Here is the scenario (ADO.NET Entity Framework and C#). Contact*: String name; Address addr; Address*: String street; String city; *this is not the real code, but you get the picture I am trying to create a Windows Form that appears flat to the user. In other words, the Form will have four fields (name,addr,street,city), and whe...
I have a Winforms dropdown. The drop down displays a string that is in the form of... <Description 30chars> Weight:<weight 6chars> Thickness:<thickness 6chars> I need the strings to line up so Weight always starts at the same spot. So when there is a list of them everything lines up nicely. My current solution was to use a monospaced...
I'm doing a software where I need to put squary bordering fields on a satelite map (.png image), so that the fields can be clicked. What is the best way to add shapes on a picture and associate them with data ? ...
Hello. I'm trying to bind a ListBox's SelectedItem data to a property. The following code is an example: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace BindingFailure { static class Program { class OuterObject { public string selected { get; set; } public List<string> strings { get; se...
Sorry about the weird title, I'm currently playing around with WinForms and I'm wondering if there is any way to make it so that you don't have to 'double-click' the window to activate an item in a menustrip when the window is unfocused? Currently if the window is unfocused I first have to click on the window to give it focus and then ...
Hi, I'm building a C# client app that allows a user to communicate with one or more existing users in a system via an email-like metaphor. I'd like to present the user with a text entry box that auto-completes on known email addresses, and allows multiple delimiter-separated addresses to be entered. Ideally, I'd also like the email addr...
Hi, Got an annoying problem here. I've got an NHibernate/Forms application I'm working through SVN. I made some of my own controls, but when I drag and drop those (or view some form editors where I have already dragged and dropped) onto some of my other controls, Visual studio decides it needs to execute some of the code I wrote, includ...
Hi all, I have barely any experience with WinForms, but I'm fairly sure that this is a simple task. I just need to enable and disable the Enabled property of a textbox based on the SelectedIndex of a ComboBox. Can this be done in the designer using DataBindings, or am I required to write a handler of some kind? ...
We simply created a DataGridView control dynamically and bound it to a DataTable. We were tying to style certain columns. But, when we tried to access the columns we got a null reference. On further investigation we found that if we add the DataGridView control to the main form, and then try to access its columns, it works fine!!! Code...
I have a dataset in a datagrid with some data in it. Recently I've been asked to add some data to that dataset along with some controls to save the data from. I've added a few textboxes, 1 combobox and 3 textboxes that function as viewing of some datetimepickers that I have to use for dates. I've chosen to use textboxes in combination ...
I'm using the windows forms aplication with an ms access database. And i would like to know if there is a way to show the directory of the database file (to save data in it)excpet like this: string connectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=save.mdb"; OleDbConnection empConnection = new OleDbConnection(con...
In a couple of fields in my Windows Form application, I am asking a user to supply either an IP address or a hostname. Is there a good RegEx to take care of this business? I would prefer that the user enter a FQDN or IP. Is there a nice way to test for this? ...
Hey all, In the pursuit of elegant coding, I'd like to avoid having to catch an exception that I know well may be thrown when I try to validate that the Text field of a Textbox is an integer. I'm looking for something similar to the TryGetValue for Dictionary, but the Convert class doesn't seem to have anything to offer except exception...
I have legacy win.forms application written in pretty straightforward approach where forms communicate with DAL on UI events. For example there are textboxes: login/password, button - "Login" and a click-handler where business logic is implemented (DAL is asked to get user by id/password, if not null - than show next screen, if null - sh...
I have a ToolStrip. In my ToolStrip I have a ToolStripDropDownButton. My ToolStripDropDownButton has a DropDown of type ToolStripDropDown that contains a ToolStripControlHost which contains a Label. I have assigned a ContextMenuStrip to my Label. When I show the DropDown and right-click on the label, the ContextMenuStrip displays cor...
Hello. Vierd behaviar when passing values to and from 2nd form. ParameterForm pf = new ParameterForm(testString); works ParameterForm pf = new ParameterForm(); pf.testString="test"; doesn't (testString defined as public string) maybe i'm missing something? anyway i'd like to make 2nd variant work properly, as for now - it returns...
When the user presses SHIFT+UP key, I want my form to respond by calling up a message box. How to do this in Windows Form? ...
VariableBox = gcnew ListView(); VariableBox->Font = ScriptEditorOptions->FontSelection->Font; VariableBox->Dock = DockStyle::Fill; VariableBox->BorderStyle = BorderStyle::Fixed3D; VariableBox->BackColor = ScriptEditorOptions->BCDialog->Color; VariableBox->ForeColor = ScriptEditorOptions->FCDialog->Color; VariableBox->DoubleClick += gcnew...
How can I easily salt a password from a Textbox.Text? Are there some built in wizardry in the .NET framework? ...
In C# WinApp, How Can I add both Text and Value to the items of my comboBox? I did a search and usually the answers are using "Binding to a source".. but in my case I do not have that source ready in my program... how can I do something like this: combo1.Item[1] = "DisplayText"; combo1.Item[1].Value = "useful Value" ...