute Call ShowOverflow(CType(sender, Control)) End If End Sub Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97036
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    - Odd behavior with .NET 2.0 winforms Maybe this is normal, but as I type in the code file, the designer tab shows the little asterisk indicating the file has changed in the designer as well. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but in my case the designer files (including the .licx and resx) are also tagged as changed and get checked out of source control. I am not changing the form itself, only the code behind. Even more troubling is that occasionally when the designer tab is open, but not active and I am editing the code behind, every letter i type causes a delay as long as 2-3 seconds. Closing the designer resolves the problem. One more oddity is that one of my toolstrips visible property is often changing to false in the designer! I have a feeling it may be a third party library I am using (DevExpress) but I am not sure where to start troubleshooting this. It is not easily reproducible if I create a new project, but it is very common is a specific project. Can someone provide me with some guidance please? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97033
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    - Recommendations for graphical application Hi, I am at the early stages of defining the technology requirements for a graphical, 2D Windows Forms application with display features along the lines of MS Visio. It has a requirement to display it's data in a number of tree or network like formations. The "workspace" will take up the bulk of the UI space and must be able to cope with large numbers of objects, connector lines, pictures, etc and allow the user to scroll, zoom, drag and drop, select objects within their work area. The number of objects that it needs to cater for runs into the thousands. The same information then must be able to be transferred to printed documents and various other image formats. What graphics technology would people recommend to implement a system such as this on .NET Framework 2.0? I have investigated using GDI+ (although with Framework 1.1) but have found that performance is too slow with large (virtual) workspaces, large numbers of objects and zooming/scrolling/panning. Due to this, I've started looking into the Managed DirectX extensions but most of the information I have found relates to games development rather than traditional Office like diagramming tools hosted in Windows Forms application. Any suggestions to approaches or sources of information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig Note: This is a repost due to previous post using incorrect reply address. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97032
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    - Blink datagrid cell when updated I want to create a datagrid where the cell that is updated blink for 1 second. The datagrid is bound to a datatable. I have tried deriving from the DataGridTextBoxColumn class and overload the pait method. But how do I remove the color after 1 second. I have tried with a second thread to reset the color, but with no luck.The paint method also fire whenever something happens to the form/grid, which then cause the application to run slowly. If I handle the ColumnChanged event in the Datatable, would I be able to find the current position for this element in the datagrid and then set the color? Thanx /ps Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97030
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    - Databinding between two forms in .NET 2.0 Hi, I would like to data bind two different forms with each other. I would like to have employees on the first form and orders on the second. When the selected employee changes, the orders should change two. It is easy to do on a single form where you can add a new bindsource which points to the relation. But how can I do this across forms? I have tried to do it manually where I am passing the BindingSource and the DataSet, but then I cant use the designers. What is the best way to do this? Regards Henrik Skak Pedersen. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97029
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    - Recommendations for graphical application Hi, I am at the early stages of defining the technology requirements for a graphical, 2D Windows Forms application with display features along the lines of MS Visio. It has a requirement to display it's data in a number of tree or network like formations. The "workspace" will take up the bulk of the UI space and must be able to cope with large numbers of objects, connector lines, pictures, etc and allow the user to scroll, zoom, drag and drop, select objects within their work area. The number of objects that it needs to cater for runs into the thousands. The same information then must be able to be transferred to printed documents and various other image formats. What graphics technology would people recommend to implement a system such as this on .NET Framework 2.0? I have investigated using GDI+ (although via Framework 1.1) but have found that performance is too slow with large (virtual) workspaces, large numbers of objects and zooming/scrolling/panning. Due to this, I've started looking into the Managed DirectX extensions but most of the information I have found relates to games development rather than traditional Office like diagramming tools hosted in Windows Forms application. Any help/thoughts/ideas on technologies or implementation approaches to improve performance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97027
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    - Outlook Frame Hi There, Hope everyone is well? Im after a sample Application where the front screen looks like the Outlook 2002 or 2003 screen, ie with the Frames etc.I would like this to be free if Poss. Anybody got any Ideas? Many Thanks Si Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97022
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    - WebBrowser control and postdata Hi, I'm having some trouble using the new WebBrowser control in .NET 2.0. (System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser) I'm trying to use the Navigate method to post form data (in my case, a login form)... This is the code I'm using: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ string url = "http://mysite.com/login.php"; string userName = textBoxUserName.Text; string password = textBoxPassword.Text; string postData = "username=" +userName+ "&password=" +password; byte[] postDataBytes = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData); string headers = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" + "\n" + "\r"; m_browser.Navigate(url, "", postDataBytes, header); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Am I doing something wrong, or is the WebControl not working??? Thx in advance, Gert Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97021
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    - How to get the List Component Servcies installed in a machine using dotnet ? Hi I want to list the available "Component Services " (COM+) in a machine . i am trying to get the list of Componenet services in a machine using windows forms in dotnet , how can i retrive the list of componenet services, i know we can get the list of windows services, but i dont know how to get the list of Component services ? can any one let me know how to do this ? Thanks Senthil Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97019
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    - Excel => .NET...Grid, Chart Hi We have a lot of applications created in Excel, but now we want to move from Excel to the .NET platform. The application will use grids and charts. What I know the .NET controls are good basic ones, but not suitable in advanced applications unless you create them yourself. Can you recommend any good Grid and Chart controls on the market? Regards /Niklas Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97018
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    - Combo box selected index I have set a datasource to a combo box. COmbo box style is drop down list. I am trying to set it's selcted index to 0 at run time bit it is throwing following error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Additional information: Error creating window handle. Pls help, RbanBph Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97015
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    - datetimepicker question How to get the month or day of datetimepicker e.g if day 1 it show 1, i want it to be 01 Moveover, can i change the datetimepicker into three combo box, one is day, month, and year? Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97008
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    - BindingSource - Detail view - Is Current record dirty? In a Windows Form, I have a set of detail controls bound to a table in a dataset through a BindingSource. I cannot figure out how to tell if the user has edited any data in the controls that needs to be saved to the database. The EndEdit method will force any changes to update back to the dataset, but how can you tell if any changes were made. Where is the IsDirty property? In a DataGridView, there is a IsCurrentRowDirty flag that can be checked on RowLeave, but I cannot find anything equivelant on the Detail view controls. Thank you, Alan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 97004
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    - DBAccess in Winforms Hi EveryOne, What is the best approach for data access while developing applications using Windows Forms ? Is it opening, working with and closing a new SQLconnection and SQLcommand object everytime a DB access is needed , or maintaining a single open connection/command object at the application level ( one for each user ) and then just reusing it again and again. The connection string that the connection will use can be assumed to be static. Thanks -- Vedanshu Mandvikar Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96997
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    - NullReferenceException in Windows.FormsUnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc in .NET 1.1 I have a stack trace of a NullReferenceException and the only code in the stack trace is from System.Window.Forms. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmUpdateUIState(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ParkingWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) Can someone tell me how this can happen? Also, how can a PInvoke method such as CallWindowProc ever raise this exception? One of our employees ran into this using Windows XP embedded in a production facility. I can't be sure of what was happening exactly when this occurred. Such exceptions are automatically sent to me via email when they occur. Thanks, Stan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96996
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    - Is Remoting a Late Binding process Is there any performance issues using remoting. Kim Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96992
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    - Referencing UI control in Custom Business Entity question. I need to store a reference to a TreeNode into a custom entity which will be in a seperate assembly of a multi layered project. I think that it's not a good idea to reference a UI control directly in such a class like: class Person { TreeNode _node; public Person(TreeNode node) { _node = node; } } what about using the IntPtr like: class Person { IntPtr _treeNodePtr = IntPtr.Zero; public Person(IntPtr treeNodePtr) { _treeNodePtr = treeNodePtr; } } Who has some more information about this issue and can tell me the best way to use and why? Thanks in advance! Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96987
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    - .NET 2.0 Quick Starts for WinFOrm Hi, I found .NET.1.1 quick starts for WinForm quite useful. It is being hosted at the following link: <http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/doc/default.aspx> Do we have .NET 2.0 Windows Forms quick start hosted somewhere? Thank you, Alan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96984
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    - Multiple message threads in single app I have an app with two forms which are displayed at the same time. When either of these opens a modal child form both are disabled intil the modal child is closed. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I believe I need to create two independent message threads but I have no idea how. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96983
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    - Can I have a ComboBox with multiple column dropdown Hi, Can I have a ComboBox with multiple column list with header? We have such capability in Microsoft Access forms where we can bind a ComboBox's list to a query and show multiple column and column header. I am looking for similar feature is .NET WinForms. Any help would be appreciated, Alan Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96978
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    - Windows Forms: Preferences Form Example Hello, Many application these days have the settings form - where the left side is a tree listing all the available settings which can be edited. The right displays the relevant form when an option in the tree is selected. This is a really basic question - so apologies. But how do you stack/load multiple forms in the same location? Can anyone suggest a tutorial or Example Many Thanks Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96973
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    - Hiding MDI toolbar My app uses an MDI interface. However, one of the design requirements is that the MDI children don't actually behave like MDI forms, in that the small toolbar containing the MDI minimize/maximize/close buttons is not shown when an MDI child is opened in its parent. Also, the MDI children shouldn't be able to be resized and closed; they need to remain at their full size. Is there any way to have an MDI interface, without the features of MDI? If not, I'll have to look at using panels instead of forms. Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96966
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    - Dynamic Windows Forms Help Hello, I am writting an application which essentially merges data from multiple sources into an XML document. The XML generated depends on the source. I have written the core functionaliy - however I need to write a good GUI to marry it all togther so it is easy to use. e.g. depending on the datasource a user selects I need to display a specific form. What is the best way of structuring an application/GUI which has to display several forms depending on options chosen. Can anyone suggest a good tutorial or start point to get me started with dynamic windows forms. Any suggestion certainly most welcome. Thanks Tag: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border Tag: 96965
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Hi,

I have seen some code which is basically GetWindowLong + SetWindowLong with
AND NOT ws_ex_clientedge, but it either removes the caption or nothing at
all.

Jared

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Re: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border by Mick

Mick
Mon Jan 30 03:28:39 CST 2006

Pass the MDIClient.Handle to Get/SetWindowLong not the Form.Handle.
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/mdi.html --> Customize an MDI Application.

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"Jared" <jared@velocitynet1.com.au> wrote in message
news:43ddd63f@news.velocitynet.com.au...
> Hi,
>
> I have seen some code which is basically GetWindowLong + SetWindowLong
> with AND NOT ws_ex_clientedge, but it either removes the caption or
> nothing at all.
>
> Jared
>

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Re: Hiding MDI 'sunken' border by Jared

Jared
Mon Jan 30 17:13:55 CST 2006

Thanks!

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