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UI Control library for the .NET Micro Framework

Hi, Does anybody know of a UI Control library for the .NET Micro Framework? Doing everything from scratch is a real pain sometimes :p ...

Implementing Read Only view in Winform App

I have an in house winform app for viewing, editing, and inserting member data. There are about 40 sepertate form pages that they use to manipulate different portions of the data. My question is this; What is the best way of implementing a read only view for a form page? My thoughts were to cycle through the controls setting Enabled ...

creating a radiobutton control in vb.net

ok this is my code in vb.net behind where i am creating the radiobutton - TD = New HtmlTableCell Dim rdb As New RadioButton() rdb.ID = "rdb_ads_" & DR("ID") TD.Controls.Add(rdb) TR.Cells.Add(TD) It displays the radiobutton, but doesnt select single. i can select all at o...

What control will be best for Buddy List?

I'm developing a xmpp chat client in C#.NET. I'm little confused about what control should I use for Buddy list. Buddy list will consist of status icon, name & his buddy pic. Can u please recommend that what control will be best for me to use? (Do u think that ListView will be appropriate?) Another question, I'm using agsxmpp. Does it s...

WPF global Controls color changes

Hi ! Suppose you want to override the Background / Foreground / TextSelection ... Colors for your WPF Controls. In my opinion, you need 2 things: Override the SystemColors in your Resources files Override the ControlTemplates (by adding additional Triggers etc.) The reason for this is, that some Controls in .NET 3.5 don't all...

Dynamic controls lost when postback

Hi I load my self-made webuser controls dynamically. A user chooses a template and depending on that template I load some self-made webuser controls (.ascx) that are defined in a sql server database. When the user fills in the TextBoxes and clicks on the submit button, the entries in the TextBoxes should be saved in my database. The pro...

How to add custom-control-derived TabItem to TabControl in WPF?

I want to have my own base TabItem class and use other classes that derive from it. I define base class in MyNs namespace like this: public class MyCustomTab : TabItem { static MyCustomTab() { DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(MyCustomTab), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(TabItem))); } } And ...

Which Silverlight Control Set is better? Telerik or ComponentArt?

Which Silverlight Control Set is better? Telerik or ComponentArt? I have used ComponentArt, but I just reviewed Telerik and it looks like they might have better functionality for the same price. If you have used both, then please let me know your opinion. ...

Which datepicker does EveryBlock utilize?

I've found a great datepicker on EveryBlock's web site: http://ui-patterns.com/userset/553/image/2955#focus Does anybody know which control do they use and is it available as a standalone control? ...

Drop shadow in Winforms Controls?

is there a way to add a drop shadow to controls? are there any controls out there with this feature? ...

Looking for a component (.NET or COM/ActiveX) that can play AVI files in a WinForms app

I'm looking for something like the Windows Media Player control that can be hosted on a form. The WMP doesn't work for me because I need a control that can play a continuously-appended playlist of AVI files in sequence, so that the transition from one file to the next happens seamlessly (i.e. without any glitches or pauses in the video ...

Preventing multiple repeat selection of synchronized Controls ?

The working code sample here synchronizes (single) selection in a TreeView, ListView, and ComboBox via the use of lambda expressions in a dictionary where the Key in the dictionary is a Control, and the Value of each Key is an Action<int>. Where I am stuck is that I am getting multiple repetitions of execution of the code that sets the ...

C# Basic Multi-Threading Question: Call Method on Thread A from Thread B (Thread B started from Thread A)

What is the best way to accomplish this: The main thread (Thread A) creates two other threads (Thread B and Thread C). Threads B and C do heavy disk I/O and eventually need to pass in resources they created to Thread A to then call a method in an external DLL file which requires the thread that created it to be called correctly so only T...

How can I execute an insert with data from a repeater-generated form whose data source is SQL?

I'm storing multilingual data in a database whose model is language normalized (like this). For this particular problem the key for the table in question consists of a value entered by the user and a language from the language table. I'd like to dynamically generate a form with input fields for all available languages. The user inputs...

Cross Theaded Calls - Many controls Heavy GUI Application after .net 1.1 2.0 upgrade- best way ??

I have recently upgraded a .net1.1 solution to .net2.0. AS this is a very heavy GUI appilcation with loads of controls and many multithreaded operations that update the GUI. While these operations worked seamlessly in .net1.1 it is throwing up Cross Threaded Illegal operations after the upgrade. Considering the fact that tehre are numer...

Create Personalized Controls For Java ME

I'm starting to develop a eBook reader for mobile using Java ME, but for the control were the book will be shown I need a personalized control. For this I need to first know how to do one, to workaround with my needs. Then I need to know how can I do a personalized control as we do with Visual Basic. PS: I want to do a personalized Tex...

Rotate label control in vb.net form

I have a Label control on the form with small text. i want to be displayed - rotated counter clockwise by 90 degree VB.NET / Visual Studio 2005 Windows Forms Application Any ideas ...

MS Access 2003 - Option Group frame: can I add text boxes that are part of the frame instead of rad button options?

Ok so this maybe a simple/silly question but I don't know so here goes: In access let's say I want to have a frame control, so I click the option group button and add it to the desgin surface. However, I am not wanting to use this as a option group with radio button selection, instead I would like to add text boxes instead the frame, so...

ASP.net access controls dynamically

hey all, i have a table which looks similar to this <asp:TableRow><asp:TableCell>Question 1</asp:TableCell><asp:TableCell ID ="Question1Text"></asp:TableCell></asp:TableRow> <asp:TableRow><asp:TableCell ColumnSpan="2"> <asp:RadioButtonList ID="RadioButtonList1" runat="server"><asp:ListItem>Yes</asp:ListItem><asp:Lis...

Create controls from code - VB.NET

Hello everyone, I want to know if I can create a WebBrowser through code in Vb.NET, instead of dragging a webbrowser into the form. Simple enough to say, I would greatly appreciate your help. ...