Here are a few that I am aware of. Can’t put an icon on the desktop. You can now. I can’t install for all users. I need to jump through hoops to move the deployment to a different server. It is not a problem if you are developing internally, and the users can see the … Read more
I believe it sets the NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute for the assembly. From the docs: The NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute informs the ResourceManager of the language used to write the neutral culture’s resources for an assembly, and can also inform the ResourceManager of the assembly to use (either the main assembly or a satellite assembly) to retrieve neutral resources using the … Read more
If you don’t want to make a custom panel as suggested in @Sinatr’s answer you can draw the border yourself: private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { ControlPaint.DrawBorder(e.Graphics, this.panel1.ClientRectangle, Color.DarkBlue, ButtonBorderStyle.Solid); }
You need to perform the long running operation on a background thread. There are several ways of doing this. You can queue the method call for execution on a thread pool thread (See here): ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(YourMethod)); In .NET 4.0 you can use the TaskFactory: Task.Factory.StartNew(() => YourMethod()); And in .NET 4.5 and later, you can … Read more
Set TabStop property to false
// Create a 30 min timer timer = new System.Timers.Timer(1800000); // Hook up the Elapsed event for the timer. timer.Elapsed += OnTimedEvent; timer.Enabled = true; … private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e) { // do stuff } with the usual caveats of: timer won’t be hugely accurate and might need to GC.KeepAlive(timer) See also: … Read more
If you want the app to exit when the main thread has finished, you can just make the new thread a background thread: Thread t = new Thread(Main.MyThread); t.IsBackground = true; t.Start(); Basically the process will exit when all the foreground threads have exited. Note that this could be bad news if the background thread … Read more
Set AutoCheck to false. Override OnClick to manual check the checkbox
I was having quite a bit of trouble with this myself. I have a user control with a DataGridView that is populated on application/form load. The selection of the first row seems to happen after databinding is complete and the grid is populated/rendered. The user control load event (and presumably, form load as well) fires … Read more
Labels are easy, all you have to do is override the Paint event and draw the text vertically. Do note that GDI is optimised for Drawing text horizontally. If you rotate text (even if you rotate through multiples of 90 degrees) it will looks notably worse. Perhaps the best thing to do is draw your … Read more