Change Desktop Background?
Feb 17, 2010Is it possible to change desktop background using VB.NET?I'd like to change the icons too plan on making a VB.NET program that can automatically make Windows XP look like Mac in just one click.
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Change Desktop Background Picture
Oct 5, 2009How to change the desktop background picture using vb.net"? ie , i want to change my desktop background through my vb.net code?
View 2 RepliesSet Video As Desktop Background?
Aug 29, 2010I have enabled windows dreamscene on my windows 7 x64 system and would can right click on a media file and click "set as desktop background".
My question is: how can i/is it possible, to do this programmatically? I know how to handle the images files and set them as the background but I just cant get the damn video files such as .wmv!
I am using visual studio 2010 and am coding in visual basic.
PS: I had to install a .dll file for the dreamscene to work and have tried adding references to it but with no luck.
Set Contents Of Picturebox As Desktop Background?
Dec 5, 2009Set contents of picturebox as desktop background?
View 10 RepliesVS 2010 - Stick An App To The Desktop Background?
Jan 7, 2011I would like to have my application basically appear as if it was part of the desktop background, I've removed the form border etc and made the background colour of the form the same as our standard company background so it all blends in nicely. I have also made it so the app does not appear in the toolbar and it is set to launch on startup so it appears as soon as the user logs in - so all works fine and looks fine because any new apps that the user opens will open on top of my app. The only problem is that if they press the Show Desktop button (or use Windows Key + D) to minimize all apps, mine gets minimized as well and disappears. Its easy enough to get the user to make it appear again as it has a system tray icon that they can interact with, but it would be better if it just didn't vanish when they did this.Now I know the best thing for this on Windows 7 would be a Gadget but the problem is that Gadget's annoyingly have to be HTML/javascript and a) I'm not great with web coding and b) I don't think it is even possible to do what my app does from a HTML/javascript page... oh and c) I can't find any way to deploy gadgets in a business network (there is no way we are installing it manually on all 300 of our PCs), so the gadget idea is not looking very promising.I'm wondering if there is some window message I can capture and ignore in the WndProc event handler
View 12 RepliesSet As Desktop Background (Fill / Center And Tile)?
Jan 23, 2010I'm using this code to set a picture as the desktop background:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
SetDesktopWallpaper("C:\image.jpg")
End Sub
Private Shared Sub SetDesktopWallpaper(ByVal fileName As String)
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It works well, except the wallpaper is always centered. How can I have the ability to choose Fill, tile or center with separate buttons?
Desktop Backround Not Available To Change
Nov 18, 2011I just bought a windows 7 starter ACER laptop and I can't change the destop backround. there is no option to change it and when I go to my pictures folder to " set as backround" it doesnt work.
View 1 RepliesChange Icon That It Displays When On Desktop
Oct 25, 2009i have visual basics 2008 express and i made a app, how can i change the icon that it displays when on the desktop, and how can i get it to minimize to the right bottom of the screen next to the clock.
View 2 RepliesChange Desktop Wallpaper From An Image In My Resources?
Dec 7, 2011I'm developing an application where the desktop wallpaper will change from an image in my resources. Or change it to a solid color.
View 4 RepliesVS 2008 Change A Row Style On An Excel Sheet In A Desktop Application?
Jun 15, 2010my VB.Net desktop app writes to an Excel file. I need to set the style to a row. I can read a style of one row, but am unable to set the style in another.
View 2 RepliesRefresh Desktop To Reflect Wallpaper Change Visual Studio 2008?
Oct 18, 2009I have written a small application that will allow the user to use DreamScenes on there desktop in Windows XP but i can't get the screen to refresh to reflect the desktop changes. The refresh routine i have used will only work once....This program is part of an application i am writing to allow users to customize/modify the windows xp source.Here is my code:
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Public Class Form1
Dim DSNAME As String
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Change App Background After The App Is Completed?
Apr 23, 2009let's say i finished my application.. it already has 3 images that when i click button1, form background image is red, button2, blue, button3, whatever color image u like.. ;o)
now the app is built as a .exe and i would like to add more images to be able to change the background image... is there a special folder that contains my app images, or are they embedded in my application?
or is there a way to update the exe with new images... this is a new field for me, so make it simple..
Change Background Color In MDI?
Nov 6, 2009I am create a isMDIformcontainer=true form, Design time have backgroud color. But runtime no color. Can you change the backgroud of MDI parent form..?
View 3 RepliesChange Background Opacity?
Mar 25, 2010I have a VB.NET form with a red background and white text. I want to change the opacity of the background (not the text) to 50%; how would I go about accomplishing that?
View 1 RepliesChange Color Background?
Jun 1, 2009i want my program change the backgound color of the form even it is restarted or the computer is off when i open it again and run the program i want the color that i selected is previous would be the background color that will appear when i run it again... how could i do it?I'm done change the background with Color Dialog but when Quit the program and run again it will turn back to the original background color
View 2 RepliesWay To Detect Background Change
Jan 7, 2011I need to be able to detect when the background changes, for example user right clicks and selects next background, My first thought was using a FileSystemWatcher on the folder where the images are kept to detect when windows reads a image but that didn't work with the filter to last access but it doesn't seem to be working even when i run as administrator
View 2 RepliesChange All Menu Background Color?
Feb 9, 2012I write code to change all menu background color change:
For Each blah As ToolStripMenuItem In MenuStrip.Items
blah.BackColor = Color.DimGray
blah.ForeColor = Color.Black
For Each meh As ToolStripMenuItem In blah.DropDownItems
meh.BackColor = Color.DimGray
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Change Background Image In MDI Form
Mar 4, 2009I want to Change BackgroundImage In MDIFORM in VB.Net and Set Picture.
View 1 RepliesChange Background Image On Buttonclick?
Oct 16, 2009I have been trying to make a "skinnable" program, and I am having trouble making it so that when the user clicks a button, it changes to a different image for the background.
View 2 RepliesChange Background In Form And Tab Control?
Feb 22, 2011I have a form with a tab control on it. I would like to be able to rotate backgrounds, from the code.I'd especially like to be able to change just one tab on the tab control. I know how to do this in the IDE, of course.)
View 3 RepliesChange Tab Control Background Color?
Dec 7, 2011how can I change the grey part into white color? I want my tabcontrol filled with full white color. So far what i did is like this:
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Change The Background Color Of A DateTimePicker?
Oct 28, 2009I found this on the web after i was searching on how to change the background color of a dateTimePicker the actual background of the control not the background of the calendar within the control. I have my computer windows set up with a green color so my eyes get no so much of a workout, instead of white like is default. so when the dateTimePicker is displayed in the program im building it is green, unless i set my windows color to white in the appearance/advance/window
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Change The Background Color Of The Form?
Aug 11, 2010i would like to change the background color of the form when giving the color name in the textbox and enter it.
View 2 RepliesChange The Background Image Of A Form ?
Apr 20, 2012How do I change the Background Image of a form ? not with the properties I know how to do it from there I guess . but I want to change it with coding .How do I do that ?
edit : and another thing when I try to add an image to a image box it shows me the image error image. you know when it can't load the image. it actually showed it for 1 second and then it disappear .here is the code for the Image box
ptbplayer.ImageLocation = CurDir() & "Images/player.jpg"
Change Value Of The Variable In Background Worker
Apr 1, 2010i change the value of the variable in the Backgroundworker but the if i use the varible valur outside of the thred the varible value doesn't change still previous.
View 2 RepliesAsp.net - Change The Background Color Conditionally According To Row Values?
Apr 14, 2011I am developing a report which outputs data in a SQL Table via an ASPX page, using VB. How do I code this so that all rows containing a "1" for one of the columns, shows up as red? Here is what I have so far. This doesn't cause any errors, but it doesn't show up as red either.
I don't know if this is a problem, but the ExceedsLimit and SixInARow variables are INTs in my stored procs, but then I am declaring them as strings in the code below.
Private Sub DataGrid1_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs)
If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Then
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Change A Background Of A Load Form From A Picbox?
Jan 13, 2009how to change a background of a load form from a picbox?? i use this but still doesnt change
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Change A Controls Background Color When It's Disabled?
Jan 13, 2009Is there a way to change a controls background color when it's disabled. The problem is its grey on grey and hard to see.
View 5 RepliesChange Background - Get The Users Picture From The Resource Using Vb?
Apr 13, 2010i have made a sql query that gets a users profile picture it comes out ok and the outcome of the it is the same names as the resources and i want to get the users picture from the resource using vb but it dont work so i have this so far..
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Change Background Color & Font Of DateTimePicker
Feb 15, 2010I want to change the Forecolor and the Font color of the DateTimePicker. (The one Narrow white window with Black font which appears on dragging "D.T.Picker" control onto the "Form").
So far, I couldn't do it.
I found the same question (by someone on 31st Aug 2007) and answers by Figo Fei in the forum. Figo fei said, "It is truly not possible to directly modify the forecolor of the DateTimePicker which is concealed in its implementation. However, there is a workaround to change its forecolor through own-draw mode in a custom control inherited from dateTimePicker.". And he gave the code which looks like - for me - either VC++ or VC#.
Code Snippet
public partial class MyDateTimePicker : DateTimePicker
{
protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
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