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How to Debug the Design Time Errors in WPF XAML File?

by Manish Dubeyy

How to debug the design time errors in WPF XAML file?

Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls

by SSDiver2112

Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.

APS.NET Custom CheckBox CSS whitout javascript / Checkbox css personalizado sin javascript

by dmmg83

Converting an Outlook Form Template (OFT) to a .NET Windows Form in Visual Studio

by ToughDev

How to convert OFT to .NET Windows Form in VS

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Converting an Outlook Form Template (OFT) to a .NET Windows Form in Visual Studio

by ToughDev

How to convert OFT to .NET Windows Form in VS

Bootstrap for Beginners

by Yaseer Mumtaz

This tip will explain step by step Bootstrap basic development for beginners. Attached is small application having three pages using Bootstrap CSS, Components and JS.

Different Ways of Material Design Implementation

by Stas Wolski

Modern Material design and discovering its implementation in different web frameworks

[tut5] form communication,multi tab program, custom cursor for each tool

by The Zakies

Learn how to implement a tecnique of a parent form that createes and controls other forms , through the tecnique of using the tab control, also learn how to implement a menu for the tools, and how to add cutom cursor for each tool

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How to Debug the Design Time Errors in WPF XAML File?

20 Oct 2015 by Manish Dubeyy

How to debug the design time errors in WPF XAML file?

Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls

30 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.

Can I have attributes on closing HTML markup tags?

2 Sep 2014 by Nathan Minier

No. Because end tags are solely to define scope, the properties and attributes of the HTML element must be loaded when the tag is opened. It's how it's parsed, since it is parsed from a string value into formatted data, and the way that format is maintained and executed is by having a structure...

How to set a video as my page background ?

22 Dec 2016 by Shemeemsha (ഷെമീംഷ)

How to set a site background like this sitewww.hashtagmyass.com[^]

How to set a video as my page background ?

15 Sep 2014 by Gihan Liyanage

please check this threads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3800813/video-as-site-background-html-5[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3899865/can-you-display-html5-video-as-a-full-screen-background[^]http://pupunzi.open-lab.com/2010/03/22/youtube-movie-as-background/[^]

How to set a video as my page background ?

15 Sep 2014 by Suraj Sahoo | Coding Passion

http://demosthenes.info/blog/7...

How to add connection to dropdownlist in sharepoint designer form to a list Column in another site?

10 Nov 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj

What you need is a lookup column.Look here to get head start:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/lookup-columns-in-sharepoint-2010.html[^]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShLH0mBcA54[^]

Vb form project resx to resx file

31 Mar 2017 by Richard Deeming

Splitting a form into partial classes is the sort of thing you used to be able to do with a macro[^]. But unfortunately, macros were removed in VS2012.There's an add-in for VS2012 on CodeProject - I'm not sure if it will work in VS2015:A Visual Studio add-in to move Windows Forms Designer...

How to pick best way?

21 Sep 2017 by RickZeeland

Here is a tutorial, not sure if it is up to date: Website Designing[^] This looks interesting too: [Gravit] If you are looking for something simple the try Crello Crello Is a Graphic Design Tool for Everyone with a Collection of 6,000+ Free Templates[^] Wix seems interesting too: Wix Review...

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How to pick best way?

21 Sep 2017 by Richard Deeming

Adobe have a handy tool for generating colour palettes: Adobe Color CC[^] Several useful CSS generators here, including colour gradients and box shadows: The ultimate CSS tools for web designers | CSSmatic[^] Google Fonts[^] is a good place to find fonts for your site. CC Search[^] is a good...

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Now How I Can Create A Module For Showing Table In Query Like Sql Server Query Designer

1 Jul 2014 by DamithSL

refer:A Visual SQL Query Designer[^]SelectQueryBuilder: Building complex and flexible SQL queries/commands from C#[^]There are commercial tools like EzyQuery[^] you can try.

set value by DateView in a SharePoint List

2 Jul 2014 by Parissa Nouraie

Hi friends,I have a list in SharePoint 2013 & I created 2 different pages by SharePoint Designer 2013,I used these lists in SharePoint Designer with "New Item Form" option , because users wish to insert new items in the list, so i want to know,in which page information would be inserted so...

JQuery Plugin for scrolling webpage smoothly in any direction

8 Jul 2014 by Suvabrata Roy

Hi,This is Plugin for Scroll : http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/[^]Single page : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/open-source-jquery-plugins-for-building-single-page-website-layouts[^]http://www.adidas.co.uk/climachill[^]http://www.awwwards.com/websites/single-page/[^]

How to use the VS ReportDesigner without an DataSet and a Databaseserver at hand

12 Sep 2014 by vadda60

Hi, since I buyed VS2013 (former I was using VB 2013 Express) because of the reporting class in the Pro Edition I'm trying to find a way through the not existing documentation.My Question: Is the Reportdesigner the right tool for me and when yes how can I accomplish a "raw" Report for the...

SharePoint 2010 Designer workflow failing in an Ad hoc manner.

1 Sep 2014 by Athar Raza Faridi

Hi Friends,We have a SharePoint 2010 Designer workflow with 25 approval stages (supposed to run for around 1.5 yrs. ) . We have a consistent problem in the workflow as it keeps failing with message "error occured" at some stages(not uniform) after a users tries to submit his Tasks .After...

Can I have attributes on closing HTML markup tags?

2 Sep 2014 by vJay Yadav

I have a question on my mind. Like we have attributes on opening HTML markup tags,Can we have attributes on closing HTML markup tags? If not then why ?

How to add connection to dropdownlist in sharepoint designer form to a list Column in another site?

10 Nov 2014 by Mohammad A. Amer

How to add connection to dropdownlist in sharepoint designer form to a list Column in another site?

How to update Balance Qty in one row using SharePoint Designer Workflow

14 Nov 2014 by Member 11145271

I've created SharePoint Designer Workflow to update the Balance Qty in same row whenever user will update Deliver Qty & Deliver Date. Also activated the version history to view the previous Delivery Date & Delivery Qty.Here first time when I enter the Pu. Order Qty and Delivery Qty its...

SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows

18 Feb 2015 by Member 11305708

I have developed a form using Infopath and have created a workflow to go along with it.I need to send a reminder to the director if he hasn't filled it a specific comment field (Director Comment) within 3 days how can this be done?Thanks,Matthew[Edit - further information from...

Creating a Summary email of events in SharePoint designer 2010

17 Mar 2015 by Member 11305708

I have been given the task to create a workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 to take events that staff book onto and create a weekly email to show a summary of events that are added within a week.I have so far created a daily email but im finding it hard to create a weekly summary email so it...

need WPF Design ideas for my application

3 May 2015 by Eng.Yahya92

I have this application where I need to notify people standing in many queues that it is the next one's turnthe problem is I have to display full screen video in the same window that should notify peopleany Ideas how I should design this window?you know ideas like a box can temporarly...

need WPF Design ideas for my application

3 May 2015 by OriginalGriff

Start by going to places where they already do this kind of thing: my bank does for example - a screen which shows when a cashier is free and which position the next user should go to. In the UK, there is a "catalog shop" called Argos which does a similar thing, but with "order numbers" for...

need WPF Design ideas for my application

3 May 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

First of all, I would rather consider the alternative approach inline with the design of the OS: taskbar notifications, which have been designed exactly for this purpose. Please see these CodeProject articles:WPF NotifyIcon[^],WPF Taskbar Notifier - A WPF Taskbar Notification...

APS.NET Custom CheckBox CSS whitout javascript / Checkbox css personalizado sin javascript

18 May 2015 by dmmg83

sharepoint 2010 designer workflow error in automatic start

20 May 2015 by ginnas

Hello,I am creating a Review and Approval workflow on a sharepoint list item through designer.So i wanted to automatically trigger approval workflow when review workflow completes, but when i do so one of the custom action in the approval workflow is throwing a null reference exception, but...

how to redesign ms access 2007 report using visual studio 2013 report designer

24 Jun 2015 by Maciej Los

Start here: Report Designer (Visual Studio)[^]Create a Detailed Report using Report Designer[^]

Designer cannot load

9 Aug 2015 by amir.nazarizadeh

Hi dearsI have following xml file and its designer not load: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" ...

Designer cannot load

9 Aug 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

If that is exact XAML (note that it is XAML not XML) then Visual Studio would not load it. Error message may be, "Invalid Markup". Window is the actual control, not window. The markup is case-sensitive (unlike HTML). ...

How do I let users design a custom GUI?

17 Aug 2015 by Richard MacCutchan

It is a question of capturing information as the user makes their selection. Assuming you allow them to drag and drop the control onto some surface, you need to capture the control type and its properties (color, location, size etc) as they select it. You can then write this information into a...

How do I create .NET class from xsd schema?

5 May 2016 by Kunwar Bahadur Singh

All you have to do is compiling your assembly and run XSD.exe with the path to your assembly as argument. XSD.exe /? has a list of all arguments as well.Example:XSD.exe C:\Dev\Project1\Bin\Debug\library.dll

Sharepoint workflow for approval

25 Aug 2016 by $ultaNn

New to sharepoint I have small processUser manager1 manager2 director step 1 User submit formIf field set to new,go to director-->> approval taskelsestep 2 if field set to Old goto manager1, manager will update form THEN -->> go to manager2, manager2 will update form THEN goto...

How to set a video as my page background ?

22 Dec 2016 by santosh-k1

Need to add below code to implement :css*****************.video-block { position: fixed; top: 50%; left: 50%; z-index: 1; min-width: 100%; min-height: 100%; width: auto; height: auto; transform: translate(-50%, -50%);}.text-wrapper { ...

Vb form project resx to resx file

31 Mar 2017 by Wessel Beulink

I running into a problem sinds we using visual studio 2015. I have a couple of old 2010 windows form application with the resx file inside the code file (.vb). This make the compiler very slow because of the extra (2000-7000) lines. I want to get ride of Windows Form Designer generated code...

How do I get the winform designer to actually let me design my form?

23 Oct 2017 by Brian C Hart

I have a large solution, say 60-ish projects. One of the project is a library that contains controls. One of the controls it contains is a textbox class derived from TextBox, e.g., using System; using System.Windows.Forms; // MySpecialTextBox.cs in a MyClassLibrary project. The form I am...

VS2015 designer error: to prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved:

10 Apr 2018 by DM23

My project solution contains all class library projects. I have used many User controls for UI. While trying to open design view, Visual studio shows error "To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved: Error description: "Could not find a...

VS2015 designer error: to prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved:

10 Apr 2018 by Wendelius

In order to investigate where the file is trying to be loaded from, why not output the location you try to use to System.Diagnostics.Debug or even to the user control. This would help you to see where the path is pointing to and to adjust the code loading the file as needed.

Wpf resources from referenced library not showing during design time

4 Nov 2021 by clwprogrammer

I must either be dumb or blind. I have created a WPF application. Along with that application, I created a library. In the same solution and the library is referenced in the application project. The library is to be used as a theming library. The...

Wpf resources from referenced library not showing during design time

4 Nov 2021 by #realJSOP

When you reference a resource from outside the file where it is implemented, you have to use {DynamicResource} to reference it. You also have to create a ResourceDictionary in your xaml.

I need opinions on iot code generation

29 Aug 2022 by honey the codewitch

I wrote a graphics library for IoT - htcw_gfx and I'm thinking of writing some sort of WYSIWYG UI widget editor that generates code for a UI such that you can visually craft your user interface and it produces the code for you sort of like...

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I need opinions on iot code generation

26 Aug 2022 by KarstenK

Maintainable code ist most important goal, esp when it is a longer running project. It is normal that building the model is a lot of work. It is best practice to use some libraries which avoides a lot of common pitfalls and basic testing and...

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I need opinions on iot code generation

29 Aug 2022 by Greg Utas

It sounds like your analysis has more or less ruled out (A), in which case you're stuck with (B). Some things that could help make (A) possible are - a simple object model that only supports a limited number of widget types - using field widths...

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How to pick best way?

21 Sep 2017 by Member 13422476

Hello there, i need help. Im not great web designer, and i need help from you. So, i need help about color picking and image picking etc. Btw. all what can help me to finish this project. I have a concept in my head, now you can see how looks website for my think this, but i have problem to...

design-patterns

Converting an Outlook Form Template (OFT) to a .NET Windows Form in Visual Studio

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to convert OFT to .NET Windows Form in VS

Why does the designer mode crash in visual studio ?

13 Feb 2024 by YDaoust

I have been using Visual Studio for ages, developing WinForms applications. Though this has always been irking, I am used to the fact that switching from the Code mode to the Designer mode often crashes the Designer, showing a call stack that is...

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 6

8 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

The sixth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

[tut5] form communication,multi tab program, custom cursor for each tool

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

Learn how to implement a tecnique of a parent form that createes and controls other forms , through the tecnique of using the tab control, also learn how to implement a menu for the tools, and how to add cutom cursor for each tool

Different Ways of Material Design Implementation

1 Jul 2016 by Stas Wolski

Modern Material design and discovering its implementation in different web frameworks

Data Modelling using ERD with Crow Foot Notation

20 Feb 2015 by John C Rayan

Architecting Data Structures

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Color Scheme Selector

24 Jun 2015 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

“The colors of the world are changing day by day!” - Les Misérables

Illustrating the State Pattern with a Very Basic Example

29 Dec 2015 by Rajesh Buddaraju

A simplified example is used to describe the state pattern

The Simplest WPF Diagram Designer

5 Oct 2014 by JleruOHeP

If you want to implement the simplest drag-n-drop diagram designer.

Bootstrap for Beginners

3 Mar 2017 by Yaseer Mumtaz

This tip will explain step by step Bootstrap basic development for beginners. Attached is small application having three pages using Bootstrap CSS, Components and JS.

Using Design-time Databinding While Developing a WPF User Control

26 Feb 2015 by Dmitriy Repin

A trick that allows populating a user control with sample data while you are designing it in the Visual Studio designer

The Simplest WPF Diagram Designer - Part 2

12 Oct 2014 by JleruOHeP

Added text, resize operation and a color picker to a designer

WPF - WrapPanel with Fill

22 May 2015 by Eric Ouellet

A WPF WrapPanel that can fill empty space on any lines with any control(s)

Print to Dot Matrix in VB.NET

23 Oct 2014 by heinrich4J

Print to DotMatrix in VB.NET

ASP.NET Adrotator and its Implementation

1 Dec 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

How to add banner and slideshow in your website with adrotator

Interactively Add Multiple Shapes Using Linked Lists GDI+ SVG

3 Mar 2016 by The Zakies

Tutorial 2 (how to interactively add multiple shapes GDI using linked lists)

which is best report generating/designing software for .net application?

25 Dec 2014 by Honey Jagyasi

Hello everyone,I am looking for a best report generating / designing software in market. Please suggest me all options with open source or premium. Requirements : 1) It should be compatible for .net applications.2) Allow Multilingual implementation. Thank you in advance.

JQuery Plugin for scrolling webpage smoothly in any direction

8 Jul 2014 by vJay Yadav

Hi everyone !!Can you please suggest me any jquery plugin for scrolling the webpage in any direction.help will be grateful.

which is best report generating/designing software for .net application?

6 Jul 2015 by gregorio89

use ssrs,you can use resx file for multilanguages.

How do I create .NET class from xsd schema?

5 May 2016 by aliwpf

Hi there , i have two class like following :public class WebServiceLog { public string Name { get; set; } public int ID { get; set; } } public class RoleEditLog { public List OldMethods { get; set; } public...

Now How I Can Create A Module For Showing Table In Query Like Sql Server Query Designer

1 Jul 2014 by ammar136916

hi friendsi deploy a query builder in c# and now how i can create a module for showing table in query like sql server query designer in fact a want drag a table from my tree list in diagram and users can joins table with darag and drap field for joining tables exactly ilke sql server query...

how to redesign ms access 2007 report using visual studio 2013 report designer

24 Jun 2015 by vldmrsky

dear friends !years ago i designed a corporate tool consisting of a sql server 2008 database as backend and an ms access 2007 project file as frontend.now i build a wpf/c# application using visual studio 2013 to replace that ms access 2007 tool.one of the task is to redesign all the...

How do I let users design a custom GUI?

17 Aug 2015 by Member 11915503

Hi,I'm looking for some advice/information on a program I want to develop. I have some experience programming (mostly) in C# and using the .Net framework.In the program I want to develop, I want the user to be able to design a custom GUI to suit their needs by adding/removing some...