I have a number of ActiveX controls which make use of consituent controls (edit boxes,combo boxes etc). I'm using these in a VB .Net 2005 project.When I run the application within the IDE, all the ActiveX controls display correctly with the XP visual styles.But when I run the built assembly, the ActiveX controls display without XP visual styles
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I'm sure I'm doing something wrong because I can't see how the problems I'm having with controls' appearance in Win7 can be normal. When "Enable XP visual styles" is enabled in my application, my progressbars never fill and gridlines don't show in Listviews. Disabling XP visual styles fixes those problems, but then everything looks like Win98 and that's no solution.
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Visual Studio is no longer building with visual styles... This is what is should look like (sorta): This IS what it looks like...
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View 2 Replieshow to disable XP visual styles in VB?I unticked "Enable XP visual styles", but application still has XP visual style. I want to achieve that application will be in Windows Classic color scheme look. Basically the same what you can do in windows settings, but that`s for entire windows and I want it for my application only and default on every computer, where application will be installed.
View 3 Repliesi want to use a custom visual style what is this one on deviantart on my vb.net form how do i make it work?
View 3 RepliesWhere and how do I look for to access the default templates of say for e.g a checkbox, so that I can modify few styles in it.
View 1 RepliesI need to make a program that can disable visual styles in windows 7.I also need to know how to enable it again.
View 8 RepliesI am a student of class 12. I wish to make a vb project on the topic "airline reservation ssystem". I wanted to know how can I get some new controls and styles/skins to make my project look attractive.
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View 1 RepliesI have created a VB.NET Class Library that exposes some COM Interop sub routines. These in turn show various forms that are contained within the Class Library. When the forms are shown from VB6 they do not inherit the visual styles of the operating system and act like VB6 controls.
I gather that this probably by design but is there some way to force/control visual styles manually in the .NET assembly? I would imagine that if I use a manifest in my VB6 app then everything will use the correct style but I would like to be able to control this myself if possible because we are using 3rd party controls in VB6 that do not require a manifest.
I've done much research in how to turn off visual styles for a custom drawn control, and coming only close on how to do this.
The problem I am seeing is that Application.EnableVisualStyles affects a boolean which tells the control how it should paint itself. I don't have a problem with styles being enabled, but rather getting a button to be drawn without using the visual styles rendering function.
Public Class LookupButton
Inherits Button
#Region "Disable Themes"
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Method 2 simply does not do anything, nor would I want to use it, since it calls unmanaged code.
Method 1 does the right thing for the button, disabling the theme, but of course it does way more than that causing the entire window/app to blink with/without visual styles. And even if this did work, I wouldn't use it because it effects the entire application.
We need visual styles enabled on progress bars, since marquee will be used on a few database calls.
The button has an image ontop of it which gets cut off by the visual styles rounded corners. And there are a few more controls which would be benificial to turn off visual styles as well.
If there is anyway to manipulate the ButtonRenderer so it does not render using visual styles, this is the solution I am looking for. Having no styling for any buttons is preferable.
This is for a project I am working on for my company. We have Visual Studio 2005 .NET Team Edition (per customer request), and are gold certified (which I don't want to give up community support/supporting the community, but is there any programming forums for us where our answers could be answered before 24 hours and/or the questions goes into consideration when microsoft develops tool?).
To me it seems silly to have Visual Styles enable-able for the whole application, when dealing with the windows api, individual windows/controls can easily be themed or unthemed.
When I draw a line on the form using Visual Basic Power Packs the ends of the line are squared off. Is there way to round them off? In code I could write something like this to do it:
vb.net
Dim pn As New Pen(Color.Black, 5)
pn.StartCap = Drawing2D.LineCap.Round
pn.EndCap = Drawing2D.LineCap.Round
How could I do it with Power Packs?
I am using VB.Net 2008. I am using a 3rd party dll in my app that requires xp visual styles to be turned off, or that a manifest file be added to my app to re-direct comctl32.dll (link to 3rd party workaround:[URL]
I tried creating the manifest according to: [URL] This did not change the issue. Perhaps I did not add the manifest properly?
Here are the steps I tried:
1. Add xml file to app and name it MyApp.exe.manifest
2. Add the xml file to my resources.
The above did nothing so I removed it and then:
3. Add xml file to app and name it Comctl32.dll.manifiest
4. Add the xml file to my resources.
That did nothing either.
Here is the manifiest I tried adding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
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I'm working on two different projects - both in VB.NET/Visual Studio 2008 (as much as I'd like to move to 2010).
I find I'm confusing the different coding standards that I'm supposed to follow. IE - Project1 wants variables named in a Hungarian-style notation like 'iSomeValue'; the does not want a prefix. One project requires an _ prefix on private class-level variables - etc...etc...
Are there any tools I can integrate with VS 2008 that will let me easily swap between pre-defined styles and format my code for me?
Just wondering how i can enable visual styles with the application framework option disabled - it would be nice to have the ability to use the xp+ theming while having a bit more flexibility
View 6 RepliesI have created a created a webbrowser on a form and pointed it to [URL]..when i use the web form to change a verb, part way through navigation i get an the error:
Title Windows Internet Explorer body one or more activex controls cannot be displayed because either:
1) Your current security settings prohibit running activeX controls on this page or,
2) You have blocked a publisher of one of the controls
As a result the page might not display properly.
i'm trying using VB6 activex controls in VB2010. but i recive some registry errorsi try google search, but they speak about install VB6(i try but don't works).and theres a text from here:
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View 1 RepliesI am creating a dedicated browser to be used exclusively on a single program located on my hard drive. Security is not a concern as the webbrowser URL will be set to the program's default web page path with no navigation options for going online. The program utilizes dynamic web pages with powerful search capabilities that require ActiveX controls. When I run my browser application, I get a series of security warning boxes stating:
Internet Explorer
An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction?
Yes No
Clicking "Yes" allows me to continue and the program features work, but the recurrent warning message boxes are annoying. The default "script errors suppressed" property of the webbrowser control is "false." If I change it to "true" I don't get the security warning boxes but some of the search features on the web pages with ActiveX controls don't work properly.
Is there a way to programmatically enable ActiveX controls in the webbrowser control so that I can set the "script errors suppressed" property to "true" (hence no security warning message boxes) and still allow the ActiveX features to work properly? Or, set the "script errors suppressed" property to "false" and have my program automatically activate the "Yes" button each time a security warning message box is called by Internet Explorer? The goal is to get the ActiveX controls to work in webbrowser without having to click through the warnings.
Any ideas why I am getting this error on debug, I have this control on another App and it works fine.An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details
View 2 RepliesI have some work I need to do with some older ActiveX controls. When I install the controls (outside of Visual Studio) I get an error message:
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The procedure entry point SRWriteStringLocalCmd could not be located in the dynamic link library SankyoMP.dll
Doing a little research I get a whole bunch of different answers. Microsoft says that this is because it was written for an older version of Windows (2000 or before, I am using XP) and to contact the vendor. The vendor is out of business.
Does anybody know of a way to install and use this older ActiveX control in VB.net/Visual Studio 2005?
how to use visual basic to make web activex control for windows CE ?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to load an actixex component in a VB project which was made in Visual C++.n VBA it works fine.In VB6, when I try to load the component on the toolbox I get an "Error 35005"In VB2008 the component can be added to the toolbox, but when I try to place it on the form, the following error occurs: "Failed to import ActiveX control. Please ensure it is properly registered."
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View 1 RepliesI am trying to build a NOTEPAD/WORDPAD like application with vb.net on visual studio 2008.
I need an option to define and choose (MsWord, or CSS like) paragraphs styles, such as: "heading1", "green quotes", etc.
I have developed win application on win XP with office 2003 using visual studio .net 2005.I am using Microsoft activex spreadsheet component.I installed my application on win 7 with office 2007, i get runtime error when i load the screen on ehich i have used that component. it says "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt"My AxInteropx.Owc11.dll and Interop.Owc11.dll are in same directory where .exe is stored.
View 3 RepliesI am using NI Measurement studio and VS 2008.I want to move visual displays around when program is running. To simplify the problem it is similar to [code] I get an error telling me it will not acept assignment.Am I doing it wrong. How do you modify this propertythe button property behaves the same as LED1 in NI so lets focus on Changing (Button1.Location. Whatever ...)
View 1 RepliesI would like to ask some questions about the controls placed on forms :1) I noticed that VB .NET can create applications with XP visual style . If the "Application framework" is not activated , though , the controls look like those used in Win98 . This is useful to me sometimes . However , I wonder , is it possible to also see those controls in Win98 style during design time ? I am asking because during design time the controls on forms are represented with XP style no matter what style is selected .
This usually creates a problem to me because I can't properly set the dimensions for labels in order to fit their text . So , is there a way to also see those controls in Win98 style during design time ?2) Now this might be funny : I like both styles , so is there any way I could use both of them in the same project ?
I've recently started using C# after years of using VB.NETWhen using Visual Studio, using VB.NET, on the code behind files (.aspx.vb) i could select from a list of controls in my markup file (.aspx) and then select an event to automatically put into my code behind.
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