Hi, I know how to write trace statements that I can view in a webforms environment, but how do I do this in a windows forms app? I am inside of a static method, and I want to display the sql query that it is generating. I don't have access to messagebox.show, what are my options? ...
My application is a vb6 executable, but some newer forms in the system are written in C#. I would like to be able to set the C# form's Owner property using a handle to the main application window, so that the dialogs remain on top when tabbing back and forth between my app and other apps. I can get the hwnd of the main application wind...
I intermittently get this in error in my .NET 1.1 C# Windows Forms application. Someone indicated that this is due to a bug in the 1.1 framework and suggests putting the following code into any custom controls. protected override void OnParentChanged(EventArgs e) { if (this.Parent != null) { this.CreateParams.Parent = this.Pare...
We're building some software for an in-house Kiosk. The software is a basic .net windows form with an embedded browser. The Kiosk is outfitted with a mat that the user steps on. When the user steps on the mat, it sends a key comination through the keyboard. When the user steps off the mat it sends a different key combination. What we...
Anyone know of a good free winforms html editor for .NET. Ideally I would like html and preview modes along with the possibility of exporting to a pdf, word doc or similar. Although the export I could probably create myself from the html output. Another nice feature would be a paste from word that removes all the extra tags you usuall...
I have several user drawn controls on a form, unfortunately when the form is shown the user drawn controls are showing the previous forms background rather than the current forms background. The OnPaint event is very simple, and the OnBackgroundPaint event is empty... Like this: protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs p...
I am working on a winforms html editor with multiple editor windows as each editor window will be written to a database field. I am creating the editor windows as a control array and was hoping to just have one toolbar above them that would handle the events such as apply bold, italic... based on the window I was currently in. Unfortuna...
I'm having some trouble with Visual Studio 2008 on my Windows XP SP2 laptop. What happens is that when I start a program with a few textboxes and stuff like that, the boxes are see-through. I can litteraly see through them and see what's on the underlaying screen. Like if I only have this Form showing and behind that my wallpaper, I can...
I have multiple winforms applications that download large sets of reference data on startup. I realized that there might be a more efficient way to store this data locally instead of duplicating the memory in everyone one of the applications. This data is used for large drop down pick lists and data mappings. Does anyone have an out o...
On a regular winforms solutions, how do you determine to break classes into different directories / namespaces or seperate projects. Besides binary dependencies should view, controllers, models all be in different projects ? ...
I am a newbie to WPF and have a couple of questions about WPF and Windows Forms integration. I have an existing Visual C# Windows Forms application. I would like to integrate it with a WPF window, that can be shown on a button click. This was not possible as WPF expects the calling thread to be a STAThread and by default WinForm assu...
Is there an Open Source Free Graph Control for Windows Forms .NET 2.0? ...
So i am reorganizing a winforms C# solution to help decouple and make it cleaner and more organized. The solution tracks a small business orders,etc . . I have broken out the projects so far into App.View - all GUI Related Code App.Data - just data structures and interfaces. No other implementation code App.BusinessLogic - all busines...
When I run the following, PowerShell hangs waiting for the dialog to close, even though the dialog is never displayed: [void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( 'System.Windows.Forms' ) $d = New-Object Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog $d.ShowDialog( ) Calling ShowDialog on a Windows.Forms.Form works fine. I also tried creating a ...
Similar to this question, after running the following code the browser dialog does appear with all the correct buttons, but the selection area that usally displays available folders is missing: [void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( 'System.Windows.Forms' ) $d = New-Object Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog $d.ShowDialog( ) ...
I have multiple layers in an application and i find myself having to bubble up events to the GUI layer for doing status bar changes, etc . . I find myself having to write repeated coded where each layer simply subscribes to events from the lower layer and then in the call back simply raise an event up the chain. Is there a more efficien...
I'm working on a program in C#, and right now I have one form and a couple classes. I would like to be able to access some of the form controls(such as a textbox) from my class. When I try to change the text in the text box from my class I get the following error: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or pr...
Hi, I've got a text box bound to an object's property (in fact several text boxes) on a form. This for is an editor for an object. When i'm editing some objects and modify values in the one of the text boxes i can't exit from the text box (neither by tab nor clicking on another text box). However that's not always the case - when editin...
In .NET, Windows Forms have an event that fires before the Form is loaded (Form.Load), but there is no corresponding event that is fired AFTER the form has loaded. I would like to execute some logic after the form has loaded. Can anyone advise on a solution? ...
When my application opens too many windows the taskbar groups them into one button. Each window has its own icon, but the grouping icon is the default "unknown"-kind icon. How can I set the grouping icon? ...