I'm writing a win form application which use an Sql Compact ddbb as
data repo. I plan to deploy it using clickonce.
How should I manage to avoid data loss when updating my application? I
will include the ddbb in the first deploy, and maybe a solution is to

I mean, to know if mouse button is pressed, especially, at any time.
thx.

I am thinking of converting a Windows Forms app to WPF as a learning
process.
Is there a specific group for WPF? I couldn't find one in my news group
list.

I am looking for power point to flash solution
I have found this one
http://ppt2flashsdk.com/
Did anybody used it?

Everyone loves the idea of a workout without an actual workout. In
that way muscle activity will increase, but that is because you are
doing an actual workout. And now, you can shape up your body just
wearing a pair of MBT shoes to walk or stand.These MBT shoes, no

Using the. NET Framework Components 4.0 - 2010 Visual Studio.
In achieving this object graphs Windows.Forms.Form,
are written consecutively only 9 Axis Label.
If I put more than 9, the Axis Label are also expanding alternating

Is there any way to disable DataGrid refresh while adding many rows -
somewhat like in the old days:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/06/10/152612.aspx
 I'm manually adding rows to an underlying DataTable object via

I have a datagridview where I perform cell validation. I do not want the
user to be able to leave edit mode if the value is incorrect. The reason is
that i use CellEndEdit to write the value to my hardware. I validate the
value and set the cancel flag if the value is invalid. The ...

Has anyone noticed that if you double click a label, the text of that
label appears on the clipboard?  If so, how do I stop this from
happening?
I'm running VS 2008 on a Vista box.  I get the same behaviour on

I am seeing an anomaly in the display of check box controls in a
DataGridView.  I am able to programmatically set the check box state for each
row in the DataGridView.  However, for the currently selected row the change
in state does not get reflected in the UI.  Here is the ...

MBT shoes are a kind of excellent barefoot healthy shoes. Due to MBT
shoes are slightly weighted and spread weight evenly across the entire
foot and as your body reacts to the weight and instability of the MBT
shoes’ sole, muscles, often the neglected muscles, are forced to work

Hi all,
I'd like to cancel SelectedIndexChanged event in ListView control.
I tried the following code for SelectedIndexChanged handler, but it doesn't
work:

please explain each parameter inside the bracket
cb.DataBindings.Add("SelectedValue", source, "SomeProperty")

Using Visual Basic 2008
I am looking for a way to Validate if a user has entered a duplicate value
when leaving a cell in the DGV, before the Exception is thrown on the update
side of things.

I'm looking to located the adobe Executable's location in a vb 2005 program.
IE on my PC it's located @ "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader
9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" but on someone else's it may not even be installed
or in another location.

I have built a form by dragging a dataset over onto the designer, then I got
this BindingNavigator for free.  But I found whenever the user clicked either
the "move first" or the "move previous" button right after he/she had clicked
the "+" button without committing the "add new" ...

The following stacktrace is generated in the environment and action detailed
below,
environment: vs2005, c#, winforms, dataset, detail view, bindingNavigator
control

I am trying to draw objects (line, etc) on a Bitmap. However, I have
run into some problems: the origin of the bitmap coordinate system is
at the top-left corner of the bitmap? How can I have it set to the
bottom-left corner? Also, I need to draw some real world objects on

I have a requirement where i need to mask and clear the masked portion
of the images.
I am done with masking part of the requirement. I am using color
matrix to mask my image also the selected portion in the image is

Bitmap bmpSource = new Bitmap(@"c:\1.bmp");
           bmpSource.Clone();
           Graphics gSource = Graphics.FromImage(bmpSource);
           Bitmap bmpDest = new Bitmap(680, 400); // double the size

I'm trying to render some text into a specific part of an image in a
Web Forms app. The text will be user entered, so I want to vary the
font size to make sure it fits within the bounding box.
I have code that was doing this fine on my proof-of-concept

I am trying to develop an Interactive Diagram Editor, for designing
electronic circuits (block diagrams) using Java. I need to figure out a way
to connect the nodes and the blocks.
Can anyone suggest a pre-existing standard JAVA API / library which I can

I've hacked my way through doing some pretty impressive (to me at least)
things with the .net drawing functions, but this one has me stumped.
I want to draw neon lines.  Now I can draw a straight line with a gradient
to simulate a neon effect, but I'm having trouble with curves ...

Hello,
I have a datagridview with lots of columns selectable with a checkbox
control, and I would like to have its header text as narrow as a check box,
but for this I have to display its text vertically...

Then it says, "Object reference not set to an instance of an object. "
and "at DevExpress.XtraGrid.Design.GridControlDesigner.Initialize(IComponent
component)"
In my error list, numerous variables that work fine in running code, but it

Another question about Custom Forms Designers...
I would like to be able to add context menus to my controls, so if the user
clicks on any of the controls on the design surface, a popup menu appears. I
have tried to work with the MenuCommandService, and can add the verb and

Im working in VS2008 C#.  I created a Windows Form Solution/Project called
"Mailbox" that compiles to an Mailbox.EXE and runs fine as a single form
program.  The form is basically a database table manager to add, edit, and
delete records from a DB table.

Any books out there on building controls, focusing on design time
programming?

How can I get the assembly name at design time?