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Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

UserControls as SDI Windows

by Yvan Rodrigues

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Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

UserControls as SDI Windows

by Yvan Rodrigues

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

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Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

3 Aug 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

Printpreviewdialog - printdialog

14 Sep 2017 by EssenceGold

Working Code: Private Sub Button6_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click BufferImg() Dim b As New ToolStripButton b.Image = CType(PrintPreviewDialog1.Controls(1), ToolStrip).ImageList.Images(0) b.ToolTipText = "Print" ...

Disable default context menu

17 Jan 2018 by Kevin Brady

I have created a custom toolstrip combobox to allow it display a context menu. Here is the code. Option Strict Off Option Explicit On _ Public Class MyToolStripComboBox Inherits...

Get the embedded source control object

19 Jan 2018 by Kevin Brady

I have a context menu that is used on multiple controls on a form. It is pretty simple "boolean" selection menu (i.e. "True" or "False" conditions. Below is the click event for one of these (false): Private Sub Bool_False_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles...

How to remve toolstripdropdownbutton.dropdwonitems dynamically?

17 Sep 2019 by Richard Deeming

You'll need to remove the item from outside of the foreach loop. For example: string nameToFind = MyTable.Rows[M1]["report_menu_name"].ToString(); List itemsToRemove = new List(); foreach (ToolStripMenuItem dropDownItem in...

C# double " mark in textstring

6 Aug 2021 by OriginalGriff

In C#, there are a couple of better ways to do this: you can escape the double quote character: File.Write(" QUESTID = LuaGetQuestID(\"" + textBox1.Text + "\")\r\n"); Or you can use string interpolation and escape it: File.Write($" QUESTID =...

Saving ToolStrip Layouts to Custom File

13 Dec 2012 by Brisingr Aerowing

Does anyone know of a way to serialize the location of toolstrip controls WITHOUT using the ToolStripManager class? I would like to have this capability in one of my applications, but as the app uses ICSharpCode.Core, the ToolStrips may not be created on the form at the time the ToolStripManager...

How to get focus on toolstripDropDownButton.

4 Apr 2014 by sagar_253

I have toolStrip Control, and it has few items like toolstripButton, ToolStripDropDown button.For ToolStripDropDownButton i am not creating any dropDown list, instead i am using contextmenu with few items.Whenever mouseHover to this toolstripdropdownbutton i show this contextmenu. here is...

c# winforms - can't insert custom toolstripbutton into custom toolstrip

29 Aug 2014 by pedritin91

Hi, everybody again. I need help with the following problem. I've created a custom toolstrip and I've specified some attributes which allow me using it in design time. The toolstrip works fine but when I created the custom toolstripbutton I can't add it into the Custom ToolStrip, the...

c# winforms - can't insert custom toolstripbutton into custom toolstrip

19 Sep 2014 by pedritin91

Thank you kbrandwijk [Designer(typeof(ComponentDesigner))] [ToolboxBitmap(typeof(ToolStripButton))] public partial class iAToolStripButton : ToolStripButton

Allow end user to manually stretch / resize a combobox on toolstrip

22 Aug 2016 by GoodJuJu

I have a comboBox on my ToolStrip that is used to enter search criteria. If the text is longer than the comboBox width (not the drop-down) can display, I would like the user to be able to stretch the left-hand side of the comboBox.I know that I can automatically modify the drop-down width...

Disable default context menu

17 Jan 2018 by Alan N

I think the problem is that the new ContextMenuStrip has not been assigned to the ToolStripComboBox. Once that is done it will just work and the MouseDown handler and positioning code will be unnecessary. The ToolStripComboBox is a fairly simple wrapper around a System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox...

Printpreviewdialog - printdialog

30 Aug 2018 by Debsbond008

Well, EssenceGold's code does the print job well but it didn't preview any page/document. So, I replaced some of your lines with mine. Private Sub Print_btn_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Print_btn.Click Dim b As New ToolStripButton b.Image =...

How to remve toolstripdropdownbutton.dropdwonitems dynamically?

17 Sep 2019 by Paramu1973

Hi, I have a small project having toolstripmenuitem. I wish to remove toolstripmenuitem during the form_pageLoad()...Is it possible? My Codes for each(ToolStripMenuItem dropDownItem in reportstoolStripDropDownButton.DropDownItems) { if (dropDownItem.Name ==...

How to remve toolstripdropdownbutton.dropdwonitems dynamically?

17 Sep 2019 by BillWoodruff

A different approach: I have deliberately used multiple checks for valid names; in production code, I'd use try/catch. private void RemoveDDownMenuItem(MenuStrip mnuStrip, string menuItemName, string ddownMenuItemName) { if (! mnuStrip.Items.ContainsKey(menuItemName)) { // throw...

C# double " mark in textstring

5 Aug 2021 by Member 15308108

hi guys I made an app to extract .lua file when I push the button my problem is I need to pass this string like this QUESTID = LuaGetQuestID("QNO_QUEST_AR") QNO_QUEST_AR extracted from textBox1 so my code = File.Write(" QUESTID =...

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

8 Nov 2013 by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

Recent Items Tool Strip Menu Item

8 Nov 2013 by UziTech

Create menu item that saves recently opened files

UserControls as SDI Windows

15 Jan 2014 by Yvan Rodrigues

dismiss ToolStrip change on refresh

23 May 2014 by ali majed

Hi to all!I created user control that contain ToolStrip and DGV and add it to form. I accessible ToolStrip by define as public properties public ToolStrip Toolbar { set { ToolBarToolStrip = value; } get { return ToolBarToolStrip; } ...

dismiss ToolStrip change on refresh

23 May 2014 by www-sahilv

try with public static ToolStrip Toolbar{ set { ToolBarToolStrip = value; } get { return ToolBarToolStrip; }}

C# double " mark in textstring

5 Aug 2021 by Member 15308108

thanks guys its work with this code. File.Write(" QUESTID = LuaGetQuestID(" + '"' + textBox1.Text + '"' + ")\r\n");

Printpreviewdialog - printdialog

30 Aug 2018 by EssenceGold

Hi guys. PrintPreviewDialog print button printing directly. I want to open the PrintDialog screen and choose a printer. I found the code but I could not run it. The code I can run in C # does not work in VB.NET. I need to run one of these two codes. Thanks in advance for your help. What I...