Make sure you've specifically set your tab order on all controls in the form and see if it fixes it.It might be that you've written some code for the control to prevent the tab key from working.

Windows

keypress

forms

Host a form from inside a form

10 Apr 2010 by #realJSOP

Just instantiate the child form like you would any other object:MyForm form = new MyForm();form.ShowDlg();[EDIT - Removed unclosed bold tag which was making rest of the page bold]

Windows

forms

popup messages in c#

24 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Send an email. I personally hate popup messages because you usually have to dismiss them before doing anything else.

Need to generate a form based on XML structure.

9 Aug 2010 by #realJSOP

There are many approaches to doing what you need to do. This is where you use that skill you haven't developed yet - analysis. The XML you've provided is simple in its content, and it isn't that hard to work out what you need to do. Beyond that, nobody here is going to actually write the...

Automatic form size

23 Nov 2010 by #realJSOP

Set the Width and Height properties.

forms

Game Engine Creations

4 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

Part of being a programmer is being able to analyze the problem, and then design and implement the solution. If you ask someone else what *they* would do, then it becomes that person's solution instead of yours. How are going to learn from doing what someone else would do?Lastly, you should...

forms

trees

game

Settings.settings file location

5 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

If I remember correctly...User-scope settings are stored in the user's appdata folder. Application-scope settings are stored in C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\My_Company\. If your settings file doesn't contain any Application-scope settings, you won't have a company folder.

forms

Outlook

Windows Forms inheritance

19 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

Here's a handy guide:http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_inherited_forms.html[^]

VS2010

Visual-Studio

forms

I can not close a form twice, Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created

9 Feb 2011 by #realJSOP

Try this (no guarantees):public class MyParentForm:Form{ private Command_Form Command_Form1 = null; private void commToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Command_Form1 = new Command_Form(); Command_Form1.Disposed += new...

Visual-Studio

VS2008

forms

Panel-like control without panel inheritance

10 Feb 2011 by #realJSOP

They handle the various drag events:DragEnterDragLeaveDragDropDragOverItemDragGiveFeedbackYou can handle those events on any control you want. Here's a decent...

forms

user-controls

Passing (Inheritance) values from click Method to other form methods?

10 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

Just make the array global to the form and get on with it. In fact, I would use a List instead of an array because a List can grow/shrink on demand.

forms

inheritance

buttons

Filesystemwatcher two 'identical' implementations but different behaviour

23 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

Are all of the properties for both FileSystemWatchers the same? That's the only reason I can think of as to why the same events won't fire.

C#4.0

forms

Use objects like textboxes in other classes

28 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

If you have controls (like textboxes and radio buttons) that are used in the same format/arrangment in multiple forms, you can create a UserControl that contains those controls, and then include the user control in any form that needs those controls.If you want to dynamically crerate...

forms

Windows Form authentication

29 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

Try this CodeProject article:User Login For WinForm Applications[^]

Windows

forms

Winforms are too plain to "polish" your applications?

21 Apr 2011 by #realJSOP

This is really not the appropriate place to post something that would lead to a threaded discussion on the topic. Use the appropriate forum for this.

forms

Testing with unresponsive cpu

6 May 2011 by #realJSOP

I think your goal is impractical. It's difficult/impossible to determine *why* a task is consuming 100% CPU, and even more diffcult to determine how long it's been at 100%. Just indiscriminately shutting down 100% tasks is - well - pointless.

forms

Invoke Main thread from another working Thread

23 May 2011 by #realJSOP

First, you're using the wrong terminology - you're not "invoking" the main thread because it's already running. Second, you should learn how to use google:Google results for "C# update ui from thread"[^]

Windows

forms

windows application forms, help please

27 May 2011 by #realJSOP

Nobody here is going to to your homework for you. It's not because we feel like we're superior or elite or anything like that, but because YOU won't learn anything if we do it for you. It seems to me that the hard part of your project is done - you've implemented your data layer, and you've...

forms

Button Opens Form, when it closes it updates the original form. Need Help!

27 Jun 2011 by #realJSOP

There are two types of forms modal and modeless. As long as a modal form is open, the form that opened it (if it's in the same apploication) cannot be used, so there's no point in checking to see if the 2nd form is already open.If the 2nd form is modeless, you simply need to see if it's...

forms

About stoping threads with lengthy operations

14 Jul 2011 by #realJSOP

Use the asynchronous reader execute methods (BeginExecuteReader/EndExecuteReader instead of ExecuteReader, for instance).

Windows

SQLite

forms

c#, Windows form, project/assignment ideas?

24 Dec 2011 by #realJSOP

Part of the assignment was to see if you could come up with something *on your own*.

forms

Multiple windows in focus at once/multiple input devices

29 Feb 2012 by #realJSOP

No, not if the monitors are connected to the same machine.

C# borderless form without titlebar

30 Sep 2016 by #realJSOP

I haven't done WinForms in a long time, but try FormBorderStyle.FixedSingle instead.EDIT =============================You can always use interop and use the Win32 API to set the window style. It's kind of involved, but it's entirely possible do do. Keep in mind that once you take off the...

form

forms

How to publish C# windows forms program from visual studio 2015 directly to the web?

8 Oct 2016 by #realJSOP

It's called "click-once deployment":Click-Once Deployment Overview[^]Google is your friend.

forms

A sure way to bring a form to front and activate it...?

14 Feb 2017 by #realJSOP

I think what you want might be to call this.Hide() when it loses focus. There's no need to set the TopMost property.

.NET

Windows

forms

How do I find a percentage

8 Apr 2018 by #realJSOP

Well first, there aren't always 30 days in a month, there are 7 days in a week, 24 hours in a day, and 60 minutes in an hour. How you came up with your "windows" of time is kinda - well - absurd. Second, you're trying to predict when a dog will bark based on past performance. A dog just doesn't...

Windows

WPF

forms

Can we add authorization using MVC filters to existing web forms application in .NET

27 Nov 2019 by #realJSOP

0) Start a new MVC5 project, and make sure it includes user authentication. 1) Update all of the nuget packages in your new project. 1) That's all you have to do to include user authentication/authorization in a MVC app, unless you want to modify the views that the user is presented with to...

C# forms in a form can you take an external input and a button using either show or showdialog to open or close with out freezing?

26 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

Instead of using form.ShowDialog(), use form.Show(). HOWEVER, if you start using modeless forms, you have to know about all currently open forms so you can make sure they're closed when the app is closed. FWIW, if the app you're updating is...

forms

Call function from one form from another

6 Dec 2014 by /\jmot

Repost..Call a Method in one form to another from in winform App using c#[^]

forms

C# save data in clipboard?

10 Dec 2014 by /\jmot

See the links.it may help.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546016/how-to-copy-data-to-clipboard-in-c-sharp[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2243241/how-do-i-save-a-copy-of-the-clipboard-and-then-revert-back-to-it[^]

.NET

forms

clipboard

SpellCheck funtionality in RichTextBox and TextBox in windows forms

16 Dec 2014 by /\jmot

See..http://msdn.microsoft.c...

Windows

RichTextBox

forms

IF and Select statement

28 Jun 2013 by 09lolo

hellohope you all are doing well ! i have two tables - bookcontain book idand - sscontain book id and SnumberI want the user to get the form from the book id when he insert the Snumber in textBox1this is the code private void button1_Click(object sender,...

Windows

forms

Simple WPF MVVM Concepts

30 Jun 2015 by 1sumitanand

This tip is for newbie developers.

Sorting in WPF-MVVM

1 Jul 2015 by 1sumitanand

Sorting of simple ListView Elements in Ascending/Descending Order

how to add a variable value to a database value?

21 Jun 2011 by 2irfanshaikh

why don't you try this in a store procedure???

SQL-Server

forms

How auto update pageload using Sqldependency

9 Oct 2014 by 2irfanshaikh

please check the below linkhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/7200443/asp-net-webforms-how-to-avoid-several-page-load-events-when-a-link-is-clicke[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8092554/asp-net-page-load-event[^]

ASP.NET

forms

Page Method failed after form Submit

30 Jun 2014 by 7045Jeegnesh

here is My Master page forms:-----------

How to display Video File Thumbnails in PictureBox?

18 Jun 2013 by 7774tlas

Hi, I would like to display a video thumbnail in a picturebox. I've been searching for answers, but most of what I've found (.GetThumbnailImage, System.Drawing.Image, etc.) seem to only work for images, not video. All I want to do is display the same thumbnail as windows file explorer. I have...

How to make a Erase Brush/Pen

23 May 2011 by 94HellGate

whats the best way to make a simple erase brush / pen to erase parts of a transparency bitmap (with erase opacity)?

Windows

Bitmap

forms

How to make a Erase Brush/Pen

24 May 2011 by 94HellGate

i found another solutioncreate a texture brush based on the texture you are drawing with opacity (using a ColorMatrix) and set the graphics option CompositingMode to SourceCopy and draw your circle or whatever.some code:float[][] matrixItems ={ new...

Windows

Bitmap

forms

How to connect remote mysql database using windows forms application

3 Jun 2013 by _Amy

Modify your connection string like this:Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword;If you are using a tcp port then:Server=myServerAddress;Port=1234;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword;--Amit

Windows

MySQL

forms

Single "Lookup" form for whole application.

14 May 2014 by _Maxxx_

Is it a good idea? Only your customers can tell you that!I have implemented similar things in the past - generally for reasonably large collections where users usually knew a code or number, and so would just type it in, but occasionally needed to look up the value.For small collections,...

Windows

ADO.NET

forms

Explorer Context Menu Manager

16 Sep 2015 by _Plutonix

Helper class to add, change and delete Registry based Explorer Context Menus from your app

My form1 is invisible when i start it. (background threading)

14 Feb 2016 by _Q12_

My current Form1 is invisible when I start it.When I start my application,I want my Form1 being visiblethen, label4 with the announcement being displayedthen, a StartPage() method that takes 5seconds to load.and then, the label4 to dissapear.I tried with Application.DoEvents();...

forms

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

How to built setup of windows form project

14 Oct 2013 by A.Girish

Hello Every one I would like to know how to biuld a setup from windows form projectI need a proper sequential answer because i founded some data in internet which is not proper some given two to three screen shots,in other site they given step wise instruction which is very hard to get...

setup

forms

Customize datagrid view fill image in columns

4 Nov 2013 by A.Girish

Hello GuysI have problem in design Datagridview i want to design the datagrid with image and text as column header and image as status of that column in row cells.

C#4.0

forms

DataGridView

Is there any way one project can copy all the forms or functions of the other project?

6 Apr 2018 by Aa20

I already have a generic winforms application project. But i want to create a special case project adding specialized features on top of the old one. But at the same time, i want all enhancements/versioning done on the old project to be used by the new project. I still want the develop and...

forms

how to set an event to be take place daily once

24 Jul 2013 by aamirsajjad

You can set this things in registry for local machine. Set Value in registry when status is the user login on first time on current date. If you code for this let me know

Windows

forms

datagrid inside a column in datagrid C# windows form

20 May 2014 by aamitsengar

Use Tooltip Or a user control instead of grid..

Windows

forms

DataGridView

JS Total Textbox In column & Keyup modifier

4 Nov 2014 by Aaron Espinosa

Hey everyone, wanna thank you in advance for taking the time to even read this!I have 2 troubles with my form so far, I have the navigation so that it is set up to be like excel, but I want to navigate to the textbox that's beneath when pressing enter, key 13 seems to do it, but when I do...

HTML

Javascript

forms

Interacting with radio button webbrowser control

15 Nov 2012 by aaron1312

Hi all! First off, I'd like to say thanks for any help in advance, it's much appreciated!So basically i have this form, I've got everything good so far as textboxes go, but this is what the html code looks like on the page: Yes...

Windows

forms

how i do get a value of variable in form2

11 Aug 2012 by Aarti Meswania

pass controls/variables while create instance of new formeg.public class formDest{ public formDest(string c) { //something to do }}now, pass value from source form to destination formpublic class formSource{ public void btn_click(...) { formDest fd = new...

Visual-Studio

forms

application

Borderless Form - Need right click menu in taskbar

29 Aug 2012 by Aarti Meswania

there are two ways,1.runtime change form borderstyle this.controlbox=true;this.FormBorderstyle=fixedSingle;2.create 3 buttons & code it like below1. maximize put this line in click eventthis.Maximized();2. minimize put this line in click eventthis.Minimized();3. close put...

Windows

forms

What is difference between form and WPF (C#,.net) ?

26 Sep 2012 by Aarti Meswania

In short,simple Conclusion of Comparison is,1. Presentation layer (User Interface, Application Look) Winform WPF (WinForm are better than WPF)It is Conclusion onlyfor...

.NET

WPF

forms

Form seems to flicker when it has a background Image

1 Oct 2012 by Aarti Meswania

it is strange check you have done some paint event that is conflicting or some dynamic control which you are adjusting runtime...if you want to not show flickermeans below code will show your form after it complete paintingput this property in your form and check effectprotected...

Windows

forms

How to merge two column headers of a datagridview

8 Oct 2012 by Aarti Meswania

e.gsuppose in grid this columns,Mon1Mon2tues1tues2wed1wed2Private Sub dataGridView1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PaintEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.Paint Try Dim colList ="Mon,tues,wed" Dim clst As String() =...

forms

Select RadioButton Programmatically

20 Dec 2012 by Aarti Meswania

as this...Dim varRbtnNm = "Radiobutton1"select case(varRbtnNm)case "Radiobutton1" Radiobutton1.checked = truecase "Radiobutton2" Radiobutton2.checked = trueend selectORDim varRbtnNm =...

forms

how to display rdlc reports on other computer after creating exe

28 Apr 2013 by Aarti Meswania

Copy report ".rldc" file on client pc On proper locationHappy Coding!:)

Windows

forms

How to edit, update datagridview and give color to the cell depends on value of cell in windows forms.

10 Jun 2013 by Aarti Meswania

here in example if checkbox cell of particular row is cecked then I am changing color of row ...Use CurrentCellDirtyStateChanged event put color changing code stuff inside Private void dgv1_CurrentCellDirtyStateChanged(Object sender, System.EventArgs e) { If...

Windows

forms

Chnage the Value in a Textbox when combox value has been chnaged

27 Dec 2013 by Aarti Meswania

simply do this create form level variableint FormLevelcmbbox1LastValue = 0;now in combox's selection value changecmbbox1_selectedValueChange(...){ ConvertFrom = FormLevelcmbbox1LastValue ; ConvertTo = cmbbox1.selectedValue ; //write stuff to change value of textbox //set...

forms

How to pass a cell value to a variable from datagridview

29 Mar 2014 by Aarti Meswania

hi, try this...protected void dataGridView1_CellClick (object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e){ int orderno = 0; Int32.TryParse(dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].Value.ToString(), out orderno); v_orderno = orderno;}Happy Coding!:)

Windows

forms

i need a simple javascript form validation

3 Jul 2013 by Aatif Ali from Bangalore

You can refer following linkshttp://webcheatsheet.com/javascript/form_validation.php[^]http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_form_validation.asp[^]Aatif Bangalore

Change values in ListBox

11 Mar 2012 by Abbath1349

Hello can u say me how i can decide one problem with ListBox In WPF.I have data in XML i loaded them in List then i used binding listBox1.DataContext = wordNow; i'd like to change value in listbox when i'm clicking on it, for instanse it displays "word1" when i click on it then it will...

Click Event Clears Forms - Help!

28 Jun 2011 by abdugo

private void ClearForm(){ foreach(Control c in this.Controls) { if(c is TextBox || c is ComboBox) c.Text = ""; else if (c is CheckBox) ((CheckBox)c).Checked = false; else if (c is RadioButton) ...

forms

checkbox

Selecting the text from a C# listview

20 Nov 2013 by Abdul Gafar

Hi,I need help in implementing this below:I have a list view containing students courseworks, one column holding the barcode IDs, one column holding subject code, one holding the coursework title and one holding the due dates.I want to have a button click event where by it checks the...

ListView

forms

Generate dynamic menus from database to create css and jquery menus in aps.net and c#

14 Jul 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

System.Dat...

Display .pdf or .doc contents on to a Windows Form Control using C#

18 Apr 2011 by Abdul Rahman Hamidy

you can also use WebBrowser Control of .Net

C#4.0

Windows

forms

How to make a Metro UI interface?

6 Sep 2012 by Abed AlSayed

Hi, I want to make a bordless form but with shadows, docking ability, win7 effects, (ex. photoshop custom style, zune custom style....) I've found this project but it contains many bugs (Metro UI (Zune like) Interface (form)[^]) like on minimizing and maximizing it automatically resized, and...

How to Auto-complete a textbox from database in Window form C#

23 Feb 2012 by Abhi KA

try this linkhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.csharpaspnetarticles.com/2009/01/winforms-autocomplete-textbox-using-c.html[^]

Visual-Studio

forms

send email outside domain

10 May 2010 by Abhinav S

niravsahayata wrote:how can i send mails outside the domain??Are you getting any errors? Using SmtpClient you should be able to send mails anywhere ....so long as your mail server is correctly configured.You probably need to check your email configuration.

ASP.NET

forms

Painting non-client area of windows forms in VB.net

2 Oct 2010 by Abhinav S

This[^] may help.

forms

Disposed object

23 Oct 2010 by Abhinav S

private void Form2_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e) { e.Cancel = true; this.Hide(); }This code appears to be in form2 rather than form 1. This is creating the error. You need to place this code in form1 and set form2 to null from...

C#3.0

forms

Form Focus

15 Nov 2010 by Abhinav S

See here[^].

C#3.0

forms

How to create log files in asp.net ?

2 Jan 2011 by Abhinav S

This[^] or This[^] should pretty much solve your problem!

web

forms

Parameter is not valid at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(

28 Jan 2011 by Abhinav S

This[^] thread may provide a solution to you.

Windows

forms

Problem reopening a form in C#.NET

14 Feb 2011 by Abhinav S

I think you need to look at why this data is copied when you hide and then show the form again.Try moving that logic out of its current position into some other place.

.NET

forms

[Solved]The MDI Child form is not appearing

26 Mar 2011 by Abhinav S

You can start by making sure any third party your child form uses are installed.Try to open the form in design mode and post the error that occurs here and maybe someone can help you.

Windows

MDI

forms

C# user controls in Forms

7 Apr 2011 by Abhinav S

Yes its possible. Essentially what you are doing is creating the user control via code (rather than dragging and dropping from the toolbox).

forms

Windows form size depending on screen resolution

5 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S

Have a look at -http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.screen.aspx[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229605.aspx[^]

forms

How to make stylish label text in C#

9 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S

It is difficult to change the styles for labels in Windows Forms. Try using WPF if possible.You can do lots of fantastic styling in WPF.

C#3.0

Windows

forms

having error "must declare scalar variable f_date" with dataadapter?

19 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S

See this [^] - this explains how to use parameters with Data Adapters quite accurately.

SQL-Server

forms

what should be the software requirements in a readme file of a project?

22 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S

I found this[^] to be an interesting read on the README file.

SQL-Server

forms

How to switch forms in C#

24 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S

It should be as simple as this.[^], so unless you post some code here it will be hard for anyone to detect what could be going wrong.

forms

programming

Sending Message from one PC to another PC

18 Jul 2011 by Abhinav S

One way to do this would be to use Net TCP Binding in WCF. See here[^].

Windows

forms

how to have a fixed listview column width in a windows form application C# ?

8 Nov 2011 by Abhinav S

These discussions[^] may help you.

.NET

forms

Session in Windows Form

26 Apr 2012 by Abhinav S

No there is no session support in Windows forms. Yuu can build your own support though by storing information in a database / file.Not fool proof but could work.

WinForms

forms

How to generate a bill in c#.net window forms

21 Jan 2013 by Abhinav S

You can use a number of third party reporting tools like Active reports etc to generate a report.You can also consider using Crystal reports.

windows forms application with Database connection

21 Jan 2013 by Abhinav S

In this case you can look at MSAccess (or even Excel) as an option.If the parameters you want to store on the client are very few, you can consider an xml configuration or an ini file.

Windows

forms

database

c# windows based application

25 Jan 2013 by Abhinav S

The code and sample available at Crop the image from Windows Forms [^] should easily help you.There are a couple of articles / discussions available here as well -...

WinForms

forms

C# - add copied row to datagrid view

30 Jan 2013 by Abhinav S

This could be possible to do in a number of interesting ways.The simplest would be to handle the the keydown event on the grid (capture Ctrl + V).Here are some articles that might help you...

Highlight the searched text

30 Jan 2013 by Abhinav S

This discussion [^] might give you an idea of how you need to proceed towards a solution.

C#4.0

Windows

forms

Error While deploying exe file with database and rdlc reports in C# win forms

12 Apr 2013 by Abhinav S

You probably need to go through Deploying Reports and ReportViewer Controls [^]. Make sure you follow the steps correctly.

Windows

forms

Displaying values in a combobox

27 May 2013 by Abhinav S

Should'nt the select part be Select p.Department.Department_Name?In general, debugging and stepping through your code will help you get an idea on the error.Code will break on the line you have an error.

forms

combobox

sending querystring from windows form to web

14 Jun 2013 by Abhinav S

A Response.Redirect will fire a page refresh. You could try it - but dont know if a user will be happy with the web page doing refresh all of a sudden.

Windows

ASP.NET

forms

How do I detect a row insertion in SQL via C#

25 Jan 2014 by Abhinav S

Try and go through SQL Serer notification services - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172483%28v=sql.90%29.aspx[^].

SQL

Windows

forms

Dynamic label to show equation

8 Mar 2014 by Abhinav S

These articles might help youMath Equation Editor in C#[^]Converting math equations to C#[^]