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Change Window Title Form Font

8-Jun-04 3:07

Whoa there Tex! Really bad idea. This will not give priority to the service to be shutdown first. As a matter of fact, you'll just end up slowing down the rest of the system doing this...

You can't give priority to any service to shutdown first. You might want to try overriding WndProc and watching for the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message.

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Re: Question abt Service

Nick Seng8-Jun-04 15:29

Nick Seng

8-Jun-04 15:29

Well, so much for that idea. Smile | :)

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Anonymous7-Jun-04 20:06

Anonymous

7-Jun-04 20:06

hi all
when change font property in windows forms,
dont change font title of form,Why. Cry | :((

how resolve it.
thanks,

Heath Stewart8-Jun-04 3:44

8-Jun-04 3:44

Because the window caption font is set by the Display settings on your machine. It is a non-client area. You can set fonts in your client-area. It is possible set the font in a caption but there is no functionality to do this in the .NET FCL. You have to override WndProc for your main Form and handle the WM_NCPAINT message, for example, to have a different font than what the user preferences specify for a window caption font.

If you search CodeProject, there should be a few articles on non-client painting.

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Aaron Eldreth8-Jun-04 3:54

Aaron Eldreth

8-Jun-04 3:54

Heath, you really don't like it when people don't search CP or Google before asking questions on the message boards, do you?

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Heath Stewart8-Jun-04 4:06

8-Jun-04 4:06

People that can't research they own simple problems do not belong in this field, IMO. Asking questions like "What does this method do?" is stupid - consult the documentation for that method. If you still don't understand it - fine - then ask about it.

That doesn't really apply to this guy, though. Read me response a little more carefully. I told him what the problem was and asked him to search CodeProject. There are articles about this, so why should I waste my time typing a bunch of code that's already been written. I actually have some example code dealing with non-client painting in this forum that pre-date said articles that I've seen (good and bad articles) alike. Asking him to search here is merely a way to save time and typing. He didn't even know what to search for before; now he does.

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Dave Kreskowiak8-Jun-04 4:10

8-Jun-04 4:10

I know I don't like it. What's wrong with going to MSDN and searching for

classname class .net

Bam! Everything you wanted to know about the class...

If you want to write code for a living or just be semi-good in the IT Industry, you absolutely have to posses the skills to do research and teach yourself! What good are you to your company if you can't research an answer to a support question or learn new design/coding techniques?

I come here to answer as many questions I can and learn during the process. Mostly, I read questions and if I already know the answer, post it. Otherwise, it's off to MSDN i go, do a little research, then post come back and an answer. But, after that, I'll watch for the answers that Heath posts so I can learn the finer points from him and see where I went wrong! Wink | ;)

He's corrected me on a bunch of occasions, and I don't have any problem with that all! I actually look forward to it.

It's all part of the learning process...

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DatView DataBinding using Parent relation

Aaron Eldreth8-Jun-04 4:23

Aaron Eldreth

8-Jun-04 4:23

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
I know I don't like it. What's wrong with going to MSDN and searching for "classname class .net"

I don't see anything wrong with it.

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Bam! Everything you wanted to know about the class...

And then some...

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
I come here to answer as many questions I can and learn during the process. Mostly, I read questions and if I already know the answer, post it. Otherwise, it's off to MSDN i go, do a little research, then post come back and an answer. But, after that, I'll watch for the answers that Heath posts so I can learn the finer points from him and see where I went wrong! He's corrected me on a bunch of occasions, and I don't have any problem with that all! I actually look forward to it.

I think that Heath is omniscient. He seems to know everything. I wonder if that is a requirement to be a Microsoft MVP Wink | ;)

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Corneliu Tusnea7-Jun-04 15:32

Corneliu Tusnea

7-Jun-04 15:32

Hi,
I'm trying to create a DataBinding of a text box to via a DataView by using a parent relation not a child relation:
eg: (the classical) Customers-Orders relation.
I have a DataView on the Orders Table (for very good reasons it's impossible to set the DataView to the Customers Table).
Now, I want to set a text box to the value of:
Orders.Customers2Orders.CustomerName .. or something like that.
If I do:
textbox1.DataBindings.Add ( "Text", dataView1, "Customers2Orders.CustomerName" )
I get a nice:
{"Cannot create a child list for field Customers2Orders." }
System.SystemException: {"Cannot create a child list for field Customers2Orders."}
m_paramName: null
Message: "Cannot create a child list for field Customers2Orders."
ParamName: null
Is this possible somehow ?
Maybe by implementing my own Binding object?

Thanks alot,
Tutu.

Creating Financial Chart control using C#

sgeesala7-Jun-04 15:06

sgeesala

7-Jun-04 15:06

Hi,
Any one knows about how to implement chart control(financial related). please help me out how to go about it.

thanks
gs

Re: Creating Financial Chart control using C#

Dave Kreskowiak7-Jun-04 15:47

Re: Creating Financial Chart control using C#

7-Jun-04 15:47

Your first step is to layout EXACTLY what you want your control to do. What type of data is your control going to need? How is this data going to be stored so that it is accessible by the client app and still quickly usuable by your control? How is the data going to be passed to the control? Do you want to implement databinding? Are there other standard controls that come close to the functionality you need (probably not in your case!)? Now, what do you want your control to look like? What graph types do you want to support? Do you want to add axis labels? How about automatic range scaling? What do you want to happen when the control is resized? Do you want to support horizontal scrolling?

Now, after all that, you can start designing your control. The painting code, by itself, is going to depend on answers to ALL of those questions. It may seem like alot, and it is!, but a control like this is nothing less than a full application written to do a very specific task.

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Heath Stewart8-Jun-04 3:39

8-Jun-04 3:39

To add to what Dave said, there's lots of examples here on CodeProject.Just search for chart controls in C#. There everything from line graphs to bar graphs. For anything else, you really need to know the math behind it.

As Dave said, this is a big task. I recommend you just get a third-party control like ChartFX from Software FX[^]. It's cheap and full-featured. You'll spend a lot more in man hours than what it costs for this develop-licensed, royalty-free product, especially if you don't even have an idea of where to start!

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File sharing query

benglish727-Jun-04 14:49

benglish72

7-Jun-04 14:49

Hi, I'm writing a program that attempts to open a file stream using FileInfo.OpenRead(), this seems to fail when another application is accessing the same file. As I need to be able to read this file whilst another has it open or access it, is there anyway I can get it to open instead of throwing IOException in C#?
Thanks.
Here's a code snippet

//check file exists
System.IO.FileInfo info = new System.IO.FileInfo(sFileName);
if(info!=null&&info.Exists==true)
{
//ok, file exits, lets read it in...
try
{
System.IO.Stream stream = info.OpenRead();
//do stuff here
stream.Close();
}
catch(IOException exception)
{
}

Re: File sharing query

Dave Kreskowiak7-Jun-04 15:35

Big problem suffering from week

7-Jun-04 15:35

If the other app has the file opened DenyShareRead at the least, you're screwed. The other problem is that you have to request that the file be opened with Shared Read/Write access. If the other open opens and closes the file frequently, you have to open the file with Shared access so the other app won't fail when it tries to open the file. The FileOpen method does not do this. Instead, you'll have to use the FileStream class to open the file:

FileStream myFileStream = New FileStream("C:\myFile.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);

Now, the rub is that you can request Shared access to the file, but it only takes effect for subsequent requests by other processes (apps) to open the file. It will NOT give you access to a file that is opened and locked by another process.

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Re: File sharing query

benglish727-Jun-04 16:53

benglish72

7-Jun-04 16:53

Hey Dave, thanks, that worked a treat! Good stuff.

IamADotNetGuy7-Jun-04 13:06

IamADotNetGuy

7-Jun-04 13:06

Hi To All
Yes the subject says a lot!!!
I have a webform which contains buttons, for one button i need to populate a modal dialog window and I will create a server object which will be in session in modal dialog.
But for the same button event I need to perform the insertion to database using session object which is created in modal dialog window.

The following is the code which will tell you what i am trying to do...
Response.write(openModalDialog);
str=Session["test"]//this will be created after I perform in modal dialog window
Database.insert(str)
please note that I am trying to execute all the lines in same button event
But i want to execute second and third line after i popup modal window and second should be executed once i close the modal window.

Please let me know if you have any idea on how to do that or any other way through which i can achieve.

Regards,

Re: Big problem suffering from week

Heath Stewart8-Jun-04 3:32

Re: Big problem suffering from week

8-Jun-04 3:32

First of all, this belongs in the ASP.NET forum.

Second of all, you can't open a modal dialog from the server! All you're doing is writing the HTML to the client, but it's not a synchronous operation. Your HTML to open a popup window is writen. This is not like programming in Windows Forms at all.

The ASP.NET server (or any server-side technology, really) writes HTML to a response stream. The client reads it. Period.

The code to insert records into your database should be in the server-side page that opens in the modal dialog (via server-side events), or in another page that processes query string (GET) or form (POST) data. This is the way that HTTP and HTML work. There is no direct two-way communication between the client and server and anything you do on the server only produces content that is downloaded to the client. Again, it is not a synchronous operation.

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IamADotNetGuy8-Jun-04 3:46

IamADotNetGuy

8-Jun-04 3:46

Hi Heath
Thanks for the reply, sorry for pasting the question here, as it was urgent i put here,
anyway thanks for your reply...The answer is wonderful, i can explain this to my team members.

Regards

Button click event

sam chappidi7-Jun-04 12:36

sam chappidi

7-Jun-04 12:36

Hi I am Begginer for .Net I am working on Login and passoword webform
could U pls help abt How to write the method for double click button And I need to read the text from Text Box

Re: Button click event

Dave Kreskowiak7-Jun-04 13:31

7-Jun-04 13:31

There is no double-click in web form buttons, or any other web controls as far as I can remember...

To read the Text from a TextBox? The text is stored in the TextBox's Text property...

String username = TextBox1.Text;

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Re: Button click event

Heath Stewart8-Jun-04 3:28