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Visual Studio update. Opened a solution in Windows Form VB and there are no controls in my toolbox
I updated the VS studio application and when I tried to start a new solution for a visual basic windows form design the controls were missing from my toolbox. It says at the bottom "There are no ...
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Unable to copy-paste Winforms controls from a form in a vb.net project to a form in a c# project
for a big refactoring project of about 140 forms I've been trying to copy and paste these controls through the designer. I'm using VS 2022 but I've also tried with 2019. The origin project is in .NET4....
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Why do I see this error when trying to open the control designer in visual studio and how do I fix it?
Why do I see this error when trying to open the control designer in visual studio 2019 and how do I fix it?
(Winforms)
The error switches sometimes when I try to open the designer:
I tried ...
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Controls size issues of C# windows form, looks different on compile time and different in Run Time
I have some weird problem, I am setting controls location according to requirement as well as adding new controls, but when I build project and run it, It looks totally different, all controls ...
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WinForms: adding a control with c#
I'm new to c#, and I do know how to dynamically add controls, but I don't know how to set that control as this.[control_name]. Note that here, this is the Form.
This can be done statically with ...
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Why does VS2017 keep losing my derived controls?
In my app namespace = DRT, I'm creating control classes (e.g., button, textbox) that derive fron their corresponding Windows control classes, e.g.,
internal abstract class DRT_Button_Abstract : ...
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Is the Microsoft walkthrough "Inheriting from a Windows Forms Control" a valid procedure?
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I'm somewhat new to Visual Studio and C#. I've come across a number of S.O posts where the answer refers to deriving (through inheritance) from a Microsoft base class and extending it. I've ...
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Dynamically add control from base .NET
There is a way to add controls to WinForm from code. It is rather simple, for example:
Button ^btn = gcnew Button;
btn->Size.Width = 70;
btn->Size.Height = 30;
btn->Text = "test button";
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WinForms: How do I keep a panel from scrolling with the window content?
I have a navigation panel on the left hand side of my program and I'd like it to always stay where it is when scrolling the window content. Is there a way to do that?
I've thought about trying to do ...
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Multiple Controls onto a single control c# winforms
Is there any way to make a Control like a Panel, and inserting several other components like a Label in it?
I've made a custom control, and added some controls from the toolbox into it's [Designer], ...
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How to add an extended control to the toolbox, when the control is in the same project?
I have extended DataGridView. I want to add the new control to the toolbox without adding a reference to a different assembly (using the right-click option "Choose Items"). The control is in the same ...
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why are new controls showing up in my form AND panel
i have a form with a few controls on it, i have a panel with different controls on, That panel is above the form controls.
i have added new controls to the form and when i place the panel back over ...
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PFGrid Databinding
Does anyone have experience with PFGrid? There are just a handful of mentions on stackoverflow, none of which address binding. The company website's forum link is broken.
The DataSource property in ...
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Visual Studio WinForm Render Mode
Does anyone know is there any opportunity to set render mode for WinForms ?
I mean setting software rendering mode for specific window or whole application, I am looking the same like describing here ...
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How can I create PDF or Word Preview on Visual Studio?
I'm making a Help Screen and I want to add a PDF/Word Preview control to it. I used Adobe PDF Reader control but it shows many other functions that I don't need. I just want a control that view only.
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