Create And Build Custom Controls In 2005?
Mar 16, 2010Can someone point me in the direction of a good tutorial on creating and building custom controls that can be added to the Toolbox?
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How To Create Custom UI / Controls
Mar 19, 2011I would like to expand my knowledge of VB.NET and was looking at creating custom user interfaces or custom controls. The type of things I am thinking of is: [URL]s. How are those controls created? I imagine it involves using the existing controls in Visual Studio as a starting point, and altering them to suit your design?
View 2 RepliesCreate Custom Controls For Apps?
Oct 14, 2011i need to create custom controls for my apps so how can I do that? Do I need a special software to do that?
View 3 RepliesVS 2005 - Creating Array Of Custom Controls?
Nov 6, 2009I am creating an array of customer controls by doing the following:
Dim CtlLosArray(150) As Control
Then I'm setting up the first control in the array like this:
CtlLosArray(1) = New ShieldLOSInfobox
CtlLosArray(1).Location = New Point(0, 0)
CtlLosArray(1).Visible = True
CtlLosArray(1).Show()
CtlLosArray(1).Name = "Label1"
Me.pnlLOS.Controls.Add(CtlLosArray(1))
Now on this custom control I have a panel and a few text boxes and as you can see I may be adding about 150 of these custom controls. What I am wanting to do is to be able to access that control then the item on that control based on the array. Something like the following:
CtlLosArray(1).Controls.Item(Panel1).backcolor = Color.Yellow
But the above does not work. How I can access a specific item on the customer control within the array?
C# - How To Create Custom Controls Containing Populated Lists
Sep 11, 2011How to properly create custom controls containing populated lists?For example: I need a combobox control which contains a list of products, then I would reuse this control in other project.
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and it works but when I run the project each item is duplicated - this is because list is populated twice. First when user add a control to form, second by designer when project is started.I already found a solution to prevent adding items in edit mode, but this is not what I need. I would like to have them existing in edit mode so they could be edited at this point.
.net - Create Custom DataTable Which Is Bindable To WinForms Controls?
Aug 25, 2011Our shop primarily use "ADO objects" (I'm referring to DataSet, DataTable, and DataRow) for marshaling around data and manipulating it on forms and in grids. We are experimenting with creating shop-flavored counterparts to the native ADO objects so that we can impose our in-house standards on top of them. Implementing this is straightforward with one exception: I want our objects to be bindable to controls.
I'm aware of IList, IBindingList, BindingSource, etc. and have looked at and experimented with these, but I am falling short when it comes to making a class with no hard property names bindable. The native ADO objects are not strongly typed by default. You have column values that you access via the Item property (e.g. row("Age") or row.Item("Age")). The binding examples I've found online deal with strong-typed objects (e.g. row.Age). Essentially, we want to create custom ADO objects (not inherited from the native ones) that still retain their ability to bind to controls. In a grid I would expect to see columns Name, Age and Occupation from a row where these properties are exposed via row("Name"), row("Age") and row("Occupation"). This must be doable as this is exactly what the native DataTable and DataRow provide.
VS 2005 Create A Custom URL Handler?
Apr 30, 2009Doesn't have to be in VB.NET, could be in C# or just point me to the right registry entries that needs to be created to make this work and I am happy too.Anyways we have a windows client server application called let's say "CoolApp". Now a third party is developing a web front-end using the Interface, BL and DL dlls. They want to add a functionality when user does some specific search on a records lets say a customer with the id of 12345, and then they can send an email to anyone with the access to the application where the link in the email would look something like;
View 10 Replies[2005] Create One Handle For Several Controls?
Feb 12, 2009I was just wondering if their was an easy way to create one handle for several controls. For instance, I have 20 buttons and I want them all to do the same thing when clicked. Instead of having 20 handles for each button.click, is there a way to create one handle that can cover them all, such as a grouping or something?
View 16 RepliesVS 2005 - How To Create Custom Barcode And Control Scanner
Sep 4, 2011A friend of mine called me to that we need a program for our club that when a member will enter in club gate so first of he will have a card upon which a barcode will be printed and through barcode reader his code will be scanned and will be find out that whether he is a temporary member or regular member or absent member or other. Only regular members are allowed to enter into club and allowed to avail all services of club. Now the question is that i dont know that how the custom barcode will be created and how the scanner will be controlled with vb.net?
View 8 RepliesVS 2005 - Create And Select Controls At Runtime
Aug 30, 2011I want to be able to select any control on the vb form at runtime. These controls will be added to theform on a click of a button. So essentially I want to dynamically be able to add and then select these controls at runtime. I would also like to make these controls dragable on the form.
View 1 RepliesBuild Fields As Controls?
Mar 11, 2010is it possible to build objects/classes in a way that every field in a table is represented as an object/control in a form? (I heard it, but I don't know if/how it can be done).
For example:
Description = textbox (with the necessary validations)
Country ID = Combo box (foreign key to a related table)
IsCustomer = Checkbox
so I can build a form by creating the necessary fields/objects in it, and every field is a form control with the necessary rules and validations already in place? This way, fields could be "reused" anywhere in the application retaining their characteristics.
Build An Array Of Controls In A Form?
Sep 5, 2011how do i populate an array with all the controls of a form and their respective properties?
View 11 RepliesControls Resizing Themselves In Designer On Build
Oct 18, 2011I have two controls inside a user control. They are set to be anchored left and right in order too size with the window as it changes size. For some reason I'm having tons of issues getting this to work properly.
Particularly, when ever I build the project and the control reloads itself, these controls triple in size, and extend way off the control. If I re size them and repeat the process it happens again! Anyone have this issue or know what might cause it?
How To Build Custom Configuration Section In App.Config File
May 6, 2010I am trying to build custom configuration section in my app.config file. I am using the following as my example: [URL]. According to this article, I am supposed to inherit from the ConfigurationSection class, add the desired section to my app.config file, and then specify a "configSections" declaration in the app.config file to identify the section and the class that should process it. My problem is that I cannot get the class loader to load my class for processing the section.
If I follow the example and set up my "configSections" as:
<configSections>
<section name="MyStuff.Configuration"
type="MyStuff.MyConfigurer"
allowLocation="true"
allowDefinition="Everywhere" />
</configSections>
I get the following error:
Could not load type 'MyStuff.MyConfigurer' from assembly 'System.Configuration, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
I think the error is telling me it can't load my class from the System.Configuration DLL and that makes sense; the class is in my application code. So how do I tell it to look in my application code to find the class? Do I have to put my class in its own DLL to get this to work? As an alternative approach, is there some way I can just find the section in the application configuration and process the XML myself? The app.config file is the ideal location for this information. Also, this would be easier for me than going through all of these contortions to do what should be a relatively easy operation.
Nant Vbc Build Error Loading Custom DLL Reference
Apr 4, 2012I am having trouble trying to get NAnt to compile my project, which consists of a windows forms application, a utilities library (DLL) and a data classes library (DLL). The problem is that I can't get the main WinEXE application to reference the data classes library, which gets compiled as the second step, before the app is compiled.
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Website For Learning To Build Customs Controls?
Nov 29, 2009Good website for learning to build customs controls?
View 2 RepliesCreate A Custom Messagebox, With Varying Number Of Buttons With Custom .Text Descriptions?
Feb 6, 2009This is what I would like to achieve:To create a custom messagebox, with varying number of buttons with custom .Text descriptions, and other features. I intended to have a property array that would be redim-ed and have values (.Text values) set by the calling class:
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Specify A Custom Icon For Display In The Toolbox Window When Create Own Custom Control?
Dec 29, 2011how to specify a custom icon for display in the toolbox window when you create your own custom control? Something other than the dreaded "gearbox" icon.
View 2 RepliesWay To Build BindingSource Filter From A Group Of Controls [WinForms]?
Dec 29, 2009Right now I am building a filter based on user input (textboxes and comboboxes) by a bunch of if statements. There must be a better way. Here is my current code:
Private Function BuildProductsFilter() As String
Dim RawFilterResults As String = ""
If Not CompanyNameComboBox.SelectedValue Is Nothing AndAlso Not
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XAML Build Error On Project With Controls From External DLL
Jul 16, 2010I'm trying to migrate a WPF Application based on C# to identical project but based writed in VB.NET.I have some problem with XAML Window.if I build solution with this xaml, it's works correctly. But, if I write:<menus:MenuFullMaintenance Name="Test01" />I have this error message:"Error 8 Type 'My.Frame.UI.WPF.MenuFullMaintenance' is not defined. (Window1.g.vb)"The "Name" property raise this exception...why? How can fix it?
View 1 RepliesCreate A Custom File Association ( A Custom Extension ) In VB?
Dec 19, 2010know how to create a custom file association ( a custom extension ) in VB .Net and how to open it on the application
View 1 RepliesCustom Tab Controls In .net?
Mar 27, 2010i want to control my tab pages with custom buttons...now i want to hide my tabs from tab controls...
View 2 RepliesHow To Add Custom Controls
Aug 1, 2010I want to know how to add custom controls to vb.net.
View 6 RepliesCreate Custom Database In Windows Application - Double Click Custom Database File?
Jul 21, 2006With VB.net, I'm coding a simple application to get more used to the new .Net format.
I'd like to save all the information to a 'new' database file. how to create a database on the fly, once that is done i'll be able to connect to it no problem, but actually creating the file is proving difficult to work/find out.
Also, with vb.net and the newly created custom file, how can it be made to automatically open that information with the program?
Is there a method in installation to associate the file type with the new program? How can i check when the program loads if a database file has been 'double-clicked' (rather than just running from the .exe of the program) and proceed to load the data?
EDIT1 - Extra InfoThe windows application has many different fields and content etc, then i need to save that to a file that could later be loaded by 'double clicking'. I assumed the easiest way would be to create a mini-database for each unique file
VS 2005 IDE Configuration Build Type?
Jul 16, 2010with vb.net 2005 how to configure my IDE for release / debug build configuration from which tab i should set it
View 2 Replies[2005] App Won't Build / Debug Anymore
Mar 8, 2009For the last half an hour, whatever changes I make in my app, when I hit the green arrow to start debugging nothing changes. The app seems to be running from a previous build?There's no error/warnings/messages on build.
View 2 Replies.NET For Each Exception On Custom Controls?
Dec 9, 2011in VB.NET i have 2 custom controls, one is a TextBox and second one is a ComboBox.These have custom values like Bool _IsHidden and are added on runtime to a form.Now, at some point in the code I want to check if the _IsHidden is set to True or False and display that information. Since the user can edit this values when creating the control these are not set on creation.
So what I tried is:(all of this is on MDI Forms)
For Each frm as CustomForm in Main.MdiChildren If frm.MyName = calledBy Then 'this part is just to know which form called the form to create the object For Each cntrl as CustomTextBox in frm.Controls'DO Something
Next End if Next
Now.. if the first control is a custom ComboBox it thorws an error since it sees that it does not match the custom TextBox control..how do i get around this? By my understanding it should just go through all of the controls on the said form and just check those who match CustomTextBox control ?
Arguments For Custom Controls?
Nov 24, 2011I've created custom buttons in a .dll and they work fine, so I thought I'd have a go at creating my own sort of listbox to replace the standard one in my applications. It's basically a panel with a few labels and a button (eliminating the need to select an item in standard listbox then click a seperate button). I want to add these panels to a panel on a form, at run-time, based on rows in a db.
If I try adding any arguments in the New() section of the class file it won't let me use the panel in my toolbox. Is there a way to pass arguments to custom controls, I need a new custom panel for each row in a db so need to pass an id to it to specify records; or even load the records in my application and create a new panel for each record, using info passed to it to fill in the labels on it. Or can I create the panel at run-time and refer to labels within the custom controls, setting their .text properties that way?
Resizing And Custom Controls?
Dec 10, 2010I'm not going to post my code for my transparentlistbox class, but here is a link to it.It's been working fine as is, until early this morning when I tried to set a different size.[URl]..For the longest time I placed a normal listbox control on a form and resized that, setting a new public variable of transparentlistbox to the same size/location as the original listbox, setting the visibility of the original to false, and adding the transparentlistbox to the form (me.controls.add).It looked like this:
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Now, since I've moved some buttons around on my main form, I resized the original listbox control to be wider (same height though). When I tested, the transparentlistbox (code didn't change still set to original listbox size/location), the size was that of what I had the original listbox set to, before resizing?
So, I commented out all of the custom drawing/paint events/etc I could find for the transparentlistbox and tested, still stuck to the original size. I stepped line by line debugging and verified that transparentlistbox1.size=listbox1.size indeed matched the new resized size (but didn't actually resize)?
Last I did was comment out the transparentlistbox.visible and put back the listbox1.visible and listbox1 does indeed show with the new resized size? I'm not quite sure what to test next?
Use SVG In .net To Draw Custom Controls?
Nov 3, 2009Is there a way to use SVG in vb.net to draw custom controls? Or any other way?
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