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    - Europe Tests Established Chemicals on Millions of Animals Tony Nottingham England 28 February 2007 TO: All People Who Care A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH has now been finalised by the European Union. Under these proposals Chemicals of every kind - from those used in industrial processes to the ingredients of consumer products - will be tested on Millions of animals from mice to fish to dogs, causing untold suffering. Still worse, because of this reliance on outdated animal techniques, reliable and relevant information will not be provided and our safety will not be assured. If you believe that REACH should make more use of Alternative Testing to test 1000s of Chemicals that have been in general use since before 1985 then please take action now. If you are a European citizen please contact your local papers and own MEP asking them to promote the development of humane non-animal testing methods under the REACH legislation, which is the best hope we have for sparing animals the misery of a testing laboratory. A sample letter can be found at the BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) website at www.BUAV.org (Select Campaigns, Chemical Testing, Get Active then Writing to the local press). For all Non-European members, you can still help. Please tell all your colleagues and friends in the UK and Europe about REACH. Write to your own local papers to try and inform others about what is going on in Europe. The website for the European Parliament is http://www.europarl.europa.eu. Information on REACH, the New European Chemical Testing Policy can be found here. Everyone can help and you can make a difference. Thank You Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109546
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    - datagridview and combobox Hi, I have dataset "kupci" I bind datagridview to dataset. Bu I have a problem in combobox column in datagridview. I can't see data. In textbox column is OK! In combobox I want bind "sifra" from dataset "kupci" Sorry for my English. :) Lp, Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109541
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    - .NET application error I'm sorry to post here, but the MCP Partner Hotline stated I had to try the managed newsgroups on this issue. If this is the wrong board, please direct me to the correct one. I'm trying to use the Microsoft Certified Partner "Small Business Assessment Toolkit" found at https://partner.microsoft.com/assesssmbneeds and I have met the prerequisites by having XP Pro SP2, .NET Framework 2.0, and Infopath 2007 installed. When I try to run the install for this assessment tool, the application installation begins normally, but stops quickly into the install with the error: "Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that the assembly System.AddIn.Contract Version 2.0.0.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first." I have no idea how to get this assembly installed. Can anyone help me on this? I appreciate your time. Thanks. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109540
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    - datetime picker problems Hello we have encountered the following problems with the date time picker control A : datetime picker control gives focus to last entered field when moving back and forward with focus how do we reset this to the first field ? B : datetime picker in DD-MM-YYYY default format ( europe , NL-NL localization ) refuses an entry of 31 on the DD filed cause the month is already chosen to the current mont ( (02) februari wich only has 28 days ) steps to reproduce these problems A : can be reproduced on any system Throw a datetime picker control , and a textbox on a form ,set the Datetime picker format to short , start the project , now enter a date , move the focus to the textbox with the tab key , move the focus back with the tabkey , you will notice that the when the focus is given back to the datetime picker control it will select ( highlight ) the last entry box instead of the first that we expected B : can only be reproduced on a system with DD-MM-YYYY settings , when the form is started the Datetime picker will start with the current month ( 2 ) however if i want to enter 31-12-2006 i need to change the month part first Why is the above a problem ? Well we are currently building a production system , and for data entry this behavior is verry unwanted as it will take extra steps for the operator to enter valid data in the system . For B : i have coded a solution however not completely to my satisfaction i just default the control to 31-12-YYYY ( where YYYY = the current year ) however A: is a serious problem that i can`t solve yet regards Michel Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109535
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    - Do we have a better approach? Hi, friends, I am using .net 2005 to develop a window form application. It has about 15 buttons (with icon on them) which need to be visible/invisible dynamically based on user's selection and rights. I know I can create 15 buttons and handle them individually, including moving their positions around if its neighbor buttons are invisible. But, do we have a better appoach to do this? Any reference paper or sample code? Thanks a lot. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109533
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    - Remove last row in a unbound datagridview Hi All, I have a undound DataGridView. That is, I am populating the DataGridView using the DataGridView.Rows.Add() call and by setting the values to individual cells in the row. When I am adding data to the DataGridView using such a method, I am getting an unwanted row at the bottom of the DataGridView. I want to avoid this row. Any help with respect to this is highly appreciated. I am not planning to use databinding for the DataGridView. Since, the DataGridView has 7 columns. I should be able to sort the DataGridView using any of these seven columns. If I use the databinding, it will be difficult to sort the view. Hence, using the Default sort of the DataGridView helps me in this case. But the presence of last row in the DataGridView should not be supported. So, please tell me a good method, using which I can remove the unwanted last row in the DataGridView. Thanx In Advance, Sudeesh G Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109527
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    - How would I tell when a winform is "dirty"? I need to know if at least one of the winform's controls have been edited by the user. Controls can have textboxes, combo boxes, datagrid, etc. If any one of the forms have been touched and the user hits the exit button, I want the form to ask if the changes should be saved to the database. So what I am looking for is really simple. Thanks. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109518
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    - How would I tell when a winform is "dirty"? I need to know if at least one of the winform's controls have been edited by the user. Controls can have textboxes, combo boxes, datagrid, etc. If any one of the forms have been touched and the user hits the exit button, I want the form to ask if the changes should be saved to the database. So what I am looking for is really simple. Thanks. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109517
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    - How to improve performance for stock exchange data display received from third party com component Hi, I could not get the answer on the Performance community hence forwarding the same issue here... I am using a third party COM component to get very very fast data stream. I have dragged the com component on a windows form. Now we can request the data for specific symbols on this com component and in turn it will start pouring in data in form of continuous events for the requested symbols. The problem is that data stream is too fast and can easily make the CPU go to 100%. The tricks which I am thinking to tackle the issue are ... 1) Instantiate the com component form on the new thread and put the data in alternate generic dictionaries (We have 2 side by side dictionaries. One dictionary start filling with data then other dictionary is being accessed by the consumer module) . So a dedicated thread of consumer class with poll in the alternated dictionary after a certain time interval, set the flag on 1 dictionary and start copying the data from alternated dictionary to another datastructure BindableDictionary(It is a wrapper arround 2 data structures - 1 BindingList<> and 1 Dictionary<>. As the name suggest, as soon as the consumer module copies data in BindableDictionary, it start displaying it on UI.) [STAThread] private void InstantiateCOMComponent(object state) { _comManager = comComponentForm.GetInstance(); Application.Run(new comComponentForm()); _comManager.Visible = false; } but as soon as we try to instantiate the COM component on the new thread, it gives the error - Message "ActiveX control '7b0deade-e17b-11d2-93e6-00a0c91827c9' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment." 2) Because of the com component error, Another alternative could be to apply the com component on a windows form in a new exe and make it a server. Then supply data through sockets to clients. Please suggest/comment about the alternatives given above or any better way of solving the business problem. I appreciate you reading a long email. Thanks & Regards, Rajat Tandon. rajat_tandon2000@yahoo.com. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109512
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    - how to mimimize an application Hi I am using C#, i dont know to know how to minimize the application in Taskbar when i click the button(its not minimizebox button), that means how to handle it?? normally if u click the minimize button on the form it will minimize the form, how can i do it in a simple button click event Regards Saravanan Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109511
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    - Binging custom objects to the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn Hi, I have bound a collection of type IBindingList to a DataGridView. Each object in the collection contains various string properties, Customer Name, Contact Name etc. It also contains a property 'MyOrder' of custom type 'Order'. The Order class simply contains properties like OrderID, OrderName etc. I add the columns to the Grid of type DataGridViewTextBoxColumn for the strings and DataGridViewComboBoxColumn for the 'Order' object, the code for the combo column is as follows: DataGridViewComboBoxColumn cboCustmomerOrder = new DataGridViewComboBoxColumn(); cboCustmomerOrder.HeaderText = "Order"; cboCustmomerOrder.DataPropertyName = "MyOrder"; cboCustmomerOrder.Name = "OrderName"; //cboCustmomerOrder.ValueType = Order; cboCustmomerOrder.DataSource = m_Cust.OrderCol; this.dataGridView1.Columns.Add(cboCustmomerOrder); The datasource is set to a collection of type Order (List<Order>) Everything displays OK and I can make selections from the dropdowns. When I try to tab away however, I get the following error: [System.FormatException] = {"Invalid cast from 'System.String' to 'BusinessComponentExample.Order'."} I have spent ages trying to find out how to handle this but so far only found that the error can be trapped as follows: private void dataGridView1_DataError(object sender, DataGridViewDataErrorEventArgs e) { if (e.Exception != null && e.Context == DataGridViewDataErrorContexts.Commit) { //Do something } } Obviously I need to cast to type 'Order', but my question is how? Hope this all makes sense, please let me know if not. Would be delighted to get an answer or a pointer to a good tutorial. Couldn't find any that explain how to do this. Steve Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109504
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    - MI5 Persecution: Troubling Censorship Issues 20/8/95 (4861) Fred Read (postmaster@foxhouse.demon.co.uk) wrote: : He posts this drivel every week or so to a number of groups that : I subscribe to and nothing seems to stop him. *ALL* of his posts : are off topic and unwelcome to the groups he posts to. : We have complained about him to his postmaster on at least four : previous occasions and he still posts the same crap. As his SP : seem unwilling, or unable, to do anything about him, we were : windering if there was anything you could do? If he is not actively using tactics to avoid or sabotage killfiles (posting from various systems, forging, massive crossposting to create cross-newsgroup flame wars) then it should be quite easy to killfile him. It does seem that the frequency and the size of his posts are approaching net abuse. However, IMHO, they aren't quite there yet. If his postmaster were to act in this instance, it would raise troubling censorship issues. -- Karen Lofstrom lofstrom@lava.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Adventures for those of the inadmissable kind, with no follow through." --- a flaming bonzo beckwithian idiot 4861 Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109502
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    - Basic Separator Line Control Hello, I finally have to breakdown and ask..... Is there a basic "Separating Line" control or "Bevel Line" control. It appears as a simple 3D line. I'd like to know if there is such a control or will I have to create my own line control? Examples: (Observe lines on these screen) 1) Use any generic file, Right-click file --> Properties --> General Tab 2) Open any Setup Wizard, observe line appearing between buttons wizard content. Thank you Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109501
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    - MI5 Persecution: Stand up for Free Speech 14/8/95 (2206) From: rji@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Richard Ingram) Newsgroups: uk.misc Date: Mon Aug 14 10:08:32 1995 Some cencorship loving bore wrote : > In article <GEVANS.95Aug14094119@mvagusta.uk.tele.nokia.fi> gevans@mvagusta.uk.tele.nokia.fi (Gareth Evans) writes: > > His sysadmin is also next to useless, and has not replied to my request or > even acknowledged it. Maybe this person *is* a sysadmin? > > He's not. It seems the public access site he uses has got no proper > management over its users. Here's a copy of a reply I got from a > complaint I made. [After returning every one of Corley's postings to [snip a large pile of winging complaining drivel] Geez what a bunch of tossers you all are - you don't like someones postings so you try and get him evicted from the net, why not just use a kill file - you DONT have to read his posts/threads now do you ? Why is it the net is getting populated by the biggest bunch of self absorbed little Hitlers ? You don't like someones posts so you bloody complain or mail bomb them - grow up you bunch of fucking sad gits ! Richard. 2206 Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109498
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    - Call another program from withing windows forms Hey Guys, I am developing an FTP application that needs to start another program. What is the command for me to start a program within a windows forms application? For example, if I wanted to start excel from within my application, how do I go about doing that??? thanks, in advance ,guys! Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109491
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    - FindRows() doesn't find last entered row in a DataGridView... Hi: I'm using FindRows() to locate rows in a DataGridView. When adding new rows consecutively, the last row added is not found when calling FindRows(). It's not until you shift focus away from newly added row by selecting other rows will it find it. It's like it's not being committed. What is workaround for this? THanks, Charlie Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109490
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    - ComponentResourceManager initialisation *slow* ! Hi - just by accident I discovered that initialising the resource manager is causing 2-3 second delays for my application startup... ...is this to be expected ?! System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager resources = new System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager(typeof(ShopsForm)); for now I have removed all use of ComponentResourceManager - but the VS designer keeps putting it back in - PITA ! ....I'm loading all my images by hand, and keeping a cached copy. VS2005. O. Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109487
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    - need a example to show how to implement state management in UI hello, i want to apply state management to enable ,disable ui correctly and better code . may give me some tips, reference Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109477
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    - Context sensitive help in wpf application Any suggestion or how to display context senstive help like office 2007 in wpf apps. I would like to use XPS to display the help which may include video, text etc.. Any ideas or patterns will help. Thanks Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109474
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    - Syntax to get filename list from Multi-select Open file Dialog I need to get the list of files, in a multi-select OpenFileDialog, formatting the list for my purposes (adding to an array) I can't seem to grasp the syntax - - here's part of what I've tried, after creating two variables (s and sList): Dim sList as String() '< - array I want to use Dim ofd As New OpenFileDialog For Each s In ofd.FileNames ' what do I put here to add the item in the array? Next or, is it an array anyway? If so, I do I access it? I just need to pass an existing array to another method, using the filenames in the OFD Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109473
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    - Using WPF as a Wizard - XBapp vs XAML Win Form Hi all, I am currently maintaining a web based survey tool that is very poorly written. I see no reason for leaving it as a web based application and many good reasons for making it a windows forms based application. I know that by using an XBapp (XAML Browser Hosted Application) you can create a wizard like application that goes from one page to the next. I want to be able to use some of the functionality that will not be allowed however if I go that route, i.e. saving to the local file system. Dose anyone know if I can get that same navigation scheme (Like a Wizard) in a straight up XAML Win Forms application? -- Thank you, John Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109470
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    - IDE BindingSource error message I used the Data Sources window to drop a custom object onto the designer surface. It created a BindingSource and BindingNavigator as a result. When I open the Properties window on the BindingSource, I see DataSource property set to the object I created. However, when I try to dropdown the DataSource property, I get the message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". The title of the messagebox is "Microsoft Visual Studio". So I cannot change the DataSource! I went into the designer file and removed the DataSource property of the BindingSource and went back into the designer. It showed the DataSource as (none) as I expected. But the same error message occurs when I try to change the property with the dropdown box. What is going on? Thanks Flomo Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109469
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    - Window Forms and panels Should anything even a menu, toolbar or statusbar ever be directly placed on the main window or should they always be placed on a container such as a panel? Bill Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109468
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    - Tooltip on Combobox disappears - Windows Forms bug? I am using .NET 2.0 forms and running on Windows XP SP2. When I have a tooltip on a combo box, and the combo box is expanded (?dropped down?) using the arrow, then collapsed, it will no longer display it?s tooltip, no matter how long I hover. Even if I move off the control and back it will still not display its tooltip. If I then go to another control that has tootips, then back to the combobox, it will again display its tooltip, until the next time it is expanded. Below is a small sample that has this bug (on my machine anyway.) It is simply the standard VS8.0 generated code, condensed. Strangely, if I remove the EnableVisualStyles() line, then the tootips seem to work correctly. I could not find any information about this bug. I am curious if anyone else has come across it, and if there is a solution? Any help appreciated. ======= Buildable Code Sample Below using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace ComboTest { static class Program { [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.Run(new Form1()); } } class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null; protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing && (components != null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); } private void InitializeComponent() { this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container(); this.comboBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox(); this.toolTip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(this.components); this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button(); this.SuspendLayout(); // comboBox1 this.comboBox1.DropDownStyle = System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList; this.comboBox1.FormattingEnabled = true; this.comboBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 59); this.comboBox1.Name = "comboBox1"; this.comboBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(121, 21); this.comboBox1.TabIndex = 0; this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(this.comboBox1, "Combo Tooltip"); // button1 this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 12); this.button1.Name = "button1"; this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(75, 23); this.button1.TabIndex = 1; this.button1.Text = "button1"; this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(this.button1, "Button tip."); this.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true; // Form1 this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F); this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font; this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 266); this.Controls.Add(this.button1); this.Controls.Add(this.comboBox1); this.Name = "Form1"; this.Text = "Form1"; this.ResumeLayout(false); } private System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox comboBox1; private System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip toolTip1; private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1; } } ====== END Code Sample Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109467
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    - IDocHostUIHandler ShowContextMenu problem with one of the args I have created a context menu when a user right clicks on a link. I've implemented IDocHostUIHandler and post the menu if the right click happened on a link: public uint ShowContextMenu(uint dwID, ref tagPOINT ppt, object pcmdtReserved, object pdispReserved) { Write(string.Format("Context menu on: {0}", pdispReserved.GetType().ToString())); if (pdispReserved is HTMLAnchorElementClass) { // create the menu ..... return 0; } return 1 } On some PC's the first time the user right clicks a link, the above method is calles, but the menu is NOT posted because the type of the pDispReserved object appears to be "System.__ComObject" instead of "HTMLAnchorElementClass". Why is the pdispReserved object sometimes "System.__ComObject". Can anyone explain what "System.__ComObject" is? Thanks Mitch Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109466
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    - Paging with the DataGriView control Hi all, Is it possible to view result sets with the DataGriView control, instead of it showing all the results at once? For example, showing the first 10 results, then the next 10 and so on, just like in web pages. Thanks, Ben Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109465
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    - Prompt to save changes I have a winforms app with a tabbed interface. I would like to prompt users to save their changes when they switch from tab to tab and don't click the Save button. I have tried using the Tab Validated event to prompt them, but it fires when they click Save, and when they don't. It also fires when they just click in a field. Is there an event, or something I can look at on, say, the Leave event of the tab to see if they have made changes to the data? I am using DataSets in VB 2005. -- Curt Gough 123cgough@kcumb.edu Remove 123 from above address to mail directly Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109464
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    - Displaying a selected ListViewItem Hi~ I'm writing an application that displays a list of files in a ListView control and updates their status while filtering and copying processes happen, i.e. - I copy a file, that file's status is displayed as being transfered. I filter a file, it then shows the result of the filtering, etc. The thing is this - If I use labels to display the "currently worked-on" item, the program can't keep up the pace for small files since they get copied and scanned so fast, so the messages coming in from the BackgrounWorkers just plug up the system. Is there a way to set the ListView to show the currently selected ListViewItem, so I can just focus on it as I go along with the copying and filtering? Thanks in advance, ~Day Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109463
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    - .Net 2.0 Pb with multi threads and DataSet dataBinding Hi, I've build an application that use several threads in background. These threads are managed by a manager object and store control data in a dataset. I've also bound the DataSet to a GridView control. When I run the application, althought I "see" the gridview control to be filled and updated byt the actual values filles from the background threads, the application is blocked. So my question is : Is the dataset thread safe ? If not, and in a more general manner, are databounded controls thread safe ? Thanks in advance, Steve Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109459
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    - Error Loading Resx File. Hi, Am working on a winforms application with .net 2.0, c# 2.0. In one of the controls I get the following error Invalid Resx file. The path is not of a legal form. when the file is loaded. its a very inconsistent error, which occurs some times and does not occur on other times. closing the project and openning it again, makes the error to dissappear. I am unable to find the cause of the error. please help ' everyday, I waste 1 hour in closiing and re-opening the IDE. Regards, Sugandh Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109447
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    - Asynchronous Programming Model - how to implement? Hi, I'm trying to implement APM (Asynchronous Programming Model) API by myself - I mean: IAsyncResult BeginMyFunc(AsyncCallback, object @object); void EndMyFunc(IAsyncResult result); functions pair. The problem is that my working thread has to report updates to the GUI by System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method) invocation. How to implement my EndMyFunc(IAsyncResult result) function? It should be something like this inside: result.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(); where AsyncWaitHandle is ManualResetEvent or something like this. Unfortunately, this approach will prevent my GUI thread from handling SendMessage calls coming from working thread invocations of System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method). Deadlock is about to happen. The same problem is about terminating phase. I cannot just call this by GUI thread: workingThread.Join(); because of System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method) invocations coming from the working thread. The deadlock again. What I need is some kind of .NET replacement for MsgWaitForMultipleObjects + some necessary message pumping. How to properly implement it in .NET 2.0? many thanks in advance, -- dmitry Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109445
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    - How to convert the items in a listbox to an arraylist? Hi, I want to make an arraylist of all the items in a listbox. Can I do it like this: CType(lstSelectedList.DataSource, ArrayList) Or is there a better way in VB.NET (Framework 1.1) thanks Philip Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109444
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    - Topmost form loses the topmost status when VS2005 is run Hi, I've created a sample project in C# (both in VS 2003 and 2005) that uses just one form and sets its topmost property to true. I run the application and I noticed that everytime I run VS 2005 it loses the topmost status (it is hidden by the VS 2005 IDE). I noticed that the value of the topmost properties continues to be true, even if the form is no longer visible on the screen (covered by the VS2005 window) The only way to make it topmost is clicking on it. I noticed that this behaviour happens also in other occasions (but I couldn't figure out to which they were related). I need the form to be topmost all the time. Do you have any suggestion on how to fix that, maybe using the Windows API directly? Thank you. Andrea Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109440
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    - Free online books on ASP.NET , XML and Web Services Free Online Books on ASP.NET, XML and Web Services Get these links @ http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/02/free-online-books-on-aspnet-xml-and-web.html Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109439
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    - Strange concurrency error Hi I have a perfectly working vs 2003 winform data app. All the data access code has been generated using the data adapter wizard and then pasted into the app. I had to add a new field in the backend access db which I did. I then dragged the table to the dataset and deleted the old table from the dataset it so the dataset can see the new field as well. The problem is that when in update command code I add these two lines Me.updcomCompanies.Parameters.Add(New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter("Web_Enabled", System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Boolean, 2, "Web_Enabled")) and Me.updcomCompanies.Parameters.Add(New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter("Original_Web_Enabled", System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Boolean, 2, System.Data.ParameterDirection.Input, False, CType(0, Byte), CType(0, Byte), "Web_Enabled", System.Data.DataRowVersion.Original, Nothing)) I startgetting a data concurrency error on mydataadapter.update() method. I know that there is no data concurrency problem as I am the only user testing the app. Obviously the error is misleading. What can I do from here to fix this problem? Thanks Regards Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109434
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    - WPF v Windows Forms Hello all, I am just trying to get up to speed with WPF (and .Net 3.0 in general), and trying to decide whether it is worth using WPF for a new business application (job tracking) which will be used by small businesses on windows Pcs (XP/Vista). Hope to have it ready by late 2007. The only reasons I can see to use WPF instead of WinForms are: Built on direct X and not win32 subsystem for graphics rendering (but what precisely is the benefit of that for a business app?) XAML may be easier for designers (non coders); Possibly can acheive a new look which Winforms cannot (but not sure what that is - any examples?) What other specific reasons should be taken into account? Thanks Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109433
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    - Combo box in DataGrid Hello - when I create a datagrid and select the combobox as the column type, the application won't allow me to type freeform text into the combobox when the application is run. It will only allow me to select items from the drop down list. As far as I can tell, a normal combobox will let you select items from a list OR allow freeform text to be entered. Not so on the datagrid. Is this feature not available within a datagrid? btw - Using VB.net 2005 Thanks in advance... Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109430
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    - VS 2003, false data concurrency error Hi I have a vs 2003 winform data app. All the data access code has been generated using the data adapter wizard and then pasted into the app. The problem I have is that I am getting a data concurrency error on mydataadapter.update() method. I know that there is no data concurrency problem as I am the only user testing the app. Obviously the error is misleading. What can I do from here to fix this problem? Thanks Regards Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109429
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    - View - Controller Question for Windows Forms I have an app that has a MainWindow with a menu and toolbar. On the form, I have a SplitContainer with 2 vertical panels. The left hand side panel has an Outlook navigator bar and the right hand side will hold user control forms, which will change depending on which form the user wants to see, ex. customer, invoice, inventory. I have a controller class for each of the different forms, CustomerController, InventoryController etc. All events will be passed to the controller class by the view. Now the question that I have is which view should receive the events from the menu, toolbar and navigator bar. The MainWindow which is holding them, the panel that the navigator bar is in or the user control which represents the form. Regardless of who gets the messgage, it will get passed to the appropriate controller class. I don't want to use CAB here but I believe that CAB is overkill for my app. Bill Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109428
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    - Visual Studio 2005 SP1, and Vista Hello, About a week ago, I upgraded my development laptop to Vista Ultimate and Office 2007. After I reinstalled my Visual Studio 2005 Professional, I installed the VS 2005 SP1 update. I still keep getting a message dialog box that states ... Visual Studio 2005 SP1 requires and update for Windows Vista. I have run the OS update manually, and reinstalled the SP1 and I am still getting the error message. VS2005 seems to work fine, but I just hate ignoring error messages (I like a clean running system). I could just remove the check mark on the Always show this message so I never see it again .. but before I do, I want to make sure that I am not missing something. Anyone have simular problems? Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109425
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    - ClickOnce and Basic Authentication We have a "ClickOnce" application that we are attempting to deploy. The application deploys correctly to the web server but when we attempt to down load the application to the client it gives an error that indicates we don't have the rights to it. We have traced it down to the fact that we are using "Basic Authentication" because when we set IIS up as "Integrated Authentication" the application downloads and installs properly. Thanks, Al Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109419
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    - User Controls Help I have been struggling with this for too long now, an desperately need help. I'm an asp.net programmer, but am working on a windows form for this app. I have 1 form and 2 user controls, Say UC(A) and UC(B). UC(A) has a datagrid, UC(B) has a ListBox. When I click on the Datagridrow in UC(A) , the Listbox in UC(B) should Update based upon an ID in the Datagrid, but It wont. I have Tried using RaiseEvents first, then I tried just making a Public Method, and then I tried a Public Property. The code in UC(B) is Fired properly, and the Dataset is retreived from my DataClass, but When I tell my listbox what the data source is, it wont rebind or redraw or something. I also tried the declaring a public event in UC(A), and then Delare UC(A) in UC(B) and setting a method to handle it. But that does not work It fires the event, but nothing at all happens in UC(B). What am I missing. Tom Callahan Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109417
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    - How to get the main window object from outside the object? I'm pretty new to .net Windows Forms, but I've done a lot of searching and can't find an answer to this question. Here's what I'm trying to do: main() { Form1 myForm = new Form1(); Application::Run(myForm); } Function1() { // I need to modify elements of myForm either // through a class function or by manipulating the // object itself. return; } Basically the app has the main window thread (Application::Run) and then a listener thread for events coming in from other applications, and those events need to manipulate the data being shown in the main window. Right now, I have hacked it up so that I have a static Form1 pointer in the Form1 class, and whenever an event is received I do the following: Form1::thisForm->Function(); but, like I said, this feels like a hack. Any suggestions as to the correct way of doing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much! --Mike Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109415
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    - auto close a messagebox on event firing, C# Folks, Im all too familiar with Messagebox.Show - but now I have a situation where I need a similar sort of messagebox to appear, but to automatically disappear when an event fires - ie, messagebox.show ("Please plug the device in the USB port"), then when the user plugs a device in, and the device.connected event fires, the system automatically kills the messagebox. Any hints appreciated! Cheers Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109410
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    - problem when changing visibility of UserControl (VB.NET Windows Fo Hi all, .NET Framework 1.1 / Windows Forms - VB.NET I have a wizard form and a user control with 2 listboxes on it (plus other user controls for multiple dates and string values). At runtime I create a new panel, then I instantiate the user control, pass in an arraylist as the data source for the left-hand listbox, add the usercontrol to the controls collection of the panel, and add the panel to the form. It all works fine, the arraylist is displayed in the left listbox, events raised when the user clicks the button to add an item from the list on the left to the list on the right... plus the panel hides itself ok to show another panel with a different control when the user clicks Next. The problem comes when I want to show again the Panel with the listbox usercontrol on it after the user clicks 'Previous'. An exception is thrown (cannot change the Items collection when the DatSource property is set). thing is, in the Previous method, there is nothing that would try to affect the Items collection, so where is the error coming from? thanks for any help Philip Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109406
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    - Is form visible to the eye Hi all, is there a way to determine whether a form is visible on screen or not. I don't mean is it .Visible or .Hide() but can the user actually see the form (be it focused or not) For that matter can it be detemined exactly how much of the form is visible. tia paul Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109402
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    - How to customize the form Hi, I am creating windows form at the run time and also i am setting the FormBorderStyle to FixedSingle. So that the form comes with some standard size, but i wanted to customize the form size.. How can i customize the form size with FormBorderStyle property as FixedSingle.. Even when i tried with setting form size to some less value but still it is coming with the standard size,, Could you please help me out in this Regards Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109401
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    - XmlDocument.Load() crashes designer but works anyway? The following code works when I debug and when I install the software and run the .exe, but if I try to open the form in the designer (which causes this code to run), I get an error: Private Sub LoadTestSettings() Dim rootPath As String Dim eventHandler As ValidationEventHandler rootPath = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath eventHandler = New ValidationEventHandler(AddressOf XmlValidationEventHandler) _xmlDocument = New XmlDocument() _xmlDocument.Load(rootPath & "\" & "TestSettings.xml") '-->this is where the error occurs<-- _xmlDocument.Schemas.Add("http://tempuri.org/TestXmlSchema.xsd", rootPath & "\" & "TestXmlSchema.xsd") _xmlDocument.Validate(eventHandler) End Sub If I try to open the form in the designer, I get this error: Could not find file 'C:\Documents and Settings\DanThMan\Local Settings \Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectAssemblies \gyyihrso01\TestSettings.xml'. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize) at System.Xml.XmlDownloadManager.GetStream(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials) at System.Xml.XmlUrlResolver.GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, String role, Type ofObjectToReturn) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrlDelegate(Object xmlResolver) at System.Threading.CompressedStack.runTryCode(Object userData) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Threading.CompressedStack.Run(CompressedStack compressedStack, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrl() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename) at Test.DataManager.LoadTestSettings() in C:\Documents and Settings \DanThMan\My Documents\Projects\Test\Development\App Code\Test\Test \DataManager.vb:line 46 at Test.DataManager..ctor() in C:\Documents and Settings\DanThMan\My Documents\Projects\Test\Development\App Code\Test\Test \DataManager.vb:line 33 at Test.DataManager..cctor() in C:\Documents and Settings\DanThMan\My Documents\Projects\Test\Development\App Code\Test\Test \DataManager.vb:line 20 I can't figure out what to specify for the filename in XmlDocument.Load(string fileName). Does My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath not work if not in debug mode? If not, what should I do to get the designer to open? Thanks for your help, -Dan Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109394
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    - Menustrip combobox overrides.. I am using VB.NET 2.0, and I am having a trouble of time making the menustrips combobox act how I want. What I am shooting for is instead of the bland list box popping down when I click on the combobox I would rather have it popdown with a data grid instead. Is there any way of overwriting the list that comes with the drop down box with a data grid? Thanks! Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109392
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    - Dynamic MenuStrip Question Hi With the following code, I can create a MenuStrip with one item, "Admins". When the user clicks on Admins, it dynamically adds items to the menu Admins. (In this case "Dave" And "Elizabeth") When I run this form, the first time I click on "Admins", nothing happens. Everytime I click on Admins after that I get the expected behavior. Can someone tell me what I can do so that the menu item works properly the first time? Thanks Dave Coate Code: Private MainMenu As MenuStrip Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load MainMenu = New MenuStrip 'Add menu items to the Main Menu Strip 'The event handlers will populate each menu when the top level 'menu item is clicked Me.MainMenu.Items.Add("Admins", Nothing, _ New System.EventHandler(AddressOf AdminsMenu_OnClick)) 'Add the main menu to the controls collection of the form Me.Controls.Add(MainMenu) End Sub Private Sub AdminsMenu_OnClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim cms As New ContextMenuStrip() Dim Admins() As String = {"Dave", "Elizabeth"} For Each Admin As String In Admins cms.Items.Add(Admin, Nothing, _ New System.EventHandler(AddressOf SelectedAdminMenu_OnClick)) Next Dim tsi As ToolStripMenuItem = CType(sender, ToolStripMenuItem) tsi.DropDown = cms End Sub Private Sub SelectedAdminMenu_OnClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) End Sub Tag: Nice GUI Tag: 109391

Hi
How can i create a GUI like this one:
http://www.kynosarges.de/NDoc.html

My .NET Tools always looks like old NT-Applications except the
Menustrip and the statusbar.

Is there perhaps a good tutorial to build nice GUI's?
Thx a lot for each information ;)
Greetz

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Re: Nice GUI by RobinS

RobinS
Thu Mar 01 12:35:21 CST 2007

Are you doing C# or VB? Do you have XP Visual Styles enabled? In VB, this
is an option in the Project Properties. In C#, you have to add this to the
main sub:

Application.EnableVisualStyles(); //enable xp style

This makes it show your app like an XP app (or Vista, if you're running
that), with rounded corners and everything.

Robin S.
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"Stefan Schöb" <opendix@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172740235.255056.218210@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
> How can i create a GUI like this one:
> http://www.kynosarges.de/NDoc.html
>
> My .NET Tools always looks like old NT-Applications except the
> Menustrip and the statusbar.
>
> Is there perhaps a good tutorial to build nice GUI's?
> Thx a lot for each information ;)
> Greetz
>

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Re: Nice GUI by Bryan

Bryan
Fri Mar 02 16:09:51 CST 2007

I use the Infragistics UI controls since they can be "styled" by a
graphic designer and have the style imported into the project.

--
Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

"Stefan Schöb" <opendix@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172740235.255056.218210@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com:

> Hi
> How can i create a GUI like this one:
> http://www.kynosarges.de/NDoc.html
>
> My .NET Tools always looks like old NT-Applications except the
> Menustrip and the statusbar.
>
> Is there perhaps a good tutorial to build nice GUI's?
> Thx a lot for each information ;)
> Greetz

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Re: Nice GUI by opendix

opendix
Thu Apr 12 08:26:39 CDT 2007

I use VB.NET

and yes, VisualStyles are enabled! I think I will take a look at the
Infragistics UI controls!
Thx for this Information!

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