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2-Jun-09 10:32

lol. My brain could use a break from it too you know, or a hint.

Re: Stored Procedure that returns data with Entity Data Model not working

Luc Pattyn2-Jun-09 6:55

Luc Pattyn

2-Jun-09 6:55

dfn wrote:
Iservice(bool?)

? is appended to value types to make them nullable; so bool? is either true, false, or null.

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Re: Stored Procedure that returns data with Entity Data Model not working

dfn3-Jun-09 6:04

dfn

3-Jun-09 6:04

Thanks for the help. At least that ? isn't a mystery now. Nothing glaringly wrong with what I'm doing though? I still can't figure out why I can't call the function import I made for that stored proc...

FlowLayoutPanel docking, unusual behavior.

EliottA2-Jun-09 5:43

2-Jun-09 5:43

I'm dynamically adding custom user controls to another user control which contains various flowlayoutpanels, and my problem is anchoring. I have to resize the flowlayoutpanels to fit the maximum width of the dynamic controls being added, and I edited all those controls to have proper anchoring so they resize while maintaining the UI look and feel desired.

This works great individually for each user control in design mode, but not when they are added to the user control which will contain them all.

All fun, but apparently anchoring to a flowlayoutpanel doesn't work (I have no idea why) and I was hoping someone has a workaround?

I'm already considering shifting to regular panels, but I'm reluctant to do this shift so quickly before inspecting other possible workarounds.

Docking doesn't work, the flowlayoutpanel can be anchored to the main User control and widens / shrinks as desired, but to reiterate the controls contained within the flowlayoutpanel, even with anchoring, do not have the desired behavior.

Re: FlowLayoutPanel docking, unusual behavior.

Henry Minute2-Jun-09 5:59

Henry Minute

2-Jun-09 5:59

To quote from the MSDN Documentation for FlowLayoutPanel

Docking and anchoring behaviors of child controls differ from the behaviors in other container controls. Both docking and anchoring are relative to the largest control in the flow direction. For more information, see How to: Anchor and Dock Child Controls in a FlowLayoutPanel Control.

The link, from above[^]

That is all the help I can give, tried a FLP once and found docking etc. too much for my brain cell to cope with. Smile | :)

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Re: FlowLayoutPanel docking, unusual behavior.

EliottA2-Jun-09 7:06

2-Jun-09 7:06

Gave you a 5 for the link, but I forgot to mention that I checked it out earlier with no avail to my dilemma.

Thanks though, perhaps a second read will help.

C# Media Player

sagiklan2-Jun-09 5:30

sagiklan

2-Jun-09 5:30

Hi all

if some one can plz send me program that play song and u can choose the song from a list
i wiil be glad i work whise Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

My e-mail: sagiklan@gmail.com

tnx sagiklan Smile | :)

0x3c02-Jun-09 5:32

0x3c0

2-Jun-09 5:32

If you just want a light-weight method to play WAV files, then use the System.Media.SoundPlayer class. Otherwise, just embed a Windows Media Player control into your form

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EliottA2-Jun-09 5:45

2-Jun-09 5:45

You can download the source code and compiled project here.[^]

Manas Bhardwaj2-Jun-09 5:56

Manas Bhardwaj

2-Jun-09 5:56

EliottA wrote:
You can download the source code and compiled project here.[^]

And another one from here [^] Poke tongue | ;-P

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MumbleB2-Jun-09 6:58

MumbleB

2-Jun-09 6:58

sagiklan wrote:
if some one can plz send me

How about using Windows media player? Nobody here is going top "send" you a program. Maybe you can try www.rentacoder.com to write you a program and you can pay them a fee for doing that.

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Christian Graus2-Jun-09 10:47

Christian Graus

2-Jun-09 10:47

I suggest you read the link in my post, it has the answer you need.

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Dan Neely2-Jun-09 10:54

Dan Neely

2-Jun-09 10:54

Perhaps you should've said 'my sig' instead. When i read this at first I thought you'd gave the answer in a previous code begging thread he made.

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Christian Graus2-Jun-09 11:18

Christian Graus

2-Jun-09 11:18

When I've said 'my sig' people have responded that they can't understand my answer, so I was trying something different.

Help on Dialog

dell2242-Jun-09 5:04

dell224

2-Jun-09 5:04

Hi everyone.
I'm given a project on C# to develop an advanced font dialog. Instead of the normal
window font dialog, im suppose to customized it by adding few more function by adding a text box to allow user to type in to test the font,
a code page to see the list of character, and the unicode subrange. Its just like integrating the window character map into the font dialog.

I know i have 2 approach to do this.
1. by calling up the original font dialog and start editing the form.
2. Create a new font dialog

Im targeting no 1 since to create a new one, i would have to link them up all together and have to find a way to get the fonts list in the computer.

Anyway, the big problem i have with choice no. 1 is:
1. I dunno how to call up the Fontdialog
2. Im not sure how to expand the font size to allow more info to be display there.
3. Lastly and i don't know how to call up the code page, unicode or even create a textbox that is linked with the "fontstyle", "font", "size" and etc.

I just hope anyone here can advice on the approach to do or give me a link that might help. Am not that good in C# but this project
is hand picked to me, so i have no choice. I spent the whole day trying to solve and search on google to no avail.

Any input will be helpful.

Thx for reading guys. Frown | :(

EliottA2-Jun-09 5:19

2-Jun-09 5:19

Number 2 will probably be easier
something like

System.Drawing.FontFamily [] families = new System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection().Families;

Google a bit, probably easier then you think.

Not Active2-Jun-09 5:23

Not Active

2-Jun-09 5:23

Try searching for "visual inheritance", there are some articles here that might be helpful.

only two letters away from being an asset

Luc Pattyn2-Jun-09 5:25

Luc Pattyn

2-Jun-09 5:25

Hi,

I would start out with my own dialog and enjoy my freedom, rather than fighting the limitations of the existing dialog. And I would use the InstalledFontCollection class to get started.

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Anthony Mushrow2-Jun-09 5:27

Anthony Mushrow

2-Jun-09 5:27

I also think you should go for option 2, it will be cleaner and easier to maintain and as a plus you could put it up as an article here.

You should be able to get the list of available fonts like ElliotA showed you, and you can use the fonts in that list to set the font on a text box (Just a matter of copying all the properties in the Font object you have, to the Font property of the text box)

Remember, if you come across any problems that you can't find answers for, or there is something you don't understand you can always post another question.

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Simon P Stevens2-Jun-09 5:27

Simon P Stevens

2-Jun-09 5:27

Hang on...Let me get this straight. You want to "develop an advanced font dialog" by extending the existing one, but you don't know how to even open the existing one, extend it or even create a text box with the font name in it. Oh, wait, and you're "not that good in C#".

My advice is that this is not a project for people who are "not that good at C#". My advice is that you go back to your manager and tell him that you can't do this and see if you can get him to assign you a simpler project to begin with. You have to start with the simple things and build up to the complex stuff.

You can read about the FontDialog class here[^]

The FontDialog class calls into windows API's to display the inbuilt common dialog. You cannot directly subclass this from .net. Your best bet would be to write one from scratch, or find a pre built one available on-line.

Simon