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    - way to automatically Debug.Writeline every function/event thru reflection? I have hundreds of events/functions in my windows app. now they look like this private void muHowlNow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Debug.WriteLine("HowlNow was clicked"); this.Label1.Text = "wow"; //do some stuff } I am tired of having to put Debug.WriteLine("HowlNow was clicked"); every time. Is there a way (through reflection or some other magic) to have it Debug.Writeline the function name automatically? This will make life easier, and also when I obfuscate my code later it will make it more difficult for a cracker to understand. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88268
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    - way to "markup" label.Text ? I am looking for a way to apply formatting like colors, bold etc to a label.Text. Is there a way to do it? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88267
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    - RichTextBox: Selection problem... I have a few problem with selection (on Rtf text): - 1. I have menu doing things (for example setting all to bold), so I memorize the current selection with SelectiionStart & SelectionLength, SelectAll(),apply my style, then reset the selection with the original values of SelectionStart & Lenght. However it's not the same text whihc is selected?!! (it's usually more..). How could I fix that? - 2. When I change selection (like with SelectAll()) The RichTextBox scroll to the end. very annoying for the user to see its text moving for no reason (because I selectAll() just for the sake of setting the style, then I revert the selection, the user don't see that)! Any way to work around that? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88265
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    - Power of System.Reflection.Assembly I need to know if I can to list the objects of a form with the namespace system.reflection.asembly. For example, I need list all the buttons of the form. Thanks for help. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88261
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    - Scrollable controls questions I've a control that inherit from Scrollabe control, and does custom painting to draw itself. However, I can't find out how to make it display the scrollbars when I need them. I set AutoScroll to true, but it doesn't seem to help. Another question, when I host a text box on the control, and click on it, and then click on the control, the focus is still on the textbox, even though I used Seleectable style and I call Focus() and Select() on the mouse down event. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88260
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    - RichTextBox question Hi Folks! I just begin playing with the RichTextBox, mhh... certainly a vast topic. Anyway I want to prevent the text of being edited. There is no Editable property. I try set the Enabled property but then the text don't even scrol (not too mention I want to use URL). How do I do that? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88257
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    - how to pass array arguments between webforms (Type your message here) Can anyone clear my doubt of how to pass string arrays from one web form to another in asp.net.plzzz......i went thru many tutorials but cudnt find. -------------------------------- From: Musheera Rehnath ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>QFckiRFaCUaWSUUqvLX3hA==</Id> Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88256
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    - PropertyGrid does it automatically handle ContextMenu? Can the PropertyGrid Control automatically handle the ContextMenu or should I provide one? When I right click on the control (at runtime) it does nothing. Best Regards, Alejandro Lapeyre Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88254
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    - Win32Execption: The operation completed successfuly Hello developers. This is not my day. I working with a C# WinForms application, I have about 200 hundred WinForms, they are most of them working as I need. But now when I tried to open (not run) one of them in the designer, it take a lot of time (about 45 second) and almost all the time my visual Studio 2003 IDE bring a lot of errors, some of them: 1- Win32Execption: The operation completed successfully 2- Unknown error (0x0) 3- An Error has occurred with the C # compiler is unable to report due to low memory or possible heap corruption. It is recommended that you save al files, close and restart visual studio The visual studio has to be close from the task manager (totally unresponsive) As far I tied to understand what is happening I found that the particular form has 14 typed datasets, and if I take them out of my form it have a normal behavior (of course, my form get a lot of errors), I put them back one by one and the performance get worse and finaly get the same set of errors. And not a particular dataset to blame. My development Laptop have a Pentium M processor 2 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM, and a big and fast H.D. with more than 50 % free space, running windows XP SP2 (firewall enable), McAffe antivirus, MS Anti SpyWare, all the Security updates and framework 1.1 SP1. Please some one make my day. TIA MajorTom Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88251
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    - How to control Tooltip font ? I have some data that is columnar, so would like to show it with a fixed pitch font, such as Courier New. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88250
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    - get control by name? Is there a way to get the handle of a control by its name? I am writing a help application on top of an existing .NET app. I know the friendly names (Control.Name) of the controls in the app, I want to get a handle to those controls using the name so I can get the location of the control and show my help message close to the control in question. Is there anyway to get this information from outside the existing .NET app? - sp Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88248
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    - Readonly Combobox Is it possible to make a combobox Readonly with .Net 1.1 I have looked around and seen a few other people have asked this question, but the answers have misunderstood the question. By Readonly, I mean as in the Readonly property for a Textbox 1) You should still be able to highlight and copy text 2) The foreground and background colours should remain unchanged 3) Maybe still allow the dropdown, but different values cannot be selected 4) The current text cannot be changed in any way. I don't care how complicated it is to do, but I really need to be able to achieve this. Chris Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88244
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    - Data grid developing "sticky" fields I have a form with a DataGrid showing search results from a database. The DataGrid is bound to a DataView that I recreate with different sort options and filter strings in response to user choices. I am also using a TableStyle to control column appearance. If I put the cursor in a cell and change the DataView, sometimes that cell "sicks" and floats above the new results. There is no way to get rid of the stuck cell without relaunching the application. Has anyone seen this behavior? Solutions? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88242
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    - More app icons Hello, I want to add more than one icon to my .net application. One icon for application (as usual) and second icon should be visible as "document icon". I thing it is not possible in VS.NET, but can I use assembly linker or something else? -- thanks and sorry my english ;-) Matthew Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88235
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    - Creaing a wizard form Hi all, I recently moved from developing windows apps with Borland Builder to Visual studio.net, With the Borland product I used to create wizards using a tabcontrol, I would then add the pages i required and make the tab for each page invisible, then when the user pressed next or back i would move to the next or previous tab respectively. Since the tabs were invisible they could not see them to click on them and it worked really well. Now I need to create a wizard in a .net app using c#, I put a tabcontrol on my form and added a few pages to it but I can't seem to hide the tabs, I've googled and found that you could remove the pages and only add the one you wanted to view but this would still leave a tab at the top of the form that they could see. Is there a way round this or is there a better way to create a wizard than this using .net and c#? TIA Joe Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88230
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    - Toolstrip and inherited forms Hello, I try to use an master form with an menustrip and a statusstrip with several items. I set the prperty modifier to public and created an inherited form from the master. I tried to add additional toolstripitems either to the menu or to the statusstrip without success in the designer. Adding items by code works. What could I do to use the designer features. Thanks for your help Thomas Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88227
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    - Display Internet explorer inside a windows form Hi, Is there a way to display (embed) an Internet Explorer inside a windows form ? Is there any control that can do that (be an Interner browser control) ? Thanks Emmanuel Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88226
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    - Web Page Content I'm writing a windows forms application that accesses web pages. I've used the web browser control and this works nicely. Now I'm wondering if I can push the content (html) of a web page (as you see from IE when you "View/Source") to a string variable (or whatever) so that I can process it. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88225
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    - Form is not displayed at the correct (designer) size. Hi, I discovered the following problem on windows forms: DESCRIPTION =========== 1. A form (MainForm) calls another form (OtherForm) via a button. 2. OtherForm properties I have changed: - FormBorderStyle = FixedDialog - ControlBox = false 3. The calling form (MainForm) sets the location of the "OtherForm" just before calling ShowDialog() method. OtherForm f = new OtherForm(); f.Location = new Point(100,200); f.ShowDialog(); RESULT ====== The "OtherForm" form is displayed with a wrong Size - other than the one choosen by the designer. Is this a BUG or what ? Thanks Emmanuel Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88224
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    - Get the answers! (Dutch) http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/msdn/events/SDC2005.aspx Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88223
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    - use WinForm for webpage Hi all, Can I use my WinForm for a ASP.net webpage? How? Thanks Martin Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88220
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    - Databinding and saving changes (if any) to new row Hi there! I am new to databinding in .Net and I think I am going to get crazy... What I need to do is this: 1) Create a new form for the user to enter a new Product 2) Save changes (if any) when the user closes the form But I still couldn't get what I want, even after searching in Google. Anyone can give me a pointer/hint? Here is the details: 1) The form FormProduct (in which textboxes are bound) gets loaded: private void FormProduct_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { cmProduct = (CurrencyManager)BindingContext[dsProduct,"Products"]; LoadData(); cmProduct.AddNew(); } 2) Users either enter something or just close the form 3) Before closing the form, save any changes (I am stuck here): private void FormProduct_Closing(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e) { cmProduct.EndCurrentEdit(); // Saw this in several places already if(dsProduct.HasChanges()) SaveData(); } The problem is this: if I don't call cmProduct.EndCurrentEdit(), then changes will not be detected. But if the user hasn't entered anything, they just close the form (like a cancel), dsProduct.HasChanges() will return true (because we added a row in the dataset). Any solution? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88219
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    - Bastardized TabControl Greetings, I was wondering if anyone knows if the following implementation of TabControl exists out there. TabControl would have 2 sets of tab pages. Both sets are aligned at the top of TabControl, only the first set is aligned at the top-left corner and the second - top-right. Regards. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88218
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    - dataGrid - Detect new row being added and prefil columns with data I want to detect when a new row is added to my datagrid. At that time I want to fill all the columns with some initial values before the user gets to start editing them. These values are not always the same, they will dpeend on who is using the program at the time, the machine they are on and variuos other factors. Because of this I cannot use the solution that assigns default values to all columns Any ideas? RichardF Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88211
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    - Don't use the object: ActiveForm unless you check it for null each Don't use the object: ActiveForm unless you check it for null each time you do. This object is in my opinion flawed and not all that useful since it becomes null when the form loses focus. I am posting this warning lest you too fall into the trap of using the ActiveForm.refresh() method instead of the tnis.refresh(); method. They are not the same and you may or maynot find your program crashing because you did not first check each time you call the refresh method associated with the object again try not to use ActiveForm object and instead use the this object of the form or the actual form itself. I think this is a bad design for ActiveForm object. Bottom line is do not use it unless you are absolutely forced to. Instead use the this.object Here is the original error message I ultimately solved: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88209
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    - ANN: Advanced auto-layout panels plus XAML-style interpreter for 1.1 We have released a library containing a couple of automatic layout controls targetted at .Net 1.1 similar to the the FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel in Avalon. Also packaged with these are a basic XAML-style interpreter which works well with existing Windows.Forms controls. These are useful for: - creating resolution-independent applications (especially for those who are long-sighted) - internationalisation (automatic static text translation included in the interpreter) - allowing you to create central visual style rules for an application via XSLT processing of XML script files. Find out more at http://www.regulussystems.com/VersaForms Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88208
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    - Creating a localized control In my application, I am providing a plugin capability by using an interface to specify what the plugin should do. One of the functions is 'CreateConfigurationControl' which returns a UserControl. I am now trying to localize the application, and I'm setting the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture objects as the very first thing in my Main(). The forms that are created normally are all appearing as their localized versions, but the control that I receive from the CreateConfigurationControl is not, even though there is a localized version defined. In order to actually create the control, I've tried a simple 'new ConfigControl()' and Activator.CreateInstance, passing Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture to the appropriate version of CreateInstance(Type, BindingFlags, Binder, object[], CultureInfo), but I still get back the default English version... Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, or if there is an easier way to guarantee that I get back the correct localized version of my control? -mdb Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88203
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    - MeasureString() and ClearType Hi all, When I draw a string with TextRenderingHint.ClearTypeGridFit the width of the drawn string is wider than what is returned by MeasureString. I had hoped that setting the TextRenderingHint prior to calling MeasureString would solve this, but it did not. Any ideas on how to get the actual width of the drawn string when using ClearType? Thanks, Cole Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88200
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    - Login windows -> Child form, strange behaviour on minimize Hi all, I've got a typical windows form application with a login form, when I login, the login form will be hidden and a new window will appear. For this, I'm using .Show() method, and not .ShowDialog() because there's a chance of reloading a different ini file during login and I want to allow the user to reuse the login form (and it's credentials), and when the user reloads the login form will became visible and the the other window will became hidden. If he really tries to login again then I will kill the new window and create a new one. This all works fine, the problem happens when I try to minimize the login form, a small box appears in the left corner just like a mdi window when we minimize it on the main form. I would like for this "box" not to appear, and the form simply disapears and when I press the on the icon of the taskbar the window would appear again, just like any windows form application. Any help? Thanks, Luis Miguel Pinho Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88197
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    - How do I close an OpenFileDialog window from outside the window? I have an application that is displaying an open file dialog window: System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog myDialog = new OpenFileDialog() DialogResult myResult = myDialog.ShowWindow(this) After a timeout, I want to close this dialog (basically, if the user does nothing for a period of time, I want the dialog to close). I have created the timer which fires at the appropriate time but I am having difficulty finding out how to close the dialog once I receive the message. Any suggestions appreciated. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88196
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    - Add image to a control...reposted from languages.vb I originally asked this in languages.vb, and someone there suggested I post it here instead. The requirement I've been tasked with is to have a textbox that has an image in it (a magnifying glass) always on the right side of the textbox, but still in the edit portion. The image should be BEHIND the text, and if clicked on then would fire an event. The suggestion I got from the other group (Carlos J. Quintero, the illustrious maker of MZ-Tools) was to make it an ownerdrawn textbox. He said that all I'd probably need to care about would be the paint event and the click event. In VB6 I'd subclass the textbox and watch for the WM_PAINT message, but in .Net I have NO idea where to start on this. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Matt Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88195
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    - changing the height of a columnheader in datagrids hi I would like to change the height of the columnheaders on a datagrid. this is to accommodate a multiple line header title. example: ___________ Appointment | time | ---------------| also to override the columnheader text alignment so that it doesn't cause the datagrid textbox (cells)to have the same Text Alignment Thanks Al Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88189
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    - Localization question I'm writing an application that needs to be localized into German. I've set the Localizable to 'true' and the language to 'German' on my form. I've translated all of my controls. However, I have a UserControl on my form (which I have also localized to German) but the designer still shows it in English. I have recompiled so I know that the designer should know about the localized version of the UserControl. Is this the expected behavior, or should I see the localized German version of my UserControl as well? Also, is there any way I can specify on startup what language I want to use? I'd like to run my program in "German mode" to make sure I haven't missed anything. Thanks! -mdb Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88188
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    - RichTextBox - beeping I am programatically adding blocks of text to a RichTextBox control and it constantly "beeps" when doing so. The program is reading an xml file line by line and when it finds certain attributes it changes their values to a different color. This means that a line of xml might have its color changed several times. I thought it had to do with the changing colors but when i commented that code out it still beeped. If i write the entire line without substringing it together i get no beeps. It only seems to happen when i break the line up and substring it back together. example: the True part will beep but the false part will not. Color changing has been omitted since it's not a factor. if (true) { rtb1.SelectedText = line.Substring(0,10); // originally set color to black rtb1.SelectedText = line.Substring(11,10); // changed color to red rtb1.SelectedText = line.Substring(21,10) + "\r\n"; // changed back to black } else { rtb1.SelectedText = line + "\r\n"; } Anyone know why this happens and is there a way to stop it? Thanks, David Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88186
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    - Multithreaded WinForms question My application's form is handling an event raised from a worker thread in another object. In the event handler I want to call a sub procedure that does a number of things and among those things is accessing controls on the form. This sub procedure normally has been called from the Click event procedure of a button on the form so there haven't been any issues with accessing controls from outside the UI thread. Now I have to consider this. I could create delegates for all the procedures I need to Invoke on the controls but I was hoping there was a simpler way. Is there any way to force the UI thread to call a sub procedure without using Control.Invoke ()? For example: Private myObj As MyObject Private Sub MainForm_Load ... ... AddHandler myObj.SomeEvent, AddressOf MyObject_SomeEvent ... End Sub Private Sub MyObject_SomeEvent(ByVal whatever As Integer) ' SomeEvent is raised by a worker thread in MyObject. ' How can I force the UI thread to call SomeProcedure ' from here so I don't have to litter the SomeProcedure ' Sub with If...Then...Else structures testing ' Control.InvokeRequired() and calling Control.Invoke() ' with various custom Delegates that I have to create? End Sub Private Sub SomeProcedure(ByVal whatever As Integer) ... Do Stuff SomeTextBox.Text = "Gooney Goo Goo" ... End Sub Hopefully I'm making sense here. I may be a little confused and not realize it yet. Joel Moore Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88185
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    - custom objects in clipboard Hi, I am trying to put my custom object in the Clipboard but when I try to retrive, I get "Nothing". Let me show you how I am doing this, ' putting data into the clipboard Dim dataObj As New System.Windows.Forms.DataObject dataObj.SetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.GetFormat("MyClass").Name, False, objOfMyClass) System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(dataObj) ' retrieving from clipboard Dim dtObj As System.windows.forms.IDataObject = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetDataObject() If dtObj.GetDataPresent(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.GetFormat("MyClass").Name) Then objOfMyClass = CType(dtObj.GetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.GetFormat("MyClass").Name, False), MyClass) End If I am getting "True" from the following command dtObj.GetDataPresent(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.GetFormat("MyClass").Name But "Nothing" from the following one dtObj.GetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.GetFormat("MyClass").Name, False) Please give your suggestions how can I fix it. Regards, Naeem Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88182
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    - Control OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp called twice - surely a bug? I'm noticing strange behaviour with System.Windows.Forms.Control. If I press the mouse (left button), then move the mouse while still holding it down, and then release the mouse, I get an extra set of OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp. So I get OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp, OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp even though the mouse has only been pressed and released once. Does anyone know about this? I think this is surely a bug. It's easy to replicate. Add this code to a new user control and put an instance of the control on a form. Protected Overrides Sub OnMouseDown(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Debug.WriteLine("OnMouseDown") MyBase.OnMouseDown(e) End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnMouseUp(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Debug.WriteLine("OnMouseUp") MyBase.OnMouseUp(e) End Sub You might have to try a few times to see it, but it usually only takes a few efforts. It seems easier to replicate if I drag the mouse from the bottom of the control towards the top! Thanks in advance. Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88181
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    - DateTime picker control Hi, How can I set the background color of DateTime picker control when its disabled. Regards, Naeem Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88179
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    - reply(how to get the textvalue from checkedlistbox) (Type your message here) just saw your problem try this ChkListSupplementaryCode is the name of the checkedlistbox For i = 0 To ChkListSupplementaryCode.Items.Count - 1 MessageBox.Show(ChkListSupplementaryCode.GetItemText(ChkListSupplementaryCode.Items.Item(i))) Next -------------------------------- From: thariq Sulaiman ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>iBM7QrjyO024qDXhi66XWQ==</Id> Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88176
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    - Application does not shut down even after Application.Exit Hi I am facing a weird problem with Application.Exit in Windows 2003 (No Service Packs). After this statement is executed, the application does not go down and CPU usage goes up to 100. This problem occurs only in Windows 2003. Windows XP (SP2 and SP1) are just fine. Does this have any thing to do with COM Interop or license of components? I have a VB6 OCX control and ComponentOne True DBGrid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and Regards Prasanth Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88169
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    - Modeless Form visibible but inivisible PLEASE PLEASE HELP Hi, We have an application which contains numerous ChartFX controls. Basically the user can double click on an existing chart, and it will open a new (modeless) form which contains a new chart. The problem is that the new window although appearing to be the focussed window isn't, as the user has to click on it twice (one click seems to be passing right through to the parent form) before the window is actually selected. This wouldnt be such a big problem except that if the user right clicks on the chart we get a "Cannot display context menu on invisible control" error, even though the control is visible. I guess that basically somehow the modeless dialogue window is not visible to the underlying code, and the events arent firing properly. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it including calling Select(),Activate(),BringToFront() etc on the new window but none of them make any difference. I have even triggered mouse events on the new window to try to focus it automatically. I am pretty much desparate to make this work so Can anyone please help me? Thanks, David -------------------------------- From: David Brooks ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>OnD6s6O1MEaz/WOzww1bkA==</Id> Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88157
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    - Administrating the registry Hello, How can I programmatically set user rights to a particular registry key? Is this possible? All I have found so far is checkaccess to see if I can access a key. For instance, If I want to set the ASPnet account to read only on a registry key HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\software\mystuff\ ? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88156
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    - Screen.WorkingArea Changed Event? Hi all, First the question: Is there a way to be notified when the WorkingArea of the Screen changes? (for example, the taskbar is moved from bottom to left of desktop) Here are the details of the problem if you are interested. I have a form where I set the Region property. Everything works fine until you move the TaskBar to the left or top of the desktop. This then skews my Region's location and it appears incorrectly. The problem is caused when I translate my Region to the screen coordinates (using PointToScreen and Region.Translate). If the taskbar is on the left or top, the region gets "pushed" to the right or bottom. However, this position is incorrect. I solved the issue by offsetting the region location using Screen.WorkingArea's x and y values. Then I ran into a performance problem. I have to recalculate the region quite a bit and it caused a performance issue. I was using Screen.FromControl() everytime I was recalculating the region (My application must support multiple monitors) and I believe this was the culprit. I have worked around the issue by caching the working area myself and testing if my Form moves from one monitor to the other via the LocationChanged event. The only problem is I need to know when the WorkingArea changes so I can update my cached workingArea and also re-translate my region. TIA Cole Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88151
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    - (newbie) Slow Combobox Binding I'm fairly new to winforms, but I've been playing around with ASP.NET for a while, so I'm familiar with a fair bit of the framework, however I'm having an annoying issue when trying to bind a simple arraylist to a combobox. All I want the combobox to be is a simple dropdownlist and I'll grab the SelectedValue from it to do other stuff elsewhere, so what I thought I could do is : myCombo.DataSource = myArrayList; myCombo.DisplayMember = "Name"; myCombo.ValueMember = "ID"; Where myArrayList is an ArrayList (shock!) of simple objects with the properties "Name"(string) and "ID"(int). (very basically, their class definition is just : public class myClass { myClass() {} myClass(int ID, string Name) { this.Name = Name; this.ID = ID; } public string Name; public int ID; } - it's not quite that dumb, but you get the idea) I'm finding that not only is DisplayMember *completely ignored* (i.e. all the entries in the combobox merely display "myNamespace.myClass"), but the binding process seems to take an inordinately long amount of time - somewhere up to 5 seconds. I thought initially it was a database access time or the size of the ArrayList slowing it down, but I actually reduced it to : ArrayList myArrayList= new ArrayList(); myArrayList.Add(new myClass(1, "First")); myArrayList.Add(new myClass(2, "Second")); myCombo.DataSource = myArrayList; myCombo.DisplayMember = "Name"; myCombo.ValueMember = "ID"; and it still takes seconds! Can anyone shed any light on this? thanks in advance, -- jo inferis Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88150
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    - How to set the max row number in the datagrid. I use the datagrid to let the user edit the data in a table, say 6 row, 8 column, but I don't want the user hits enter at row 6 and the datagrid automatically append a new row on the datagrid (view). How can I set the max row limit? Also, I don't know if all of you have noticed, when you add just one row to a datatable and display it in the datagrid, you will see your data in the first row and a blank in the second row. Is there a way of just show one row of data but not additional blank? Thank you. lz Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88148
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    - Newbie to WinForms How can I update the text form the main form StatusBar from child windows ? Tag: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? Tag: 88143
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Procedure:
1. Open a folder.
2. Highlight a bunch of .avi files.
3. Press enter.

What I want to happen is for my Windows Forms app to load all of the files
in the same process, but each file is instead opened individually by
seperate processes. How can I get my desired behavior?

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RE: How to get multiple selections to open in one window? by Mattehw

Mattehw
Mon May 23 12:11:16 CDT 2005

I make the same last week :-)
At first - use named Mutex class to ensure you have only one instance of
application. Then inherit NativeWindow class (and override WndProc method) as
listener for windows messages and finally use SendMessage windows method
(from user32.dll) to inform first running instance to open next file.
My implementation is on http://matej.us/develop/instancehelper.zip
--
thanks and sorry my english ;-)
Matthew

"James Park" wrote:

> Procedure:
> 1. Open a folder.
> 2. Highlight a bunch of .avi files.
> 3. Press enter.
>
> What I want to happen is for my Windows Forms app to load all of the files
> in the same process, but each file is instead opened individually by
> seperate processes. How can I get my desired behavior?
>
>
>

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