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bug_aonz22-Aug-06 23:09

22-Aug-06 23:09

1. Can I make my own skin for C#.net app as i see GUI of professional app?
2. How to make it? What function or class?
3. Could u give me some example ?

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Re: How to Skin VC#.Net app?

Not Active23-Aug-06 1:07

Not Active

23-Aug-06 1:07

Try this for starters, then use the search feature yourself

http://www.codeproject.com/library/USkin.asp[^]

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Funky problem with reading multiline XML contents into a multiline textbox

ThisIsMyUserName222-Aug-06 23:08

ThisIsMyUserName2

22-Aug-06 23:08

I'll try to be brief...

Problem:

Using standard (de)serialization I'm saving the contents of a multiline textbox into a few different string variables (depending on which option the user has selected), which are then being saved into an XML document.

Upon reading the values from the XML files and displaying them into the textbox the actual linebreaks are being replaced by a square (which is actually char 13). This is making no sense to me. The textboxes are set to multiline, and if I use a rich textbox control instead of a standard textbox control it works fine.

If I take the square character and paste it into notepad or the VS IDE it creates an actual line break.

Why is this happening and how can I fix it? I'm stumped.

Re: Funky problem with reading multiline XML contents into a multiline textbox

benjymous22-Aug-06 23:30

benjymous

22-Aug-06 23:30

In the string being displayed, replace \n with \r\n and it should work as you expect (or it might be \n\r I can't remember which!)

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Re: Funky problem with reading multiline XML contents into a multiline textbox [modified]

Guffa23-Aug-06 1:43

Guffa

23-Aug-06 1:43

Some systems use a single character (10) as line break, while DOS/Windows uses two characters (13, 10).

You can fix any "funky" line breaks with:

theString = Regex.Replace(theString, @"\r?\n", Environment.NewLine);

This code works regardless of the type of linebreak the current system is using, and it doesn't mess up line breaks in the string that already are correct. Smile | :)

-- modified at 3:18 Thursday 24th August, 2006

Made a correction about what characters are used, and changed the regular expression pattern accordingly.

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Re: Funky problem with reading multiline XML contents into a multiline textbox

ThisIsMyUserName223-Aug-06 14:17

ThisIsMyUserName2

23-Aug-06 14:17

Thanks. This didn't work directly, but after making it search for just "\n" and replace it with an Env.NewLine that did work.

Strange...

Re: Funky problem with reading multiline XML contents into a multiline textbox

Guffa23-Aug-06 21:23

Guffa

23-Aug-06 21:23

Right. The square characters that you have is not the carrage return (char 13), but line feed (char 10). I have corrected the code that I posted earlier.

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Printing from a WebBrowser control in a separate thread

User 137680022-Aug-06 22:58

User 1376800

22-Aug-06 22:58

Hi all,
I have a program that generates some HTML and then needs to automatically print it. This automatic printing occurs within a separate thread (timer) and for the life of me, I just can't get it working.

After a couple of days Googling around, I found a couple of things:
1) Attempting to do it calling IE (or the equivalent DLLs) isn't an option since it'll always pop up a print dialog box and there's nothing that can be done about that.
2) webBrowser1.Print() should work, but doesn't. It doesn't call an exception, it doesn't have any problems, but it also doesn't print. I'm assuming it's related to the fact that this is all in a separate thread from the timer.
3) If I attempt to be "messy" and just call a complete new thread that creates the webbrowser object, loads the HTML and print it, it gives an exception complaining it's not STA, even though I did set it that way.

So basically, I'm fairly stuck at this point. Here's the code I've tried so far minus the messy one, since that's definitely barking up the wrong tree I think. (note that the html is both in my webbrowser object or in the file - I'd love to not have to use the webbrowser object if I can get away with it)

/* //This way would be okay, except that it pops up a print dialog.<br />
 * <br />
 * Process proc = new Process();<br />
 * proc.StartInfo.FileName = szTempFolder + @"\Temp\Body.html";<br />
 * proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;<br />
 * proc.StartInfo.Verb = "print";<br />
 * proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;<br />
 * proc.Start();<br />
 * proc.WaitForExit();<br />
 */<br />
<br />
 /* //This doesn't work - maybe because of the thread?<br />
 * <br />
 * webBrowser1.Navigate(szTempFolder + @"\Temp\Body.html");<br />
 * webBrowser1.Print();<br />
 */<br />
<br />
 /* //This also doesn't work, and for no good reason that I know.<br />
 * <br />
 * ThreadStart threadDelegate = new ThreadStart(webBrowser1.Print);<br />
 * Thread thread = new Thread(threadDelegate);<br />
 * thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);<br />
 * thread.Start();<br />
 * thread.Join();<br />
 */<br />

Ben de Waal

Re: Printing from a WebBrowser control in a separate thread [modified]

User 137680023-Aug-06 2:04

User 1376800

23-Aug-06 2:04

To clarify further, this code:

YttriumOxide wrote:
/* //This doesn't work - maybe because of the thread?
*
* webBrowser1.Navigate(szTempFolder + @"\Temp\Body.html");
* webBrowser1.Print();
*/

DOES succesfully do the webBrowser1.Navigate, but NOT the webBrowser1.Print - which is extremely confusing in my books... Why does Navigate work inside a seperate thread, but not Print?

Ben de Waal

Ribbon Control

seq-22-Aug-06 22:45

seq-

22-Aug-06 22:45

Hello all,

I wonder if any of you have found/written a free Ribbon Control (the office 2007 style)?
I found some ribbon controls while googling but none of them are free (not even for non-commercial use).

Regards,
Pawel

Schedule task

minniemooo22-Aug-06 22:44

minniemooo

22-Aug-06 22:44

I have a c# exe that must tranfere files from one server to another. Well it works perfectly when I am logged on remotely to the server but if I am not logged on it give an error saying it counl not find the destination drive.

How can I make it to run while I am not logged on?

Re: Schedule task

Colin Angus Mackay22-Aug-06 23:00

Colin Angus Mackay

22-Aug-06 23:00

If you are referring to the remote system's file system using a mapped drive then don't. Refer to it using a UNC path name.

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Re: Schedule task

minniemooo22-Aug-06 23:10

minniemooo

22-Aug-06 23:10

Could you please explain further. I am not an expert in C#(still learning).

Re: Schedule task

S. Senthil Kumar23-Aug-06 2:08

S. Senthil Kumar

23-Aug-06 2:08

Colin is suggesting you directly use the UNC[^] notation, instead of mapping a drive to that location. You typically would have used the UNC path to setup the mapping in the first place.

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richTextBox

sarojkumarjena22-Aug-06 22:40

sarojkumarjena

22-Aug-06 22:40

can i get some unique value when I will press the backspace in the following event
private void richTextBox1_TextChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

Re: richTextBox

Gammaza22-Aug-06 22:48

Gammaza

22-Aug-06 22:48

Try it by selecting the keypressed property for the textbox then checking when backspace is pressed. You KeyPreview should also be true i think.

e.KeyCode = BackSpace

or Back or something like that.

Re: richTextBox

sarojkumarjena22-Aug-06 23:08

sarojkumarjena

22-Aug-06 23:08

Only on TextChanged event not in key press

Re: richTextBox

mav.northwind23-Aug-06 1:38

mav.northwind

23-Aug-06 1:38

No.
You get what the event's name is indicating: The Text property has changed, nothing more, nothing less.
For example, if your cursor is at the beginning of the text, pressing Backspace will not modify the text, so no TextChanged event will occur.
To find out how the text has changed you'll have to save the previous version of the text and compare it with the new value.

Regards,
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Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Gammaza22-Aug-06 22:33

Gammaza

22-Aug-06 22:33

Hi there, can anyone please help me? I wrote a program with a deployment project too. How can i add a sqlconnection setup during the deployment / installation of the program ? Thanks in advance.

Re: Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Not Active23-Aug-06 1:11

Not Active

23-Aug-06 1:11

Why do you need to create the connections tring at setup time?

You can create a custom action in your install package to write the connection string.

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Re: Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Gammaza23-Aug-06 20:29

Gammaza

23-Aug-06 20:29

I dont know what the client's datasource address is so i want him to be able to enter it on setup of the website.
How does one create a custom action in your install package to write a connection string?
Unsure | :~

Re: Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Not Active24-Aug-06 2:19

Not Active

24-Aug-06 2:19

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/custom_actions.asp[^]

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Re: Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Gammaza5-Sep-06 2:38

Gammaza

5-Sep-06 2:38

Im sorry but i can't find anything in custom actions that i want to get a connection string from the client during the installation.

Re: Building a SqlConnection string during installation

Not Active5-Sep-06 7:42

Not Active

5-Sep-06 7:42

Create dialog to display within your install package asking the user to supply connection string details. Use a custom action, possibly of type 2, to run an exe that adds this info to the config file.

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top most modeless dialog

s o v a n n22-Aug-06 22:11

s o v a n n

22-Aug-06 22:11

Hello !

Is there a way to make modeless dialog top most/always visible without using
TopMost=true ?

Because if we click button to show modal from this modeless dialog, they always stay at back.

Thank you.
Sovann

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