I'm using .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and want to add "drawing" components such as lines, rectangles, etc.. I've done this before in MS Access, but I can't seem to find similar things in teh Visual Studio 2005 IDE. Where do I need to look to find these elements?
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Right now I'm drawing a small 16x16 image on the title bar of my window. It works nicely, except for an obnoxious flicker that I cant figure out how to get rid of. I'm simply drawing the image like this:
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
If m.Msg = WM_SIZE Then
wnd_size = New Size(New Point(CInt(m.LParam)))[code]....
Its repainting the entire title bar each time something is changed on it(click, mouseover the corner buttons, etc), and its during the repaint I get the flicker.
I've decided to learn Visual Basic .Net as this is what some of my colleagues work with, and this will allow me to work with them on projects.I have purchased Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step and downloaded the sample files. When I am trying to debug the first sample application (a Windows form), it is telling me that it can't load System.Drawing V4.0.0.0. However, if I create a new Windows Form application (C# or VB.Net) this works fine.
I had a look at the References tab in the project settings and System.Windows.Forms is referenced, but the version referenced is 2.0.0.0. I have removed and re-added this reference and it stays at 2.0.0.0 and I still get the error.Does anybody have any ideas as to what may be going on?
I was wondering if there were any free ribbon controls for vb.net, and if there are not, how I could go about making my own. I don't want to pay $300 or more for a professional one...and I would really like to add one to my project.
What would be the best solution for finding/making one?Here is my google search I tried, I could only find one for c#. If possible, I would like one which is the closest to the one used in Office 2007.
I am building an application in VS2008 (VB.NET) that contains several user controls. When I was developing under VS2005, all the components in my application would load into the toolbox so I could access them during design.
Since upgrading to VS2008, however, those application-based components do not load, and I cannot access the user controls I have built.
1. Exit Visual Studio
2. Navigate to %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0
3. Delete the TBD files found there (these are hidden by default)
4. Re-start Visual Studio and open your WPF application - the toolbox will now be reinitialized
and that worked for one session, but it did not get preserved -- when I shut down and came back into VB.NET, the application-based controls no longer loaded.
Is there some setting in VS2008 that I am missing? Or is there another step to getting the app-based controls to reappear each time I load the development files?
I'm using the webbrowser control in VB.net. I want to click a button and have the webbrowser go to a certain website (done). Then I want it to wait a period of time and then do something on the page its on. The part I'm having a problem with is the waiting period. In the main form I have no problem manipulating controls or anything like that.
One solution would be to use thread.sleep() but that locks the ui and I don't like that. What I am trying to do is have a backgroundworker do the waiting then perform the necessary actions on the webpage, but the backgroundworker isn't able to access that thread, makes sense. I've explored delegates but that doesn't seem to do what I want as it doesn't allow me to put the background thread to sleep before it does its work.
I have a VB form that contains controls for interfacing with some hardware (video cameras, motors, etc) on the machine it is to be deployed on, but I'm usually not at the location of said machine (it's a 3-hour drive away). I'm trying to work on the project while on my laptop, but obviously the controls will generate all sorts of errors since they can't talk to the hardware.
I was thinking of replacing the control types with my own mock control classes, then use #if directives to control whether I'm building for the real machine or my test machine. Problem is, some of the affected code is in the form designer-generated code section; the form designer automatically tries to "correct" my changes, so I'd have to manually put them back all the time, and try to remember not to commit the form designer's edits into version control.
I have created a User Control in VB 2005 that adds other controls dynamically. This is a fairly simple test project, with checkboxes added to the control at run-time. Here's the user control:
Public
Class UserControl1
Public x
[Code]......
Then I built the test control and tried to added it to the Toolbox. When I did this--i.e., browsed to the dll and double-clicked it, I got the errror message:
"There are no components in ... that can be placed in the toolbox."
Is it even possible to add a User Control to the Toolbox without compile-time components?
I know about user controls and custom controls, but I want to build a control like the Open File Dialog or Event Log Components that don't have UI and just pop to the bottom of the form like the OFD. How do I do this?
View 2 RepliesThis form has a picturebox and a button. The program draws a random line onto the picturebox every time the button is pressed. I want to modify the program so that it also draws a line onto the picturebox when the program is first run. I added a draw() to the form_load event but that didn't work. What do I need to do?
Public Class Form1
Dim x1 As Integer
Dim y1 As Integer
[code]....
I'm trying to save a panel control as a bitmap using the following code (VB.net):
Private Sub SaveFileDialog1_FileOk(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles SaveFileDialog1.FileOk
filename = SaveFileDialog1.FileName
[code].....
Is there a way to draw in the foreground of a container control. Such as a Panel, or PictureBox.
I need to be able to draw across multiple controls all within the same container.
Lets say, that you have a Panel containing Five Buttons. Is there a way to draw say a line across all five buttons, that will show as a continuous line, using only the Graphics object of the container?
I can only get the line drawn in the background such that the controls are drawn over the line and it appears broken. In the actual usage there are 25 controls and I would rather not have to loop through each contorl and drawn the line if needed, every time the control is invalidated.
I have a Custom Groupbox that overrides the OnPaint event to do some custom drawing, backgrounds, etc. The problem I have is that when I use it in an application and want to draw text on the control, it gets drawn first, then immediately afterwards the OnPaint from the control gets called and draws on top of the text. Is there any way to get the text drawn after the control's OnPaint?
View 5 RepliesI have a Custom Groupbox that overrides the OnPaint event to do some custom drawing, backgrounds, etc. The problem I have is that when I use it in an application and want to draw text on the control, it gets drawn first, then immediately afterwards the OnPaint from the control gets called and draws on top of the text. Is there any way to get the text drawn after the control's OnPaint?
View 1 Repliesknow the millisecond interval, used by the framework trackbar, between calling the ValueChanged event when moving the grip with a mouse?I've implemented my own trackbar and I'd like the behaviour to be consistent with what the user expects.I've had a look in reflector but it's one of those controls where most of the implementation is not viewable.
ETA: Actually, thinking about it, it's not as simple as that. For small changes, the TrackBar is raising the event for every change. However, if you make a large fast change with the grip, it will not raise the event for every step. Just wondering exactly how the framework does this?
Is there any way to scroll in a StatusStrip when its controls exceed form viewing area? My StatusStrip acts as a taskbar with a lot of labels (acting as buttons) which if there are too many might go outside the bounds of the screen.
View 1 RepliesWhat is the best way to bind a property to a control so that when the property value is changed, the control's bound property changes with it.So if I have a property "FirstName" which I want to bind to a textbox "txtFirstName" text value. If I change FirstName to "Stack" the txtFirstName.Text also changes to "Stack".
View 1 RepliesI am currently developing a WinForms application in C# and require a table control that can contain other UI controls.In the following example, I would like the Links column to contain link label controls:
| ID | Name | Links |
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| 1 | n1 | link1, link2, link3 |
| 2 | n2 | link1 |
Is there one I can use 'out of the box', are there any good third party ones?
How do I find out which control has focus in winforms?
View 4 RepliesI need to retrieve my data from a ListView control set up in Details mode with 5 columns.
I tried using this code: MessageBox.Show(ManageList.SelectedItems(0).Text)
And it works, but only for the first selected item (item 0). If I try this:
MessageBox.Show(ManageList.SelectedItems(2).Text)
I get this error: InvalidArgument=Value of '2' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index
I have no clue how I can fix this, any help?
Edit: Sorry, should have said, I'm using Windows.Forms :)
this is my absolute first attempt at the mschart control in a winform, so any help would be appreciated - i have sales reps that issue quotes to customers and would like to plot number of quotes by month using the mschart control.I have a dataset populated with a single table with 2 columns in it - sales_rep and quote_issued_date (there's more, but i'd like to only focus on those two because they contain all the info i need)i have a windows form with an MSChart control dropped on to it. I'm trying to get this to work on a 'column' chart type.i'd like to count the number of records in the dataset per sales rep per monthi'd like to get the x axis to be months in the year (fixed, not drawn from the data) - jan thru dec.
i'd like to get the Y axis to reflect the highest count of rows per rep per month + say....10% (so the graph doesn't peak out at the top every time, it would be more for aethestics)i'd like to get the columns displayed in the graph to be each rep, each month (ie for january john has 10 quotes issued, bill has 5, tom has 31 - for feb john has 3, bill has 10, tom has 19 - etc etc etc) - because the form is just a quick visual, i'm dumping any code in the form load event and calling it good.
I have a question about the webbroswer control regarding anchor tags. Is it possible to programmactically in vb.net go to an anchor tag in a webbrowser control? I would like to ideally provide a combo box drop down on the winform form and control which part of the html page the user goes to when the user makes a selection from the combo box.
View 1 RepliesIn a WinForms environment, I want to wait a specified amount of time before hiding a user control, but I don't want to freeze the entire UI. I can't kick off to another thread because I have to service the UI components on the thread they were created on. What is the cleanest way to do this?
View 2 RepliesI would like to have the tabs on my TabControl displayed on the left, or sometimes right. Unlike the System.Windows.Forms.TabControl, however, I would like the text to remain horizontal instead of being rotated by 90 or 270 degrees to the horizontal. Here are a couple of pictures illustrating the concept. Though I could write code to do this myself in about an hour or two, I just thought I'd ask first if there is any existing Winforms control that implements such feature.
View 1 Repliesas the title says, I'm looking for an event to catch after a user control has been shown.
At the moment, I have to set a do-once variable and catch the Invalidated event.
I am trying to change the UserAgent of the WebBrowser control in a Winforms application.
I have successfully achieved this by using the following code:
[DllImport("urlmon.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]
private static extern int UrlMkSetSessionOption(
int dwOption, string pBuffer, int dwBufferLength, int dwReserved);
[Code]....
The only problem is that this only works once. When I try to run the ChangeUserAgent() method for the second time it doesn't work. I stays set to the first changed value. This is quite annoying and I've tried everything but it just won't change more than once.
I've got a WPF control hosted inside a Windows Forms form via ElementHost. My WPF control (let's just call it WpfControl for the sake of an example) contains a variable that I'd like to expose to my Form.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to use WPF in WinForms, to implement the idea used in this question. I am trying to create a semi-transparent panel.
View 3 RepliesI have a question about the webbrowser control that I hope someone can answer. I am working on a document retrieval and storing class that uses HTML to display and save data. I want to use the webbrowser control in winforms using VB.Net. I only want to store the fields values in the html document, not the whole document. I am hoping to use labels in html and read them with the DOM of the web browser control but am not sure how to do this.
Has anyone done this before and could someone please provide some sample code on how to do this?
What I hope is relevant code below, I would like the User to be able to Right click when hovering over the PictureBox container of a User Control and pop up a menu which allows a User to check or uncheck an item in the context menu. How can I acheive that?
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