Consolidating Forms Into A Single Window?
Jan 8, 2010
I've got to the stage where I want to make changes to my application so that all of my forms appear to the user as a single window.
I have a main Form with a menu bar which opens up three separate forms. Only one forms is visible at any time.
One way to do this, that I can think of, is to place all the controls from each of the "auxiliary" forms on a panel contained in the main form and then show and hide the panels, when needed. I can envisage this being a big headache though.
Another way would be to give each form a menu bar and make it look like the main form so that the user would not know the difference (with a bit of luck).
I just wonder if there are better ways to do this. Maybe if I could incorporate one form into another form?
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Aug 1, 2011
I am converting a VB 6 app to VB.Net. In the vb 6 version I have a table that contains roughly 80 fields. Over that table the users currently have a single form which gives 12 diferent views. Each view is placed on a different tab, which, although giving a distinct set of fields per tab, also leads to a ton of duplicated code. Changing the underlying table is not an option.
What I would like to do is to use a single datasource (containing all 80 fields), a single datagridview on the form, and have a combobox act as the filter choice for the differing views. Does my solution seem like the right way to handle this? If so, I'm not sure I know which controls would best be used.
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Aug 5, 2009
I am writing a VB program in VB 2008 express edition, and I need to make a simple web browser used by touch screen users. I have done making the simple web browser to browser the webpage, but when I open some links they are opened in the external IE rather than the VB web browser, how can I force all web page to be opened in the VB software?
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Jul 1, 2009
Not quite sure how to attack this one. If I have an array list how would I go about elminating duplicates but adding the values of those items together. In other words if I have one item that has a id of 9000 and a quantity of 5 and another item that has the same id of 9000 and a quantity of 10. How would I eliminate the duplicate but add the quantities
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Oct 11, 2010
I'm doing a VB.Net subject at university and the major assignment is the creation of a WPF application.The application is management-focused (adding, modifying, deleting entries, etc). As these are all rather disparate tasks I'm thinking to create a tabbed interface for my assignment (in a similar vein to [URL]...
I'm a bit confused as to how I should go around approaching this? Btw, would this classify as MDI?We were recommended to create a menu system that listed all the options - upon selecting an option, a new window would be opened, the interaction would take place. If the user wanted to do something else, he'll close the window to be taken back to the menu screen.
This doesn't really seem like an elegant approach to me and it seems like it'll be an interesting exercise to implement the tab-based system I explained.I'd appreciate if anyone could point me in the right directions or give any hints as to how I should achieve. Is it possible, for example, to create each option in a separate xaml/code-behind file and then 'plug' these into each tab?edit: To clarify, let's take a hypothetical of an indoor soccer team management system. Let's say there are five different tasks the user can perform: 'Register a player', 'Modify players', 'Register a team', 'Modify team details', 'Add player to team'.
Each task is separate from the next. One way of creating the application is to create a main page with a button for each task. When a user click on each button, a new window opens up (for example, if the user clicks 'Register a player', a new PlayerRegistration window is opened).
What I'm looking for, as mentioned above, is a tab-based approach. In my application, if the user clicks 'Register a player' the entire PlayerRegistration xaml file gets loaded in a segment of the window. The same happens when the user clicks any other button.
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Jun 18, 2009
i am doing windows application in vb.net , i want to know how to create a child window in single form.
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Sep 11, 2010
I'm reading a binary file into a bindinglist of (t); to be bound to a datagridview.Each line in the file represents a single transaction but I need to consolidate and or filter transactions that meet certain criteriaI know how to do this from a mechanical standpoint (looping the list while adding each item, and adding a new item, or merging the data with an existing item), but I'm looking for a practice, pattern, existing components, or something else that I'm missing (I'm drawing a blank for keywords to search).I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have too. I'm particularly concerned with speed and performance issues with 100k plus records to process in some instances.Currently working with .NET 2.0, but will move to 3.5 if a particularly sexy solution exists.
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Mar 13, 2010
i need to use a single button for all forms in a vb.net project. The single button should be called in the forms to perform operations.
For eg., In a form i need to save, update the records.
When i call the button, save and update buttons should be appeared at runtime using the single button.
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Feb 24, 2009
if you guys have used office 2003 or better( i am sure all) then you would have seen that when the help window open it causes the active windows say of MS WORD to change accordingly so that this help windows fits with it along the right side and this functionality i want to implement in my VB windows application and have no idea how to do it Also i have seen this feature in GOOGLE DESKTOP GADGETS...
i want to implement that when my application opens which ever is the active window( of any application) snaps to the left and allows my application to fir in the right hand side i am developing my application in VS 2005 using Visual Basic.
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Sep 16, 2010
My program has two forms which get data from the same data source. After binding controls to tables and fields on both forms, I noticed each form has it's own apparently duplicate DataSet. Is it standard practice for each form to have its own DataSet even though they use the same ConnectionString and connect to the same database at the same time?
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Mar 1, 2010
i wants to load many pages in same form which each of the pages contains different messages.example....if i press more in the page no1(form 1) it should load the page no2 at the same form(form 1)...
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Mar 7, 2010
I've written an application with about 30 forms and am almost ready to publish, my biggest concern though is that i'm not sure if its a normal thing to do having all these forms and hiding, disposing and showing forms throughout the use of the application.I've toyed with the idea of converting to a MDI Child / Parent interface as well as having one form with lots of subcontainers that are hidden and then hiding / showing them as the navigational buttons are shown.Ive worked on this application for about 8 months now, but would be happy to rewrite the interface and appearance of it if i know that it is not generally an acceptable practice having forms flashing open and closed while navigating through the application.
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Jan 16, 2011
Is it possible to display several other forms in a single WindowsForm (by using a table layout or something else) ?
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Apr 4, 2011
I'm new to vb.net and I have what probably is a simple question, but one that I am stuck on. I'm trying to add a single item to a ca combo box at run time. For example, a user selects a category from the first drop down box at run time, say "Admin", I want to add a single item to the combo box below it: Not applicable.
cboTest.Items.Clear()
cboTest.Items.Add("Not Applicable")
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May 15, 2012
Most of the apps I write have a base / home form and a few other forms (three of four typically) which pop up in response to controls clicked by the user. I'd like to be able to set some properties to be the same for all the forms in an app; particularly properties like BackColor and FormBorderStyle. Yes, I can manually set the individual properties for each form in the VB IDE, but I'd prefer to be able to have one line of code in the base / home form for each property along with one line for each dependent form which says something to the effect of "use the same property value as the base / home form has". Overall, my objective would be to have one single line of code in the app which, when changed, would apply the changed property to all the forms. For example, a single line which I can change to take the BackColor from Apple to Orange for all the forms ...
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if i have mediaplayer1 in Form1 and mediaplayer2 in Form2 than how can i play and control a single video file in both mediaplayer1 and mediaplayer2 in vb.net
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can we have a single global variable which can be manipulated by multiple forms
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I 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.
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I am not able to find the Exclude Command in VB 2010 Express. I have no idea which version of Visual Studio it is working with. I've got one 217MB VB 2010 Express file and many 2008 VB Express files with one of them measuring 31 MB. There many other SQL files and .Net Files.
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I wanted to have multiple color for text in single label controller
e.g.
label1.Text = " $ 480.00 "
What I want is character $ in Red color and other digits or character after $ in color blue. $ 480.00 I cannot use separate labels for digits and $ due to limitation
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Apr 16, 2009
I have been working on a project which is used by a company's sale team, to combine all the wanted input data in one place allowing the sales team to show customers, where switching to them could save them money.
Basically what i want is a program which can save single records, which can hold data added in other text boxes, or indeed take the data from the list view boxes which is the intended output. I want to be able to save that data, then be able to Open it up again at a later date, and even modify it.
enabled me to save the three ways to identify a single record, the index number, company name and the date it was added. However I now need a way to save the data entered in my other forms to these single records.
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how to write a program for a list box having 10 items in that just by a single click on one of the item it should be written on the button if a list is containing notepad than by clicking on the button it should open the notepad?
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Aug 21, 2009
I am opening a PDF file in Acrobat then am sending the Menu keys using sendkeys.AcroHandle gets the value but the send keys always working with my .Net IDE. It is opening the .Net IDE file open menu. It supposed to open Acrobat File open.
AcroXAVDoc.Open(FileName, "Acrobat")
AcroHandle = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Acrobat - Adobe Acrobat Professional")
If (AcroHandle <> 0) Then
SetForegroundWindow(AcroHandle)
System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait("%(FO)")
End If
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I would like to hava an application in which I have several buttons on the main scream. Each button will open new screens (or forms) but I'd like them to open it in the same screen as the main form not in a new one.
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I am just learning vb.net using vs 2008. I have a small forms app which I have conected to a small, single table 2 column database. I enter some numbers into a text box, press a button and the data gets entered into the dbase. However the only data that gets displayed in the data table I have on my form is the existing data.No new data entered is shown until I close down and restart the app. I have tried many times using statements such as [code]...
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I am creating a small program that can automate the input to a web browser window, Like a survey filling bot but for my personal use,All I want to know is there any way to simulate a Mouse click for a particular element in a web browser window so that It can submit the form automatically ?
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I have a border-less window made by this function:
Private Sub MiniWin()
Me.Visible = False
Me.Text = ""
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and when is in this state I can't move it... so how can I move the form when is in this condition?
Second Q: how can I forbid the window form not to be re-size-ble and stay within the given dimensions?
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I'm having a difficult time getting cursor's position within the window I tried using : Cursor.Position.X and Cursor.Position.Y but it returns the position of the cursor on the screen and not in the window...
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Is it possible to create an MDI application which have each MDI window in a separate processes like Chrome does?
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I was wondering if there's a method to set the form as the active window (not topmost obviously), if it's currently not the active window (meaning another window is currently the active one). By active I mean "selected".
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