VS 2008 Best And / Or Fastest Way To Switch Between Forms
Jul 2, 2009
In my project I have 3 different forms. They all have the same design layout so the only different you see is where the text boxes and buttons are placed. Right now I have 3 buttons at the top of each form that Im using to switch between the forms
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I know there is probably a much better way of doing this, and faster. I dont' like the delay between each window showing/hiding. what options do I have to make this run better? Since I have the same design background is there I way I can just hide and show just the controls instead of showing/hiding the entire window?
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Nov 13, 2011
1) a text document which has content like :
uber|uber|ultra
taxi|taxi|taxi cab|cab|minicab|airport taxi|airport transfer
genitalia|genitalia|genitals
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Sep 4, 2011
ive a folder with a few hundred .rtf documents. am making a program to search some text in them.the way currently im employing is having a richtextbox on my form and serially loading each file in the richtextbox and if the search text is found in it,adding it to a list.but this is time taking,
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Apr 28, 2010
I am using Visual Studio 2010. I have a Splash Screen which starts first (Everything is running smoothly there). Then it Opens Dialog1. My user is required to check 5 boxes (2,3,4,5,6) (1 has been deleted). I used this Code :
If
CheckBox2.Checked
And
CheckBox3.Checked And
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I've been experimenting for an 1 hour. The code didn't show errors. I tested it and it didn't work. Then I found out that I was working on Dialog 2 in Dialog 1 code. So I tried another thing and that didn't work because I can't put Dialog2 code in Dialog1 code.
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Sep 27, 2011
I always get an exception when I try to switch between different forms in my program. Here is the exception message:
Control.Invoke must be used to interact with controls created on a separate thread
I have attached the forms to very nice variables and this problem occurs when I try to use command like MyForm.Show().
It does not happen when the forms are not attached to variables, but then I have collosal problems with refreshing the textboxes and stuff.
edit;
I have 4 different forms. When I load the main module and main form, in the Sub (...) Handles MyBase.Load I execute the following code:
In module:
Public StartupForm As frmStartup
Public RegularForm As frmRegularUse
Public LoginForm As frmLogin
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This is the aproach I worked out to get the full control over refreshing the forms. It is a program for Motorola Scanner with Windows CE. Now, for example, when I enter the correct password in LoginForm, I want to switch to the RegularForm. When I try to use RegularForm.Show() or RegularForm.ShowDialog or RegularForm.BringToFront(), I get an exception. When I try to call the form with the frmRegularUse.Show() I can call the form, but it is being created in a different thread, I believe, so I loose control over it (when I try to put something from the keyboard, there is no response).
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Jan 21, 2010
I have a form (form1.vb), but i want it to be able to click a button (I already have it) and display another form (IEclick.vb)
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Sep 1, 2010
I've seen quite a few posts regarding changing cultures, localize cultures, etc... but I couldn't care less about all that auto-stuff.I'm developing this GUI to connect with one of our production machines that will be used by the ppl who will be servicing the machines. Which might well be anywhere around Europe and soon enough Japan and US. Therefore, it was asked already to have language options, cause the guy servicing is likely to be a local.
As I said, auto-stuff doesn't bother me, all I want is the option to go to File -> Preferences and change a drop-down box to whatever language the person fancy and put a My.Settings.Save() I'm planning to create a few simple xml files called "en", "fr", "sp", etc which will be something like: <Frm_Main.Label1>Text of the label</Frm_Main.Label1> The actual problem is: I know the coded strings will have to be manually set, but: Is there a way to cycle through all the UI items (labels, toolstripmenu, buttons, group boxes) to set those .text ?? I'm trying stuff like
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Jan 16, 2012
I might be going about this the wrong way, but I'm trying to create a form that will include a single button, for instance "Enter". When "Enter" is clicked, I want the form to then display the contents of form 2, which might include more buttons and/or a textbox, etc. I want to do all this without ever opening or closing a form.
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Aug 16, 2011
I am trying to make a UI that has a few forms / panels, each for a different "Tab" in the program.
I am guessing that the way to do this is using panels and code like:
Panel1.Visible = False
Panel2.Visible = False
Panel3.Visible = False
Panel4.Visible = True
Would I be correct in assuming that this is the best way to go? (I don't want lots of popup forms in the program, looking for the most streamlined way to go).
Also, if this is the correct way to go how would I go about hiding each panel in the IDE so that I can work on each one seperately using the designer view?
Here is the best example application I can think to use: [URL] Each of the tabs (Proxies, Harvester etc) has an image as the tab (Which I can't find an option to do with TabControl and then displays the container / panel below it
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Jul 21, 2009
I have some friends who are 'old-school' VB6 database developers and I was telling them about .NET and its features, specifically ADO.NET. In our conversation, they brought up the following reasons why they would rather stick with ADO than move to ADO.NET: The Dataset is disconnected (What if power fails?)
The same amount of code still has to be written The new options of Dataset, BindingSource and TableAdapter seem confusing the same code is written programatically access the Database, all that changes is how that command is laid out. Why ADO.NET is 'better' than ADO with regards to data access when it comes to Windows Forms applications. What does ADO.NET provide that ADO does not? What does it do better than ADO? I'd like examples that do not involve LINQ.
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Dec 12, 2009
When a messagebox pops up, how can I bring a form infront of the messagebox (or switch betwen different forms) and then bring the messagebox back again again if I want to click OK button to proceed with the remaining code?
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Apr 18, 2009
way to switch the X and Y axis?
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Nov 25, 2009
Is it possible to switch between different tabs in a Tab control dynamically with delay 20 secs for example?
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Jan 6, 2010
How to switch off the annoying (to me anyway) horizontal line that seperates procedures in Vb?
I've setup a new Dev machine for myself and for the life of me I can't figure out how to switch it off in VS2008.My mind is obviously failing with age, I know I did it on the old machine!
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May 25, 2010
ok i got a hard question I have diferent computers, lets say 200 cps with all known mac address.
i got 3 switches with 24 ports each. i want to know if i can be able to know the port No. and switch of a given computer given the mac address.some computer arent in the domain.
how could i start puttin this into code
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Dec 5, 2011
I have a program that scrap websites and "puts" the information into a table.
My problem is that now and then i get values that i already have in the table. to avoid getting duplicates i search thru the table first to see if the value exist or if the record exist but might be in need of getting updated.
My table contains 60 000 records and is growing.
first i filtered a datagrid but it takes to long so i used the "select" method on the dataset table but it takes longer.
the program loops thru thousands of websites so it'll be doing a search for every website and the added time to collect the data just takes too long.
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Jun 24, 2009
so the way I have this working now I'M using System.Collections.Generic.List(Of T) for holding 100's of a structure.Dim Users as New List(Of User)
I was wondering if there was any better way or faster list container or something like this in the .net framework?
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May 14, 2009
When I have many controls on a Form (i.e. Label, Button etc) that do almost the same thing, I often use one method to handle all the controls Click, MouseDown, MouseUp events.But to know which of the controls throwing the event and access the properties of that control I need to cast the "sender" object to the correct type.
The thing is that I always know which type it is, I don't really have to "TryCast", "DirectCast" and check if the operation returns true. I some times use CType as well.
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Sep 23, 2008
epeat some instructions the fastest?i tried this:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
start()
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Jul 28, 2010
I've an arraylist having 30000 items in it, what's the best way of creating a text file on the fly from an ASP.NEt page? Currently I'm using the code below but it times out with large data,[code]
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Apr 19, 2012
I have a pixel I want to monitor for change. For example, first it is white, and suddenly it is black, and then changes back to white. My method is not fast enough to get this change.any changes I call the function below to get the original color of the pixel. Then I have a timer that runs every 1 ms to take the color of the pixel, and if it's not equal to original color; do something. For example counts the time the pixel has changed. However, this function does not run fast enough. Is there any faster methods to check the pixel? The function returns an ARGB code of the pixel color.[code]....
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Apr 29, 2012
The fastest way to generate thumbnails using VB.net and multiple computers without bogging down the UI. Right now I have 3 computers and I run an instance of my thumbnail generator code on each. One computer hosts the images. The other two computers access the folder of images via the network. My code is written to compare the main folder and a thumbnail folder to see if new thumbnails need to be generated. If so, a thread is generated and the thumbnail generation code is ran on the thread. There are 5 threads created in all. So, theoretically, across 3 machines, I'm getting 5 independent threads and I'm thinking that Windows 7 automatically spreads the load across the local cores. In an effort to avoid duplicating work, the comparison is done before the generation of each thumbnail.
This method is faster than using only one computer but drags down the performance on all computers (THE UI also becomes unresponsive). I'm looking for a better way to
1.) Produce the thumbnails as fast as possible
2.) Keep all UI's responsive (boy possibly controlling the priority setting) and
3.) Done within a single instance of the program.
In the #3, I mentioned that I would like to use one instance. Is it possible for networking information be used by the hosting computer that will allow threads to run on the other 2 computers? This way, the 15 threads will be controlled by a single host computer.
Here is a snippet of my
Public Sub CreateThumbsFUNCTION(ByVal IMAGE As String, ByVal MAXDIMENSION As Integer)
'following code resizes picture to fit.
'IMAGE needs the full path
'If thumbnail already exists, it will skip
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Mar 29, 2010
I was wondering if anyone had a better(faster) way to parse a Tab delimited file in VB.net. I need to read a file into an SQL table and the file contains about 300,000+ rows. Takes quiet a while. at the moment i have the below [Code].
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Jan 19, 2012
I am quite new at VB.NET and just need helo on sorting algorithms, prferbly the fastest (quick sort) but bubble would so. It is for sorting and array for 12 numbers, which are being enter by the user via a input box. These are then transfered onto a listbox for visual aid. so the steps involved would be: (already done)1) Enter then inputs into array via inputbox2) Input to sppear in listbox (not done)3) Sort the array ascending/decending4) print results into the listbox again.In my code there is also a total and a average, but that doesnt need any help on it. [code]
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Apr 20, 2010
My current project is to process several files. The files come from a Unix server and have been SFTP'd to the Windows XP machine. (That's fixed protocol, I don't have control over it.) My problem now is that the Unix new line characters and Windows characters don't match. The solution is to read the file line by line and replace 0x0A with 0x0D + 0x0A, or Asc 10 with Asc 13 + Asc 10, or vbLf with vbCrLf, however you like to say it.Well I have a working function to do this, but any extra speed I could squeeze out of it would be fantastic. The text files I'm working with can reach sizes of about 100MB. So to the question:
Q: What is the fastest way to read a file in, change characters as necessary and then write the file out?Here is my current working code.
Private Sub FormatCharacters(ByVal files As String())
Try
For Each fileName As String In files
FileSystem.Rename(fileName, fileName & ".old")
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Aug 14, 2011
When ListView is not in Virtual mode the following method seems to be the fast method to load a large list into ListView:
Dim items As New List(Of ListViewItem)
Dim alllines as String()=System.IO.File.ReadAllLines("FilePath")
For each line as string in alllines
Dim item As New ListViewItem
item.Text = line
items.Add(item)
Next
ListView1.Items.AddRange(items.ToArray())
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Sep 28, 2009
I have a search function on my company's website (based on .NET 2.0) that allows you to narrow the product catalog using up to 9 different fields. Right now, after you make your selections on the frontend I am building a dynamic query and hitting the database (SQL Server) to get the resulting list of items numbers. I would like to move away from hitting the database everytime and do all of this in memory for faster results. Basically a 3500 - 4500 row "table" with 10 columns: the item number (which could be a primary key) and the 9 attribute fields (which have repeating values for many many rows).
There can be any number of different searches between the 9 columns to get the items you want:
Column A = 'foo' AND Column D = 'bar'
Column B = 'foo' AND Column C = 'bar' AND Column I = 'me'
Column H = 'foo'
etc...
Based on my research, the .Select() function seems like the slowest way to perform the search, but it stands out to me as being the quickest and easiest way to perform the narrowing searches to get the list of item numbers:
MyDataSet.Select("Column B = 'foo' AND Column E = 'bar' AND Column I = 'me'")
In my specific case, what method I use as an alternative that has the same narrowing functionality and better performance instead of settling for the datatable.select() method?
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Nov 2, 2011
I have developed a VB.NET program using a strongly typed dataset. This dataset has its connection to a SQL Server 2008 R2. The software should now be additionally used offline. The database should be exported to a *.sdf database. If no connection to the SQL server is produced, the software have to try to connect to the *.sdf database.I would like to achieve:
1. Export the data in the SQL Server 2008 R2 database to a local *.sdf file.
2. This *.sdf file has to work as an alternate connection string in the strongly typed dataset.
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Jul 28, 2009
just wondering if it is possible to add a method to all forms in my project without having to do it on one form and Inherit all my other forms from that one
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Apr 21, 2010
i have a problem with trying to get 2 forms to close at different times using a timer on each of the 2 forms.
This is my form layout:
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frmMain
Frm1
Frm2
Frm1 and Frm2 are identical to each other. FrmMain has 2 buttons on it. One button to call Frm1 and the other to call Frm2.Frm1 and Frm2 each has a timer. It counts down to 0 and then does a .close(). However, if i pause between clicking the second button they both seem to always disappears at the same time.I would do something like this...
Click on the first button (showing the Frm1 form)
wait about 10 secs...Click on the second button (showing the Frm2 form)they both are shown on screen...hen they both disappear at the same time.... which shouldn't happen since i clicked the Frm2 box 10 seconds AFTER Frm1... So Frm1 should hide before Frm2 does...but it does not.
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