VS2008 SP1, Winforms solution, VB.NET, compiling for x86 and .NET v2 I have about a dozen projects in the solution, with a couple of Windows forms projects and some class libraries. If I rebuild the solution, it clears out and recompiles all the projects, as you'd expect... ... and then disappears without trace or error message. Sin...
My C# application is running at system startup, and must wait for the local SQL Server instance until it can actually do anything. Right now, I just spin waiting for the server to respond (I used to get a wait handle on the service, but that wasn't reliable), then launch the app's main dialog. The problem with this, of course, is that ...
I am trying to deploy a ClickOnce app. It had worked previously when the server was just sitting with .Net 2.0 installed (no SP). Recently the server had 3.5SP1 installed on it and now ClickOnce is failing with the error: Value does not fall within the expected range inside System.Deployment. Here is the information posted on the MSDN ...
I have a Windows Forms application that runs locally on the user's desktop. The only way it accesses the Internet is by doing System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url) to launch the user's default browser and point it to various URLs (to check for updates, contact us, etc.). And none of this happens without the user explicitly requesting it ...
Hi! I'm working on a WinForms SmartClient application, which uses a lot of RichTextBox controls - some in place of the regular TextBox for various reasons. Unfortunately the RichTextBox draws the ugly Win95 3D border instead of the themed XP or Vista style border. Does anyone know of a way to apply the themed border to the RichTextBox?...
I have a WebBrowser control and I want to save the whole page viewed to image (any web page). I tried using IHTMLElementRender interface but it didn't work for all web pages. Maybe I'm doing something wrong because sometimes the snapshot included the scrollers and sometimes it was just partial. Do you have a working example that can save...
Is there a way to list all fired events for specific WinForms controls without explicitly creating a handler for each possible event? For example, I might want to see the sequence of events that fire between a DataGridView and the BindingSource during various databinding actions. ...
I'm trying to find a nice library for user friendly exception handling for unhandled exceptions. I found the following one: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/exception/ExceptionHandling.aspx Is there any other similar projects out there LGPL/Free (or cheap). I'm looking for features like: User friendly crash screen Remote Logging with a...
I have a wpf application, for which I need to find out if any other window is over the current window. I can not use IsActive, as that you could have 2 windows side by side (for example IE and the wpf application) and have the other application be active, but not over top of the wpf application. Essentially I want to know if anything i...
Is there any way to make a label on a .NET Windows form to be highlightable to allow for the text to be copied. I have attempted to do this with a text box that was made to look like a label, but this results in a flashing cursor. ...
By default windows forms resize logic is limited--anchoring and docking. In the past I've rolled my own custom resize logic when required. However, I'm getting started on a project that has a large number of very complex forms that must auto-resize to different resolutions. I don't care to invest a ton of time in resize logic. I see th...
I have been working on an WTL UI app lately and tearing my hair out with how absolutely archaic everything is. I went with ATL because I needed to be able to offer the application to users who don't have or don't want to be bothered with the .NET Framework installation. I wanted to be able to distribute it without anyone having to do any...
The winform ListView doesn't seem to have an easy way to cancel the SelectedIndexChanged event. I don't see a SelectedIndexChanging event either. The code is my attempt. However the hightlight is gone and I was wondering if I need to color the selection also or if there's a better way to cancel. _prevSelectedIndex is the index from the ...
What is the recommended way to place a RadElement instance on a Form? Below is code from my form constructor. My goal is that the form would show a scrollbar if sized small enough. The code under #else involves standard Winforms controls and works fine. The code under #if Telerik is equivalent, but does not function because I cannot ...
I am developing a c# .NET app with MDI forms. When the Mdi children are moved around and using the scroll bars some forms will be outside the displayed area. I would like to do to the Mdi children something similar to TreeNode.EnsureVisible() which moves the TreeView scrollbars until the Node is fully visible. Calling Form.Activate() doe...
I have a FolderBrowserDialog, displayed with code shown below. However, it keeps opening with 'Computer', i.e. the root of the folder tree, selected. How do I get it to open on the selected folder? var folderBrowser = new FolderBrowserDialog(); folderBrowser.Description = "Select Chase 6 Installation Folder"; fo...
I have been trying to get a progressbar set to marquee to keep moving while another function is running. After this function runs, I message would display (for this example) The only way I was able to get this working was with a background worker and then have a Do Loop until condition that runs in the main form until the operation i...
My Windows Forms application has a MenuStrip and some of the menu items (ToolStripMenuItem) have an icon (setting the ToolStripMenuItem.Image property). When the RenderMode property of the MenuStrip is set to ToolStripRenderMode.System, the checkmark doesn't display when the Checked or CheckOnClick property is true and the menu item has...
I have a Parent Form that holds a "HUD" with First Name, Last Name, etc. One of the child forms is a Search Form. When the user selects a member from the results that are displayed in a DataGrid I want the pertinent information to fill in the HUD. I created a HUD class with variables for each value and a method called UpdateHUD(). I ...
I have a a .NET 3.5 windows form which I'd like to embed into another form. Is there a quick way to turn that form into a control? Thanks ...