I built a little console application in C# and need to add a windows form interface to it. I added a form item, and now have a blank form. I don't know how to go from here and start adding buttons and menus to the form.
Is there a form design toolbar or do I have to add buttons and menus using code?
Choose Toolbox from the View menu..
Click View>Other Toolbars>Toolbox to show the toolbox containing common controls for Windows forms.
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PowerBuilder offers a feature such that a menu item can appear in Toolbar just by adding some toolbar properties like(toolbaritemnametoolbaritemtext etc...).
Do we have similar functionality in Windows forms applications in C# such that a menuitem can also appear in toolbar without explicitly adding a ToolStrip/ToolBar control?
In Windows Forms you need to add a ToolStrip control to your Form to display ToolStripItems, such as ToolStripButtons. The ToolStripItems are added to ToolStrip.Items collection.
In short: no.
I've created Windows Form Application for Visual Studio 2010 with C# so that I can make the form execute SQL statements from my Database. I've looked through several tutorials and examples and many of them include a toolbox for adding options to the form. I do not have this form about creating or resetting Visual Studio, and I have no Idea where it can be found. At this point my only options are coding each "thing" i want on the form one by one but for time constraints I can't really do this. Can anyone tell me how I can get or find this toolbox of controls?
To open the toolbox, go to View -> Toolbox. Or you can use the Ctrl-W, X shortcut.
You must have a Form to place your controls on. Make sure you add a new Form to your project, then double click on it to view the blank form. Using the toolbox, you can drag and drop new controls onto your form.
Try Ctrl+Alt+X to bring up the Toolbox.
Or go to View menu and select "Toolbox".
I am using Windows form in C# and i am trying to create one single form dialog that will be responsible displaying other dialogs within the boundary of it's dialog. To do that i tried Tab Control and it worked well and i can create different types of form in tab control easily without opening any separate forms.
but the problem is i don't want to use Tab control , I have some buttons on the main form at left side and clicking those buttons i want to display separate forms beside those buttons. I searched google but did not find any example like that nor i am able to find any control as this. My application is very simple one dialoge with left side buttons and on right side i want to show different forms based on those buttons... C# is not my native language but now i have to work on it and require help.
Kindly check the attached image for more information
Each page could be an instance of Panel, then show/hide the Panel instances according to which button is clicked....make them all the same size, shape, and position ;)
I am making a Multiple Choice test application using Windows Forms on Visual Studios. When a user answer one question, they will click next to proceed to the next question. Would I be able to use a single windows frame to display all my questions? When I do it on more then one windows form I had to do this.Hide() and then .Show() the other form. I don't have a problem with doing this but when it hide and shows the other windows form it isn't open on exact same position, it keeps moving.
You can create a UserControl that displays the question and the multiple choice answers. When the user clicks the Next button, you remove the UserControl from your form's Controls collection, create a new instance of your custom UserControl with the next question's details on it, and then add the new instance to your form's Controls collections. This structure will let you do the app on a single Form.
I would better suggest you to use Panel form the tool box for multiple forms. It would be better for the multiple choice questions.
Then for every panel use property visible set to either True or false depending on which panel you want to navigate.
See this to understand more in detail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOXzz_0gYE&feature=related
You can use wizard.
Here you have two links:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18674/A-Simple-Wizard-Control-for-Net-2-0-with-Full-Desi
Add this library to Toolbox:
Right click on the Toolbox and select "Add Tab" from the context menu.
Specify name for the newly created tab, such as "Wizard".
Activate the tab, right click on it and select "Choose Items..." for the context menu.
Now browse to the folder where is assembly "WizardBase.dll" and select it.
http://winformswizard.codeplex.com/
The simpler the better.
The simplest way is to make a panel, (in one window), and then add labels with your question and all options of the answer in that panel. Then on the click on the NEXT button, change the texts of all the labels at once.
As far as your problem of opening different windows on the same position on the screen, change the DefaultPosition property of all the forms to CenterScreen or CenterParent.
How can I add WPF form into tab item of tab control?
like I have make wpf form, I need to add in tab control collection just like when we open wpf form in VS 2010 and it is open in Tab MDI form and different forms are showing in different tab.
Thanks
Don't use Forms to put n Tabpages. Use UserControls instead. You can put them there with the designer.