I have a WinForm that has a DataGridView table. It is bound to a DataTable in conjunction with a SqlDataAdapter and SqlCommandBuilder. What is the best way (easy and easy to manage) of disabling Deletes but allowing Selects, Updates, Inserts? Is there a one line property I can set on the grid? That is how I would prefer to do it. ...
I am new to WinForms and I'm trying to use the WebBrowser control on GNU/Linux with Mono. It runs fine, but when I close the form I get strange warnings, and the application freezes when I try to create another form containing a WebBrowser. In fact I can launch as many browsers as I wish, until I close one. Then if I create a new one th...
Ok heres my problem. I have a form that when it is not maximised, its maximum size has to be the total height of the components inside the form. To achieve this, i use this: private void resize_form(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.MaximumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(1000, this.panel4.Height + this.label2.Height + this.HeightMin...
Hello, In theory the whole thing I'm trying to accomplish is stupid from object orientated point of view,but I have to do it. Its an Online game I'm working on.The client has an inventory with items,you know - virtual items. The server sends the items with their corresponding position in the inventory. This is how my inventory looks l...
I need to deploy a winform app that uses multiple db's. I need to deploy them with my app as they interact locally. Can I use ClickOnce or should I be considering a different approach? I found a couple of examples for ClickOnce but they all assumed that the DB is included in the Solution, which isn't the case here. THis app used ...
Let me preface this by saying I now realize how stupid I am and was. I have been developing for 1 year (to the day) and this was the first thing I wrote. I now have come back to it and I can't make heads or tails of it. It worked at one point on a very simple app but that was a while ago. Specifically I am having problems with Local...
I have a fairly simple user control that represents a basic login control. So it has a couple labels, text boxes, and a button. I would like this user control to fill its container, so I have set its dock mode to fill. So far easy enough. Now, I would like all the controls in my user control to be centered based on whatever size my...
We have a legacy application running on UNIX. Our windows users login to the application via a terminal application or commaind prompt. The app looks like one of those car-dealer like application which runs in dos mode interface. I am creating a new winform interface to the application but still want to keep the legacy application onlin...
I'm working on an application with a co-worker at the moment - she is writing a web form that allows users to enter and manage text that will be saved to the database and then displayed within a desktop application. I'm using a Rich Text Box to display the text from the database. We want to allow the users to use basic formatting (bold,...
I have an app which uses some usercontrols. I want to take a thumbnail image of the usercontrols when they are loaded for use and add them to a flowlayout panel. Where can I find information on making a thumbnail image of a usercontrol when it's loaded? ...
Hi i have a UserControl which contains the textbox within, i wanted to access the textchanged event of the textbox, but in the event properties of the usercontrol i don't see the events for the textbox. How can i expose and handle particular events of the child controls from the publically exposed UserControl in Winforms with C#. ...
This is a .net problem with winforms, not asp.net. I have a windows form with several tabs. I set data bindings of all controls when the form is loaded. But I have noticed that the data bindings of controls on the second tab do not work. Those bindings work only when the form is loaded and when I select the second tab. This brings the s...
hello, i have System.Data.DataRows with several fields, most of them just plain types like int, single, string. what is the best way to make them editable using a propertygrid? it should work automatically no matter what kind of fields the datarow has, but it should not display all of them. i want to provide a list of properties that s...
I have a C# winform application that during its work opens another Winform process. The other process has UI of its own. When I close the parent application, I want the other application to be closed automatically. How can I achieve that? Thanks ...
With a DataGridView control on a Windows form, when you move the mouse over a row label (or column label) it's (the label cell) background changes to a shade of blue (or other colour depending on your Windows colour scheme no doubt). I would like to produce that effect when moving the mouse over any cell in the grid - i.e. highlight the...
As the question suggestions, should I be checking the Rectangle to set a Form.Location (which is taken from a Settings file) based on: 1. if (settings.X < Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea...) { // Set the form's Location based on the settings object } or 2. int width = 0; foreach (Screen screen in Screen.AllScreens) { width ...
I create a new form and call from the parent form as follows: loginForm = new SubLogin(); loginForm.Show(); I need to display the child form at the centre of the parent. So,in the child form load I do the foll:` Point p = new Point(this.ParentForm.Width / 2 - this.Width / 2, this.ParentForm.Height / 2 - this.Height / 2); this.L...
In a standard WinForms application, is it possible to have a scenario like the following and how would I do it: A form with four textbox controls, arranged on the form from top to bottom: TextBox1 TextBox2 TextBox3 TextBox4 The desired behavior is that when the form loads, the focus is on TextBox3, but when tabbing out, the focus go...
Hello, I'm trying to draw a text on a panel(The panel has a background picture). It works brilliant,but when I minimize and then maximize the application the text is gone. My code: using (Graphics gfx = Panel1.CreateGraphics()) { gfx.DrawString("a", new Font("Tahoma", 5), Brushes.White, new PointF(1, 1)); } How do I keep it sta...
Pardon my ignorance, but I've never really developed windows apps. How do you store user settings? Is an embedded database the preferred method? ...