I'm not sure why my designer bit of my Windows Forms is showing code instead of the actual design. It did before but I don't know what I did to change it. How can I change it back?
I am also a new developer and member. See where I have my mouse from the solution navigator menu? Open it will show you the form.
I am using Visual Studio 2015, developing winform program. I would like to have a C# label to make the item names in the left while the results aligned to right. Just like the booting information demonstration of some of Linux distributions as below:
(source: linuxgazette.net)
In Console.Write(), seems the String.Format() works while in a label, seems it does not.
Is there any method to do the same thing like that?
Thanks!
Im currently developing a piece of software, however ive run into a minor problem with VS2013.
In the form designer, while I am designing the windows have a Win8 style window theme like this:
However when i actually run the program, the it uses a Win7 style window theme like this:
The change of border size kind of messes with my layouts and i was wondering if there was any way to make VS2013 preview with a win7 theme?
How can I achieve the same alpha border effect that can be seen in the new Visual Studio 2012 main window using windows forms? Its window seems to glow.
So I am not sure if it is the best method, but if you use Spy++ (32-bit) and you look in the windows, you can see that beneath Visual Studio's main window, you can see 4 "VisualStudioGlowWindow" objects.
I hooked the messages in Spy++, and as you could imagine, the 4 windows represent the 4 glowing borders around the form. Further inspection shows that these 4 "glow windows" implement the WS_EX_LAYERED Extended window style, so the glow itself isn't done in WPF (as far as I can tell.)!
Hopefully this clears some stuff up.
AFAIK you can do it with WPF using a mix of this chrome and a custom WPF border. Not sure if on WinForms you can, given it's limited styling options (compared with WPF). Anyway they are using WPF.
Unless you want to handle drawing the entire form yourself you cannot. Because Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 are written on top of WPF and used Windows not Forms.
Visual Studio 2012 draw its window border using native Win32 functions. It is not related to the WPF or WindowsForms -- you can do it with both.
The glow is rendered on a transparent window on top of the main window. The main window calls the DWM API to set the glass area to 0. This way you can draw over the original border and the system buttons. This is the correct way to do this.
You can look at code of WPF Shell (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFShell) to see how the calls to DWM are made in order to remove the glass. The fact that its written to be compatible with WPF doesnt matter, because all you need is a handle (IntPtr) to the window.
If you have a WindowsForms codebase, don't migrate to WPF. WPF has not been improved in the latest .NET framework release and there are no roadmaps to improvements or new features as its team has been integrated into Windows 8 team.
i get a strange trouble ,i am developing a software (WPF) with Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 10 and untill yesterday i could modify my code in Xaml but today after open the project to continue to work i tried to add some new UIElement as Grid,Border,Textbox and so on i could save without trouble but when i launch the software to verify the result those UIElemen added before did not appear ,i checked out well if the Visibility are Visible and the opacity is nto set to the value =0 ,so i tried to repeat to add others UIElemtn in others Window of the same project but this strange behaviour continuing to bother me...
Do you have any idea what it can be or have some advice to help and work out this step??
Thanks so much for your attention,
Cheers