How to bind Bulleted List control in asp.net

Following some steps for binding bulleted list control using SqlDataSource In this article, I will show you, How to bind BulletedList in ASP.NET. In this article, I will take SQL DataSource control to bind it. ASP.NET Provide...

How to Develop your Own Custom Controls in C#

Custom control, the control with combined features of other controls, can be developed by any programmer easily. A custom control will not only be usable in the same application, but also it can be used in any other application t...

Exploring the visual studio 2012 IDE : Part-2

Toolbox The Toolbox contains a number of tabs and each tab contains a list of controls and components that can be dragged onto your Web form. The Toolbox is docked on the left-side of the IDE; however, if it is not visible, you ...

Exploring the visual studio 2012 IDE : Part-1

Introduction Visual Studio 2012 provides an IDE to web developers, which is full of toolbars and windows. The windows are dockable, which allows to rearrange them on the IDE as per your requirements. The IDE can also be used for...

Print Image using PrintDialog Box

To print images in windows forms Graphics class and its various methods are used. Graphics class provides methods for sending objects to a device such as printer. Add a printDocument,  printDialog and a button to the windows form...

FolderBrowserDialog Control in Windows Forms

Browse for folder dialog box is used to select a folder to save or open a file. Most often you may need to select a particular folder to open or save a file in windows based application. It enables user to select any folder on sy...

FileDialogBox control in Windows Forms

It is an abstract class, therefore we cannot instantiate it directly. We can use OpenFileDialog or SaveFileDialog to open a file or to save a file respectively. Just run the open or save dialog boxes is not sufficient to open or ...

Font Dialog Box Control in Windows Forms

While working on windows-based application, you might have to change the font size, style or related to font. Just like MS-Word there should be a font dialog box to differentiate some text from common text in the file. This can b...

Status Strip Container Control in Windows Forms

StatusStrip container control is used to display objects that are on the current form and also to provide feedback on the progress of any progress of any operation being performed by the form. Some of the properties of this conta...

How to Change file attributes in C# Programming

File attributes are metadata associated with computer files that define system behaviour.  Same as files, folders, volumes and other file system objects may have these attributes. All the operating system have often four attribut...

How to prevent duplicate child forms in windows forms C#

In my previous post we have create an MDI container form in which we have opened some individual forms called child forms. Each form contains a property MdiParent that is used to get or set the parent form of a particular form. ...

Filter data in datagridview according to combobox in c#

As we have previously studied that datagridview is used for display rows and columns of data in a grid format in windows form. Mostly data are previously defined which are to be shown in datagridview. Sometimes we have to change...

Round off value in DataGridView Cell

In most of the situations programmer want to save value in decimal data type, but try to show that value in approximate format. For example we have a variable "income" that have some different value as below income = 3.57 (stored ...

Use XML file as database

Sometimes, when we are creating small application, we have to use SQL Server database if we don’t know about any alternative solution. SQL Server databases are very familiar with programmers, but if our application is small th...

Find a control in windows forms

When we drag-n-drop controls in our designer file then we can easily access those controls in our code file directly by its name. But when we dynamically add some controls either in constructor or in load event of form then we ca...

Cut, Copy and paste operations in windows forms

Introduction It is impossible for one, specially a Programmer, to imagine his/her life without editing. Editing operations (Cut/Copy and paste etc.) are performed using clipboard, so these are also called Clipboard operation...