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    - Keyboard shortcuts Hi All, I have a form that contains many controls, including a custom control. That custom control contains a number of child controls, including a button with the text "&Search". When the custom control or one of its child controls has focus, pressing Alt-S causes the button to be clicked. When one of the other controls on the form has focus, pressing Alt-S does not cause the "&Search" button to be clicked. Is this a WinForms issue, or am I misunderstanding something? Yours, Duncan Bayne Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80157
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    - How to disable a tab in tab control? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C63C.9A017260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just cannot do it in tabpages. Do you know how to do it? Thanks, Dennis ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C63C.9A017260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Just cannot do it in tabpages. Do you know how to do = it?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Dennis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C63C.9A017260-- Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80154
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    - Printing Text With a Watermark I have a production application that prints textual information, plus a graphic watermark on each page. Currently it uses a PrintPageEventHandler from the System.Drawing.Printing namespace to add the watermark and text to each page. The watermark is the same on each page, and is derived from a WMF file whose size is about 120 KB. The problem is that the spool files that are produced when we print are somewhat large. The spool files without the watermark are only about 10 KB per page. With the watermark (derived from a WMF file) the spool files are about 300 KB per page. What I would like to do is send the watermark only once per print job. This would greatly decrease the load on the network and print server. How can I accomplish this? Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80150
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    - The transport failed to connect to the server I'm using VB.NET 2003 to writing a Windows application and I want it to send email. I've been assuming the easiest method is by using System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail. I point a specific server using: System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "BANANA". That server is our Exchange Server. Everything works great for ME on my computer. However, when I give the .EXE to someone else to run they're getting an error: "System.Web.HttpException: Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040213): The transport failed to connect to the server." My devbox has the SMTP service installed. The other guy's computer does not. Is that why its failing on his computer? I'd hoped that if I point to a specific server for delivery (rather than default to localhost) the SMTP service wouldn't need to be installed on the host running my program. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80147
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    - listbox shows blank items Hi, I have Windows 2000 SP4, Visual Studio 2003 (Microsoft Development Environment 2003 / Version 7.1.3088), with Microsoft >NET Framework 1.1 (Version 1.1.4322 SP1). Using C#, C++, or VB I create an application with one form containing only a listbox, a textbox and a button. The only code I type is for the button: when clicked the code copies the text from the textbox to the listbox: in C#: private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { listBox1.Items.Add(textBox1.Text); } It appears the text is copied (I can select it), but no text appear in the listbox. When run the compiled program on a colleague's Windows XP computer the result was the same! Is this a framework issue (I hardly believe that!)? Something on our computer's setup? Any suggestion appreciated. Many thanks Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80145
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    - ErrorProvider question I'm binding an ErrorProvider object to a dataset by calling ErrorProvider.BindToDataAndErrors() in a WinForms app. That seems to be working fine. The only issue I've found is that the error string displayed by an ErrorProvider has the name of the column prepended to it. That could confuse users. The list of error strings for a given DataRow does not have the name prepended. So it looks like a "feature" of the ErrorProvider class. Deriving from the class won't solve the problem since the GetError method is not virtual. Has anyone seen this too? Do you know of a way to prevent it? Thanks for any help. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80143
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    - DataGrid and Texbox Focus I have a data grid and a textbox on the same form. When the form is opened and the datgrid is displayed the focus goes there, not to the textbox. I have tried to use textbox1.focus() on the textbox but it doesn't work. How can I get the focus on the textbox, not the datagrid. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80142
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    - DataGrid with DateTime Hi, I have encountered the problem: 1. I have a sql server with a table in it. 2. One of the column's type in the table is datatime. 2. I have a form taht contains a datagrid control. 3. I attached the datagrid to the table in the DB. One of the cells in the table contains the following data (datetime): 11/8/2004 4:14:37 PM (I can see that if I open the DB through the server explorer in visual studio). When I run my application, and the DB is attached to the grid, the cell contains: 11/8/2004 (thats what I see in the grid when I run the application- the time is missing). Is there something I forgot to do? Do I have to configure something? Help will be appreciated, Regards, Ram. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80141
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    - windows form size at display time Hi, I am a new user to VB.NET. In the past I never had trouble with creating a windows form adding objects and then having it display the same size at run time. I have a form that is exactly the size I want it to be at run time however it is about 20% shorter and 10% narrower at run time , which causes controls not to show up, and some of them are stacking a little bit over each other. How do I make my form appear exactly at run time as it is in design? P.S: I think it might have something to do with the new feature of docking objects to other controls(i.e. : panels) but I have'nt actively done this knowingly on my part. thanks Chris Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80140
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    - Docking control help! Hello! I have a main form, in which there is a Menu (main Menu, at top), Toolbar (below Main menu), ListView (left, below toolbar), a statusbar and a child form with DataGrid on it appears every time when click on items of listview respectively. Problems: I need to dock the ListView below toolbar and on the left part of main form above the status bar. The child form below tool bar and next to the listview and lengthens to the right boder of main form and above statusbar. so, How can i do it programmatically? Thanks for all your help! Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80139
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    - finding all the opened forms I have an application that has a main form and a user can create a number of other forms at run time. Most of those forms are created through reflection by first using Assembly.CreateInstance to create the object then get the methodInfo of a certain method, and finally calls MethodInfo.Invoke. At certain point of the execution I need to close all those forms except my main form. Anybody knows if there is a way of finding all those forms from my main form? Thanks. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80138
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    - How to design MainMenu to show images Hi, I try to show the images from ImageList in the MainMenu MenuItems but it seems there is no easy way to do this by editing the properties of the MenuItem. Can anyone tell me a common technique for doing this. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80135
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    - Application Icon seems like a really simple question after some of the things I've managed to do but...how do I set up my application so that it has a custom icon rather than the windows explorer .exe standard icon? The icon that I want to use is a BMP format picture at the moment. Can anyone help??? Many thanks James Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80124
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    - Visual Basic .net Datagrid witout Insert Hi, I'm trying to create a Configuration Form with a datagrid. What I want to do is to show the values which may be edited, but no new row should be add. So, how can I show a datagrid without an insert-Row (*). Thanks for help, haerry Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80122
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    - need help in hosting UserControl in IE Hello developers! I`ve created an assembly and I host a UserControl-derived class from it in IE using <object> tag. Like this: <object id="upload1" classid="Foo.dll#BarCompany.Foo" width="1000" height="500"> <param name="xxxx" value="yyyy"> </object> And everything works. However, when I strong-name this assembly this BarCompany.Foo control is not loaded, and IE shows an image placeholder. Maybe there`s a special classid value for this case or something I missed? Thank you for advices and help! Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80120
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    - TopMost Hi, I have a problem with TopMost Of the Form. I have already set the TopMost is true. but it doesn't overlaps all the other (non-topmost) forms. Could you tell me why this problem happend. Thanks, Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80114
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    - Sending Mail from a WinForms client I'm wanting to include in my WinForms app the ability to send an email. Is it possible, and what is method to take, to send email from within a forms app, ideally using the user's mail account. What I would like to avoid is having to setup special mail servers/SMTP servers. If their Outlook Express client can send mail, can I a stuff message through that connection? Currently if I do this: Dim msg As New MailMessage With msg .To = "name@domain.com" .From = "My App" .Subject = "My Subject" .Body = "My Body" .BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text End With SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "MachineName" SmtpMail.Send(msg) ....I get a Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. error. Many thanks everyone. -- === Phil (Auckland | Aotearoa) Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80112
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    - How to create a Multiple documents form like in MFC?? Pls help me how to create a Multiple documents form like in MFC? Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80104
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    - How to Size the form to Maximum at OnPaint?? Hi all! I want to know hot to make the form to maximal size (=desktop size) at the moment of OnPaint? Thanks in advance! Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80103
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    - Am I Going Crazy? I'm using the office add-in to create a word document based on a template file. In some areas of the document I need to insert a LineBreak (Not a new paragraph) into the document. So far I can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone help? -- Sincerely, S. Justin Gengo, MCP Web Developer / Programmer www.aboutfortunate.com "Out of chaos comes order." Nietzsche Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80101
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    - Problem with DragDrop between 2 textboxes I created a new vb windows application and dragged 2 textboxes onto Form1. Then I coppied the code below from MSDN article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchimpdragdrop.asp). The code for TextBox1 executes OK, but fails to execute for TextBox2 . Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks. Private MouseIsDown As Boolean = False Private Sub TextBox1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _ System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.MouseDown ' Set a flag to show that the mouse is down. MouseIsDown = True End Sub Private Sub TextBox1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _ System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.MouseMove If MouseIsDown Then ' Initiate dragging. TextBox1.DoDragDrop(TextBox1.Text, DragDropEffects.Copy) End If MouseIsDown = False End Sub Private Sub TextBox2_DragEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _ System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TextBox2.DragEnter ' Check the format of the data being dropped. If (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text)) Then ' Display the copy cursor. e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy Else ' Display the no-drop cursor. e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None End If End Sub Private Sub TextBox2_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _ System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TextBox2.DragDrop ' Paste the text. TextBox2.Text = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.Text) End Sub -- moondaddy@nospam.com Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80096
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    - CodeSwap Addin microsoft.public.dotnet.framework microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms microsoft.public.dotnet.general All - I am tring to add the CodeSwap addin to VS.Net 2003 and no errors are reported in the setup but I do get them in the event log. Any ideas on how to resolve this issue? Thanks, Brian Event Type: Error Event Source: CodeSwapAddin Setup Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 11/6/2004 Time: 9:18:14 PM User: N/A Computer: BPH Description: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the path specified at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at VSAddinSetup.AddinReg.ExecuteRegAsm(String dllName) For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80095
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    - Can I send data to a console app from a win form Hi, I need to send data to a running console app. The console app is a kind of terminal service application. This console app has a input text box and I need to send a text string to fill in this text box. So the user can hit enter to run his consle app. How can I do it? It assumed that the console is always up and running and waiting for input. Thanks in advance. Steve Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80091
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    - How to Un-Activate an app Hi: I would like to activate / un-acitvate my app's from time to time. I like to do some action whenever the app is activated and in there the I will un-activate it, waiting for external signal to activate it and do the same action again and again. I put the action in the (main) Form.Activated event handler, it does once. I have to click other application, in order to have my app to lose focus, and click my app to get activated again to fire the Activated handler How do I un-acitivate the app, if possible, so it wil be ready to get activated again and again automatically. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80090
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    - txtBox help How do I make sure that there are 10 numbers in a txtbox? Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80089
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    - ListView control header events? The ListView control allows you to reorder and resize columns, but a cannot find out how to catch events coming from the header. I have looked at all the WM_NOTIFY events that come through. Only the click seems to fire. I would like to be able to save the changes to the header that are made by the user. How do I do this? Thanks for any help. Alfredo Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80087
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    - Export datagrid to excel and access Hi, Does anyone know how to export a Windows forms datagrid to Access and excel. I have a datagrid and want to click a button an export the data to excel and access. Thanks Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80085
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    - Newbie Help How do I perform an undo in a datagrid? Below is the code that I am trying to work with and it is not working. School11 is my dataset, Student is a table in an access db. I am using a Windows Form with a datagrid1. Can someone please give me a hand? Private Sub btnUndo_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnUndo.Click School11.Tables("Student").RejectChanges() DataGrid1.Refresh() End Sub() Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80082
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    - using Webbrowser control (SHDocVw) to navigate file system This is not a problem itself by using: AxWebBrowser1.Navigate("C:\Documents and Settings\Calvin Ouyang\My Documents\My Pictures"). However sinceI am browsing the My pictures folder, I want to show the thumbnail view. Is a way I can control that by using this webbrowser control (SHDocVw)? Thhanks a lot. Calvin Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80077
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    - updating winform Hi, I am having issue w/ threading. I have a datagrid and I want to run FillDG() in different thread and once it finishes, I want to bind the data. private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(FillDG)); t.Start(); // I don't know what to put here to wait for t to finish // I tried t.Join(); but this locked up the win form, i.e. I can't move the form around myDataGrid.SetDataBinding(myDataSet, "myDataTable"); } Please advice, thanks! -P Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80074
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    - hWnd question... I am not sure that I understand what the Control.Handle value represents. The MSDN documentation say that it is "the window handle that the control is bound to." Does this mean that the handle is for the control itself or for the control's parent form? I am trying to call a Win32 API metohd that will set the scroll position of UserControl. The method requires an hWnd, and I am wondering if the control's base.Handle would give me that value. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks! Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80070
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    - OpenFileDialog box problem Hello, I am using an OpenFileDialog box to upload a file into my program. It works, unless the user clicks on the My Documents folder. If you go through the c: listing, you can access the My Documents folder. However, if you click the button on the left side of the dialog box or try to click directly to My Documents without going through the c:, the entire program freezes. Any ideas what is happening? Thanks Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80065
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    - Can ShowHelp handle a url that targets a name containing spaces? Hi, I have a helpfile where there happens to be name anchors containging spaces, e.g. <a name="name with space"> Can I pass my arguments to ShowHelp in a way that will navigate to the name? I tried something like this: string file= @"C:\path with space\myhelp.chm"; string topic="html/concepts.htm#concept name"; Help.ShowHelp(this, file, HelpNavigator.Topic, topic); The file shows up with the correct page (concepts.htm", but it doesn't navigate to the name. I know it is bad practice to have spaces in names, but I am not in power to change this. Is there any way I can get the help up correctly? Greatful for any hints. Anna Neiderud (Also, I am trying to do the same thing with javascript in a different setting - any input on that would also be appreciated) Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80058
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    - Datagrid - set backcolour on individual cells? How do I set the background colour on an individual cell in a datagrid? All I want to do is iterate through all the cells and if a cell has a certain text value ('Unbooked') colour the background in red... Chris Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80057
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    - DataGrid ReadOnly Column BUG ! I´ve found a weird behaviour in the DataGrid: Scenario: ---------- I use a TableStyle with several standard TextBoxColumns within. One of that columns have the ReadOnly property set to true. In execution, select the text or a part of it in a cell inside the ReadOnly column. Then, do something that force the DataGrid to loose the focus and afterwards something else that changes its contents (DataSource changed, parent datagrid´s selected row changed, whatever...) After that, the text of the cell you selected is not refreshed, so it still appears in the DataGrid, even if all the rows of the DataGrid disappeared, the text is still there, by itself, looking at me and laughing. The text is refreshed if you give focus to the DataGrid again (by clicking on it or by manually calling .Focus() ). Im afraid I´m not using the correct terms to to search in the groups couse I couldn´t find much about the issue. I think it´s important enough to fix this, you guys out there ;) Thanks in advance. Regards, Iñaki. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80056
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    - Datagrid doubleclick event in cells? How do I make the doubleclick event fire when a user double clicks in a datagrid cell? It only seems to work when they click on the border or columns. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80055
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    - searching in a listbox explorer style Hi If you have multiple items in a listbox, click into the listbox, then type for instante the letter "p", the first item whose text property starts with "p" will be selected. Pressing "p" again will jump to the next item starting with "p", etc. In Windows explorer, you can type multiple letters after each other, and if you're fast enough, they'll be taken as a search term together. For instance pressing "p" then "e" then "a" would lead to the first folder/file whose name starts with "pea" being selected. Is there any way to achieve this functionality in a Listbox as well? Regards Stephan Steiner Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80045
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    - Custom Focus Is there some interface I have to implement to make a custom control recieve focus (and be recognized as recieving focus)? Thanks everyone. -- === Phil (Auckland | Aotearoa) Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80042
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    - OpenFileDialog and DataSet WriteXML strange problem Hi, I have a very strange problem which i hope someone can help shed light on. I have a Windows Forms application which provides data-entry UI. Data inputted is then stored into a DataSet which will be persisted into a XML file using the WriteXML method. The Dataset which contains a Filename data column (type = string); A user selects a file using the OpenFileDialog component. The file name is displayed in a textbox until the user clicks on the Save button. PROBLEM: If the file is selected using the OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() method, the file name is added to the dataset, but it is not written to the XML file. However, if the filename is manually typed into the textbox, saving to XML file succeeds. Further tests shows that this problem only shows up in WinXP system. Machines running 2000 saves the XML file just fine. In the event of failure, no exceptions nor errors are shown. This is a very strange problem, any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks, nick Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80034
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    - 2 Datagrids AllowNew Hi Have two Datagrids in a Master Detail relationship, used the example from syncfusion to bind to a currency manager and set the allowNew to false, but it does not work for my child datagrid. Any help would be great. thanks dave. here is some code // Connection Adapters CBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("Select * From tblCashBook", CBConnect) ; CBAdapterSplit = new OleDbDataAdapter("Select * From tblCashBookSplit", CBConnect) ; CBDataset = new DataSet(); CBConnect.Open() ; CBAdapter.Fill(CBDataset, "tblCashBook") ; CBAdapterSplit.Fill(CBDataset, "tblCashBookSplit") ; // Setting up datagrid columnstyles DGCashBook_SetupColumnStyles(); DGCashBookSplit_SetupColumnStyles(); CBDataset.Relations.Add("CashBookToSplit", CBDataset.Tables ["tblCashBook"].Columns["SplitNumber"], CBDataset.Tables["tblCashBookSplit"].Columns["SplitNumber"]); this.DGCashBook.DataSource = CBDataset.Tables["tblCashBook"]; this.DGCashBookSplit.DataSource = CBDataset.Tables["tblCashBook"]; this.DGCashBookSplit.DataMember = "CashBookToSplit"; this.DGCashBook.AllowNavigation = false; CBCmdBuilder = new OleDbCommandBuilder(CBAdapter); CBCmdBuilderSplit = new OleDbCommandBuilder(CBAdapterSplit); // Bind CM to Parent Datagrid cm = (CurrencyManager)this.BindingContext[DGCashBook.DataSource]; ((DataView)cm.List).AllowNew = false; // Bind CM2 to Child Datagrid cm2 = (CurrencyManager)this.BindingContext[this.DGCashBookSplit.DataSource, this.DGCashBookSplit.DataMember]; ((DataView)cm2.List).AllowNew = false; // tried navigate navigate handler for both datagrids but still does not work this.DGCashBook.Navigate += new NavigateEventHandler(DGCashBook_Navigate); CBConnect.Close(); Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80029
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    - Refresh current form to reflect culture change Hi everybody, I want to add localization support into my windows forms application. Basically, I create a menu item where users can choose a language of their choice. When users choose their preferred language, I want to update all the texts/labels on the current form UI to the new culture, instantaneously. For this, I have created a .resx file for each supported culture and in the event handlers for menu item's Click event, I change the CurrentUICulture property to the corresponding culture as follow: System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"); However, when the program runs, nothing happens. So, I guess I must somehow force the form to reload itself. I've tried all the methods like Form.Update(), Form.Refresh(), Form.Invalidate(), ... but unsuccessful so far. Does anybody know the solution to this scenario ? Thanks a lot SuperKinhLuan Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80028
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    - Is Any person know how to set a hotkey for command button? Dear all, I have no idea to set a hot key for the command button in my VB window application program. Do any person know how to do it? Thank you miyakejess Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80025
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    - Get system currently selected text Hi all, I'm facing a problem with my Windows Forms app. When my main Form is activated, I want to capture the currently selected text from any other programs (Word, IE, Notepad, ...) for further processing. How could I do that ? I guess I have to rely on P/Invoke, but no idea how to do it. Anybody can help me ? Thanks in advance Dotnetjunky Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80021
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    - Panel controls autoscroll not working I have been having problems with a panel control since installing Windows XP SP2 and .Net framework 1.1 sp1. I have several forms in an application which contains several panels. One of the panels contains a panel which has controls added to it at runtime with the autoscroll property set to true. Some of the controls added are outside the visible range of the panel. Before the service packs the panel would have a scroll bar. Also when a child control outside of the visible range gained focus, the panel would autoscroll so that the control was visible. After the service packs, the panel scroll bar will not show up for controls added during runtime. If I add a control at design time outside the visible range of the panel, the scroll bar will appear. However, when the control gains focus the panel autoscroll position go to 0 instead of what is necessary to keep the active control in view. Has anyone had similar problems and/or know how to fix this problem? Thank you in advance. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80011
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    - Input Box This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C320.A00B4740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,=20 C# has MessageBox which is convenient to use. Does C# has Input Box? = Even though it's easy to create, if there is one in C#, why shouldn't I = use it. Thanks, Dennis ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C320.A00B4740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>C# has MessageBox which is convenient to use. Does = C# has=20 Input Box? Even though it's easy to create, if there is one in C#,=20 why shouldn't I use it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Dennis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C4C320.A00B4740-- Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80010
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    - MDI scroll bars appear onresize around mdichild Hello, I have an MDI form with a child form that opens on load window state set normal on MDI. I want resize the child on the MDI onresize event. I run the app (form) then drag an edge of the MDI larger than its start up size and scroll bars appear arround the mdichild that is resizing with it. If the MDI window state is set to maximize this does not occur. What am I missing? Seems like a simple thinhg to do. Private Sub f_main_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load 'MDI not maximized Dim f As New f_menu f.Width = Me.Width - 50 f.Height = Me.Height - 50 f.MdiParent = Me f.Show() End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnResize(ByVal e As System.EventArgs) If Me.MdiChildren.Length > 0 Then Dim f As Form f = Me.ActiveMdiChild f.Width = Me.Width - 50 f.Height = Me.Height - 50 End If End Sub Thanks for looking... Brian Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80008
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    - Inherit ListView Column Header Hi All, I have been looking at this for a little while now and can't figure it out. I was hoping someone could help. I needed to have an aditional property for the ColumnHeader object contained in the ListView Columns collection. I needed this property to map ListView columns to DataTable columns for a suedo databinding function. I though perhaps inherit from the listview and ColumnHeader objects. Here are the steps and code: STEP 1: Create a ColumnHeader object that inherits from ColumnHeader with the additional property Public Class DataBoundColumnHeader Inherits ColumnHeader Private m_BoundColumn As String 'new property Public Sub New() MyBase.New() End Sub <Category("Data")> _ Public Property BoundColumn() As String Get Return Me.m_BoundColumn End Get Set(ByVal Value As String) Me.m_BoundColumn = Value End Set End Property End Class STEP 2: Create a ColumnHeaderCollection object that inherits from ColumnHeaderCollection and shadows functions which assign and retrieve my custom DataBoundColumnHeader object Public Class DataBoundColumnHeaderCollection Inherits ListView.ColumnHeaderCollection Public Sub New(ByVal Owner As ListView) MyBase.New(Owner) End Sub Default Public Shadows ReadOnly Property Item(ByVal Index As Integer) As DataBoundColumnHeader Get Return CType(MyBase.Item(Index), DataBoundColumnHeader) End Get End Property Public Shadows Function Add(ByVal Column As DataBoundColumnHeader) As Integer Return MyBase.Add(Column) End Function Public Shadows Function Add(ByVal Text As String, ByVal width As Integer, _ ByVal TextAlign As HorizontalAlignment) As DataBoundColumnHeader Return CType(MyBase.Add(Text, width, TextAlign), DataBoundColumnHeader) End Function 'This should be public: but a conversion type error occurs Private Shadows Sub AddRange(ByVal Values() As DataBoundColumnHeader) MyBase.AddRange(Values) End Sub End Class STEP 3: Create a ListView object that inherits from ListView shadowing the Columns property to accept my ColumnHeaderCollection Public Class DataBoundListView Inherits System.Windows.Forms.ListView Private m_DataBoundColumns As New DataBoundColumnHeaderCollection(Me) <Category("Behavior"), _ DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public Shadows ReadOnly Property Columns() As DataBoundColumnHeaderCollection Get Return m_DataBoundColumns End Get End Property End Class THE PROBLEM: PROBLEM 1: This will not work unless the shadowed function AddRange is private and not public: The error is a typeconversion error PROBLEM 2: When I add the DataBoundListViewControl to a form and add some columns I get the following automatically generated code: 'Notice the System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader object Me.DataBoundListView1.Columns.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader() {Me.DataBoundColumnHeader9, Me.DataBoundColumnHeader10}) Me.DataBoundListView1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(72, 104) Me.DataBoundListView1.Name = "DataBoundListView1" Me.DataBoundListView1.TabIndex = 0 Me.DataBoundListView1.View = System.Windows.Forms.View.Details The automatic code generator creates an array of new ColumnHeader objects but assigns DataBoundColumnHeader ojects to items in that array. This is a little confusing. I really prefer it creates an array of DataBoundColumnHeader objects and then I could make my Private AddRange, Public. Thanks in advance, Demetrio Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80007
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    - tablet input devices Does .NET SDK have support for tablet input devices, like Wacom? Handling of pen pressure? Thanks, - Jim Robertson Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80006
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    - Disappearing Window in Word Addin I am developing an addin for Word using C#. When the addin is activated, an always-on-top window is created with which the user interacts while editing a document. Sometimes, this window disappears. That is, you can no longer see the window, but it still exists. I have checked this through the debugger. The Visible property is still set to true, the size does not change, etc, but you can no longer see/interact with the window. The window disappears after closing a MessageBox that was created by the addin, but not always in the same place. This behavior occurs on Windows 2000 or Windows 2000 Server systems with Office 2000 installed. It does not occur on Windows 2000 or Windows XP systems with Office 2003 installed. Does this behavior sound familiar to anyone? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80005
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    - create chart? How to make advanced charts in vb.net which tool to use to draw charts using data from sql server 2000. Chart in Crystal reports are not good they don't have enough features for my use. Any better control or something better? thx -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dzemal Tipura (Dzemo) - MCP Tag: WinForms application not appearing in taskbar until focused Tag: 80000

Hi All,

I have a WinForms application (running under Framework 1.1) that loads
correctly, but if it isn't focused at load time, a corresponding button
doesn't appear in the taskbar.

When the application is given focus by clicking on it, or switching to
it via Alt-Tab, a button for the application appears in the taskbar.
This happens even with the ShowInTaskbar property of the form set to
true in code.

Has anyone come across this problem? I've searched Google and MSDN but
found nothing, yet this smells suspiciously like a Framework bug to me.

Yours,
Duncan Bayne

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