hi, thanks for reply i gonna try tat out but 1 thing is, my listview contains more than 7k item, if using this way i think is quite not resource efficency is there other better way?

sorry but i dun really get ur mean.... i am using a listview instead of a listbox:doh:

Any1 can advise me what to do if i wan to search an item inside a ListView fill by a datatable according to what user type in a text box. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/mjay83/lookup.jpg[^] above is a screenshot i taken from a software, i just wonder how they do it, user type inside the lookup textbox, then the list view will auto jump and point to the item which match or nearly match with the user input. Any1 please?:doh:

u got the answer below, Anchor and docking ;)

Hi Tamimi, The Read only mode wont work for me becoz there is some column i would like the user can edit it on the fly.. thanks for reply anyway ;)

your form's height and width should not more than 800x600:)

Thanks for reply again It is ok, i dun think my company gonna purchase license for VS 2005 though:rolleyes: Thanks anyway;)

Hi Jamil, thanks for reply but i cant find the property u mentioned:doh: i am using VS 2003, please advise ;) Thanks a again:-O

by default, the datagrid add a pending new row after i have add my own row, the pending row has a * in front of the first column, is there anyway i can disable this pending new row? or is there anyway i could disable the user to add a new row on the datagrid itself?since the dataentry is done by another routine Below is the screenshot http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/mjay83/datagrid.jpg[^] -- modified at 3:07 Thursday 2nd November, 2006

Thanks man, i am trying the method u suggest :)

I have a Main Form call FormA, FormA call a Lookup Form named FormB using following Code FormB formb = new FormB(); FormB.Show(); in FormB there is a textboxA to let the user to enter certain string value that need to passback to FormA and execute several statements in FormA when user press a button in FormB Any1 has any idea how to do that?my fren advise me to use delegate but i not very familiar with delegate coding structure, i greatly appreciated if any1 can provide the sample coding to do that;)

Albanian wrote:

try by converting column extendeddescription into varchar select itemlookupcode,Convert(varchar,extendeddescription) as description from item where itemlookupcode = '14010006'

Still cannot solve the problem, below is the Error Return by Query Analyzer: Server: Msg 7105, Level 22, State 6, Line 1 Page (1:26314), slot 66 for text, ntext, or image node does not exist. Connection Broken Any1 can help me please??:((

no... i upgraded to SQL 2000 SP 4, the problem still occur...:((

select itemlookupcode,extendeddescription from item where itemlookupcode = '14010006' the extendeddesription data type is ntext i get the error when executing the command An error occurred while executing query: Page (1:735), slot 40 for text, ntext, or image node does not exist. i cannot even execute the delete and update statement to amend this row, any1 can help me?:(

i have a datatable and wish to put into ListView except looping each row of my datatable and insert row by row into ListView, is there any other smarter way? i want to enable user to click on the column header to sort the records according to the header clicked, but cant figure out the clue, ListView has a property named ListView.Sorting, but it only can assign SortOrder.Acesending/Desending!! i cant understand wat is IComparer require by ListViewItemSorter!!:sigh:

i have a MainForm that act as a MDI container, i load the company logo as backgroundimage, but the image is load as tile mode which fill all the MDI container, is there anyway to set the background image to the center of the MDI container instead of tile?

i designed a program to generate a dataset and pull into a ReportDocument, then i set the ReportSource of CrystalReportViewer to this ReportDocument, then i created the installer and installed in my computer, it works perfectly on my computer becoz my computer has .Net framework 1.1 and Crystal Report Enterprise v10 installed. then i install my program on user's computer which has only has .Net framework 1.1 installed, there is a error occur when loading the crystal report, plz click the following link to view the screen shot http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/mjay83/Error.jpg[^] i had check the coding, this error occured when the dataset is being pull into the ReportDocument, wat could cause this problem??all the DLL inside user program files folder is exactly the same with mine one! it is impossible to install Crystal Report Enterprise v10 in all user's computer!!

i have a dataset with 2 datatables link with one data relation, i had loaded the datagrid with the parent datatable, it shows the drill down button to the child table, but the problem is it only show a "link" to the childtable, i only can view the data in child table by clicking the "link", is there anyway to show the datarelation on the datagrid without the "link"?any help is greatly appreciated..

as topic, how do i obtain the screen resolution of user?for example 1024*768 or 800*600...thz..

thz man!the coding works for me.. but there is another problem, my datagrid has been loaded with a datatable contains 31 records, under screen resolution of 1024*768, the screen is able to show and print out all the records, but if user change screen resolution to 800*600, the records that can show in one screen is only 21 records, the rest of the records needed to be scroll down to view, then the datagrid printed out only contains 21 records that can be shown on the screen... wat should i do??:doh: