Getting Shadow On All Four Sides Of Form?
Apr 21, 2011i used a code from here [URL]to get a shadow on my form but it is only on the right side and bottom i want the shadow to cover all four sides.
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Skin My Form - Shadow Edges Are Choppy
Nov 23, 2009I tried to skin my application and failed. I can get it to work if I don�t have semi transparent pixels on the outside of my form. But I want to use a skin I found on Deviant art that was made for Miranda. It is really nice but and it has a shadow around it. To get it to work in vb.net (I�m using 2005 btw) I have to fill around the main picture and take out the initializing (I think that is what it is called). But then the form�s edges are choppy. How does Miranda allow the shadows but I can�t in vb.net?
I first tried to do it the easy way. I set up some transparent panels with transparent pictureboxes in them and put my corners and middle fills as the backgrounds. I made the form with no border and set the transparent key to transparent. That didn�t work, so I made the form magenta and the transparent key magenta. The outside of the for where the shadow is was drawn on the magenta and the magenta bled through. So I edited the png�s to be magenta all around the form (eliminating the shadows) and it worked, but the corners were choppy.
Then tried some code I found on the net that tried to make a new control as a transparent panel. It was overriding the paint events and drawing to an off screen bitmap. I really didn't understand it and it just showed up as a blank screen. There has to be a way to do this.
Achieve A Drop Shadow Effect Around All Edges Of Form?
May 19, 2009How would I achieve a drop shadow effect around all edges of my Form?
View 9 RepliesAdd An Aero Form Shadow / Glow Effect To My Controls?
Aug 2, 2010How can i add an aero form shadow/glow effect to my controls?
View 2 RepliesApply Shadow To Form Inside A SplitContainer Panel?
Jun 20, 2009I show forms in a SplitContainer Panel, but since the FormBorderStyle is set to none I'd like to apply a drop shadow. The following code works perfect if the form is not inside the panel
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams
Get
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Implement A Win7 Drop Shadow Style Into Border Less Form?
Jun 18, 2011is there a way to implement a win7 drop shadow style into border less form?
View 9 RepliesVS 2008 : Aero Form Shadow/glow Effect For Controls?
Sep 1, 2009how can i add an aero form shadow/glow effect to my controls?(i mean the shadow/glow around an aero form)
View 3 RepliesCreate A Shaped Form With An Attractive Shadow Effect By Painting Progressive Alpha Blended?
Aug 25, 2009I'm trying to create a shaped form with an attractive shadow effect by painting progressive alpha blended layers underneath the main visible form area (a background mask color has also been set to allow a shaped form). This is going well, but I have one major problem to resolve - the bottom shadow layer does not appear as the correct transparent shade - it always appears solidly as the background color / transparent mask color for the form.
Why does this bottom shadow layer not show up as transparent, and why is this color being shown when it is set as the transparency key for the form (and so should be invisible anyway)???[URL]..
Whittle A String From Both Sides?
Mar 11, 2010I been at this for to long so I will give somebody else a shot at this.
I have a text box that has a string in it that I will use for a SQL statement. Under the text box I have two trackbar controls.
I want to be able to slide the left trackbar and trim characters from the left of the string and same for the right side.
So say my string is "DALLAS" if I move the left track bar 3 spots I end up with "LAS" then I can move the right track bar 1 spot and end up with "LA".
Also I want to be able to move the sliders back and rebuild the string (that is were its getting tricky for me).
Maybe its not even possible since I have to rest the max values of the trackbar and I won't be able to rebuild the string?
Anyway To Make Drop Shadow Look Like Its Drop Shadow?
Aug 15, 2011So I made my form transparent by changing the transparent key to dimgray, change background color to dimgray. I also changed the picture box's BG color to dimgray everything was fine except that the drop shadow on the picture I did was just a grey blob.Is there anyway to make the drop shadow look like its a drop shadow?
View 5 Replies'If' Statement With 'Or' Conditional Has Both Sides Evaluated?
Jan 18, 2011Quick question, of which the quickest and easiest answer may well be to rearrange related code, but let's see...So I have an If statement (a piece of code which is a part of a full working solution written in C#) rewritten using VB.NET. I am aware the VB.NET IIf(a, b, c) method evaluates both b and a regardless of the trueness of the first evaluation, but this seems to be the case in my standard construct, too:
If (example Is Nothing Or example.Item IsNot compare.Item) Then
'Proceed
End If
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When The Mouse Is Over The Picturebox Then The SIDES Of It Highlight
Apr 13, 2010What im trying to do is when the mouse is over the picturebox then the SIDES of it highlight. And if you click on the picture box. The WHOLE picturebox highlights. I made 2 other images for those effects.
My problem is when i put my cursor over the control the sides don't highlight. Only if i click it. But then my other picturebox set for that effect doesnt appear.
Whats wrong in my code?
Private Sub PictureBox10_MouseEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PictureBox10.MouseEnter
PictureBox27.Visible = True
End Sub
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C# - Swap Left And Right Hand Sides Of A Set Of Expressions In VS
Mar 13, 2009Is there a method to swap the left and right hand sides of a set of expressions in Visual Studio? I have a decent sized set of data that needs to be stored in an active record. In order to pre-populate the form fields on the page, I have already written the following [Code]
Is there some sort of the method (built-in functionality, macro, etc.) that I could use to swap each side of the expression such that the data is saved into the active record as opposed to read from it in order to perform a database insert? For example, after highlighting the above code and running the macro, it would become:[Code]
Since the number of columns in the database that this active record encapsulates is rather large, it seems like most of this typing could be avoided with a simple automated process. Obviously this wouldn't work 100% because sometimes there would have to be type conversions (e.g. int to string) but for the most part I think this would save a lot of time.
How To Add A Shadow On The Program?
Jun 4, 2012I wanna put a shadow on my program!Its borderless, because ive used my own graphics.Does anybody have a clue how to add a shadow on the program?(I have made a shadow on the program before, but that didnt work out well, the background of the shadow went white, ive also used the transpacity key and stuff, didnt work)
I am using VB 2010, so if you got any idea's PLEASE let me know.
Wpf - Remove Double Quote From Both Sides Of The String "1,62099"?
Jun 15, 2012If my string is "1,60299" getting collection of UserCodes .... then if I want to remove " from both ends what do I have to do ??ex: strUserCode = "1,62099,100156321"
View 3 RepliesShadow/override An Event?
Nov 25, 2009I would like to shadow/override an event in VB.NET. I do it only because I have to implement in this object an interface, that contains the same event like the base object itself, and I need to keep this base event as is it without modification nor supplementary event additions.How can I do it?
Public Shadows Event VisibleChanged As EventHandler Implements IVisibleChanged
So, I would like to implement a interface that contains VisibleChanged event, but to keep functional the myBase VisibleChanged event too.
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Both "sides" Are Evaluated Situations Should Watch Out For?
Aug 3, 2009I recently learned of the IIF(A,B,C) function. I'm a long time VB/VB.NET Coder who recently spent a lot of time coming up to speed in SQL coding. One (obvious) common thing to do in SQL is something like the following:
select (case where @var = 0 then MyTable.Val1 else MyTable.Val2 end) from MyTable
IIF(A,B,C) will allow me to do this in VB.NET... all on one line.
However, I have read that both B and C are evaluated no matter what A evaluates to.
I can think of some obvious situations where this is a bad thing such as:
Dim X as integer = IIF(SomeBoolean = true, ExpensiveFunction1(), ExpensiveFunction2())
As I will be including this in my repertoire, are there any more subtle situations where I may get myself into trouble using IIF? It's a pretty big departure in some situations from using the old fashioned:
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Creating A Drop Shadow On A Group Box?
Jul 22, 2010So I came across this code that enables a drop shadow on a form in Visual Studio .NET 2008. The code is as follows:
Public
CS_DROPSHADOW As
Int32 = &H20000
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I want to create a drop shadow on a group box though. What changes can I make to this and where must I insert it to do this?
Hide/shadow A Framework Method?
Dec 6, 2010I would like to make sure that certain properties/methods of native framework methods are not called in a project I'm working on. I want to use custom methods instead, and make sure that those methods are always used. How would I do that?
These are the details:
In a rather large web project, we have several pieces of code creating and sending email messages using the MailMessage object. I want to perform some additional checking, logging etc whenever an email address is added to either the To, CC or BCC MailAddressCollection
of a MailMessage object. Basically I'd like to make sure that it is not possible, in this entire Solution, to do this: MyMailObject.To.Add(something@somwhere.com), and the same for "CC" and "BCC".
First, I thought about not using the MailMessage object at all, but inherit it and override the methods that allow adding of addresses. I ran into some trouble though when trying to shadow the "To" property, since "To" is a reserved word... And then I realized that it probably wouldn't solve my problem entirely anyway, since there would be nothing stopping another developer (or myself being stupid) from creating an instance of the original MailMessage class and use it at will.
I have successfully created a method which centralizes all the adding of various recipient addresses, but I can't figure out how to prevent the original methods from being used by mistake.
Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Class?
May 9, 2009I am looking for a way to create Volume Shadow Copies of individual files. I have searched accross the net now for classes and code to use but I haven't been able to find anything. I'm only really starting out in .NET and C#, C++ or any other language for that matter are completely alien to me. Everything I've found on the subject, even from Microsoft VSS SDK is either in C# or in C++. I don't want to use any external programs, everything must run from the single exe file.
Target End Result:
I'd like a file at "\global\class\VSSClass.vb" that houses all the code needed.
Public objVSSClassObject As New VSSClass
For in-line code I'd like it as streamined as possible as it will be used with arrays of pre-set filenames.
objVSSClassObject.CopyFile(srcFile, dstDirectory)
Here's a sample of how the code would be used.
Public VSS As New VSSClass
Dim dstDirectory = My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "\Shadow Files"
Dim FilesArray() As String = {"absolute_path_to_file1.txt", _
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VS 2008 Disable Shadow On ToolTip?
Dec 6, 2011I want to disable the shadow underneath the standard tool tip ... is this possible?
I want to do this as i want to owner draw it ... and not have it square (as the shadow is ... even when owner drawing )
.net - Remove Selected LineShape Shadow Effect?
Mar 23, 2010Is there a way to remove the LineShape shadow effect when selecting the lineShape? I tried
Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
Dim g As Graphics = e.Graphics
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias
Dim oldmode As SmoothingMode = g.SmoothingMode
g.DrawLine(_Pen, X1, Y1, X2, Y2)
g.SmoothingMode = oldmode
End Sub
but finally, this have some back effects on invalidation: when moving (in a panel) the line leave traces - does not invalidate properly.
VS 2005 Hide/shadow MyBase's Properties?
Nov 9, 2009Is there any ways to hide/shadow MyBase's properties?
Such as MyBase.Location, MyBase.Font?
When I try to declare a local "Height" properly, VS prompts me warning to use "Overloads" instead. But when in form designer/control test run, I still see this property, or any other properties (BorderStyle) which I tried to hide.
VS 2008 Rounded Shadow Of Background Image?
Mar 19, 2012Im using now this code to make shadow for my square backgrounds.
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ArrayList - Clone Command Adding Shadow Copy
Jul 5, 2010I found that if using ArrayList, all clone/CopyTo/Add command are shadow copy, not separate copy. How can I do such that after an ArrayList A is "copied" to ArrayList B, change in ArrayList A will not reflect to ArrayList B?
View 1 RepliesCreate An Image With Drop Shadow On Text Programatically?
Nov 1, 2010I'm currently building an intranet engine for a project I've got on the go at the moment,and I'd like to save myself a little time by generating header images from code where possible, however, I'd like it to match our concept image.What I'd like to achieve is below:My issue is I've not the faintest how to create that from code. I can do the absolute basics but that's about it.I start to fall down when it comes to the gradient background and the drop shadow on the text. I can get away with positioning the text on the larger header image, so if it's not possible to generate the exact gradient I have there, then I have a work around for that, but what I really want to achieve is the text with the font and drop shadow.
View 1 RepliesHow To Make Shadow Effects For Image With Transparent Back
Jul 26, 2010I have a code that takes the pink out of a image and makes it transperent. So its just the image no color around it. How do i make a shadow for that image like below to make it look like it has its own shadow?
View 9 RepliesVS 2008 Volume Shadow Copy Service Meets
Mar 18, 2009in my on the job training i need to develop a program (webinterface in later stage) that is able to work with the volume shadow copy service.after about a month of research i have found about nothing about how to program it using the sdk or something like that.so now im asking on forums if there is anyone who has experience with using it in own programs.so what does it have to do?first i would like to be able to get information about a volume that uses VSS. information like how many copy's were made, when were those copy's created. what files are included in the copy.my prefered langauge is C# but im not affraid to learn (more) about VB or C++
View 1 RepliesVS 2008 Button FlatStyle.Popup Clicked Border Shadow
Sep 26, 2010I have a little problem with the shadow of a button when in popup style. [code] This fat border only disappear if I click another button; then the fat border is instead on that button. I'm sure this is by design, but I want this button style without this "feature". Is it possible to avoid the remaining border shadow behavior?
View 2 RepliesWpf - Maximum Custom Window Loses Drop Shadow Effect?
Feb 28, 2012I have a custom WPF window defined as:
<Window x:Class="MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" MinHeight="300" Height="350" MinWidth="600" Width="700" ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip" AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None">
I found a class online that creates drop shadows, shown below. This works well, even with a resize grip, until I maximise the window. Once I maximise the window or change the window state of another window (eg. Visual Studio), I loose the drop shadow and I cannot get it back.
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