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Ensuring that a style is supported by a font family
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«Code LangId=2»' Not all fonts support the same styles. This function takes in
' input a font family and a font style, and returns a font style
' which is safe for that particular font family, by removing
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InputBox - A .NET replacement for this VB6 function
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«Code LangId=2»' Create an InputBox like the one of VB6. You can define the dialog's title,
' question and default value.
' Example: MessageBox.Show(InputDialog.InputBox("Type your name:", "Test",
' "Marco"))
Public Class InputDialog
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
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How to assign ItemData to combobox / listbox in VB.net
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There is no ItemData property in VB.net for ComboBox and ListBox but you can use another approach which will give you same functionality of ItemData.
Use following code to test how you can assign ItemData. ItemData is generally used to store Id related to the Item of list.
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Formatting the Windows Forms DataGrid Control in Visual Basic
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Quite a few basic tasks related to formatting the Windows Forms DataGrid control require you to create and implement your own custom column styles. However, once you are familiar with these objects, you will have a lot of power at your disposal.
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Life Without Control Arrays in Visual Basic .NET
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Control arrays were the best way to manage the controls on your Visual Basic forms, but there are no control arrays in Visual Basic .NET. Deborah Kurata describes how to use new Visual Basic .NET features to obtain control array functionality without the need for a control array.
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.NET Button ListBar Control
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The Button ListBar control provides an emulation of the ListBar provided in the Windows Add/Remove Programs window. Under XP it uses the UxTheme API to draw parts of the toolbar, and degrades to use standard GDI drawing calls when used on earlier OS versions. Both C# and VB.NET versions of the same
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VS.NET ListBar Control
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This control uses the Outlook Style ListBar control as a basis for a full implementation of a Visual Studio-style List Bar which holds lists of controls. Bars and items can be dragged around the control, and items can be dragged, pressed or double-clicked to add the item to an object. For additional
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Skinned ListBar
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This article demonstrates overriding the drawing routines in the Outlook Style ListBar to create a new ListBar which inherits the behaviour of the original control but draws in a much customised way.
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.NET Outlook Style ListBar Control
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The .NET ListBar control aims to provide the most accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Outlook bar control. All the features of the Outlook bar control are supported and more: in particular the control provides nicer drag-drop operation, has more display modes and provides an extensible object mod
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Cancellable In-Place Edit Popups
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Controls like the ListView and the Outlook ListBar allow you to edit items in place by either double-clicking them or through a context UI feature such as a menu. This article provides a class which helps with the tricky parts of implementing in-place editing, and demonstrates how to use it to creat
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Use .NET Forms as Popup Windows
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This article provides a reusable class which you can use to convert a form into a popup which works in the same way as the drop-down portion of a ListBox or the popup controls for picking colours or tables in Office. In addition to wrapping all the functionality you need to ensure the popup is cance
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Floating Controls, Tooltip-style
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This article started when I was implementing the VS.NET ListBar control. If you move the mouse over an item whose text is partially obscured in the VS.NET ListBar, a popup appears to show more of the text. The same technique is also implemented in the ListView and TreeView controls using a ToolTip.
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Font ComboBox
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This control adds a thin wrapper around the Icon ComboBox to convert it into an Office-style font picker control. Features include a most-recently used font section, initialisation on a background thread, auto-complete and built-in detection of non-character fonts like Wingdings (VB.NET and C# code
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Virtual ListBox
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Virtual List Boxes can be used if you ever need to try and show a list containing a vast quantity of data. Instead of adding physical objects to the ListBox, instead you tell it how many rows there should be, and it simply defers all drawing of items to the owner of the box using owner draw item met
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Adding an Icon or Control to a TextBox or ComboBox
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The standard .NET Framework ComboBox does not support an icon in the text box section of the control. This article presents a class which can be used to show an icon, a control or a custom-drawn image into any TextBox or ComboBox (VB.NET and C# code provided).
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Reusing The ComboBox DropDown
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Normally, the combo box drop-down portion only appears underneath the combo box part of a control. However, using an age-old Windows hack you can get at the handle of the drop-down List and move it to any position you like on screen. This article provides a reusable class for manipulating the drop-d
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Flat Style Combo Boxes
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This article provides a class which you can attach to any .NET ComboBox control to allow it to render with a VS.NET or Office XP flat style by subclassing the messages associated with the control (VB.NET and C# code provided).
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vbAccelerator IconComboBox Control
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One of the more notable omissions from the set of .NET Framework Windows controls is a Combo Box which supports icons, despite a control of this type being used to good effect in Explorer and IE. This article provides a reusable control which extends the standard ComboBox to allow you to associate i
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Sophisticated Drag-Drop Images
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The standard .NET Framework drag-drop functionality provides a cursor to indicate that a drag-drop function is in progress. This article demonstrates how to add an image of the object being dragged to the drag-drop control, in the same way that Explorer does using the ImageList APIs.
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