With vb.net code, how can I get the Windows "Appearance" properties - specifically, see if appearance is "Windows Classic Style" vs. "Windows XP Style"? I've seen a couple threads about this regarding getCurrentThemeName, and the use of some dll import ('uxtheme'), but I'm not making heads or tails out of any of that. I would have thought this info was easily obtained..
View 4 RepliesJust started using Visual Studio 2008 and was hoping to convert my VBA UserForms to VB.NET with the intent of upgrading my antiquated UserForm controls to newer Windows form controls that match the operating system.The Windows forms I create in Visual Studio look great, but when I load them in PowerPoint or Excel, the form controls look just as ugly as they did before (e.g. plain, rectangular buttons).
View 1 RepliesHow to control the font DPI in .NET WinForms app..How to change the Appearance/UI of win-forms in vb.net as per Windows display setting? default windows display setting is 100%, if i change it to 125% then my win-forms in my application doesn't display properly as per display settings.
View 1 Repliesi am looking to change the windows colour and colour intensity. These settings are accessable through Control PanelAppearance and PersonalizationPersonalizationWindow Color and Appearance But is there a way that i can remotely change these two settings through functions in my windows form application? Also is there any way of removing the slight blur on the window bars/taskbar when using an aero theme?
View 1 RepliesI am writing a bootstrapper program to which I'd like to associate a file. I'd like the bootstrap app to store the path and name of the file the user's selected in Windows Explorer. I can get the directory name using the Environment.CurrentDirectory property. how to get the filename though.
View 1 RepliesI've got a Windows Services app I've deployed and I've used the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller to set the StartType to Automatic.
How do I set the action on failure to "restart" and the wait time to one minute?
Can't find those properties but if you open up a Service's properties in the UI, there's a Recovery Tab with First Failure, Second Failure etc. and a "Restart service after __ minutes"
Where do I set these properties for my service at design time before deploying?
I have developed a Windows service application in VB.NET.My need is to have custom property tab like "General", "Log On", "Recovery", and "Dependencies". Because I need to configure my service and also want to display some extra information in that extra tab.
View 2 RepliesFor a reason I cannot explain, I now get compiler errors from the Application Designer whenever I enable the application framework in the VB.net IDE. I do not find much on this issue, except Scott Hanselman's admonition not to use this feature. I have mature projects in which this feature was enabled, but now even they will not compile.As this only began a few days ago, I have been trying various approaches to resolving the problem, up to and including removing VS2005 and reinstalling it, along with the framework, SDK, and all updates. No dice. The errors are below.This condition will occur even if I enable the feature in a new project.Does anyone have some thoughts and the cause and resolution of this problem?I probably should mention that I was using both VS2005 and VS2008 on this computer. I had been experimenting with 2008 for several weeks without incident.
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This just started happening yesterday. When I open the toolbar or properties windows (I have them pinned to the sides) there's nothing in them. I thought it was a setting that had been altered, but when I closed VS and re-opened it, they were there again. But now it's happening today and they're empty even if I reload. When I open the toolbar bar it just says 'There are no usable controls in this group...' (that's the general group, i.e there are no controls at all).
View 2 RepliesI am trying to add a splash screen to my app and when I go into project properties the windows application framwork properties are disabled so a cannot set my form as a splash screen. The checkbox for enable application properties is also disabled so I cannot check it.
View 1 RepliesI am using vb.net 2008,how to create a misc properties for a textbox in windows forms?
View 2 RepliesI was looking for a tutorial and i find this
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but it does not give the sample code for creating a user control with properties, events, methods
complete to create windows user control? that includes creating properties, events, methods? and if it has how to create web user controls better
I need to work with custom controls, I want to be able to set the properties of my controls so when I put them on my windows forms they will show up in the properties window thing.
View 3 RepliesI have made an app that resizes images however in windows if you right click and slect properties on the image file there is a details tab and it has lots of data, time created, what model of camera, exposure settings ..... ect. How can i read this in my application? This does not bring in the items in the details list. The image is a tiff file
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i have my program, and i would like to be able to give it a look that doesnt change. What do i mean, i mean like, my programs buttons forms scroll bars etc change with the theme of the pc. How would i stop this? Also, how would i create custom looks for my buttons scroll bars etc.
View 6 RepliesI want to change the order of appearance in which my forms show up.
View 2 RepliesI've implemented the localization in my windows application with no problem for the label or command button which have a fixed text.
My problem is related to the label which text is merged with some variables or object properties.
E.g.: vb label1.text = "There are " & myDataGridView.Rows.Count.ToString() & " items"
So, how can I set (if it's possible) the localization for these labels? I've this kind of assignment in modules and not in the form. It's possible to set a resources file also for modules?
I am a beginner who used to use VB5 seven years ago, but am now trying to get up to speed using Visual Basic .NET 2010 Express in XP.
A difference I have noted is that in VB5 my buttons appeared to be three dimensional (raised) due to shading, etc. With VB2010 my buttons are plain 2D. I have not been able to find a property to give them the 3D appearance.Is this a limitation of using VB Essentials? If not, what properties give buttons the appearance of 3D?
How do you maintain the appearance of a disabled button in VB.Net? Basically, when I click a button, I want its background colour and font colour to stay exactly the same as before I clicked it.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to create a ComboBox control with a TreeView style. I have been giving a link to an article by MSDN forums which include a sample as a starting point. [url] I downloaded the sample and convert its C# code to VB. The sample is a windows forms application so I moved the controls of the sample to a new Windows control library. I also modify and added some of the code to try to make it the way I want. Now I'm facing a problem with this control and I need your help to understand why it not behaving the right way. I'm trying to learn and build a ComboBox with a TreeView style.
The control inherits from the windows ComboBox control and when I place it on a form for the first time it look exactly as a CompbBox control but once I run the application for the first time the control appearance become deferent and it's not drowning its self as the windows ComboBox do. When I try to expand its width by dragging one of its sides by the mouse it doesn't work properly. I struggled understand why its behaving this way and how I can correct this behavior but unfortunately I couldn't. [Code]
I'm disabling a button in vb.net and when I do, I cannot control the BackColor or ForeColor properties to change the appearance. I set new values for them but they don't get picked up. The disabled button looks almost exactly like my enabled buttons so you can't tell the difference. I'm using Flat Style buttons, but have tried changing this and it still doesn't seem to work. Is there some sort of trick to be able to do this?
View 1 Repliesam working on my assignment, i wanted to know whether there could be a way in which if i click on sign in on my vb.net button, i could get a pop up or a dialog style message asking me for the username and password. Is there any way or any possibility of carrying out such kind of technique.
View 9 RepliesWhy when I wrote in a xml the char "&" it appears & ??
View 3 RepliesI'd like to make a GroupBox have a black line as its boarders , just in the old VB6 , but it seems there isn't any such a property . Look , for example in the picture below : First there is GroupBox control but it can only have a line around it without color . Next , there is a Panel control , but the problem with that is that it can't have a caption set . At the far right side there is Panel control with a Label control placed over it . That's the best way I can think of in order to make something that at least will look like with what I have in mind . However , is there any other way I could do that ?
View 11 RepliesI have a main form which contains a few buttons...some of those buttons open up smaller forms...there is also a button for each of those smaller forms, which should let me bring the chosen form to the front and give it focus...basically like the tabs in your task bar let you switch between which program you are using...but I'm having trouble with this...I need to click the button 2 times before the form I want comes to the front...the first click removes focus from the currently activated form the second click then moves the form I want to the front.I need this to happen in one click..I[code] figured out the exact cause of the problem.it's due to the fact that the first click doesn't actually take effect since the child form has focus...so the first click actually just transfers focus to the main form...the second click does what it should.I knew it was going to be extremely obvious.so the question now becomes...how can I overcome this if that is possible at all...I know I've seen applications where I can still activate functions of the parent form in one click even if I have a child form open and focused.And it's basically what I need...it does what I want and lets me switch between child forms in one click...but it stuffs up the entire look of my parent form...the layout and colors get wacky...the transparency of certain things don't seem to work and my background image is gone..
View 7 RepliesOk so I have a trackbar with a min of 0 and a max of 100. i also have another trackbar with a min of 0 and a max of 75. the problem is, i want the two trackbars to look exactly the same, but since the max's are different, they look different
View 3 RepliesI've finished a number of project and feedback has been about the working functionality of them but the general look of .net controls "is aged" in their eyes.For example if I looked a picasa from google. The left meu is a treeview.The main window is a listview and they are seperated by a split container. The buttons look soft and rounded.
View 13 RepliesIs there to make a button appear as a circle/oval instead of a square/rectangle?
View 1 RepliesI'm building a game using the traditional form view on VS2010 and I'm trying to change the colour of a label's text depending on its contents. I believe I've coded that fine, but the problem is that the settings for the label in the designer view pane are overriding my code!Is there a way to disable certain options in the designer view so that my code can work?
View 2 RepliesI am developing desktop application using vb.net and vs2008.I have a DropDownList that I don't want it interact with use when the info is locked. But if I disable it, it is greyed out and the text is not easy to read.Is there any way to make radiobutton like readonly textbox?I want text of the DropDownList looks black and itself is not clickable.The above shows a disabled DropDownList with greyed out text and a readonly textbox
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