In my vb.net windows form application i want make a button that when a user cliked the button, the Desktop should be showed, (Show Desktop Button) .Consider a form name as form1 and it got a button like "Show desktop", when user clicked, all the application should be minimized and it should show desktop, is there any Code for VB.NET Windows Form application.
View 2 RepliesWhen I press "Show Desktop" button in the taskbar my main form "disappears". The only way to show it again is by pressing an other program which is open in the taskbar (lets say Word) to rise and unrise again.
View 1 Repliesjust installed windows 7.. nice.. very nice... just one thing i can't seem to find.. the show desktop button.. so, what does a programmer do?
View 5 RepliesI'm new at the forums but not to .net development. I'm trying to make an application, which stays above the Dektop level but ALWAYS below any opened window. This application cannot be minimized, it has to be visible as a desktop background (just for getting you the main idea). As I was reading, I found that the way to make the form not to minimize is by using the WndProc function, and intercepting the Minimize message. My question is.. which of all the available messages is the correct for this case?.
P.D.3 (And last one I hope): See, the main reason of this application, is to make some kind of an "Active Desktop" function, which is not supported by Windows XP 64-bit. As XP64 doens't come with Active Desktop to use Web Pages as Desktop backgrounds, my idea is to make an application which loads certain web page and put's it on the desktop background.
I am writing a little app to take over from Active Desktop as we are using Win7.
I am having problems getting my form to stay open, if the user hits the "Show Desktop" button the form minimises. I need this to stay open at all times in the back ground.
I have disbled the minimise button to stop the users using it.
how I can stop this from happening or if I use a timer to check the windows state it apears normal as it looks like the "Show Desktop" button does not actually minimise the window!
I have a program that uses two forms. The program opens to the Main form, and the user can navigate to the other form from the Main form through use of a button. Here's the way I've currently written it: When the Main form loads, it declares and instantiates the other form during the load procedure. When the user presses a button, the second form is displayed by means of the ShowDialog method. On the second form, there is a Return to Main Screen button which closes the second form, bringing the user back to the Main form.
So, here's the structure of the code:
Code:
Public Class frmMainForm
Dim frmSecondForm As New SecondForm
Private Sub btnSecondForm_Click(blah, blah, blah) Handles blah, blah, blah
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Here's my reasoning: Originally, I wrote the code so that a new instance of the second form was created every time the button was pressed. The problem was that whatever data was displayed on the second form, previously, was lost when the user returned to it a second time. Since the user would be switching back and forth between these forms, frequently, I needed that data to persist.
What is the best practice for accomplishing this:
1) Declare and instantiate the second form on program start, as I have done, and use the button simply to show the form?
2) Declare and instantiate the second form each time the button is pressed but maintain the variables on the Main form and pass them ByRef to a custom constructor for the second form? Is this even possible?
3) Something else?
Iam creating an application. i have a main form it has 5 buttons i have created 5 more forms. my aim is to show a particular form for every button the form is opened in a new window i dont want to open in a new window it should be embed in the main form when i click anthor button it will show the related form in place of previous form
View 2 RepliesIam creating an application.i have a main form it has 5 buttons i have created 5 more forms.my aim is to show a particular form for every button the form is opened in a new window i dont want to open in a new window it should be embed in the main form when i click anthor button it will show the related form in place of previous form?
View 1 RepliesI have created a button in a UserControl. I have added that button to a WindowsForm in another app and added a buttonclick event to the code. When running (debugging) the app and clicking on the button; nothing happens. It doesn't act like a button at all.
The code for the button click event in my test app is as follows:
Private Sub Element1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Element1.Click
MsgBox("The button has been clicked")
End Sub
I have created a button in a UserControl. I have added that button to a WindowsForm in another app and added a buttonclick event to the code. When running (debugging) the app and clicking on the button; nothing happens. It doesn't act like a button at all.
The code for the button click event in my test app is as follows:
Code:
Private Sub Element1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Element1.Click
MsgBox("The button has been clicked")
End Sub
to open Tabpage 2 when i click button 1 on Tabpage 2, how to do it
View 8 RepliesI have a form to create staff.
Hence after a new staff created, user can click on new button at the bottom to show a new staff form and close the previous one (parent form).
I have the following code under new button click event but i found that the previous form (parent form) somehow is still held in the memory.
What is the correct way to implement this and make sure parent form is released from the memory every time i click on the new button?
Private Sub btnNew_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnNew.Click
Dim frmChildForm As New frmStaffCreate
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I have a Datarow array but now I need to show each row in a windows form so that the user can look through and find a suitable entry. Ideally the form would be like the DataView display with a BindingNavigator to go through the entries one by one. I have searched everywhere for some indication of how to do it but to no avail. [Code]
View 8 Repliesknow a vb.net image-control, that supports the Canon RAW-file format? (or some other way to show a cr2-file on a windows form).
View 2 Repliesi'm what you call a "noob" in visual basic, and i came up with an idea to make a program the i can monitor my server in a windows form application instead of the cmd. This picture will show what i mean[URL]...
View 5 RepliesMy mate & Myself are currently building a IRC Client, a problem we have come across is when opening a chatroom the form Freezes for example. We are currently using arrays so we can open multiple chat rooms and at this current time to open a chat room we use
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I am working on a Windows service application and have followed few tutorials online and am able to install/uninstall start/stop service fine. I need to show a windows form to the user when service starts and am not sure how to show a form at OnStart() event.The form1.vb is added to the main project. ServiceProcessInstaller1 account is set to localSystem and nothing else is changed. [code]
View 10 Repliesi have uploaded 3 pics shows 3 diff forms.
1. BaseForm.( Includes 2 button, Buttons Text "Form1" and "Form2")
2. Form1. (Just inherited BaseForm)
3. Form2. (Just inherited BaseForm)
If the Button Form1 clicked then it shows Form1 disable Form1 button. and Hide BaseForm. same action for Button Form1.
When I click the Right Top Cross button then the Background BaseForm Still running. I want to close all form If I click cross.
I have the need to have a close button on a borderless form but I'm unable to find a way to display the win7 close button this way? Is it avalible in any way? (I dont wan't to do it the ugly, ugly, ugly way, IE do a screenshot and use that as a bitmap on a button)
View 9 RepliesI want when I click a button , it show form2 but if i click it again , it don't show form2...
View 1 Replieswhere a message sent, gets displayed to each person currently pls help to add list user and While press on user you see message not a general chat room where a message sent, gets displayed to each person?
server
Private Server As socketServer
Private ServerOn As Boolean = False
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how to show the tally using radio button on the next form
View 3 Repliesi have a combobox that has 3 cases. case "0" opens a dialog saying, "Not a valid choice"but case "1" and case"2" open up there own separate forms. (FormMain and Form3)How do i make it so if Form3 is open FormMain Can not be opened, And a messagebox appear saying so. I do not just want the ".hide" function. I already have that set.I have tried a few differant things, none of which worked. And i tried them in the formload and in the combobox selected index
View 3 RepliesI can show an excel workbook using a WebBrowser component but that only works if excel is installed on the target computer.Any other ways to display an excel sheet ? Just a viewer. No need to edit, scroll or tab between sheets.There's a lots of OCX components out there that do this but anyone know of a .net component ?Or any way to achieve it without needing Excel to be installed.
View 3 RepliesAny examples of of windows forms that interact with access databases in vb.net. What I creating is a form where you can enter data to a database and delete if need be. But display the contents of a database in a table or tree.
View 2 RepliesI was just wondering if any one can I want to show a form on startup but once the person clicks and command button it then saves it to the MySettings and then that from dosent show anymore it then goes to example form2 instead?.
View 5 RepliesIn my project i have one parent window form with one menu bar and one status bar. that is what i want is:when i show the child form to see in the status ber an icon relative to the child window.How i can do that?And if that can't be how i can see an icon in a task bar?
View 1 RepliesI have a multiple form application with a listbox on each form. I want to be able to select an item in one listbox on one form and then click a button and it show up in a listbox on another form.
View 3 RepliesI want to create a simple utility app that emulates a right click on the desktop -> view -> show desktop icons - so I can by the click of one button hide and show the desktop icons.[code]...
View 16 RepliesI'm trying to make a tray application to allow me to easily show and hide my icons. I did a bit of research and found this [code]...
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