A very succinct way to get a folder size in .net 4.0 is below. It still suffers from the limitation of having to traverse all files recursively, but it doesn’t load a potentially huge array of filenames, and it’s only two lines of code. Make sure to use the namespaces System.IO and System.Linq. private static … Read more
Use the Control.PointToClient method. Assuming this points to the form in question: var relativePoint = this.PointToClient(new Point(X, Y)); Or simply: var relativePoint = this.PointToClient(Cursor.Position);
Source Control We have 20 or 30 projects being built into 4 or 5 discrete solutions. We are using Subversion for SCM. 1) We have one tree in SVN containing all the projects organised logically by namespace and project name. There is a .sln at the root that will build them all, but that is … Read more
Change FormBorderStyle to FixedDialog, FixedSingle, or Fixed3D. Also, if you do not want them to maximize the form set Maximize to False.
Use the insert method of the combobox to insert the “Please select item” in to 0 index, comboBox1.Items.Insert(0, “Please select any value”); and add all the items to the combobox after the first index. In the form load set comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 0; EDIT: In form load write the text in to the comboBox1.Text by hardcoding … Read more
I use the CellContentClick event, which makes sure the user clicked the checkbox. It DOES fire multiple times even if the user stays in the same cell. The one issue is that the Value does not get updated, and always returns “false” for unchecked. The trick is to use the .EditedFormattedValue property of the cell … Read more
It is fairly straightforward to host WPF controls in a WinForms app with an ElementHost adapter or WinForms controls in a WPF app with a WindowsFormsHost adapter. There are not too many resources on the web showing how to do either of these, however. In the process of learning how to do this for myself … Read more
You can forward the events like this: public event EventHandler SelectedIndexChanged { add { inner.SelectedIndexChanged += value; } remove { inner.SelectedIndexChanged -= value; } }
The SaveFileDialog control won’t do any saving at all. All it does is providing you a convenient interface to actually display Windows’ default file save dialog. Set the property InitialDirectory to the drive you’d like it to show some other default. Just think of other computers that might have a different layout. By default windows … Read more
You’re looking for the PointToScreen method: Point location = someControl.PointToScreen(Point.Empty);