Create Winxp Style Controls?
Jun 10, 2010
I am trying to make my controls look as cool as xp theme enabled controls like gradient fill background in container controls and colour thames support etc
EnableXpVisualStyles()
I found it to enable visual styles but didn't give me visual thames to apply. So in order to apply thames or colour schemes what should i do?What other commands should i use with combination with it? as I have seen my application giving ugly look even applying that command and other program showing nice loook in my win2003 server
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Jan 4, 2010
I have an app, which has a form. a tab is at the center of the form. the tab is a normal tab, and it has 3d style. today, I was adjusting something, and forgot what I changed. suddenly, all controls become flat style. especially, I have datagrid in the form. in the grid, one cell is a dropdownlist style. before i can change how many items to show when is clicked. now, it does not change. now, even I add a control on another form which is in the same app, the style is flat too. what can cause this? very weird.
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Dec 9, 2010
It seems there is no easy solution for adjusting a specific format of a used font e.g. for Text. As I understood in order to change any part of the used format we need to use New Font(...) form of implementation which looks a bit odd to me.
TextBox1.Font.Bold = True
which needs to be rewritten as:
TextBox1.Font = New Font(TextBox1.Font, FontStyle.Bold)
which is no reason that I can see why it should be hard like that.Anyway, here is my solution for adjusting the font style using four CheckBox controls (i.e. BBold, BUnderline, BItalic and BStrikeout).Preview is a TextBox control.
Private Sub SetFontStyle(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BBold.CheckedChanged, _
BUnderline.CheckedChanged, _
BItalic.CheckedChanged, [code]......
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May 24, 2009
I have a panel sitting in a div, and I want to use that panel as a container to add more panels! Why would I want to add a panel to a panel? Because the panel that I'm adding to the existing panel, is also made to contain objects, but only and image and label.
The existing master container panel is created during design time, and goes by the lovely name of "toolboxpanel". During run time, I have a for/next loop that dynamically creates an image, a label, adds them both to a panel, then adds that panel to the toolboxpanel,[code]...
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Dec 7, 2011
I've never worked with it , but I saw some of my friends used it in their .NET apps.
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Jul 2, 2009
My goal is to be able to create a costom Visual Style like Aero Glass but with some modifycations... Also Id like for it me to be able to use that style in one application... like Norton 360 dose they have their yellow style thing going on...
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Oct 22, 2011
How do I create a zoom bar like the one in Office? I mean the one that has a circular + and - button, and a numeric button that you can click on. I just assumed it was part of VB.net, but I can't see it anywhere.VBA VB.NET developer
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Dec 11, 2010
How to create web style forms in visual basic 2008
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Dec 22, 2010
I am making an application that will be used to communicate with others like a shut box but not a chat box so like one or two people can post up something in this application and other users can then see this message.
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Aug 15, 2011
I have began building a piece of software that needs to collect a series of information from the user. This information will all be based on what has already been entered. I would like to create a window that has a "NEXT" button in it. As they enter information, they can click NEXT to continue on, similar to how an install wizard works.
My question is... Is there a form type that does this? Or must I create a window with a next button, and when it is clicked, I need to set the visibility of buttons/listboxes/comboboxes/textboxes/etc to false and new ones to true?
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Jul 5, 2011
The idea is that I would have a set of forms, users would click through a "forward" and "back" button, and the current form would change to a different one. My issue is that I can write code that just pops up a new form, but im not sure how to do a "replacement" of my current form. How is this usually done?
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Apr 12, 2011
Do anyone know a component that can create a menustrip in the style of outlook 2010?
Ive tried a few like infragistics but cant find what i want.
I want like the default menustrip that comes with vb 2010 but in the style of office 2010 black where you highlight the button and it goes orange.
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Feb 20, 2012
how can i implement a pre vb.net style snap to grid effect on a panel (at design time)?if you remember, you start dragging a control + the grid has a (gravitational) pull on the control
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Feb 22, 2012
I would like to set a style for an MDI WinForms application in .NET (mix of C# and VB.NET). I would like all panels and forms to be of a certain color. I would like textboxes to be of a certain color when readonly and of a different color when NOT readonly. I don't want to use defaults. Any pointers on how I can make this GLOBAL for any Form that is developed for this application? Am looking for a way so I don't have to do this logic in every form I create.
PREFERABLY: Don't want to switch to using any third-party tools. Would like to stick with just WinForms and standard .NET libraries.
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Sep 13, 2011
I am currently in the process of improving my options dialog for a winforms application. At the moment I am using a tab control. I would like to create a form/dialog for settings that is similar to Visual Studio's. How is this done? I can see a treeview like control on the left hand side but what control are they using to display each of the options pages, it doesn't appear to be a tab control. I would like to be able to build the controls for each of the settings at design time.
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Oct 23, 2009
I have an image upload facility in my asp.net project, when uploaded a thumbnail of the image is generated and saved to disk. What I would ideally like to do is apply some nice styling effects to this thumbnail image.. similar to the look of the icons on an iPhone.. perhaps a slight gradient, smooth rounded corners, and a border.
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Mar 23, 2011
how i can change the native scrollbar style in my application to my custom style. I can adopt a custom scrollbar to attain this purpose but this will not serve my purpose because i want this attribute in entire application. Like it the text in textbox gets longer than its bounds than the scrollbar appers are my custom bar not the formal ones
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Apr 12, 2010
I set the cell style progromatically on a condition.. but when that condition is no longer met I want to go back to the grids.cell original (default) style property
if x=y then
row.Cells(column.Name.ToString).Style.ApplyStyle(mystyle)
else
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Sep 16, 2010
My app is a tray icon which scans the Outlook Inbox periodically. It seems, from testing in my VMWare WinXP machine, that the app stops Windows from shutting down. I press StartShutdown but nothing happens. I have to exit the app first then StartShutdown will shutdown the PC.
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Jan 16, 2012
I am wondering if I can use VB.NET(I am using visual studio 2010 express) to get and set a environment variable.
I want to add path of my application on system environment. I want to preserve what is already there and then I wan to add my string. This can be done by getting value of PATH and then append my string then re writing it.
I have 2 questions here:
How to get/set system variable in vb.net 2010? Will it be on the fly, I mean will it be immediatly avaialble in dos prompt or there will be delay?
As just for experiment i opened a command prompt then updated the PATH variable manually and it was not updated. I am wondering it I do it through programe it will be same.
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Sep 3, 2009
I've found this code and it works in XP: [code] When I run the same code in Vista, I get an exception at the line "System. Environment.Get FolderPath(":See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. [code] I assume this has to do with the Vista UAC. Is there a better way to retrieve the "My Documents" path of either XP or Vista with one piece of code?
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Sep 4, 2011
msgbox(System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(System.Net.Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList(0).ToString())
is showing Ip address in Win XP but in Windows 7 it is not showing.
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Nov 13, 2009
I'm currently setting up TortoiseSVN 1.6.6 on my WinXP system here at work and since I use VS2005 and VS2008 regularly here I'm considering installing AnkhSVN 2.1.7444 to make things easier as at my other job I use VSS (Visual Source Safe) which integrates into VS2003, VS2005 and VS2008 and works very nicely.So for those of you who have used AnkhSVN 2.1.7444 and VS2005/2008 what's your opinion?
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Sep 28, 2004
i used an old VB6 algorithm to subclass a window and made a few changes at the 'hook method' to make it work in .NET.
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Integer, ByVal nIndex As Integer, ByVal dwNewLong As delWindowProc) As Integer
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May 15, 2011
Within a VB.net program I used IO.File.GetCreationTime to read the file system's creation time of a file. I was irritated, because the returned value didn't match with the time displayed in the explorer. On another machine the time was displayed correctly.
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Jan 19, 2012
I have a sub that I just discovered does not work for my windows 7 users but works fine for my windows XP users. This is basically a sub for a ping monitor to ping devices on a timer. What happens is that when the windows 7 user tries to ping, it always reports "down" on a windows 7 whether actually up or down. But, windows xp will report correctly with "up". 3 different windows 7 boxes, users say it worked before. Can't quite debug correctly as i'm on xp myself and it works just fine. Also, I haven't changed anything in the code in quite awhile and this is a recent bug that just started.
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Dim itm As Object
Sec = Sec - 1
If ListView1.Items.Count = 0 Then Me.Close()
If Sec <= 0 Then
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Apr 9, 2012
I've been fighting for weeks now to make a simple music playback program. It would function much like Windows Media Player without the visualisations and playlists. I'm writing this on a Win7 box, but it needs to work on XP and newer.
I say fighting because I'm severely annoyed at how MS has worked some items and it's taken many days to go through everything only to find that it doesn't work.
I started by using WMP in VB Express 2010 and having it play my music. Simple, but not portable. I copied my .exe to a WinXP machine and it blew up. I copied it to a different Win7 machine and it doesn't run (I can double-slick all day, nothing happens,
no log entries, nothing....)
Then I find that there is an issue with the GUID of media player on different computers, and it'll most likely fail to run when you try to use it on other machines than the one the program was built on.
So I gave up on that.
I then figured I'd use DirectX. It's on XP and newer already, and is supposed to be backwards compatibile so if I build my app on Win7 it should still run on XP and such. I did that, and it works fine on the machine I built it with (again). My shuffle works,loop/repeat works, got my own version of a playlist and it all works. I copy that to another Win7 box and it doesn't run at all. It's setup as .NET 3 so I can be sure of compatibilty with WinXP.
For grins, I gutted all the code in my VB app involving calls to Directx and built that. It runs fine on other computers, including my XP test box. So I know the problem revolves around DirectX somehow.[code]...
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Dec 24, 2010
I am trying to make a style that only gets applied if the parent element of the element that the style refers to, has another specific style. Kind of like in CSS where you can do ".class1 .class2" to specify that the "class2" theme only applies if it is within an element with the class "class1". I do not wish to use any form of external DLLs or libraries for this task. I want to know if it's possible to implement on my own.
I've tried using MultiTriggers with no luck. I have a style that applies to all TextBlocks. I want the textblock to do the following: If the font-size of the textblock is 11 and the parent element's style is "PinnedSuggestion", set the foreground color to "#FF505050". If the font-size of the textblock is 11 and the parent element's style is "Suggestion", set the foreground color to "#FFCCCCCC". The conditions that I have tried to write to make this work, are as follows (the font-size condition is true, but the other one is not). The conditions are inside a style that applies to all textblocks in general.
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May 24, 2012
I've adapted the code from this link to use the WinXP on-screen keyboard (osk) for a touch-screen application written in VB.NET v3.5. The osk fills the bottom half of screen etc. and behaves fine except for one little quirk. If the user clicks or taps anywhere on the 'background' area behind/between the virtual keys (within the main osk window), the color of the area changes to that of the keys when any further key subsequently gets focus. The outline of all keys is then lost because they are visually merged into the osk window background. The osk must then be terminated and re-launched to remove the confusing appearance.
This behaviour only occurs when the osk window is set to the child style (i.e. when the menu is hidden), using the SetWindowLong P/Invoke function - e.g.
SetWindowLong(OskProcess.MainWindowHandle, GWL_STYLE, WS_CHILD)
It's as if the entire area behind the keys is being treated as another key when tapped/clicked, whereupon its color is 'restored' after losing focus.Is there any way to intercept and somehow override the focus event of this osk background area?
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May 16, 2012
I develop my VS2010 project in my laptop with SQL 2008 Standard. In my laptop everything is working good, using the following connect string as global public string when the main form loads:
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