UI

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by Christoph Buenger

Describes PHP application development with the free Scavix Web Development Framework (Scavix-WDF).

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Using the jQuery Unobtrusive Validator with Twitter Bootstrap Tooltips

by Cristian Moldovan

jQuery unobtrusive validation plugin with Twitter Bootstrap 3 showing error messages as tooltips

Circular Indeterminate Progress Indicator Control

by gggustafson

This article introduces the reader to the steps taken to create a user control that displays a circular indeterminate progress control.

Latest Articles

JavaScript – Events Bubbling – Illustrated

by Mark Pelf

Tutorial on “Events Bubbling” in JavaScript language

Multiplatform XAML/C# Miracle Package: Avalonia. Comparing Avalonia to WinUI based Solutions

by Nick Polyak

This article introduces Avalonia as a new multiplatform XAML/C# solution for Web and Mobile development platform on top of its Desktop capabilities that had been available for a while.

Using the New ESP32 LCD Panel API With htcw_gfx and htcw_uix

by honey the codewitch

Combine some great technologies for rich, responsive IoT user interfaces on the ESP32

Stateful Screen Rendering on Little Devices

by honey the codewitch

How to make very responsive, flicker free interactive screens without using a lot of memory

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(Not an issue) MFC UI (button) not responding properly.

6 Jun 2013 by Maximilien

The bad behaviour was caused by a not-yet fully understood modification in another CDockablePane that messed up the focus; it causes the button to loose the focus and I did not visually see that when I thought I clicked on the button, I was putting the focus back to it; and if I was lucky enough...

MFC

.NET Core UI using Webviews

30 Nov 2019 by Johannes Bildstein

Write cross platform desktop applications with .Net Core by using the OS native webview.

7 User Interface UI Principles

25 Jun 2020 by Adrian Pirvu

Basic principles in designing User Interface (UI / UX)

7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

19 Jul 2015 by Revanth Ramesh

Futuristic Talking 7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

[C++] more fundamental or standard libraries for making REALLY SIMPLE UI?

10 Apr 2018 by Member 13770638

In fact my coursework requires me to create a simple sudoku game using Qt creator but the learning curve is killing me. I am thankful for what others have created for our ease of use but often times I would rather prefer to understand low level stuff first (perhaps down to transistor level) like...

C++11

GUI

[C++] more fundamental or standard libraries for making REALLY SIMPLE UI?

10 Apr 2018 by KarstenK

Qt isnt so hard to learn, so read some of the Qt tutorials. When you Google you may finde some sodoku examples.

C++11

GUI

[C++] more fundamental or standard libraries for making REALLY SIMPLE UI?

10 Apr 2018 by CPallini

Since Qt is required, you have to, at least, use it in your application. Modify an existing example in order to fit your needs and don't bother to really understand it. If you ar really interested on what there is under the hood, then have a look at Walkthrough: Creating Windows Desktop...

C++11

GUI

A Drag and Drop ListLauncher with fold-able Groups

3 Mar 2017 by wim4you

Launch additionally a limited number of hand picked Programs, Documents or Folders from the taskbar

A fast and simple DataGridView analogue

18 Jan 2013 by Andrey Sitaev

Here I placed source files, binaries and brief instructions for FastGrid control.

A framework for comprehensive validation of user input

19 Jun 2012 by A. Ganzer

Validation of input made as easy as possible for Windows.Forms, WPF, console-applications or any other purposes

A plugin for Picasa and .NET 3.5

4 Apr 2013 by Michael Mann (mann.DEV)

Plugin migration with new features of .NET 3.5.

a question about ui automation's TogglePattern

25 Apr 2013 by xuyunhai

when i use TogglePattern.Toggle() method to select the treeItem,it will be selected，but a few seconds later,the treeItem state become not selected.how can i solve this question.can anybody give me an answer? thanks! TogglePattern togPattern =...

automation

A reusable ProgressViewModel to observe progress with MVVM

30 Jan 2012 by Dirk Bahle

UI and code-behind is executed in different threads. Long running processes need asynchronous execution. This artice shows a way of doing this in a ViewModel approach.

A Simple Application to Record Current Geographic Location and Display in Web

18 Jun 2011 by Amit Kumar Dutta

Discusses a technique to record current geographic location from mobile and display in web pages (with Location History Browsing)

A Simple ASP.NET Flickr Application

16 Nov 2010 by Mario Majčica

A simple Flickr application using the Flickr.Net API library and some cool effects.

A Simple Mobile Enterprise Application

30 May 2012 by Murray Brooks Davis

How to make a simple, end-to-end, mobile, Java enterprise application including a RESTful web service and an Android client.

A simple ticker with jQuery

19 Nov 2012 by Raghav Nayak

Simple vertical scroller.

A Simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows

28 Jan 2013 by Agent__007

A simple WPF text clock gadget for Windows

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

25 Jul 2014 by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

A Universal Gauge for Your Web Dashboard

16 Dec 2014 by Steffen Ploetz

JavaScript plugin gaugeSVG to generate widely configurable SVG gauge for a web dashboard

A Versatile MessageBox Replacement

7 Oct 2012 by Andriks

A MessageBox replacement with some much needed extras

Access a dialog box from another dialogue box

9 Jun 2010 by Sweety Khan

I made a button named Brightness on my main dialogue box. When any one click on it, it should display another dialogue box named Brightness.For this, I right click on my project in the solution explorer->add->resourceFrom the Add Resource dialog box, double-click on Dialog Change its ID...

C++

MFC

Acitvate all controls of SDI GUI

26 Apr 2010 by AJ83

Hi, I have developed a GUI application in MFC. When application is downloading something and I minimize the GUI followed by maximizing it (after few seconds) then all controls in FormView becomes invactive.What may be the source of such problem?Any Help!!

C++

MFC

Adaptive WPF ICommand Implementation

28 Feb 2011 by Fredrik Bornander

Creating a command that can handle warnings and adapt to the way the user uses the UI.

Add controls to a c# user control at runtime

12 Oct 2012 by user_code

Hello,I develop a c# user control.In that control, I have a button. When the user clicks the button at runtime, a new control (for example, pictureBox) is created ,next to the previous pictureBox.How can I do it? especially when I don't know how many pictureBoxes the user is going to...

user-controls

Add controls to a c# user control at runtime

12 Oct 2012 by OriginalGriff

Try:PictureBox pb = new PictureBox();pb.Location = new Point(oldPb.X, oldPb.Y + 100);pb.Size = oldPb.Size;Controls.Add(pb);

user-controls

Add controls to a c# user control at runtime and be able to manage them

14 Oct 2012 by user_code

Hello,1)I develop a c# user control.In that control, I have a button. When the user clicks the button at runtime, a new control (for example, pictureBox) is created ,next to the previous pictureBox.I did it that way:PictureBox pb = new PictureBox();pb.Location = new...

user-controls

Add controls to a c# user control at runtime and be able to manage them

14 Oct 2012 by OriginalGriff

Add a List to you UserControl:private List Pictures = new List();Then when you add it to the controls list, you also add it to the Pictures:PictureBox pb = new PictureBox();pb.Location = new Point(oldPb.X, oldPb.Y + 100);pb.Size =...

user-controls

Add video to my C# application

29 Oct 2012 by Sharath2790

I've downloaded DirectX on My PC and I've installed it But unable add reference to my project. I need to embed a video into my application. Thank you!

Add video to my C# application

30 Oct 2012 by ridoy

You not mentioned what type of application you need to embed it,here's some for you..http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/42801-How-Play-Videos-C-NET-WinForm.aspx[^]http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/111181-adding-video-to-an-application/[^]

Add video to my C# application

30 Oct 2012 by Thomas Daniels

You don't need to use DirectX. You can add a Windows Media Player control[^].If you do that, you don't need to add a reference to the DirectX library.

Add video to my C# application

1 Nov 2012 by Sharath2790

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/111181-adding-video-to-an-application/[^]

Adding an InputBox() to Any C++ Program

12 Jun 2019 by Michael Haephrati

A simple and easy to use InputBox() function for any type of C++ program for Windows

C++14

Win32

Adding multiple controls into flow panel on non-ui thread in vb.net?

19 Dec 2012 by Kieran Crown

Okay, I want to add multiple user controls into a flow panel at one time without the UI freezing, I've tried adding the controls from a Background Worker but get an error about how it cannot be added because it can't change parent control or something like that, any help would be appreciated.

threads

user-controls

Adding multiple controls into flow panel on non-ui thread in vb.net?

19 Dec 2012 by Adam R Harris

You are going to have to create a delegate to add the controls for you, something like this:** assuming your flow control is called 'flow' private delegate sub delAddControl(ctrl as Control) private sub AddControl(ctrl as Control) if (flow.InvokeRequired) then ...

threads

user-controls

Adding search functionality to a MFC combo box

28 May 2010 by Hellraiser123

Hi, I need to create a combo box which provides the auto search feature to a user. Its should behave just like the combo box which we see in the Windows 'Run' dialog or in the windows search dialog. So, as the user types in characters , all the matching strings in the combo box list must be...

MFC

combobox

Adding Styles Dynamically to ASP.NET Page Header

15 Jan 2013 by Tharaka MTR

This tip describes how to add the dynamic style to ASP.NET page header

AJAX Extenders

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

ASP.NET AJAX can be easily extended to create almost any control you can imagine. Be sure to take a look at the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.Blog

Ajax

ASP.NET

Aligning ribbon elements

26 May 2010 by josip cagalj

Hi, does anyone know how to right align panel elements. I have one CMFCRibbonCombobox and two CMFCRibbonEditboxes each with same width but preceding labels have different text length so they arr messy. I would like all to be right justified.Thanks in advance.

MFC

Aligning ribbon elements

31 May 2010 by josip cagalj

CRibbonBarPane...

MFC

All you need to create a Nuget package for ASP.NET MVC

28 May 2013 by Giorgio Minardi

How to create an MVC HTML Helper and package it for Nuget.

Anatomy of HTML5/JavaScript Single Page Application in Samples (basics, navigation, composition, communications with the server)

20 Dec 2012 by Nick Polyak

Describes Single Page Applications and a new BPF Framework that helps to develop SPAs.

Android 3D Carousel

16 Oct 2012 by Igor Kushnarev

How 3D carousel could be implemented for Android platform

Android Binding - Introduction

1 Apr 2011 by xandytsui

An Introduction to a new Android-java based MVVM Presentation Framework

Android calender application

25 Nov 2012 by ranjith sankar

I saw the calendar application on my google phone. on that app when we click on a particular date the events on that date will appear. and on flip on the screen the events of next date will come. we can flip as many times, sothat the dates and events changes how that particular function...

Android

Mobile

Android calender application

25 Nov 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

This is not a valid question for a Quick Answers forum. You need to learn how to create Android apps, and then design something that will hold the information your wish to display. This could be a local database, or you could use the Google API to get access to your Google calendar.In both...

Android

Mobile

Android Sliding Menu

24 Mar 2014 by Kevin Murani

Android sliding menu.

Java

Mobile

Dev

Android: Ready to use simple directory chooser dialog with new folders creation

20 Feb 2013 by Gregory Shpitalnik

Android: Ready to use simple directory chooser dialog with new folders creation ability - single Java class implementation.

Java

Android

Mobile

angular Js with Kendo controls

20 May 2013 by akki166786

I have 3 questions1. can i use angular JS with kendo wrappaers? if yes how?2. if i am using angular js and kendo-all.min.js on the same html tag let say i am making an intut tag autocomplete and also binding it with ng-model, how does it affect each others behaviour ?3. what actually...

AngularJs

controls

Any tool to check UI controls alignment?

16 Mar 2012 by PravinSingh

Is there any tool to check if UI controls on a desktop app or a web app are properly aligned, the distance between them is consistent and the controls are following UI standards?Because if there isn't any already, I am planning to write one. :)

GUI

tools

user-controls

Any tool to check UI controls alignment?

16 Mar 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I don't know if such tool is available. I would not be surprised if there are no such tool, and I know why: it would be useless. I can guess where it comes from: you probably develop UI manually, it means by some sort of graphical designer, and you use absolute positioning. In other words, you...

GUI

tools

user-controls

Appearence of menu and toolbar in .NET 3.5

8 Nov 2010 by Radhakrishnan G.

HiUsually appearance of the menu and toolbars created using .NET are different from native windows look, Making rendering mode to System does not make any differenceAlso how to use a rebar as created using a Visual C++ applicationI mean the appearance(Visual Style same as the OS...

.NET

.NET3.5

Apply a custom default style on QML controls

18 Oct 2014 by Marco Bertschi

A short guide on how you can style and customize the appearance of you QML controls in a CSS-like way

ASP.NET Custom UI Builder

22 Jun 2011 by johnberry_berry

I have a requirement that the User be able to design his own UI (user has a set of Controls available and the user can select a control and start adding the controls to the page.Now I need a mechanism where I can show what control the user added to begin with and start adding the controls...

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Custom UI Builder

22 Jun 2011 by Pete O'Hanlon

While it would be fairly tricky to do, you could (using a liberal dose of jQuery), drag and drop the "controls" from a toolbar and capture the co-ordinates that you added them at. To get an idea of how to do this, why not take a look at the jQuery UI[^] to get an idea of how you could do this...

ASP.NET

ASP.NET GUI Design..

3 May 2012 by Code Master38

I'm new to webs design and recently I've decided to work on a website for charity.My question is this, how can I design a attractive GUI, something like from www.Webs.com[^]or www.CodeMaster2.webs.com just for an example. Something nice and simple and attractive.If you could point me...

ASP.NET

ASP.NET GUI Design..

3 May 2012 by R. Giskard Reventlov

You could start here[^]. There are a large number of sites offering free web templates that you can use. One, in particular, that I like is: andreasvikland[^]. I've used his designs in the past for small sites. Easy to use and adapt.You might also find that if you are designing for charity...

ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC, SignalR, and Knockout based real time UI syncing - For co-working UIs and continuous clients

30 Jan 2012 by Anoop Pillai

Demonstrates how to use ASP.NET MVC, SignalR, EF and Knockout Js to build real time syncing UIs

ASP.NET MVC: apply templates to enum properties

9 Apr 2014 by Roberto Ferraris

How to use templates in ASP.NET MVC to edit enum fields

.NET

MVC

Dev

ASP.NET Web Form Page Modified Prompt Using jQuery

4 Feb 2011 by Ramu Sangabathula Original

When the user modifies ASP.NET web form fields and leaves the web form without saving it, we should notify the user about the modified data.

Javascript

ASP.NET

Dev

Assorted MIDI Controls - MidiUI Part 2

14 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Continuing our series with a knob control and a MIDI visualizer

Asynchronous Programming

12 Nov 2013 by John Pravin

Asynchronous Programming with Task Parallel Library.

Asynchronous Tasks using AsyncTask

7 Jul 2014 by Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes

How to handle asynchronous tasks in Android Activities

Auto-repeat Button in 10 Minutes

31 Oct 2018 by Adam Zgagacz

Simple WinForms auto-repeat button in a few lines

Automate your UI using Microsoft Automation Framework

1 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Learn how to leverage UI automation in testing your UI and also to support accessibility features

Automated UI Testing with Guia

1 Jul 2010 by Guia-Project

Unit-Testing of WPF User Controls via UI automation

Automatic scroll while dragging

22 Jun 2010 by old_hacker

Though an ancient programmer, I'm still fairly inexperienced in MFC and Windows programming in general. I'm trying to add automatic scrolling during dragging. CScrollView windows have this feature, but I want to be able to add it to any old window with built-in scrollbars (using WS_VSCROLL...

MFC

Automatic scroll while dragging

22 Jul 2010 by E.F. Nijboer

Could you add an OnMouseOver event to the window you drag into? You would set a property to indicate that dragging into the window has started in the OnDragEnter and reset this property in the OnDragDrop and OnDragAbort.In the mouse over event you could now check the property that indicates...

MFC

Automatic scroll while dragging

29 Jul 2010 by E.F. Nijboer

The GetScrollBarInfo api will get you information about a scrollbar, you can just pass it the handle of the window control that holds the scrollbar:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787581%28VS.85%29.aspx[^] It returns this struct:...

MFC

Automatic Scrolling During Drag operation

11 Jul 2013 by Amit_Mittal

A way to achieve automatic scrolling during a drag operation

Automation event calls multiple time but for open dialogue not raised? C# automation UI

24 Jul 2016 by vishal singh vicky

I Have an add automation event that raised on new windows open from that windows i get the localized control type dialogue then i used it in my function so the problem is that it raised multiple time when ever dialogue is open and also it does not raised some time for open and save as dialogue...

C#3.5

.NET

automation

Automationelement.isenabledpro...

19 Feb 2016 by Anand Naikar

We are automating an "Winforms" application.When we try to fetch the AutomationElement's IsEnabledProperty value, we always get false.We tried for both Enabled and Disabled context menu items. For both the types we get false.As per MSDN link "AutomationElement.IsEnabledProperty Field...

WinForms

automation

Background worker thread complete event not fired in C#

2 Mar 2018 by Ramachandran P

Hi, In my application, I have used the backgroundworker thread for some background process. The thread called successfully and the Dowork event done all of his work. But, after completion of the Dowork event the RunWorkerCompleted event not getting fired. Any suggestion on this it would be...

threads

BackgroundWorker

Background worker thread complete event not fired in C#

1 Mar 2018 by OriginalGriff

You don't actually start the second thread at all. Most likely, that's because you have over redacted the code - but if the DoWork event is being called (and you say it works) then you need to look very closely at the code you have in the DoWork event handler. The Completed event will only ever...

threads

BackgroundWorker

Background worker thread complete event not fired in C#

2 Mar 2018 by Richard Deeming

Based on the code from the comments to solution #1: InspectorWrapperThread.cs: while (!worker.canCompleteThread) { if (worker.canCompleteThread) { break; } Thread.Sleep(10); } WorkerThread2.cs: public bool canCompleteThread = false; ... void...

threads

BackgroundWorker

BackGroundWorker Thread issue with UI Thread

19 Jul 2013 by indhukanth

Hi all,im done some database coding in UI Thread. but its freezing my UI so i changed that into Background worker thread like_MyWoker = new BackgroundWorker();_MyWoker.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(_MyWoker_DoWork);_MyWoker.RunWorkerCompleted += new...

WPF

threads

BackgroundWorker

BackGroundWorker Thread issue with UI Thread

19 Jul 2013 by OriginalGriff

You can only access UI controls from the UI thread - the main thread. If you try from any other thread, you will get the exception you have seen.There are two ways to get round it:1) Use Control.Invoke to move the action back to the UI thread.2) Do the control update in the...

WPF

threads

BackgroundWorker

BackGroundWorker Thread issue with UI Thread

19 Jul 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Certain cross-threads calls are not allowed, by a number of reasons. You can easily delegate some methods to UI thread. This way, you can create an object in UI thread, and call all its methods in UI thread, but the calls are triggered in some other thread. This is the case when you call...

WPF

threads

BackgroundWorker

BackgroundWorker Class Sample for Beginners

4 Aug 2010 by Srivatsa Haridas

Simple steps to a Multithreaded application

Basic flask-socketio functionality

22 Feb 2021 by lukeer

Hi forum, a colleague of mine has created a marvellous piece of HTML and CSS that leaves me astonished what UIs are possible with web programming skills. I am responsible for the backend in python. I have a connection to a real-world...

Python

Javascript

flask

Basic WPF Way to Implement and Include Animation in XAML

5 May 2014 by Gerald Gomes

This article will make an attempt to describe a basic way to start implementing animation in WPF.

Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI

2 Sep 2010 by dmihailescu

What is the start-up and system performance overhead for .Net, Mono, Java versus C++ and Forms, WPF, Swing versus MFC

Best Practices for Developing Apps and Games for Intel® Android Tablets

1 May 2015 by Intel

This article covers design considerations for tablet apps, including UI design, session length, accommodating user differences, and localization.

Best UX Practices for Intel® RealSense™ Camera (F200) Applications

27 Oct 2015 by Intel

The goal of the series is to enable you to design a successful user interface experience into your project from the start.

product-showcase

Best way to invalidate an area

14 May 2010 by 23_444

I need to invalidate different areas on a screen at the same time (occurring in the same function).I could invoke the InvalidateRect(&rc) for each area:InvalidateRect(&rc);InvalidateRect(&rc2);or I could create a region and add the rectangles to the region and then use...

C++

GDI

MFC

Best way to invalidate an area

15 May 2010 by Richard MacCutchan

23_444 wrote:I'm not convinced ... that WM_PAINT is firing for each call.You are correct, these calls tend to get collected together and then the app gets a single WM_PAINT message for an accumulation of more than one of the invalidated regions. As to the advantages of doing it this way,...

C++

GDI

MFC

Border is not visible on checkbox and link buttons on focus in Telerik grid when in edit mode.

24 Jun 2013 by Goel Himanshu

I am facing a weird problem in my Telerik grid controls. When i tab out from a control like Telerik Textbox it gets focus on checkbox internally means if i press space-bar it does check and uncheck but it don't show dotted border around it. This is the same issue with link button also. On...

ASP.NET

Telerik

Border is not visible on checkbox and link buttons on focus in Telerik grid when in edit mode.

1 Jul 2013 by Goel Himanshu

This problem has been resolved after using position style to absolute for every link and checkbox for this grid. After setting this property borders for focus are working fine. On this page there are many telerik grids. but it was giving problem for this specific grid where i used zindex. This...

ASP.NET

Telerik

Border on a window (like in Kaspersky Sandbox)

8 Jun 2010 by Itsuki Kuo

I want to know, how to put a border on a window (such as Kaspersky Sandbox) have? Does anyone know how to get this effect?I can draw and show window in XP. But Vista and Win7 have the Aero effect.So, how can I show the same effects when I use Windows 7?Thank you very much.

MFC

dialog

Border on a window (like in Kaspersky Sandbox)

10 Jun 2010 by alij_juma

Hello,Try setting your form border style to none and use a container that has a border you can manipulate e.g. panel. Dock the container to fill the window 'borderless' window.Add your controls including a close, min and max button and code them appropriately.You should have your...

MFC

dialog

Build Calendar App for Windows 8 with dhtmlxScheduler

31 May 2013 by Stas Wolski

This tutorial describes how to create a basic Google-like event calendar app for Windows 8.

Building an iPhone App using jQuery Mobile

18 Apr 2013 by Stuart Wheelwright

Step-by-step explanation of building a Task Timer app using web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery Mobile.

Bunifu ui framework help,

21 Nov 2020 by OriginalGriff

You should talk to the people who created it - Bill has given you their email - they should provide technical support and will know more about their product than we will. If they don't, then find another supplier and demand your money back!

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

28 Sep 2016 by user_code

Hello,I would like to create a button (with an image on it) in c# User Control. When a user hovers with the mouse over the button, and stays there for a second, I would like a small message\dialog\something like this to pop up and describe in 2 words what the button is. (For example, it will...

user-controls

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

22 Oct 2012 by sinhasourabh

Use TOOL TIP Property of the button.

user-controls

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

22 Oct 2012 by Abhishek Pant

1. Add image to BackgroundImage property of button.2. Add a tooltip to the button.3. Find the property 'ToolTip on toolTip1' (the name may not be toolTip1 if you changed it's default name).Now write "Edit"(as according to your requirement or anything you write will be popped out) on the...

user-controls

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

28 Sep 2016 by Daniel L. Garcia

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.ComponentModel;using System.Data;using System.Drawing;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsFormsApplication{ public partial class Form1 : Form { public...

user-controls

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

22 Oct 2012 by User 9125307

I think this would be the perfect solution for you:private void ButtonName_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e) { System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip ToolTip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(); ToolTip1.SetToolTip(this.button1, this.button1.Text); ...

user-controls