i want to change application settings at runtime, here part of it: <applicationSettings> <OPCClient.Properties.Settings> <setting name="Client_Service" serializeAs="String"> <value>http://localhost/test/service.asmx</value> </setting> </OPCClient.Properties.Settings> </applicationSettings> i w...
I want to create some custom shapes for MS Office which we can use in house. For example I want to create a shape named “carton box” which have three – four default places where user can add some text. It is same as other shapes or I would say just like shapes (line, flowchart, arrow etc) in MS office 2007. Is there any way to create a...
I'm not sure if I got my terms straight here, but I was wondering: Is creating objects in run-time faster than adding objects to a form before running it? In case my terms are messed up, in the load function, you add this: lOptions.AutoSize = true; lOptions.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(7, 75); lOptions.Name = "lOptions"; lOptio...
I have developed a simple Windows Forms User Control. I drag and drop this user control on a form. How can I achive, that now I can put further controls from the toolbox dirctly on the user control in the form? In other words, is it possible to use a user control like a container control? ...
Hi, i'd like the following code to work (where this. is a MDI child form) this.HelpButton = true; this.HelpButtonClicked += HandleHelpButtonClicked; this.Refresh(); this code is being called after the mdi child form is displayed. I wonder if i need to find some way of redrawing the title bar? David ...
In my windows forms app clients sometimes report a strange exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Value Dispose() cannot be called while doing CreateHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.ComponentModel.Component.Dis...
I am using MySQL with C# / Visual Studio 2008. I need to know any method so that if one user updates the database, all the logged in users over the network, are notified that a change has been occurred. If i logged in the database through my application, at that time the serial no of the latest record in the database was 10, and then i s...
I am translating a compact framework 2.0 windows form in Visual Studio 2005. To do that, I change the language of the form to German (the target language) and edit/resize the controls on the form. This creates a resources.de.resx file containing the translated strings as expected. However, there is a custom control on the form, which ha...
Let's say I have Label1 Label2 Label3 I want to do something like: for(int i=0;i<3;i++) { LabelArray[i].Text = "weee!"; } To populate the array, I know I can do something like: LabelArray[0] = Label1; LabelArray[1] = Label2; LabelArray[2] = Label3; But that doesn't seem smart just because I have 50 labels, and that would be...
In the Program.cs file of the .Net CF 3.5 WinForms program I've written, I launch the app by instantiating a new instance of Form1. Application.Run(new Form1()); When I want to close/exit the application, I override the Form1 FormClosed event so that I can ensure exiting the application. // In Form1 code-behind private void OnFormClo...
An exception is thrown in a user control based on a picture box, causing it to show the typical error image (red X). Since the GUI thread caught and handled the exception itself, I cannot easily find out where the exception occurred and debug. I'm currently wrapping the whole OnPaint code in a try-catch, and was able to debug the code, ...
Hi, I have a TableLayoutPanel and every time I put a label into one of the cells, it snaps to the top left corner. How can I get to it not do this or change where it snaps. Also, is it possible to change a specific cell's background color? Thanks! ...
C# WinApps: what is a tool or debugger that I can use to see the name and values of the controls that I have drawn on the form at run time - I mean when I run my program I want to be able to use that tool and hover over controls on the form and that program show me the name and value of that control. ...
I have a WinForms menuitem and I need that on menu click the new WPF dialog is loaded. How do I do this? Thanks ...
Hi I am using Visual Studio 2008 targeting .net 3.5 framework. I need to add a WPF dialog to a Winforms project. I was thinking that by adding reference to PresentationCore, PresentationFramework and WindowsBase.dll and copying a WPF dialog from a test WPF project to the WinForms project in question should do the trick, but after that wh...
Hy! I would like to make a logging system with a listbox, that highlights some of my lines, depends on my will :P So, if I have 4 kind of reporting, like, general, warning, error, debug. I add with somelistbox.Items.Add("Starting"); <-- I would like to drawn this as grey somelistbox.Items.Add("Error!"); <-- I would like to d...
I'm not sure what it's called in the land of WinForms, but in web development terms, I'm looking for a frame type element that can be added to a winform. I want a panel that is anchored top,bottom,left,right but if the form the panel is resized to a smaller size than the elements in the panel, scroll bars will appear around the panel a...
I have a Form with a DataGridView. RMShyperlink = new System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewLinkColumn(); //create a link column column dataGridView1.Columns.Add(RMShyperlink); //add to my datagrid for(int i =0 ; i < dataGridView1.Rows.Count; i++) { dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[0].Value = "http://localhost"; //i set the value //but the...
Hi I was wondering how I can get my TableLayoutPanels to resize (height) automatically depending on how much text is inside of them. for instance, if I have 5 lines of text, I'd like my row to be 5 lines high, if I have 1 line of text, I'd like my row to be 1 line high. This is the way tables work natively in HTML, and that's basicall...
I'm trying to solve a problem where I'm intercepting a request in Navigating and want to inject an additional request parameter into that request before passing it off. Here are the steps: First I make a request via WebBrowser.Navigate. I have an event handler to capture the Navigating event. The request hits the Navigating event (be...