Advice on whether or not Microsoft has fixed the buggy combos .. thus worth the move from VS2003 to VS2005

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Earl - 30 Nov 2005 03:52 GMT

To upgrade or not? This, to me, is based upon whether or not Microsoft
has -- at least -- fixed the buggy controls from VS2003:

Combo (clearing and binding context issues)
Checked ListBox (checked items losing status when control goes visible)
Datagrid (header alignment to the right smashes into the grid)
DataAdapter (creates timestamp for Insert command, amongst other oddities)

Did I forget something? Does anyone know for certain if these items have
been fixed in VS2005?

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Ken Tucker [MVP] - 30 Nov 2005 04:13 GMT

Hi,

Microsoft added the new datagridview to vs.net 2005. There are alot
of changes in data access in vs.net 2005.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/CuttingEdge/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/ne
wdtastvs05.asp

Ken
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> To upgrade or not? This, to me, is based upon whether or not Microsoft
> has -- at least -- fixed the buggy controls from VS2003:
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> Did I forget something? Does anyone know for certain if these items have
> been fixed in VS2005?

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Shailesh - 09 Mar 2006 11:21 GMT

Hi Ken,

I am facing some problems while working with datagird in my windows form.
I want my datagrid as readonly, but on certain condition I want to make it
as updatable. But a a time only one row should be updatable (like web form).
And after editing the data I should be able to save to changes to my database.
How can I achieve this.
I also would like to know waht is the best approached to save data in
database via datagrid.

Thank in advance.
Shailesh.

> Hi,
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> > Did I forget something? Does anyone know for certain if these items have
> > been fixed in VS2005?

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Jim Wooley - 14 Dec 2005 19:39 GMT

There are a number of changes with the ComboBox in 2005. Most notably the
SelectedIndex=-1 bug.
It still has an issue when clearing the selected item via the keyboard
(selecting the text and hitting delete). The control doesn't fire a Validate
because it doesn't detect a SelectedItemChanged (as no item is selected?)
Thus, it is better but not perfect.

The datagrid header alignment issue is fixed.

Jim Wooley
MCSD.Net

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Earl - 15 Dec 2005 07:48 GMT

Thanks to both. I forgot to mention the wacko TabControl bindingcontext
issue, but here's praying it was so obvious that it got fixed.

> There are a number of changes with the ComboBox in 2005. Most notably the
> SelectedIndex=-1 bug.
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>> Did I forget something? Does anyone know for certain if these items have
>> been fixed in VS2005?

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