TheFoZ wrote: throw up; Yes, that is a bad joke - you've just destroyed the stack-trace! ;P "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

That seems to be working thanks. Although I'm not sure if the Easter Break has done my PC some good. I'll make sure everything is update to. Hopefully my 2010 installation is causing any troubles. Cheers The FoZ

Cheers. I have managed to sort this out now and it all seems to work fine. Ended up buying a new machine and setting everything up on a VirtualBox Windows 7 VM with no problems Thanks for the responses The FoZ

I rebuilt it from scratch and here is what I found. In the DrawItem method, the design mode does not like it when I change the text of the tab. The line I found to cause the trouble is this.TabPages[e.Index].Text = this.TabPages[e.Index].Text.Replace(tabText, string.Empty); Looks like I am going to have to actively calculate the size of the tab which is probably the best way to go about it. If anyone can shed some light on the reason for this so I know why I shouldn't do it my original way, I would be grateful. Cheers The FoZ

Thanks OriginalGriff. I changed my Text property to public override string Text { get { return base.Text; } set { base.Text = value; this.Invalidate(); } } and all is well. The FoZ

I know, that is what's causing the problem. To only way to get the form back is to minimise the windows until you find it again. I just want the user to click on the dialogs button in the task bar and both windows appear. The FoZ

Thanks Gerry. The foreach loop was exactly the thing I was after foreach ( Control control in this.FindForm().Controls ) { if ( control is TextBox && control.DataBindings.Count > 0 ) control.DataBindings[ 0 ].ReadValue(); } Cheers The FoZ

Thanks for your reply. It will take me a little to digest. I see what you are saying about overridding the GetHashCode. Could I achieve the same thing by overridding the ToString() method? The reason for only the one comparison in the LINQ is that I could not get the select to output two fields. I tried just selecting the objects by that did not work (because of the GetHashCode??) I shall have more of a play. Cheers. The FoZ

Thanks for the reply. It is something that I have considered but it's one of those things where I would like to use the AppConfig file route as that means adding more tables to the already huge database (which is out of my control and will need permission for) and the data is very unlikely to change. It would be a nice hurdle to jump over in my project. The FoZ

Thanks for your reply but it wouldn't work for me earlier. Probably to much going on. Just tried and it is working. Thanks again for you help. The FoZ

Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Am I the only one who thinks... AFAIK yes you are. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

Thanks Simon I shall have a look at those. Could do a combination of a guerrilla and some home study. Any left over can go towards my bonus! The FoZ

Thanks for that. Its something the book I've got didn't touch upon. The FoZ

HarveySaayman wrote: posible to have more than one selected row in a dataGridView unless otherwise set up by you in design time Yes. You can use datagridview1.MultiSelect=false for only allowing one. Brought this up to my students the other day in class. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Don't worry I think I've solved it. It seems that the SqlConnection uses its own protocol to connect to the SQL Server as per this[^] article on MSDN. The FoZ

PIEBALDconsult wrote: But in either case it stores an empty string in the executable at that point, because it's a constant, right? If so, there's no difference. No, the string.Empty property returns a string that already exists in the mscorlib.dll. If you use "", that literal string will be added to your assembly. The difference is minimal, as it's only a few bytes of data, but there is a difference. Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

TheFoZ wrote: I would like to create global function That is not possible. You can use static methods, as Judah suggested, but they are not global. TheFoZ wrote: I can do this fine in VB.NET No, you can't. VB.NET doesn't have any global functions either. If you mean a module, that is just a class where all members automatically become static. Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

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