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Wpf or Win Forms - tile editor
I'm trying to create a console application game to really push the boundaries of what a console game can do and look like. I'm going to need to create maps with ASCII tiles and think it could be fun ...
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How to resize Form and a button but keep the button square
I have a form with a button which has a background image 98*98. As the height of the form increases I want the buttons height to increase as well but I want the button to remain a square to keep the ...
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Why is this VISA instrument/SCPI communication blocking the UI thread and how can we fix it?
This is what we have arrived at as the minimum reproducible example, this is a standard .NET Winforms application created from scratch in Visual Studio with copy pasting this code into the Form1.cs ...
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What is the best way to deselect a menu item?
My program shows an error message box related to a menu item action, and I want to select that menu item to make clear the relation. I use MyMenu.Select() to do it, and after the message box is closed ...
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After focusing WebBrower's scrollbar, keyboard hot keys stop working
I have form with a WebBrowser component & a few buttons that can be activated via F1, F2, F3, F4 keys. Form's KeyPreview set to True.
Here is the KeyUp event handler for the form:
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Visual Studio Forms Designer UI Looks Like WIN7?
I'm using Win11 and Visual Studio 2022. When designing a windows desktop form in the IDE it shows windows UI elements from windows 7. When running my app it shows windows 11 UI elements and does not ...
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StartUp form not opening as designed
I have a VB.Net project started in VS2019 with a startup form that opened as designed. After replacing my PC and installing VS2026, the startup form opens showing only the middle portion of the form (...
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C# winforms how do I Dock a label in a Panel
I have a simple panel containing just a label. As the form is resized so does the panel and I am trying to get the label to resize with the panel so the text gets bigger and smaller. I was hoping just ...
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MDI child window: which buttons/icons are shown after maximizing and then minimizing?
I had a discussion with a colleague about classic MDI behavior, but neither of us are C# developers, and we couldn’t find a clear example of this specific scenario in tutorials or videos.
The scenario:...
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TreeView.AfterSelect triggered by TreeView.SelectedNode = null
I am just learning C# and I am struggling with a treeview in a Winforms project. According to MSDN the TreeView.AfterSelect event does not occur when a tree node is unselected:
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Why does drag and drop work for webview2 controls in UAC elevated privileges applications?
In Windows, it is a known issue that drag and drop does not work from normal application to UAC elevated privileges windows due to UIPI policy.
However, I notice that webview2 controls within a UAC ...
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C# transfer data from an another form via MySQL
I am building a simple CRUD application in C# WinForms to practice database operations. I have a DataGridView that loads user data, and I want to open a separate edit form (formEdit) when a cell is ...
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Beginner WinForms project with CSV loading, ComboBox data, dynamic controls and deletion
I am practicing C# WinForms and I created a small beginner project to better understand how the basic WinForms components work together.
The application reads color data from a TXT/CSV file. After ...
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Getting an animated image to work on a Winforms tooltip
I have:
Created a custom class ImageToolTip, which displays a tool tip with an image
Got it to work when programmatically assigned to tool strip buttons
What I cannot get working is animating this ...
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Unable to roll back CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore
I'm trying to roll back my C# Winforms .slnx solution to determine which repo check-in introduced an unrelated bug. When I roll back to a version that worked 6 weeks ago, the app crashes on startup, ...
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