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? ...
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binding a usercontrol to the opposite of a bool property
Pretty straightforward: I'm looking to do the same as this but in winforms. Everything that google seems to pull up is wpf specific (ie. I don't want to reference presentationframework.dll) Explained if you don't want to read the link: The following is a representation of the intent of what I'd like to do, though it obviously doesn't w...
How to print data form C#
I've searched Stackoverflow and google and found many ways how I can print stuff in C#. The best way for me would be to populate blank white windows form with some label, textbox and picturebox elements and print it as a windows form. This way is very poor because it prints in 72 DPI, and is not flexible for multiple pages print. Next ...
How do I remove the resize gripper image from a StatusStrip control in C#?
I need to show a StatusStrip control docked top instead of bottom. User requirement. Long story. How do I get the StatusStrip to display without the dots in the right corner? ...
problem getting a form image background
I'm creating a datagridview transparent //I got the parent background image Bitmap parentBackGround = new Bitmap(this.Parent.BackgroundImage); //Set the area i want to create equal to the size of my grid Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(this.Location.X, this.Location.Y, this.Width, this.Height); //And draw in the entire grid the area...
textbox in winforms with sunken border
How do i set Border properties on a TextBox Control in Winforms so that It displays sunken borders? Any ideas? Thanks ...
Why do LINQ to Entities does not recognize certain Methods?
Why cant I do this: usuariosEntities usersDB = new usuariosEntities(); foreach (DataGridViewRow user in dgvUsuarios.Rows) { var rowtoupdate = usersDB.usuarios.Where( u => u.codigo_usuario == Convert.ToInt32(user.Cells[0].Value) ).First(); rowtoupdate.password = user.Cells[3].Value.ToString(); } usersDB....
Is there a way to make Linq to Entities map unrecognized methods/functions to MySql functions?
Is there a way to make Linq to Entities map unrecognized methods/functions to MySql functions? I want to add support to some functions like Convert.* ...
How to highlight a button that is clicked in vb.net
Highlight, just like when you hover over to the button, its being highlighted. But how do you retain the highlight when you have clicked the button? ...
which event should i handle to adjust the size of controls on winform?
when my form is shown, i want to adjust the height of certain control, i do this in the Shown Event handler, it doesn't work, so which event should i handle? ...
Time flies like an arrow demo in WinForms
Looking at the Reactive Extensions for javascript demo on Jeff Van Gogh's blog, I thought I'd give it a try in C#/Winforms, but it doesn't seem to work so well. I just threw this into the constructor of a form (with the Rx framework installed and referenced): Observable.Context = SynchronizationContext.Current; var mousemove = Observab...
Which type of file parsing easiest and efficient and good ?(html,pdf,csv,text)
I want to parse the html file, pdf file, csv file and text file.Now parsing for which type of file (specified above) is easiest and efficient ? Because I want to parse pdf ,html ,csv and text file through common parsing code if possible. And now suppose if parsing for html is easiest and efficient then : I will write the parsing code...
DataGridView formatting
I have a DGV with columns "code" and "name". Depends of lenght of a code I want to add tabulation to the "name" cells, to show structure of a data. Like that in this picture: How is it better to do? I think there is a better way then just loop for all rows and add spaces in front of names, right? ...
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 ...
How to extract the 256x256 icon from an icon and display it in .Net, Winforms, XP
Here's the code that I use to extract the icon size that I want: Dim i As Icon = My.Resources.Spectrum Using i2 As New Icon(i, New Size(256, 256)) Me.PictureBox1.Image = i2.ToBitmap End Using This works from 16x16 up to 128x128 but for 256x256 it extracts the 128x128 icon. I tried 0x0, because I seem to remember th...
Which is best PDR parser ?
I want to parse the tabular information from a .pdf file,and want to display that tabular information in a datagridview in C#. What choices do I have? ...
Where to prompt for required file location at start of Win Forms application
I have an application that uses a file to store its data. I store the location of the file in the app settings so have two tests at startup: Do I have a setting for the file and Does the file (if I have a setting) exist If I fail either test I want to prompt the user for the file location - the mechanics of the are not the problem,...
How to know if the Form App open or not c#
Hello, Does anyone know how can I know if the Windows Form Application (C#) is open or that the client closed it? (In my App I have a Windows Form Application (Form1) that allow the user to open another Forms (Form2). I want to know if the Form2 is open or close.) I need to know that because I run the Form2 from a thread, and I want to m...
Why Does my Thread Terminate Immediately After Showing a Windows Form?
I have a Windows Form Application (Form1) that allow the user to open another Forms (FormGraph). In order to open the FormGraph App I use a thread that open it. Here is the code that the thread is running: private void ThreadCreateCurvedGraph() { FormGraph myGraph = new FormGraph(); myGraph.CreateCurvedGraph(...); myGra...
How to display different icons in form title and in ALT-TAB window?
Is there a way to have this behaviour with WinForms? ...