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    - How to make DataDridViewComboBoxColumn editable I am using VS 2005. The DataDridViewComboBoxColumn in the datadridview is not letting me edit (type in) the text in combobox. All i could do is select an option from the list. Any idea how to make DataDridViewComboBoxColumn editable? Thanks in advance. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98079
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    - ListView SelectedIndexChanged Firing Twice, possible solution? I know that by design, the SelectedIndexChanged event fires twice when the SelectedIndex changes, once for the unselection of the previous index, and once for the selection of the new index. This is somewhat bothersome to me because I have listeners for those events that toggle the enabled states of other controls on the form based on whether an item is selected or not, and this creates an ugly blinking effect. Is there any way to peek into the message queue and see if there is another SelectedIndexChange event coming? I know I can't see into the future, but I'm hoping the messages will be placed into the queue simultaniously and that they will both be in the queue when I recieve the first event. My current solution, which I'm not really that pleased with, is to have a Timer t on the form with a 100 millisecond interval. When the SelectedIndexChanged event fires, I check a flag to see if the timer is running. If it's not running, I start the timer and set the flag. On the Tick event of the timer, I fire my own SelectedItemChanged event, stop the timer, and reset the flag. Basically what's happening is I'm only allowing one SelectedIndex event to fire within any given 100 millisecond window. This works, I don't get the flickering, but it seems kinda hackish and unpredicable. Any better suggestions? Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98076
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    - Width of textbox on a FlowLayoutPanel Hi, I have three textboxes on the same row on a FlowLayoutPanel. I want the one on the left and right to have a fixed width but for the one in the middle to fill any remaining space depending on the width of the FlowLayoutPanel. Is this possible? (The widths of the left and right boxes aren't known until runtime). I was thinking that I could handle the SizeChangingEvent and work out the width to set the middle text box to. This would basically be: width of FlowLayoutPanel - width of left text box- width of right text box. However, I don't know how to determine what controls are on the same row in order to retrieve their width?! Any help appreciated. Thanks Tristan. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98074
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    - SplitContainer Transitions Folks, I am using the very helpful SplitContainer (horizontal) to show a list of items on the bottom panel and the details of a chosen item on the top panel. The top panel is initally collapsed. The user sees the details by chosing a menu item (as in File, Item Properties). When this occurs, the top panel is "un-collapsed." Our client is requesting a softer transition from not seeing the panel to suddenly seeing it (as fading in/out from the top of the form). Could you point me in the right direction as to whether this is possible? If it is, can you give me a hint of where to start my research (for example, which events to call, or which methods to override)? Thank you very much for your time, Elsa Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98073
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    - datagrid, change combobox value at run time based on the value of another combobox at different column Hi, I have an application containing a datagrid. I add columns to the datagrid programmatically, each row has a few textbox column and a few combobox columns. One combobox colum is key field. If user choose a value from the key combo box, then I want the value in other cells changed accordingly based on certain logic. I could change the value of text box cells by changing the value in datatable, but the difficulty is how to change the value of combobox at the same row. It seems windows datagrid does not allow you to get hold of individual cell. Hope some one could help. Thanks zhuang Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98070
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    - Converting RTF to MHTM (or XML with Base64) Hi, we developing an Winform (Framework 2.0) application where the user can write documents in richtext. After the save process the document should be saved as a MHTML stream to a database for our intranet. The maingoal is that the user must not upload pictures to a gallery and select them after to insert in the document, he should work like Word in Office. Now my question is, how to convert the rtf stream to a MHTML stream to save this in a database (SQL 2005)? Is there any component to do that or has anyone a example for me? I have seen some examples but that uses always the CDO for this job :-( thanks in advance for any tips Volkan S. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98068
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    - Troubles with Garbage Collector. I'm having trouble cleaning up memory in a datagrid. I have a datagrid that is set a datatable as its datasource every 5 seconds - each datatable assigned has the same structure but different content. When I perform the following line of code: this.dbgEvents.SetDataBinding(e.Table, ""); the data on the datagrid is changed to reflect the new data. The problem I am experiencing is that memory is not being cleaned up properly. I'm getting the following objects hanging around: System.WeakReference System.Windows.Forms.BindingContext.HashKey I've found these by using the .NET Memory Profiler application. As the application loops and assigns a new datasource to the datagrid these objects build up and consume memory. I've tried the following to free the memory with no success: if(dbgEvents.DataSource != null) ((DataTable)this.dbgEvents.DataSource).Dispose(); this.dbgEvents.SetDataBinding(e.Table, ""); Can anyone help with how to cleanup memory from a datagrid? It appears as though the datagrid is still clinging to some objects and thus the garbage collection cannot remove them. Thanks, Neo Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98067
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    - Problems with smart client versions Hello I am having a big performance problem with a smart client application done in .NET 2003. When accessing the web server, the version check takes ages to complete if the client download cache contains old versions of the application. After deleting old versions, the application starts again working at full speed. Any hint would really be appreciated, mauro Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98066
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    - How to see properties composed in the Trowel of Properties? Good day; I have this one problem; I declared struct "myNumber", and in a UserControl "MyControl". I declared a property myNumber named "NumberComposition", desire that in the properties palette of the created controls of MyControl type me appear the property in the same way as they appear the Font, Location or Size properties. That I must do? To see I cosay The code is: ___________________________________________________________________ using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing; using System.Data; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace My.Windows.Controls { public struct myNumber { public readonly Int32 Precision; public readonly Int32 Scale; public Number(Int32 precision,Int32 scale ){ Precision = precision; Scale = scale; } } /// <summary> /// Descripción breve de Mycon. /// </summary> public class MyControl: System.Windows.Forms.UserControl { /// <summary> /// Variable del diseñador requerida. /// </summary> private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null; private myNumber _numbercomposition = new Number(13,0); public MyControl() { // Llamada necesaria para el Diseñador de formularios Windows.Forms. InitializeComponent(); // TODO: agregar cualquier inicialización después de llamar a InitializeComponent } public myNumber NumberComposition{ get{ return this._numbercomposition; } set{ if (this._numbercomposition.ToString() == value.ToString()) return; this._numbercomposition = value; if(this.NumberType == NumericType.Integer && this._numbercomposition.Scale > 0 ) MessageBox.Show("Value error"); } } protected override void Dispose( bool disposing ) { if( disposing ) { if(components != null) { components.Dispose(); } } base.Dispose( disposing ); } private void InitializeComponent() { components = new System.ComponentModel.Container(); } #endregion } } Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98063
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    - DrawString method - diagonal text? Hi, I am using the DrawString method to add 2 strings to a label at right-angles to each other (so one is horizontal, and the other string is vertical) Both strings start with 'S' - now, is there any way to make that 'S' diagnoal instead of vertical ? That way it would really appearf as though it's between both strings... thanks Philip Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98062
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    - ClickOnce and not IE Does ClickOnce work with browsers other than IE now (didn't in January). If not what's the best workaround? thanks, Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98058
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    - My website : Opinions please. Please, I have just created this site and am wondering what your opinion is from both professionals and amatures or the curious alike. Any opinions? www.integrated-dev-sol.co.uk Remove 123 from email address to reply. Anti spam and virus measure. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98046
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    - trouble with events (Paint event) question - please help Hi, I have a Splash form in my Windows Forms app. It has a label on it, and in the Paint event of the label, I draw some text on the label. But I also want the Splash form to load my MDI form and carry out the initialisation of the application... Trouble is, it only paints the Splash form with the label and text, then it does nothing else, even though I have code in the splash form Paint event like this: Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor If m_blnPaintOnce = False Then Call DrawStringFloatFormat(e) Else If m_blnAppReady = False Then Label3.Text = "load management form" ManagementForm = New frmManagement m_blnAppReady = True Else Cursor = Cursors.Default Label3.Text = "finished, hide and show" Me.Dispose() ManagementForm.Visible = True End If End If I don't know what is wrong, it never shows the MDI form, just shows the Splash form then stops. I just want it to paint the slash form once, write the text on it, then laod the main form, wait while it does it's work, then hide itself, but it never does it. Please help, this is really a strange problem. thanks, Philip Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98045
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    - Problem: Serialization using "<NonSerialized>" Does this attribute really work? I'm trying to "deep" serialize one of my objects which has a member variable pointing to a Form object. I don't want to serialize this form (and I know that I can't do this anyway because the Form class is not marked as Serializable). I try marking this member variable with the <NonSerialized> attribute, but the BinaryFormatter seems to be ignoring this attribute; It throws an exeption "Class frmReport {some info about the class here} can not be serialized, because it is not marked as Serializable" Is there any other way to prevent the serialization of a member variable that I don't know? Thanx everyone. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98043
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    - generate Word from application I'm building an windowsforms application in dotnet2.0. I would like to generate an invoice in Word for printing with data from the sql server database. Is there a good totorial on how this is done? thanks! Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98042
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    - Slide-out and Splitter Two questions. First, what does MS recommend / offer for creating those nifty slide-out dialogues (?) that Visual Studio has? Yes I'm talking about, for example, the default behavior of the Toolbox, or Properties dialogues in Visual Studio, which slide back and forth (Unless you select the push-pin). I don't even know what that "sliding" control is called, no less how to put one on my WinForm. Help? Second question: what effectively is the difference between a SplitContainer and a Splitter? Why choose one over the other? Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98039
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    - Third time to ask this question,can anybody help me? I want to run my ClickOne applications with command line arguments.I published my application by visual studio.net 2005,and my application url is http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.application?myname=sunny. I have read the article about no-touch deployment applications : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms05152003.asp and followed his steps.My code is below: AppDomain domain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain; object obj = domain.GetData("APP_LAUNCH_URL"); string appLaunchUrl = (obj != null ? obj.ToString() : ""); But I can never get the value of appLaunchUrl.The method domain.GetData("APP_LAUNCH_URL") always returns null.I could not find any description about APP_LAUNCH_URL data variable in MSDN. When I copied myapplication.exe to IIS directory and run the application from the url of http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.exe?myname=sunny , I could get the value as the article said. So why? And how can I get the value if I use the publish function of visual studio.net 2005 and run the application from the url: http://localhost/myapplication/myapplication.application?myname=sunny Thanks! Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98036
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    - Desinger view error with simple inheritance: Constructor on type '' not found. I have a class that inherits user control: public partial class ValidationSubDesigner : UserControl { It works jsut fine, the problem occurs when I try to inherit it: public partial class FieldCompareFieldDesigner : ParamDesigner { //public partial class FieldCompareFieldDesigner : UserControl { The top line is required in order to compile, the second line is required in order to get the designer view to work. I get the error below when I try to bring up the designer view. The full eror and stack trace. One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. Constructor on type 'AbacusControls.PropertyEditors.Designer.ValidationDesigner.SubDesigners.Test' not found. Hide at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes) at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes) at System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignSurface.CreateInstance(Type type) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.VSDesignSurface.CreateInstance(Type type) at System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignerHost.System.ComponentModel.Design.IDesignerHost.CreateComponent(Type componentType, String name) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializationManager.CreateInstance(Type type, ICollection arguments, String name, Boolean addToContainer) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializationManager.System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationManager.CreateInstance(Type type, ICollection arguments, String name, Boolean addToContainer) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.TypeCodeDomSerializer.Deserialize(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, CodeTypeDeclaration declaration) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager manager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager serializationManager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.DeferredLoadHandler.Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop.IVsTextBufferDataEvents.OnLoadCompleted(Int32 fReload) Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98032
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    - IME window question I wrote a text input aware control. in C# 2.0, inheriting from SWF.Control. Users eventually use the IME input window to enter text. I would like to be able to do just like Notepad (or the text boxes), that is position the IME window at the position of the caret and set its font to the current selection's font. How do I do that? C++ tips welcome as well ;-) Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98030
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    - DataGridColumnStyle Format Property One of the columns of my datagrid is an account #. The actual field which is coming from a sql server database is defined as a character. Within the database the account # 200300001 come across in our financial system as 20030000.1. How do I define a character field format, as an example (XXXXXXXX.X), in the datagridcolumnstyle format property using the designer? Currently I can format numeric fields in the a datagridcolumnstyle format property with, as an example, "###,##0.00". Thanks in advance. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98028
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    - Setting a control focus in OnLoad event. Based on data present when I load a form, I need to be able to set focus to a specific control. I have added code as the last line of my Load handler setting a control to have focus. e.g. control3.Focus(). But when the form is displayed, the first control with tab stop has focus instead of the control I set. This should be a very basic thing to do but I can't figure out how. In the WIN32 API, you would return false form the OnInitDialog() method to allow retention of focus you set programmatically. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Tony Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98027
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    - Opening a ContextMenu without a parent control Hi, I am writing an Excel addin with C#. I have some ActiveX objects embedded within the spreadsheet and when the user clicks on one of them I want to show a context menu. Now the problem is that ContextMenu.Show() needs a Control object as parameter but in my scenario there is no Winforms control object. I have the HWND window handle of the ActiveX object but I can't figure out how to pass it to the ContextMenu object. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks Hans Merkl Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98026
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    - VS.NET 2003, Format functions... VS.NET has format functions for the Forms Designer, like Align, Make SameSize, Center in Form, etc... I am just looking to see if there is any standard library I can use to do these functions at runtime. I googled, but could not find anything... I know I can write these in a day or 2... but just thinking why re-invent if something is there... Can somebody point me to the right direction? VJ Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98025
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    - ListView SelectedIndexChanged firing twice Hi, I have a Listview that is firing an event twice and both time the selecteditems count is = 1 In the call stack there is form.show Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98023
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    - The dreded EnableVisualStyles and External exception error We really want to use the visual styles in our app but get that stupid external exception error at the weirdest times. I call it like this: static void Main() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.DoEvents(); Application.Run(new MyForm() ); } The problem seems to occur sometimes when DoEvents is called again within the application but not actually at the call. The exception is throw during other code execution. Although, if I comment out DoEvents() it will work in most cases. I need to call DoEvents in some cases so I can't completely remove it. Any suggestions? -Joe Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98021
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    - Start and minimize another application From within my .NET forms application I want to start and minimize another application, so I go: string eprog = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles) + @"\EvilLyrics\EvilLyrics.exe"; if (File.Exists(eprog)) { ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(eprog); psi.UseShellExecute = false; psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized; Process.Start(psi); } This starts the other application OK but doesn't minimize the window. Why? Do I have to minimize the other application via Interop? If so how? Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98014
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    - Drag&Drop problem I have following code: private void listView1_DragEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e) { if ((e.Data is DragDropPackage) && (((DragDropPackage)e.Data).id_typ_krw == this.id_typ_krw)) e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Move; else e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None; } But even when e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None happens, mouse cursor shape stays like DragDropEffects.Move. I am missing something? -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98010
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    - how VB.NET to generate excel report(office 2003) how VB.NET to generate excel report(office 2003) what component i need to reference into the asp.net application and the application will distribute to the client , does it free? Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 98002
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    - CurrentCell cannot be set at this time. Moving ??? Hi guys, I have a small problem. When I assing values for some of the rows I am getting this error message ? grdQuantities.Item(row, col) = "NI" Additional information: CurrentCell cannot be set at this time. Moving your code to FormLoad should solve this problem. how do i solve this ? please help Thanks -Aruna Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97998
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    - A Java implementation of CLR? Hi, Is it possible to make such a gift so that MSIL programs can run on JVM? Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97995
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    - MAskedTextBox Custom Mask Hello, I am implementing a MaskedTextBox control in a Windows Form application. The valid userâ??s input is : [1-9] , namely: a single, numeric character, excluding the digit ZERO (0). Using a numeric mask (â??#â??, â??0â??, or â??9â??) does not provide the answer, since these masks do allow enreing ZERO (0). Any idea how to implemt it? Thanks! Shaul Sondak Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97983
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    - Client Requirements? I'm trying to find a site that will tell me exactly what the requirements from a OS perpective is required to run a .net 2005 smart client windows application from the clients machine. I know the developers machines need XP SP2 to install the IDE, but with the clients running the application do they only need the 2.0 framework and it doesn't matter if XP SP2 is installed or not. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97982
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    - VB.NET Screen rendering issues. Folks, We have written a VB.NET application with Access database. When we open any screen (Form) all the text fields and grids (we are using ComponentOne TrueDB Grid) and some other controls render as a "hole" and then once all the data is retrieved then the complete screen rendering is done. We tried to hide all the controls before it loads all the data and then show all the controls once the data is retrieved but it still does that empty control ghosting display issue. Because of this the application appears to slow even though the screen load time is just 3-4 seconds. Has somebody faced this kind of issue before? Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, D Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97979
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    - Wierd sorting in DataGridView I have a DataGridView control on a form which is bound to a class that is derived from CollectionBase and implements IBindingList. This works okay except that the sorting acts really strangely in certain situations. To sort my class I implement IBindingList.ApplySort and in the method I use CollectionBase.InnerList.Sort and pass it an instance of a class that implements IComparer to sort the data objects in my list. The implementation of the IComparer.Compare method is relatively straightforward: object a = MyType.GetProperty(PropertyName).GetValue(x, null); object b = MyType.GetProperty(PropertyName).GetValue(y, null); if (a != null && b == null) return 1; if (a == null && b != null) return -1; if (a == null && b == null) return 0; return ((IComparable)a).CompareTo(b); Now this sort of works okay. For example, if my data object has properties a, b, and c which are displayed on the DataGridView like this: a b c 100 1 1 90 2 1 80 3 1 70 4 1 60 5 1 50 6 1 40 7 1 And I click on the header for row a I get this: a b c 40 7 1 50 6 1 60 5 1 70 4 1 90 3 1 90 2 1 100 1 1 And if I click it again I get back to the original. So far so good. If I click on column b, I get the expected behavor too. However, if I click on column c (where all the values are the same) I get this: a b c 60 5 1 50 6 1 40 7 1 70 4 1 100 1 1 90 2 1 80 3 1 Clicking a second time gets me to the second table above. Clicking a third times gives me this: a b c 80 3 1 90 2 1 100 1 1 70 4 1 40 7 1 50 6 1 60 5 1 And finally, clicking a fourth time gets be back to the original order. Does anybody have any idea what is going on here and how I can avoid it? This doesn't seem to ever happen if I use a DataTable as a data source. Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97978
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    - Business Object Model Did a little searching on Google for business object model in vb.Net but didn't find much. Anyone have some links and samples for this and as a last resort, a book title? I need to start at the bottom... Thanks, Brian Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97972
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    - Control Flicker while switching TabPage Hello, I created a windows form with vs.net 2005 / c#. This control has a TabControl with 16 TabPages. On every TabPage there are a diffrent number of Controls. - Every TabPage has a background picture. they are all the same picture (from a resouce file). There seems to be no way easy to make a TabControl transparent... my problem: while switch the visible TabPage the form / TabControl begans to flicker. it takes a second (and I mead "1 sec") before all controls of the TabPage are drawed. I can see, who one control after another appears. - while switching there is only standard code executed, no code written by me. has anybody an idea how to remove the flicker? thank you ingo beyer Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97966
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    - Display List<int> inside DataGridView Hi, i have bound my list of objects to a data grid view (i have actually used BindingList) and can add, edit objects ok. Sample object is given below: class MyObject { string m_Name; public string Name { get { return m_Name; } set { m_Name = value; } } List<int> m_List = new List<int>(); public List<int> MyList { get { return m_List; } set { m_List = value; } } } I can display and edit the name field ok. However, as you can see my object also contains a List<int> but i am not given the option to display this in the properties when i goto add a new column. How could i go about displaying a list of ints (ideally i would like a custom display, where i can list the ints, one to five in this example, in a text box seperated by commas ie "1, 2, 3, 4"). Do i need to add the column manually, hook into the format event or define my own cell types? Thanks in advance, Chris Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97965
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    - help with .NET TreeView control - rightclick/mousedown & context m Hi, I have a tree-view control on my form, showing two levels of nested nodes. I want to show a different context menu depending on the Tag of the selected node. The trouble is that the tree-view doesn't change the SelectedNode on a (right-click) mousedown event, only on the left-click. How can I force the selected node to be the one that the user has right-clicked on during the mousedown event, so when I test the tag of the selected node in the context menu popup event it is correct? This is .NET Framework 1.1 we're using. thanks Philip Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97964
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    - transparent background hello everyone, i have a gif image with a transparent color. now the only thing i want is to put that image in my application and all the panels and stuff under it should shine throw the transparent parts. is that so hard? i couldn't find a solution for that. there must be a simple way. greetings juergen Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97963
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    - .Net 2.0 Rich Text Editor Is anybody aware of a component or sample application using a RichTextBox with a formatting toolbar using the .Net 2.0 framework. (Much like WordPad) .. I found one control, http://www.textcontrol.com/products/dotnet/, however this control is using the 1.1 framework and would cause deployment issues. Thanks for your time Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97959
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    - Open Documents of Arbitrary Type from .Net I'm developing a win form based add-on to a document management system using the .Net runtime. When a user is using my add-on they could be dealing with documents of many different types, e.g. Word, PDF, Excel, RTF. I would like to add a "View" button to my add-on that will open whatever document they are currently handleing with that document's associated application. I'm not trying to control the document after that point; I simply want to launch the associated application and forget about it. What's the best way? Any thoughts? TIA// Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97954
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    - Datagrid and custom collection as datasource All, I have successfully used custom collections as the datasource for a datagrid previously however this one is causing me problems as one of the properties of the objects within the collection relate to another custom object as follows Public Class OrderNumber Public property Number As String . . End Property Public Property Type As OrderNumberType . . End Property End Class Public Class OrderNumberType Public Property ID as Integer . . End Property Public Property Description As String . . End Property End Class I have a collection that inherits CollectionBase called OrderNumberCollection that I can add individual OrderNumber objects to and everything is OK. However when I then set datagrid.datasource = OrderNumberCollection I can see all the properties of object OrderNumber as columns, however within the grid rows the value of the OrderType column is "<namespace>.OrderType" and what I want is for it to be OrderType.Description Any thoughts welcomed ! Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97948
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    - Updating Property Inspector Is there a way to update the Visual Studio property inspector when you change properties behind the scenes? Example: I have an enum that defines color schemes, when changed it changes two properties "StartColor" and "EndColor" but the new values are not reflected in the VS.NET property inspector until I click on them. Any info is appreciated! John Parrish Tag: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. Tag: 97947
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What's the easiest way to play an animated gif in a windows forms
application?

TIA - Jeff.

Re: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. by Tim

Tim
Thu Feb 23 15:06:55 CST 2006

Use a PictureBox. Assign the gif to the Image property of a PictureBox
control.

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"UJ" <fred@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> What's the easiest way to play an animated gif in a windows forms
> application?
>
> TIA - Jeff.
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Re: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. by UJ

UJ
Thu Feb 23 15:09:42 CST 2006

Thanks. I didn't think that would work. But I tried it and it works fine.

J.

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> Use a PictureBox. Assign the gif to the Image property of a PictureBox
> control.
>
> --
> Tim Wilson
> .NET Compact Framework MVP
>
> "UJ" <fred@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:upf34$KOGHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> What's the easiest way to play an animated gif in a windows forms
>> application?
>>
>> TIA - Jeff.
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Re: Playing an animated gif file in a windows form application. by Herfried

Herfried
Thu Feb 23 18:18:21 CST 2006

"UJ" <fred@nowhere.com> schrieb:
> Thanks. I didn't think that would work. But I tried it and it works fine.

If it doesn't work for certain GIF files you could use the 'ImageAnimator'
class.

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