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In my code convertion of VB.NET to C#, is error in convertion... "Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'demoComp.ListControlItem'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)&...
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Enviroment details: .NET 4.8 Visual Studio 2022 Designer interface (if that's what it's actually called) I've created a custom form called WeatherBox which inherits from another custom form ...
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Does anyone know how to either add back in the EditorConfig Designer as a program to open files with or how to reset the default editors for file types? After changing the default editor for ....
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I have a System.Windows.Forms.UserControl. I have observed that Visual Studio Designer puts the following two lines (among others) within the InitializeComponent function: this.AutoScaleDimensions = ...
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I'm converting an old winforms application from 4.8 to 6.0.1. The conversion has been incredibly easy and the application worked with no problems at all until, suddenly, Visual Studio (2022 64-bit v17....
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I'm having a problem using user controls with panels. When I load user control into the panel with the code: panel3.Controls.Add(new userControl1()); it loads with the size of my initial ...
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In a mvvm application some areas inside a window (in reality it is a UserControl inside MainWindow) are dynamically displayed according to the user selections. The changing blocks are inside ...
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So I'm trying to load the XAML designer in visual Studio, and it won't show up, only the source editor shows up I use the XAML WPF designer to make a lot of decisions, as I'm not on a team and do ...
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This happened After updating Visual Studio to 16.2.0: Start Debugging > Building started > Building succeeded > App launches [Suspended] > Loading... [Stuck/VS instance blocked] Other projects run ...
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Application It's a WPF application meant to send files between clients. I'm working on a usercontrol meant to show a list of sent files, their recipients, etc. Setup I'm trying to style the control,...
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I am using Visual Studio 2017 with the Xamarin extension. I have encountered a problem where the Designer view is only showing white space and not the layout and content I added to the axml file. I ...
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I am currently trying to overwrite the WPF system colors. From here I found out that this can be done by creating a new SolidColorBrush resource with for example the key x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors....
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I've been trying to build a custom chrome window vs a window with no border style. In Visual Studio, the XAML designer is showing the custom title bar in the content area, and the actual content area ...
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I have a windows form that contains a user control (each defined in separate assemblies). The control calls a factory method (defined in yet another assembly) to create a DataGridView CheckBox column: ...
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I have a WPF solution which at some point the design viewer stopped properly rendering a custom control I wrote and the LiveCharts Cartesian Chart which is a user control, I believe. To be clear, ...
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So I have been working on this UWP project (visual studio 2017) for months and just recently the designer stopped working (it shows Loading desinger... You can continue working while the designer is ...
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I've got a user control which is supposed to fire an event when the visibility or the enable status changes. My problem is the events fire on Visual Studio's designer too, which is irritating since ...
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The following code works as intended but I can't seem to get rid of the VS designer warning above. Here's my custom web server control class: <ParseChildren(True, "Content")> Public Class Test ...
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I am developing a workflow designer by DSL tools (Domain Specific Language) in Visual Studio, I want to add a multi line string property as a domain property on one of my domain classes. When I add ...
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I am fairly new to C# as well as the Outlook Library. I have created a custom group in Meeting Tab of Outlook, which has a button in it. I also added an image in properties of Button(as displayed in ...
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I am developing an application with the use of dragablz, MahApps and MaterialDesign. However, I have broken down the problem to the dragablz and MahApps extension. I create two tab items (extract ...
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I want to create an app with Material Design using Xamarin and Visual Studio. I want to achieve this using the v7 AppCompat library, so my app runs well on older devices. I have an activity with a ...
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I have a ItemsControl with an ItemContainerStyle based on ToggleButton. This works just fine at runetime, but it casts an error in the designer. (So I have to comment it out if i want to use the ...
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I have a windows form where I have created my own custom comboBox code .cs class file in my project and used that in my form controls(designer files). This works fine for the exsisting project where ...
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I have added some image files as resources to my project through the Resources.resx. But if I change the name of the image file after adding it, both in Resources.resx and in the "Resources" folder on ...
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I'm writing an application and after some Proof-of-concept work I'm starting to design the app in UML. It will be an HTML5/Javascript app with a simple ASP.NET backend serving data over SignalR and ...
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I have something like this: <ListView > <Grid > <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></...
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Whenever I bind text property to view model property <TextBlock Text="{Binding SomeExampleText}"/> on the designer I see nothing in the place where my text will appear in runtime. When I use x:...
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I have found some similar questions on here, but none that are quite the same thing. This Question is probably closest. I am using VS 2015 Community on Windows 10. This is where it hangs: I cannot ...
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The xaml visual designer crashes for all WIN10 UWP projects, including ones created from the standard template with no code added. I don't know when it started because I thought it was a problem with ...
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I can access the code but can not open the designer view. I can add new items and code them, only the existing item's designer view is returning these errors. I can also run and debug the program ...
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Let's say we have form with docked GroupBox. GroupBox have docked TableLayoutPanel with 2 rows (50% height each). Each row have Button. I want this buttons to be centered in TableLayoutPanel cells, ...
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I've created a C++ UWP Windows 10 app using Visual Studio 2015. However, I'm not able to visualize any xaml in the designer because I'm always getting a System.NullReferenceException error. How can ...
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I am currently writing a webpage. I want there to be a banner image on the top of the webpage. Here is my html and css: index.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>...
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This is my issue: I have multilanguage WPF application with resources in two different files. Now I choose the proper one in app.xaml.cs like this: var dict = new ResourceDictionary(); switch (Thread....
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How is the image of the Page's XAML gets generated? Is it running a virtual machine and it's grabbing a snapshot? Does it send the XAML? Any details of that would be welcome.
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What does it mean in the designer when you add something like saveFileDialog to a form, and it appears in the bottom pane at the bottom of the designer window rather than inside the form like a button ...
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I have an application that I've near-finished that makes use of multiple Data Templates. Specifically, I have a ListView and a DataGrid. I've created some special formatting for these items and I'd ...
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i have a problem with designer in VS2013. When i'm using Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location); or Environment.CurrentDirectory; I'm getting path like this one C:\Users{...
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I built several user controls that used a number of GroupBox objects using Visual Studio Designer and later decided I wanted to be able to control the color of the GroupBox border(a feature you don't ...
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Sometimes my queries that are stored in OdbcCommand.CommandText are saved to the designer.cx code behind, and sometimes in the .resx resource file. What causes it to go to the code behind vs the ...
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Whenever I build the following program Form1's size shrinks by 20. (In some cases I need to make a change to the form, such as moving someLaggyControl1 by a few pixels, but not always. It's weird.) ...
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The following class (a Windows Forms Control) is a type of list control, and the ListControlItem don't inherit any Windows Control class. public class ListControl : Control { private List<...
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I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this issue before. I'm using C#, .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2013. I have a custom text box, one that basically just inherits from a standard Windows Forms ...
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we use VS2013 in our company and when creating forms with the designer the standard of the autoscalemode is "font". We have a lot of problems with that - we need "none". Sometimes developers forget to ...
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I'm used to create my forms with the designer, and modifying the XAML manually only when needed. Even though the extended toolkit is a fantastic library, it still lacks integration with Visual Studio'...
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Is it possible to view control layout in visual studio designer but disable modifying from the designer? You may be wondering why I would possibly want this. My answer is simple and here it is. If ...
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So the GroupBox i am trying to place is larger than the screen real state of the designer in visual studio. Hence i scroll to make room however after scrolling whenever i try to re-size the groupbox ...
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When designing data tables in the .xsd designer in Visual Studio, there is a property that specifies what to do when the table encounters a null value: The problem is, if the DataType is System....
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There used to be really great designer support for Windows 8.0 apps in Visual Studio 2012. In the Device Panel, you could move to different VisualStates within the VisualStateManager....
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