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    - AfterCheck event for TreeView control Hi, I registered event handler to catch the AfterCheck event... myTreeView.AfterCheck += new TreeViewEventHandler(myTreeView_....); It works fine, however, if I set the checkbox as true or false programatically(I mean..in the code, somethinglike node.Checked = true...), aftercheck event wasn't fired. Of course, if I checked the checkbox by mouse or keyboard, the event was fired. However, again, programatically set checkbox didn't invoke the aftercheck event. Am I missing something? Any suggesion would be appreciated. Thanks. ...............................................TJ Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82197
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    - Wrong Application Icon Task Switch I have a C# application with one and only one icon in the project. The icon is linked as the application icon in Project Properties and is also linked with each windows form. The icon is displayed properly on the desktop, in the task bar, and on the form itself. However, when you task switch (Alt+Tab) the icon is replaced with a generic icon. Why? How do I get the proper icon to show on the task switch dialog? --Kevin Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82196
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    - After form loads event Hi This question is probably one of the basic things but being a novice programmer in c# and .NET environment, I couldn't get to find the answer. I have a menu item in one form and need to create the context menu with tht menu item in another form. The first form becomes the parent form for the second form after the second form is loaded. So, I need to know what event could be used as load event is called when the form is still in the process of loading. Thanks Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82194
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    - changing look and feel of an app I would like to know if there are any examples, tutorial on how to completely change an application's look and feel. By that I mean the colors, the way menus are drawn, the way tool bar items are spaced in a tool bar, the way tab identifiers are shaped, etc., etc. There are a few interesting 'LAFs' such as MS Money 2005, MSN Messenger 6.2, Office 2003...just to name a few basic ones. I would like to have one of my graphic designer friends do a mock up in photoshop then produce an application that looks like it (I'm assuming it all has to be done programatically so designers would have to resort to something like photoshop). I also understand that part of the reason the aforementioned applications look the way they do is because of controls which are not available publicly...despite that, if designer can create websites (with primitive components) that can draw powerful and diverse emotional reactions, I don't understand why rich client GUIs have to look so ugly and gray (obviously 'consistency' has its place too). Any way, it will be even better if someone can point me to publicly available LAFs, the way we are starting to see them for the Java/SWING community. Thanks! Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82190
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    - Overriding OnPaint with a ListView Hi all, here is what I want to do: I've got a ListView populated from a database. The problem is that there is two much items generated... So I wanted to only get additionnal data (all the colums) for the painted items. To do so I created my own ListView class derivated from the original one and I've overriden the OnPaint method. BUT this function's never called............ Somebody knows why? Or even more, sombedy would have another solution to solve my problem? Thanks in advance!!! Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82189
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    - Use Outlook 2003 buttons, etc. How can I develop a windows application that uses controls in Office 2003, especially Outlook. Jay Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82186
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    - View of ListControl Item I have a ListControl on a window where the text will get clipped. The user can not see the full text nor can he scroll to view it. Questions: 1) Is there a Windows "standard" that is used for a work around. 2) Is there a way to know which item the mouse is hovering over and put up a display in a tool tip type window. I can't find a way to access the Scollbar to find out the vertical scroll on the window. I would prefer to stay away from a Combo box look as the list control is for display purposes and is not used for selection. Thanks, Marc Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82185
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    - Datagrid sorting Is it possible to sort datagrid from code and how? Tnx in advance Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82182
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    - embedded resource Hi, How to to create an object (like Cursor) from a .Cur file embedded in a dll of C# classes? Thanks in advance, Pascal Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82181
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    - Division By Zero Exception in MonthCalendar.GetMinReqRect(..) Hi all, My prog throw this exception when I add the parent control of the calendar into the main control collection. But It does not throw it at every launch of the application... !!!! So does it means that it's a memory problem or something? I would give any further information if someone could help me out of this :) Thanks in advance! Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82179
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    - monthcalendar Hi, is it possible to display specifik days in another color (red) in the monthcalendar? I know it is possible to display specifik days in bold, but can I change color as well? Thanks Julia Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82177
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    - data entry (Visual C++) I built a Winform with several textbox's. I am using sqlDataAdapter. My DataSet is "dsOwnerAnimal1". I have some records in the sql table and I can display them with "Fill, Next and Previous". I clear the DataSet with 'dsOwnerAnimal1->Clear();' and the I enter data into the textbox fields. I then GetChanges and do the update. First I check for changes 'HasChanges' this always fails. Do I need to somehow put the DataSet into insert mode or something? Help!! -- Norm Bohana Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82176
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    - Entering Data into a Textbox -- Norm Bohana Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82175
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    - sqlDataAdapter Insert C++ I have built a winform project using Visual C++, and I do not know how to build an insert. I cannot find an example or how to code one in the documentation. I can use the fill (sqlDataAdapter2->Fill(dsOwnerAnimal1);). I need help. Norm Bohana Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82174
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    - datagrid column headers and size? i have a datagrid that is getting it's dataset from a mysql database. is there a way to change the header label and a way to set each columns width before it is displayed? there are 4 columns being displayed and i need to be able to rename 2 of the columns and set the width of them too. thanx in advance Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82168
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    - Shortcut Key question (i.e. "&Submit") I have a Button on a WinForm that has a text property = "&Submit". I noticed that whenever I pressed the "S" key only (without pressing the "Alt" key) the Button's click event would fire. I thought that it was only supposed to fire if the combo "Alt+S" was pressed. My problem is that I have another control (a DataGrid) that is suppoed to respond to the "S" key being pressed and I don't want the Button's click event to be fired. I only want it to be fired if the combo "Alt+S" is pressed. Any suggestions? Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82167
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    - A Bug in .NET Framework/Windows Forms Anyone who sees this We have been grappling with this problem ever since we ported to .NET. Microsoft says that MenuItem event handlers are not garbage collected, since they are not "closely tied" to the forms. Although they keep holding the refrence to the forms and it causes the forms to not dispose. So the user objects and GDI object counts keep riising. Apparantly they dont think its an issue and the users have to add handlers for menu item events and then remove the handlers manually. If anyone has come across this issue and know of any other solution besides Microsoft's then please post it. Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82166
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    - ICustomTypeDescriptor.GetEditor - Which property am I on?? I have a class that will be edited via the CollectionEditor/CollectionForm UI. To that extent I have defined the various properties I want editable for my class. However, three of the properties are of type string but I would like them edited by selection from a dropdown list whose contents are determined at runtime. It looks like I might be able to use the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface to do what I need. In particular, if I could override the GetEditor method to create a specialized UITypeEditor for these three properties then I think this would do the trick. The only problem is that I cannot see how I know, when GetEditor is being invoked, which property it is being invoked for! Thanks, -- TB Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82165
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    - How to select datagrid cell This sounds very simple, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. When I display a WinForms datagrid, I want the value in the first row and column to appear in reverse image. I have tried setting the CurrentCell, focusing the grid, getting the textbox and tried to select the text, etc. Each time with no luck. When I press the Tab key to tab through the cells, then the cells are reverse-imaged. But I need it that way on initial display. Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82164
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    - Simple Data Grid DataSource Problem I want to use a data grid in a MFC Project. After adding the grid to an empty dialog, I did not find a way to connect to a data source: The DataSource textbox stays empy (I added all kind of Connections and Commands). The help systems says that ADO is to use, but if found only Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0 (SP6.0) (OLEDB) and if I add this to the dialog I get: "File or assembly name AxInterop.MSadodclib.dll or dependency was not found". What can I do? Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82163
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    - CollectionEditor: How to turn on "description" panel? If I use a PropertyGrid directly, the "description" panel is available and can be turned on and off and resized, etc. But if I use a CollectionEditor, the property grid displayed there doesn't appear to honor the request to display the "description" panel even though the properties of the items in my collection all have description attributes. How can I get the description panel for the property grid portion of the CollectionEditor to be displayed? Thanks! -- TB Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82161
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    - CollectionEditor: How to specify arbitary list of values for prope I have a collection of items that I allow the user to edit by bringing up a CollectionEditor. The editor conveniently displays all the properties of my item class and works pretty well. However, I am changing one of the properties from being of an enumerated type to being a string value that should be set from a list of possible values determined at runtime. The enumerated value is automatically handled by the PropertyGrid as a dropdown list. How can I override this behavior to supply the list of allowed values at runtime? I have been successful at plugging in my own derivation of a UITypeEditor for this property but I cannot figure out how to supply the instantiated type editor the list of values to display in the dropdown. Thanks! -- TB Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82160
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    - WinForms question... Hi! How do I determine the windows standard vertical scrollbar width in pixels (set from the display properties) from c# code? Peeter. Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82155
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    - Scrolling during a Drag Operation Hello all, I have a UserControl that is in a Panel. The Panel's AutoScroll is set to true. When the user drags data over the Panel and hits the edges, I want the control to scroll. I've managed to get this all to work. But I have a few questions: - Is there a standard distance from the edge of the window that the mouse should be before scrolling starts? - How much does one scroll each instance? I've tuned mine to match the speed of the machine I'm doing development work on... Obviously this may not work for others. And one technical question. To do the scrolling I adjust the AutoScrollPosition property while handling the OnDragOver event. If I do this every time the OnDragOver event is fired, my scroll bars move, but nothing is re-drawn (until the scroll bars go as far as they can). On the other hand, if I update the auto scroll position every other time OnDragOver is fired, then everything works as expected: the scroll bars move and the panel is updated. This seems odd, and I find no details on this in the documentation or in a search of the newsgroups. One other question. What is DragDropEeffects.Scroll used for? Is there any point to it? Or is it just there in case you want to change cursors. Finally -- I'm doing my scrolling in OnDragOver. Should I do it in GiveFeedback instead? I'm a little unclear how the framework expects me to seperate the tasks (currently, since I have no special cursors, I do implement GiveFeedback). Cheers, Gordon. Point mouseCurrent = PointToClient(new Point (drgevent.X, drgevent.Y)); /// /// Is it time to scroll (if possible)? Skip every other call to give /// the rest of the update framework a chance to catch up. /// //// _lastDidIt switches from true to false on each call, it is a method variable. int dragboarder = 20; int dragscrolldist = 5; if (mouseCurrent.Y > Height-dragboarder) { if (_lastDidIt) AutoScrollPosition = new Point (-AutoScrollPosition.X, -AutoScrollPosition.Y+dragscrolldist); } if (mouseCurrent.Y < dragboarder) { if (_lastDidIt) AutoScrollPosition = new Point (-AutoScrollPosition.X, -AutoScrollPosition.Y-dragscrolldist); } if (mouseCurrent.X > Width-dragboarder) { if (_lastDidIt) AutoScrollPosition = new Point (-AutoScrollPosition.X+dragscrolldist, -AutoScrollPosition.Y); } if (mouseCurrent.X < dragboarder) { if (_lastDidIt) AutoScrollPosition = new Point (-AutoScrollPosition.X-dragscrolldist, -AutoScrollPosition.Y); } _lastDidIt = !_lastDidIt; /// /// Make sure everything is re-drawn. /// Invalidate(); Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82150
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    - Scrolling in DataGridView in Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft has confirmed that this is bug with VS 2005. So we can keep our fingers crossed till they give us the solution. Refer the link for more details http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=2ce60503-bf84-44d0-af9f-ee26b6f1ad21 -- Thanks Arvind Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82148
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    - Problem with databinding and RowChanging event I created a method to handle the RowChanging event to validate some data in a databound form. I am using BindingManagerBase.EndCurrentEdit to trigger the RowChanging event. If the data cannot be validated then an exception is raised in the RowChanging event and catched after the call to EndCurrentEdit. The problem I am having is that after calling EndCurrentEdit and raising the exception inside the RowChanging handler, the values in the controls in the form that are not modified again are not fetched again. For example... I have a form with 2 edit boxes which are data bound. Edit1 and Edit2. The original values for each are "mary" and "smith" respectively. If I modify Edit1 to contain "John" and call EndCurrentEdit, the RowChanging event is fired. If I check the Current version of the column it contains "Mary" and the proposed version contains "John". If I raise an exception within the event handler then the data is not saved to the dataset as expected. At this point I still have the edit boxes containing "John" and "Smith"... I am not calling CancelCurrentEdit because I don't want to roll back to the current values... I am simply letting the user know that the data entered is incorrect. If at this point I edit the Edit2 to "Roberts" and call the EndCurrentEdit method, the RowChanging event is fired... but if I check the proposed version of the Edit1 bound column, it contains the Current value "Mary" and NOT the value currently in Edit1. If the user does not edit the Edit1 control directly, the value is not reflected when EndCurrentEdit is called. Thanks, Jeronimo Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82147
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    - Design-time control options Hi all, How can I show checkbox for bool properties of my custom control in design-time. The usage of DesignerVerb shows just plain MenuItem. I am wondering how TextBox control shows a CheckBox for MultiLine option. (See a TextBox control and its MultiLine option in VS.NET 2005 Windows Form Design Mode) Yongkee Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82146
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    - Webbrowser control + MDI + Disable ctrl-n I am using the Webbrowser control in a MDI application. The Webbrowser control is in a User Control which is loaded into a form. I have implemented IDocHostUIHandler for the User Control and have set the SetUIHandler to the User Control (this). I have also disabled ctrl-n by implementing TranslateAccelerator.The problem is, as the mdi form is loaded initially, I can do ctrl-n and it will popup a new IE browser. Once I click anywhere on the browser, then disables ctrl-n. Any ideas? Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82145
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    - Hosting .NET Windows forms UserControl in IE Hello, I need to host .NET Windows forms UserControl in Internet Explorer. I do it by including <OBJECT> tag in my aspx page: <OBJECT id="mycontrol1" classid="MyControl.dll#MyControlNamespace.MyControl" width=800 height=300 style="font-size:12;" VIEWASTEXT> </OBJECT> everything works fine, MyControl.dll gets downloaded into the download cache and IE displays the control. The problem however is the fact that the browser needs to download MyControl.dll file. Our clients will block downloads of .DLL and .EXE files. I would like to use CAB file instead, for example, I tried codebase attribute as in the following: <OBJECT id="mycontrol1" codebase="MyControl.cab" classid="MyControl.dll#MyControlNamespace.MyControl" width=800 height=300 style="font-size:12;" VIEWASTEXT> </OBJECT> but it does not work. Is there a way of making IE to download a CAB file, just as it does for an ActiveX components, and extract contents into the download cache, so that no DLL file needs to be downloaded? Thank you, Slava. Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82143
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    - Combo Control array - Selection hello , I have created a Control array for a ComboBox to populate on a tabPage . My concern is that I 'm using a List to populate the Combo Box like this .. ComboArray[i].Items.Add(List[i)]; ComboArray[i].DataSource = List; The Combo Box gets populated with all the values in the List ( Thats what I wanted ) But when i select a value in the First Combo box the Changes reflects in all the boxes created Example if if there were 6 values from 1,2,3 ..6 in the all Combo Dropdown list . when I select 5 in the 3rd all the Combo's selected value changes to 5. How do I get specifice values in different Combo According to my selection ? Thanks Sylesh Nair Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82140
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    - Getting ToolTip from a control.. In a control it is usefull in some cases to know if it is included on a toolTip, HelpProvider etc. How do you access this information? I have the code below which uses reflection to pickup the IContainter named "Components" that the windows designer uses and this seem to work but I am wondering if there is a way to do this without using reflection? Anyone else have a better way of doing this??? /// <summary> /// Method: This gets the ContainerControl and then looks for an /// IContainer field named "components" /// used by the windows designer. It uses reflection. /// /// (can be used to look for ToolTips, ErrorProviders, HelpProviders etc) /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public IContainer GetContainerComponents(Control control) { IContainer components = null; try { if (control.Container != null) { components = control.Container; } Object containerControl = control.GetContainerControl(); if (containerControl != null) { //Using Reflection to get components... BindingFlags binding = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public; FieldInfo componentField = containerControl.GetType().GetField("components",binding); if (componentField != null) { components = (IContainer)componentField.GetValue(containerControl); } } } catch {} return components; } //Eg: Deactivates toolTips for a Control in private void DeactivateControlToolTips(Control control) { IContainer components = GetContainerComponents(control); foreach (Component child in components.Components) { if (child is System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip) { if ( ((System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip)child).GetToolTip(this).Length > 0) { ((System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip)child).Active = false; } } } } Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82134
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    - Winform scrollbars and Maximize I have an MDI application that has 4 child windows. When my application opens, it initialially opens all of the forms un-maximized. When I then choose to maximize all of the windows and then in my code switch the app to one particular window, that one window does not appear maximized. Instead, I have to double-click on the title bar and then in the control box I see the option to maximize. Otherwise the control box shows what appears to have 'restore' capability. Not sure if this explaination makes sense. I have the autoscroll set to true on the window because the controls on the window go down farther than the height of the window. Is there something to do with the autoscroll that could be causing this behaviour? Thanks. STom Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82133
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    - How to hide form without hiding its control? Hi .. How to make form invisible without hiding control on the form. Thanx.. Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82129
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    - Need to retrieve font name instead of Typeface name Dear Readers, I need to retrieve the font name of a TTF file. When I use the following code I retrieve the Typeface name but not the name I see on the top of the preview screen when I doubleclick the TTF file. Does anyone know how I can retrieve that name? Dim _PrivateFontCollection As New _ System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection _PrivateFontCollection.AddFontFile("C:\MyFont.TTF") Dim FontName as String FontName =3D _PrivateFontCollection.Families(Index).Name Many thanks, R=E9my Samulski Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82128
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    - How to handle WM_NCPAINT event in C#? Hi All, I need to draw on Non client area for that i need to handle WM_NCPAINT event. Please help me and send demo code if possible. thanx Amar Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82123
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    - Inherited User Control not showing in designer I have a user control that inherits from another user control. The base user control works fine in the designer, I can see all of the controls, etc... However when I open the derived control in the designer, all I see is a grey square with no controls. I have tried attaching to the IDE with another instance's debugger, but no exceptions are being thrown when the control is open. Here is how the constructors are setup: Base Control: public class MyBase : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl { [Browsable(false)] protected AnotherObject _oObject; [Browsable(false)] public AnotherObject oObject { get{ return _oObject; } set{ _oObject= value; } } public MyBase() { _oObject= new AnotherObject (); } public MyBase (AnotherObject oObject) { InitializeComponent(); _oObject= oObject; } } Derived Control: public class MyDerived: MyBase { public MyDerived(AnotherObject oObject) : base(oObject) { InitializeComponent(); } public MyDerived() : base() { } } Please help! Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82118
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    - Prompt if changes for databinding Hi, I am writting a data navigator where if the user edits a form and tries to move to a different record on the dataset without saving the current record, he is prompted to save it before the BindingManagerBase position is changed. I created a navigator class that includes a dirtyRow flag to check when the user selects to move to a different record. I am trying to keep track of changes by adding events to TextChanged on the edit boxes of my form. If a textbox changes then the dirtyRow flag is set. However I am encountering some problems since the TextChanged event is also fired when text is changed due to the databinding for the control. I added an event for PositionChanged on the BindingManagerBase that sets dirtyRow to false and in general this works because when the position is changed, the databinding sets the dirtyRow to true on the TextChanged event but the PositionChanged event is called after the TextChanged event and therefore the newly visited row is not considered dirty until the user changes the text on the edit boxes. However this does not work the first time the form is created because in that particular case, the TextChanged event from the databinding is called AFTER the PositionChanged event. My question... 1- Is there any way of knowing IF the EndCurrentEdit will actually modify the underlying dataset? I noticed that RowState for a row changes to Modified after EndCurrentEdit if there are changes. I want to prompt the user to keep or save changes only if changes exist. 2- Is there an event that I can use to know that databinding for the form on the current position has completed so I can set the dirtyRow flag to false? Thanks, Jeronimo Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82116
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    - Tabbing Into a Custom DatagridColumnStyle at ColIndex(0) This is a duplicate post. I wanted to be sure to post in the managed group to take advantage of my subscription. Sorry for the initial mispost. JT Hello, I am literally banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to use the tab key to move from the last column in a datagrid row to the first column in the next row when that first column is a Custom DataGridColumnStyle (in this case, as combobox). I have seen George Shepherd's suggestion on subclassing the embedded control, and have tried three different ways of doing this, as shown below. NONE of them work. I think I know why... After having tabbed through my datagrid, when I then look at the trace for "Debug.WriteLine(keyData.ToString)", I see Tab for every move I made from one column to the next ON THE SAME ROW. But when my tab key cause a new row to become current, my debug trace shows nothing at all. Question is, how to solve this problem. Can anyone enlighten me as to exactly how the datagrid moves to a new row in response to the tab key? Maybe if I can understand that, I can achieve what I am trying to achieve. Thanks. Public Class DataGridComboBox Inherits ComboBox Public Sub New() MyBase.New() End Sub Public isInEditOrNavigateMode As Boolean = True Protected Overrides Function ProcessDialogKey(ByVal keyData As System.Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean Dim dG As DataGrid = DirectCast(Me.Parent, DataGrid) Dim curCell As DataGridCell = dG.CurrentCell With curCell Dim cNum As Integer = .ColumnNumber Dim colIndex As Integer = dG.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles.Count - 1 Debug.WriteLine(keyData.ToString) If keyData = Keys.Tab Then 'No more columns in row --> go to nbew row If cNum = colIndex Then dG.CurrentCell = New DataGridCell(.RowNumber + 1, 0) Return True 'More columns in current row Else 'Tab normally dG.CurrentCell = New DataGridCell(.RowNumber, .ColumnNumber + 1) Return True End If End If End With Return MyBase.ProcessDialogKey(keyData) End Function 'Private WM_KEYUP As Integer = &H101 'Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) ' If m.Msg = WM_KEYUP Then ' Return ' End If ' MyBase.WndProc(m) 'End Sub 'Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) ' If m.WParam.ToInt32 = CInt(Keys.Tab) Then ' Return ' End If ' MyBase.WndProc(m) 'End Sub 'Private Sub DataGridComboBox_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown ' If e.KeyData = Keys.Tab Then ' e.Handled = True ' End If 'End Sub End Class -- John Expand AllCollapse All -- John Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82114
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    - Tabbing Into a Custom DatagridColumnStyle At ColIndex(0) Hello, I am literally banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to use the tab key to move from the last column in a datagrid row to the first column in the next row when that first column is a Custom DataGridColumnStyle (in this case, as combobox). I have seen George Shepherd's suggestion on subclassing the embedded control, and have tried three different ways of doing this, as shown below. NONE of them work. I think I know why... After having tabbed through my datagrid, when I then look at the trace for "Debug.WriteLine(keyData.ToString)", I see Tab for every move I made from one column to the next ON THE SAME ROW. But when my tab key cause a new row to become current, my debug trace shows nothing at all. Question is, how to solve this problem. Can anyone enlighten me as to exactly how the datagrid moves to a new row in response to the tab key? Maybe if I can understand that, I can achieve what I am trying to achieve. Thanks. Public Class DataGridComboBox Inherits ComboBox Public Sub New() MyBase.New() End Sub Public isInEditOrNavigateMode As Boolean = True Protected Overrides Function ProcessDialogKey(ByVal keyData As System.Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean Dim dG As DataGrid = DirectCast(Me.Parent, DataGrid) Dim curCell As DataGridCell = dG.CurrentCell With curCell Dim cNum As Integer = .ColumnNumber Dim colIndex As Integer = dG.TableStyles(0).GridColumnStyles.Count - 1 Debug.WriteLine(keyData.ToString) If keyData = Keys.Tab Then 'No more columns in row --> go to nbew row If cNum = colIndex Then dG.CurrentCell = New DataGridCell(.RowNumber + 1, 0) Return True 'More columns in current row Else 'Tab normally dG.CurrentCell = New DataGridCell(.RowNumber, .ColumnNumber + 1) Return True End If End If End With Return MyBase.ProcessDialogKey(keyData) End Function 'Private WM_KEYUP As Integer = &H101 'Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) ' If m.Msg = WM_KEYUP Then ' Return ' End If ' MyBase.WndProc(m) 'End Sub 'Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) ' If m.WParam.ToInt32 = CInt(Keys.Tab) Then ' Return ' End If ' MyBase.WndProc(m) 'End Sub 'Private Sub DataGridComboBox_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown ' If e.KeyData = Keys.Tab Then ' e.Handled = True ' End If 'End Sub End Class -- John Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82113
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    - How do you get a 2 day response from Microsoft I posted a question on "MDI Client Problem" on 12/22/04 and I'm still waiting for a response. -- tsiGeorge Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82108
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    - Resource Files Hi All - Happy Holidays I'm struggling to understand how to make resource files work in a multi-lingual vb.net windows app - and feel real stupid. I've read MCSD books and Visual Studio Help articles, but just don't get it. Duh. The ResourceManager class and resource files within a project should be able to communicate. Any help or reference to examples greatly appreciated Regards, SC Tag: Problems Positioning Toolbars Tag: 82104
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Hi
I am self learning .VB .Net and have encountered a requirement that is not
illustrated in any of my texts.
I have three toolbars which can be present in any combination from 0-3
They are quite small and when there are two or three I would like the first
pair to lie alongside each other
I have been fiddling for ages with code to do this. The latest version is
listed below. It always leaves three toolbars full width stacked vertically.
I would be grateful for some advice on how to achieve this.
Yours with thanks in anticipation

Roger Stenson

'Current Code
If (CurrentUser.UserStatus = "Authenticated") And (CurrentUser.UserLevel =
"Administrator") Then

'Basic Toolbar
tbrBasic.Visible = True
tbrBasic.Enabled = True
tbrBasic.Size = New Size(233, 16)
tbrBasic.Location = New Point(0, 0)
'User Toolbar
tbrUser.Visible = True
tbrUser.Enabled = True
tbrBasic.Size = New Size(233, 16)
tbrUser.Location = New Point(224, 0)
'Administrator Toolbar
tbrAdministrator.Visible = True
tbrAdministrator.Enabled = True
tbrBasic.Size = New Size(233, 16)
tbrUser.Location = New Point(0, 17)

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