Archives
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Wow, am I flattered to be a VB Blogger
Paul Vick just posted the results of his survey and I made the top of the list:
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An Extender Provider for control security
This is a small example of how you can use an Extender Provider to set a controls Visibility, or Enabled, or ReadOnly, etc Property:
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BindingManager does not update control bound to a Child table
I think this is a bug.
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Need to disable\enable a Form's Close button
Here's a snippet that may help:
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Object Thinking...Where are the good developers?
I started reading "Object Thinking" this week. If you've got $30 laying around, buy it. Its an interesting read.
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Where are my constructors??!!
I build all day long. Suddenly, the build tells me a type has no constructors and sends me here:
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Validating Event and GotFocus Event...possible bug
Try this out. Create a windows application. Drag 2 textboxes onto the form. Leave the default Text.
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ListChangedType Enumeration: How much is much
Just curious. The docs state:
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Setting CausesValidation in a UserControl
Try this out:
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Calling Merge and AcceptChanges on DataSet
When the Merge or AcceptChanges methods are called on a DataSet, the DataSet notifies all the DataViews bound to it that they must reset the list they are handling and the DataView notifies this to all the bound controls.
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CancelCurrentEdit docs are a little misleading
I am seeing cases in our app where calls to CancelCurrentEdit are not Rejecting changes made by the user. I have to manually call RejectChanges on the datasource after calling CancelCurrentEdit. I assumed the call to CancelCurrentEdit would RejectChanges made to the datasource; at least that is what the docs state:
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Great, more ammunition for the C# folks
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Validating Event and Dialogs
We handle the Validating Event for a textbox on a form. Inside this event, we run some checks and throw up a Yes\No MessageBox. Doing this causes some strange behaviors.