So I came across this code that enables a drop shadow on a form in Visual Studio .NET 2008. The code is as follows:
Public
CS_DROPSHADOW As
Int32 = &H20000
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I want to create a drop shadow on a group box though. What changes can I make to this and where must I insert it to do this?
So I made my form transparent by changing the transparent key to dimgray, change background color to dimgray. I also changed the picture box's BG color to dimgray everything was fine except that the drop shadow on the picture I did was just a grey blob.Is there anyway to make the drop shadow look like its a drop shadow?
View 5 RepliesHow would I achieve a drop shadow effect around all edges of my Form?
View 9 RepliesI'm currently building an intranet engine for a project I've got on the go at the moment,and I'd like to save myself a little time by generating header images from code where possible, however, I'd like it to match our concept image.What I'd like to achieve is below:My issue is I've not the faintest how to create that from code. I can do the absolute basics but that's about it.I start to fall down when it comes to the gradient background and the drop shadow on the text. I can get away with positioning the text on the larger header image, so if it's not possible to generate the exact gradient I have there, then I have a work around for that, but what I really want to achieve is the text with the font and drop shadow.
View 1 Repliesis there a way to implement a win7 drop shadow style into border less form?
View 9 RepliesI have a custom WPF window defined as:
<Window x:Class="MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" MinHeight="300" Height="350" MinWidth="600" Width="700" ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip" AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None">
I found a class online that creates drop shadows, shown below. This works well, even with a resize grip, until I maximise the window. Once I maximise the window or change the window state of another window (eg. Visual Studio), I loose the drop shadow and I cannot get it back.
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I'm trying to drag an item between two Groups in the same ListView called 'listTasks'.
Private Sub listTasks_ItemDrag(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ItemDragEventArgs) Handles listTasks.ItemDrag
listTasks.DoDragDrop(listTasks.SelectedItems, DragDropEffects.Move)
End Sub
Private Sub listTasks_DragEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DragEventArgs) Handles listTasks.DragEnter
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With listTasks.PointToClient(New Point(e.X, e.Y)) you could use listTasks.GetItemAt(p.X, p.Y) to get the ListView item you're over. Is there something like this for Groups? Or perhaps a better way to determine what group is the target of a drag-drop?
I am trying to create a data entry system for a local community group. I am working with VB.NET 2010 and MSAcess 2000. I am completely new to using a DB in VB.Net. I have created a form with the membership table bound as details on the form and the classes they are attending as a DataGridView. I used all the Visual Studio GUI tools for this. It was reasonably straightforward once I got the hang of things. My problems arise when I try to ensure that a user cannot move to a new record or create a new member without first saving any changes they have made.
I am using ColumnChanging events in the ...DataSet.vb class to set flags to indicate whether any data values have been changed on the form. My problem is that the ColumnChanging events for the classes DGV fire immediately on changing the data whereas the ones for the member details don't fire until I start to move to a new record. I don't know if it is important but my member navigation is achieved by means of a combobox on the form that lists the member names from the table. I have absolutely no idea why this works - it just did; the form updates as soon as the user selects a new member in the combo box.
I am trying to create and application that has a section on the left of the form that has about 8-10 smallish images in it. The user can then drag the images one at a time from the box of images and create his own model/diagram. I am going to be doing more with the application, but I need to just start by accomplishing this.
View 30 RepliesI am creating a Visual basic Editor application. the thing i amnot able toselect the multiple controls at runtime from my application. Is the AdornerWindow supported at runtime to select the multiple controls at runtime ??RegardsVB 8.0VS.
View 1 RepliesIm thinking of making a really user friendly tcp drag and drop tcpclient/server like winsock.
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How would i create this for my toolbox, but use sockets with this item. or can it be as flexible as socket?
How would i do this? Would i need to add more or create a brand new socket with my mini drag n drop Client/Server Ex: MySuperEasyClient.ASCII.EncryptData.SendData(textbox.text)
ps: What would this be called? TCPClient/Server or UDP?
I'm trying to match up a specific group name and see if it exists for the currently logged in user using Active Directory roles. If the Group Name exists for the Current User, I want that group name to be displayed in a drop down list. Example: If current user is in BIG Group, display BIG in drop down list.Problem: All I am getting is SIDs and I'm not able to get anything to match up to the group name and nothing will show up in the drop down list.I also get the following Error:Error: Object variable or WIth block variable not set.How do I fix this?? here is the code I am using:
Private Sub GetMarketingCompanies()
' code to populate marketing company drop down list based on the current logged in users active directory group that
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Enumerate if an Active Directory group's member is user or another group
View 1 RepliesI have a gridview which can be filtered from one or more values in a querystring. That all works great: e.g. "?subject=Maths&authorName=Bond_James&type=Magazine" The values passed to the query string come from 3 drop down lists: Subject, Author, Type.What I'd like is when the user presses "Filter" it will take the selected values from the drop down lists and pass them to the querystring - it could be 1 value, 2, or all 3 (like above).
The drop down lists have an item called "All Subjects" / "All Author" / "All Type" each with a value of -1. The idea being that if the user leaves these items selected then the Filter button just ignores them.
Here is my code so far:
Protected Sub buttonFilterGo_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles buttonFilterGo.Click
Dim queryString As String
Dim selectedAuthorString As String = "author=" & dropAuthorList.SelectedItem.Value
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Also, one more thing. How do I get the drop down lists to have the filters selected when the page re loads?
EDIT: I changed the default values of the drop down lists to "" - this leaves the URL looking messy though ?author=&subject=&type= This works, is it the best way?
I am writing an application and I do not know how to reference a group of controls inside a group box. I will include the code I have written so far and a picture with a detailed explanation as to what I am trying to do. Feel free to comment on any discrepancies that you may notice in my code.
Code:
Public Class Form1
' The following class-level constants are used
' to calculate the price of the model
Const decCOUPE As Decimal = 18000
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I want to remove a group (include all items in this group) in ListView, but unsuccessful, the code is below, why?
ListView1.Groups("GroupName").Items.Clear()
ListView1.Groups.Remove(ListView1.Groups("GroupName"))
anyone have some quick code on how to do this?
wmi is not a option.
I wanna put a shadow on my program!Its borderless, because ive used my own graphics.Does anybody have a clue how to add a shadow on the program?(I have made a shadow on the program before, but that didnt work out well, the background of the shadow went white, ive also used the transpacity key and stuff, didnt work)
I am using VB 2010, so if you got any idea's PLEASE let me know.
i used a code from here [URL]to get a shadow on my form but it is only on the right side and bottom i want the shadow to cover all four sides.
View 4 RepliesI would like to shadow/override an event in VB.NET. I do it only because I have to implement in this object an interface, that contains the same event like the base object itself, and I need to keep this base event as is it without modification nor supplementary event additions.How can I do it?
Public Shadows Event VisibleChanged As EventHandler Implements IVisibleChanged
So, I would like to implement a interface that contains VisibleChanged event, but to keep functional the myBase VisibleChanged event too.
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I would like to make sure that certain properties/methods of native framework methods are not called in a project I'm working on. I want to use custom methods instead, and make sure that those methods are always used. How would I do that?
These are the details:
In a rather large web project, we have several pieces of code creating and sending email messages using the MailMessage object. I want to perform some additional checking, logging etc whenever an email address is added to either the To, CC or BCC MailAddressCollection
of a MailMessage object. Basically I'd like to make sure that it is not possible, in this entire Solution, to do this: MyMailObject.To.Add(something@somwhere.com), and the same for "CC" and "BCC".
First, I thought about not using the MailMessage object at all, but inherit it and override the methods that allow adding of addresses. I ran into some trouble though when trying to shadow the "To" property, since "To" is a reserved word... And then I realized that it probably wouldn't solve my problem entirely anyway, since there would be nothing stopping another developer (or myself being stupid) from creating an instance of the original MailMessage class and use it at will.
I have successfully created a method which centralizes all the adding of various recipient addresses, but I can't figure out how to prevent the original methods from being used by mistake.
I am looking for a way to create Volume Shadow Copies of individual files. I have searched accross the net now for classes and code to use but I haven't been able to find anything. I'm only really starting out in .NET and C#, C++ or any other language for that matter are completely alien to me. Everything I've found on the subject, even from Microsoft VSS SDK is either in C# or in C++. I don't want to use any external programs, everything must run from the single exe file.
Target End Result:
I'd like a file at "\global\class\VSSClass.vb" that houses all the code needed.
Public objVSSClassObject As New VSSClass
For in-line code I'd like it as streamined as possible as it will be used with arrays of pre-set filenames.
objVSSClassObject.CopyFile(srcFile, dstDirectory)
Here's a sample of how the code would be used.
Public VSS As New VSSClass
Dim dstDirectory = My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "\Shadow Files"
Dim FilesArray() As String = {"absolute_path_to_file1.txt", _
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I want to disable the shadow underneath the standard tool tip ... is this possible?
I want to do this as i want to owner draw it ... and not have it square (as the shadow is ... even when owner drawing )
Is there a way to remove the LineShape shadow effect when selecting the lineShape? I tried
Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
Dim g As Graphics = e.Graphics
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias
Dim oldmode As SmoothingMode = g.SmoothingMode
g.DrawLine(_Pen, X1, Y1, X2, Y2)
g.SmoothingMode = oldmode
End Sub
but finally, this have some back effects on invalidation: when moving (in a panel) the line leave traces - does not invalidate properly.
I tried to skin my application and failed. I can get it to work if I don�t have semi transparent pixels on the outside of my form. But I want to use a skin I found on Deviant art that was made for Miranda. It is really nice but and it has a shadow around it. To get it to work in vb.net (I�m using 2005 btw) I have to fill around the main picture and take out the initializing (I think that is what it is called). But then the form�s edges are choppy. How does Miranda allow the shadows but I can�t in vb.net?
I first tried to do it the easy way. I set up some transparent panels with transparent pictureboxes in them and put my corners and middle fills as the backgrounds. I made the form with no border and set the transparent key to transparent. That didn�t work, so I made the form magenta and the transparent key magenta. The outside of the for where the shadow is was drawn on the magenta and the magenta bled through. So I edited the png�s to be magenta all around the form (eliminating the shadows) and it worked, but the corners were choppy.
Then tried some code I found on the net that tried to make a new control as a transparent panel. It was overriding the paint events and drawing to an off screen bitmap. I really didn't understand it and it just showed up as a blank screen. There has to be a way to do this.
Is there any ways to hide/shadow MyBase's properties?
Such as MyBase.Location, MyBase.Font?
When I try to declare a local "Height" properly, VS prompts me warning to use "Overloads" instead. But when in form designer/control test run, I still see this property, or any other properties (BorderStyle) which I tried to hide.
Im using now this code to make shadow for my square backgrounds.
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I want to divide the content in my application to groups each group has its own rectangle border with the group name located at the top border, i've seen it before and i'm not sure what is the correct name of this control, anyone knows what I'm talking about ? EDIT: Ok, I found the Groupbox Control but how do i use it? should i just drag other controls inside it or i should add controls directly into it?
View 2 RepliesHow can i add an aero form shadow/glow effect to my controls?
View 2 RepliesI show forms in a SplitContainer Panel, but since the FormBorderStyle is set to none I'd like to apply a drop shadow. The following code works perfect if the form is not inside the panel
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams
Get
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