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Using MaximumSize Corrupts RadForm Border

Environment:

* WinForms 2009 Q1 SP1 (2009.1 414)

* VS 2008 SP1

* Windows XP Pro SP3

RadForm grabs a sliver of the surrounding area and retains it with the form, making it ugly. It happens when you have the form's MaximumSize property set, and you maximize the form. To reproduce:

* Start a vanilla VB Winforms project

* Drag a RadButton onto the form, then delete the button (this auto sets refs to Telerik assemblies)

* In Form1.Designer.vb, make the form inherit from Telerik.WinControls.RadForm

* Set the .MaximumSize property for Form1 to (400,300)

* Size Form1 smaller than this in the design environment, say, (200, 200)

* Run the project

* Move the form over something w/variation - you won't see the bug very well if the form is over a solid area

* Maximize the form

* On the right and bottom, you'll now see artifacts grabbed from the surrounding area, which are now persistent on the form.

The error occurs w/both w/the default Vista skin and Office Black.

A bitmap illustrating the issue is one folder down in the zip file, which also contains a sample VS2008 project:

Sample Project and Bitmap of Issue

If you don't fix this, I'll have to redo my form as a vanilla WinForm. When shall I expect a fix for this?

-James Frater, Creative Software Solutions csoftwares.com

Form

answered on 15 Jun 2009

6 answers

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Hide Tabs

I may have missed it but I could not find a way to hide the tabs. Is that possible? So that the position could be Top, Bottom, Left, Right, None? This way it could be used as a multi container control.

Tabstrip (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 15 Jun 2009

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Error installing toolbox when installing Q1 2009

I just installed the Q1 2009 version of RadControls for WinForms, and received an error when the installer attempted to install tools to the toolbox. I found a log file in the appropriate folder that contains the following text. What can I do to get the tools to install? My version of VS is 2008 SP1 and my OS is Vista 32bit.

Thanks in advance...

Log Text:

Starting ToolBox install procedure.
Exception:   Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BA018599-1DB3-44F9-83B4-461454C84BF8} failed due to the following error: 80080005.
Stack:
    at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at ToolBoxInstaller.Init(String dteTypeString)
   at ToolBoxInstaller..ctor(String currentVersion)
   at ToolBoxInstaller.Main(String[] arguments)
Loaded Assemblies

   mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
       file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll

   ToolBoxInstaller, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
       file:///C:/Windows/Installer/MSI74B6.tmp

   EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
       file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/EnvDTE/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/EnvDTE.dll

   System.Xml, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
       file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

   System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
       file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

   EnvDTE80, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
       file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/EnvDTE80/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/EnvDTE80.dll

General Discussions

answered on 15 Jun 2009

2 answers

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Export winform GridView to CSV

I see here http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/export-excel.html that I can export to Excel which is great, but lets say I want to export to CSV. The corresponding ASP.NET grid control can easily do this, but I don't see a way to easily do this with the GridView control in Winforms, surely there is someway to do this?

Thanks,
Ben

GridView

answered on 12 Jun 2009

1 answer

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The month display jumps out of its region

Helo.

When you make an Outlook Addin (2007) and you use the DateTimePicker on a form the month display jumps out of its region if you click on the dropdown button when it's already open. The same happens also in a normal Winforms project if you doubleclick fast enough.

Screenshot of the problem:
http://www.shrani.si/f/1Y/1C/2uDt7Esk/outlookaddin.png

Calendar, DateTimePicker, TimePicker and Clock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

1 answer

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RadTabStrip

In the beta, the TabStrip does not shorten tab labels correctly if there is not enough space. Writes over to the next tab Strip.
Used to work in Q1

Regards
Erwin

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

1 answer

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RadWaitingBar doesn't refresh

Hi All

I have a redWautingBar on a radForm.

When I initiate a long running task I call StartWait and every 10 time round the loop call the Refresh() method.

if(visible) radWaitingBar1.StartWaiting();
            else radWaitingBar1.EndWaiting();
            radWaitingBar1.Visible = visible;

void s_UpdateStatus(string status, int progress)
        {
            if ((progress % 10) == 0)
            {
                radWaitingBar1.Refresh();
                this.Refresh();
            }
        }

However the control doesn't scroll untill the process is over.

The stock .Net control works but looks nowhere as good.

Where have I gone wrong?!

Thanks in advance

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 12 Jun 2009

3 answers

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Form is slow to appear with the RibbonBar

Hello,

I write this message because I noticed that my form is slow to appear with RibbonBar.

So I had the idea to put a splashscreen to show loading of the application but is also the splashscreen is slow to appear.

I show the splashscreen and I use the Load event of the splashscreen. In this event, I set the Visible property to False of the form containing the RibbonBar and I used the Show property of this form.

And in the Load event of the form, I close the splashscreen and I put the Visible property to True to form with RibbonBar

But that does not work, the splashscreen is slow to appear.

I hope the splashscreen appears immediately and once the form with RibbonBar loaded, I close the splashscreen form and I show the form.

Is this possible ?

RibbonBar

answered on 12 Jun 2009

3 answers

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DocumentPane Activate Event fires twice

Hi

I am evaluating the docking controls at the moment and have a few issues.

Is there an easy way to tell when a DocumentPane becomes active. There looked to be a promising event on the DockingManager (DockTabChanged) but this doesn't seem to get fired when tabs are added or deleted or the document pane is split.

The DockingWindow activate event seems to allow me to do what I want, but I have to add event handlers to each Document (which is doable but a pain). However the event fires twice for each activation (which is a pain to deal with). This is evident in your TabbedDocument sample (2009 Q1).

Thanks

Simon

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009

1 answer

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DocumentWindow Close and Tab Activation

In the old Docking Manager, when I close a window (context menu on Tab) the prior tab gets active:

A B C D E F

when I close D, C gets active, which I find more logical

In the Beta, when I close C, F gets active, confusing if you have more than 2 or 3 documents open.

Regards
Erwin

Dock

answered on 12 Jun 2009