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I’ve a WinForm application and a TreeView control on it. I’m creating another thread to add data to the control. So far I’m able to achieve this behavior, but sometimes secondary thread is not destroyed. I know it is not recommended, but I’d like to know more about my options and why I should not do this. Thanks

I’ve a WinForm application and a TreeView control on it. I’m creating another thread to add data to the control. So far I’m able to achieve this behavior, but sometimes secondary thread is not destroyed. I know it is not recommended, but I’d like to know more about my options and why I should not do this. Thanks

I know that services and UI are No-No and Microsoft says that it is not recommended ( But their SQL server service does the same and so a lot of other third party services….Where can I find explanation for this). I’m trying to display user interface from my VB.Net service. I can run my service under system account and check “allow to interact with desktop”, however my Form hangs. What are my options? (1) Can I start another UI application from my service have them talk i.e. service can talk to application? Thank you for helping me with this Kasturi

I’m using Microsoft Layer For Unicode on 98. I’m not using any of CCM_Get/SETUNICODEFORMAT messages. Some of the common control as property sheet acts weired when I use IE 4. If I upgrade to IE 5, every things works as expected. I could not find any Microsoft documentation which says that I’ve to use IE 5, with UNICODe support. Is there any documentation on this? I guess it is requirement to use IE 5 with UNICOWS, but I was hoping to find some doc to justify this Thanks Kasturi

Hi, I'm preparing for "Exam 70-316*—Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET". Any suggestion\help and cpmments would be apprecaited. Kasturi

MS doc says to change Network Neighborhood Icon Modify key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\ DefaultIcon = shell32.dll,17 When I change default "shell32.dll,17" to "shell32.dll,7", it does not change icon on Win XP and Win2K. Any thoughts?

Following code gives assertion fail under VS 7 (sometime with 6) void StringFromWide(const wchar_t* pwch, int cch, char *psz, int szLen) { if(cch == 0) { cch = wcslen(pwch); // TODO it will display only first four char } if(cch > szLen) cch = szLen; WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pwch, cch, psz, cch, NULL, NULL); psz[cch] = '\0'; } As workaround I'm using following code void StringFromWide(const wchar_t* pwch, int cch, char *psz, int szLen) { size_t szt; if(cch == 0) { szt = wcslen(pwch); cch = sizeof(szt) ;// but this will retrieve four chars only } if(cch > szLen) cch = szLen; WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pwch, cch, psz, cch, NULL, NULL); psz[cch] = '\0'; } What is missing here?

I want to specify IDs, not file path.

How can I specify standard Icon IDs for Imagelist such as STD_COPY ( for Copy ). I could not find any way to specify such IDs to non-standard icons too. Is it possible at all to load icon using IDs in .Net?

this may help. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmag01/html/buildapps.asp

How did you create setup project? what attributes you specified in setup prg? Did you look at "WalkThrough" doc on MSDN? Send me some more detail, I hope I'll be able to help you.

Hi, I’m trying to implement drag & drop (explorer like application) in my application using C#. appreciate some guidance on this. Thanks

Hi, I'm trying to write caption on my main window. hTheme = OpenThemeData(hWnd, L"MyClass"); but above code always returns hTheme as NULL. Am I missing soemthing here? Thanks for help.

Hi, I’m trying to use wndProc for ListView in C#. LRESULT CALLBACK MainWndProc( HWND hWnd, UINT uMessage, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch (uMessage) { case WM_NOTIFY: ListViewNotify(hWnd, lParam) } } LRESULT ListViewNotify(HWND hWnd, LPARAM lParam) { //Any idea how can I write following code in C#. //C Code is LPNMHDR lpnmh = (LPNMHDR) lParam; // Translate in C#??????? } Any help on this would be great.

Hi, Any suggestion on handling WM_NOTIFY, LVN_ODCACHEHINT and LVN_ODFINDITEM events from C# app? -Kasturi

I’m using List-view controls with the LVS_OWNERDATA style and I’m trying to handle notification messages LVN_ODCACHEHINT and LVN_ODFINDITEM. Any help on this would be great.

It works with DOS window for AlphaNumerics. But any idea how to translate $ and & to VK_Key?

I’m trying to send data to console window using PostMessage with WM_KEYDOWN. The third and fourth param for postmessage are WPARAM wParam, // virtual-key code LPARAM lParam // key data i.e. PostMessage( hwndDOS, WM_KEYDOWN, ‘K’, 0X10250001 ); Any idea how to translate my array (ascii data such as abcd, <> fg etc ) to third and fourth parameter? Thanks

Thanks for responding to my post. Unfortunately I can not post any code. I’ll try to be clearer about my question this time. I have a composite control, combination of standard control (say text box). Every time any onClick happens on this child(text box) control, I want to pass this event to parent(composite) control. -Kasturi