Is there a control in vb.net that is specifically designed for displaying content larger than the control itself?
I know it's possible to code your own using a panel and two scrollbars, but is there an already existing method for this?
Thanks for your help
All control containers, such as Panel, FlowLayoutPanel etc. have AutoScroll property, which does what you want.
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I want to make my application so that when it has been maximized the control will automatically position itself it the right place.
Assuming that this is a WinForm project, you need to set the Anchor property of the button to Bottom, Right.
The most useful control is the TableLayoutPanel. You should put all the controls on the panel -> set dock: Full and every time the form resized, the controls stay in their container.
I have an add-in, developed using VSTO, that displays a custom task pane in Excel. This custom task pane holds a user control containing tree-view and other controls. I enabled AutoScroll for the user control and can see the traditional windows scroll bar when ever i re-size the control. However, i want the scroll bar to be similar to the scroll bars that exist in Thesaurus CTP in Excel 2013,when the CTP is in floating position and re-sized to smallest size, (i cant post images as i have reputation below 10). can any one provide pointers for this?
Also is there any way to restrict the minimum size of CustomTaskPane ?
Hello Guruteja,
You can handle the Resize event of the Control class to control the size of your form and set the min size programmatically.
It looks like you need to develop a custom control to imitate the built-in one. Or try searching for any third-party Windows Forms controls.
Please excuse my lack of familiarity with vb.net. Just got thrown on a project with no vb.net experience.
I have to add some things to an application that was written by somebody who is no longer in the picture. I have to add more textboxes into a groupbox and when I do that it exceeds the size of the form. How can I make it so that I can scroll through the groupbox?
GroupBox, as it doesn't derive from ScrollableControl, so itself can't have scrolling functionality.
So...
Place the GroupBox inside a panel, and set the panel AutoScroll to true.
Guides:
Adding a panel control
Setting properties (of anything)
Moving content is just simply selecting all the elements you want to move, and click and drag them into the new place.
You could set the AutoSize property of the groupbox to true, and then set the AutoScroll of the form to true as well. This should resize the groupbox so that everything in it is visible, and then the form will have a scrollbar. If you don't want to make your form have a scrollbar for some reason, then you could use a panel and set it's AutoScroll to True so that just the panel has a scrollbar.
Add a Panel with no border inside the GroupBox to group your controls (put the controls inside). Then:
Panel1.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical
Or even ScrollBars.Auto.
GroupBox doesnt have scrolling functionality itself. Most likely most simple solution here is to just put a Panel inside the groupbox and add the textboxes to the panel instead.
I'd like to know, how I can implement my own SemanticZoom WITHOUT GridView control.
I have my own custom controls on the mainpage but a structure similar to a grouped GridView and I want to open details after the user makes a zoom-gesture on a group.
But it seems that the SemanticZoom control only works together with the GridView.
Any ideas?
cheers, Thomas
The controls contained inside the SemanticZoom control can be any control that implements the ISemanticZoomInformation interface - ISemanticZoomInformation interface
Simple example at Semantic Zoom only supports GridView and ListView?
Do you know anyway to change the style and theme of a scroll bar in a vb.net application? I need code or program that changes all scroll bars of the form.
I've been searching the web and found programs to change color of scroll bar but they were mostly designed for websites and written in CSS or JavaScript code. I would be so thankful if you have a solution for it.
Thanks
There isn't any property or feature to change the style of scrollbar of WinForm control. You should have to choose WPF instead of WinForm.