Questions tagged [winforms]
WinForms is the informal term given to the graphical application programming interface (API) included as a part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, providing access to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the existing Windows API in managed code.
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2-Player Chess in WinForms V.2 (With Separation of Concerns)
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After getting initial feedback on my first working version of this Chess WinForms game here, I have used the suggestions and comments from there to come up with this new version, trying ...
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2-Player Chess in WinForms
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I decided to program a two player Chess game in C# windows forms to help me to improve my programming skills and OOP skills.
I have come to a working finished program (as far as I can ...
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Fill TextBox from ListBox on click
I have a form in a WinForms application that has a Textbox called txtSupplier, a button called btnSrchSuppliers, a label called <...
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Bouncing balls program with speed up/speed down boxes and lines which change direction of ball
I'm new to C#, background in Ada, C. This is my second lab in a course, output works correct but I feel like I've missed something about OOP. I've asked for feedback from lab 1, but didn't get any.
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WinForms Most effective way to Rearrange Custom Controls in a FlowLayoutPanel?
I am creating a video parser in C# WinForms. You select files, they get parsed then a custom control (ViewWideNarrow ) is created showing the video's name, duration and so forth, which is then added ...
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Simple Ellipse Collision Mini Game
I am doing an exercise to help me understand C#and OOP. The exercise is supposed to teach me about ...
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Login authentication using MVP pattern
How can I improve my login script and is there a cleaner way to get the same result? I had this project and redesigned it using MVP patten . Working with this patten is a new challenge for me. It's ...
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Using buttons as common for child forms c#
I have mini ERP project in C# winform. So I have too many forms in the project. I have buttons and I want want to use these buttons as common for all forms. I implement codes below but i am not sure ...
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Saving Multiple Lists to Database - C# Forms
I am trying to store multiple lists to a database but I'm struggling on finding a better way of doing it, as the way I am doing it now, seems to be incorrect.
On my form, I have 6 different legs. Each ...
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Creating a new WinForm each time pressing a button in a main WinForm
I have WinForm C# application that every time you press on the green button:
It opens a new WinForm window. This is the code after pressing the green button:
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How to optimize the code of my pdf generation from DGV code using iText5 & c#?
I have 2 DGV's one containing bills info & another containing credit notes info. When at least one item from both the DGV's are selected then it should generate a pdf (result1) taking data from ...
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Windows standard calulator replica in WinForms C#
I tried my best to replicate, in style and functionality, the Windows standard calculator:
I would like to get some feedback on the efficiency and readability of my code as well as the approach i ...
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Export DGV data as a table to a word file using Xceed's DocX library
my winform app contains a combo box, a button and two datagridview among other controls. Both DGV's have 3 columns.
When I select an item/items from one or both of the DGV's and hit the button the app ...
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User interface for a simple tool that generates Word documents from Excel data
This question provides the code behind the dialogs in the C# refactoring question. I'd like a review of this code as well. I'm not currently using databinding anywhere, and there is really only one ...
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Follow Up: Refactored C# Tool to Generate MS Word Document Mailbox List From MS Excel
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Some very good observations were made about my original code in the 2 answers to this question. In this version I have attempted to reduce cyclic complexity and class coupling even more as ...
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Optimize the data adding process to datatable from excel file
I'm creating a simple windows form application containing a combo box, a text box, a datagridview, a button and some radio buttons. The idea is upon the form loading the combo box is to be populated ...
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Simple stock taking program in C# Windows forms
so I've made a simple program meant to increase and decrease numbers, then save those numbers, basically a rubbish stock taking app, I want to make one I can use and well it's usable I'd say the code ...
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Verify that 5 Textboxes have some content
I'm new to C#. I have created a form that has 5 text boxes and this function checks to see if every text box has text in the box. If not, then it displays a message box saying "Error (Add Text)...
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DataGridView Undo/Redo Manager in C#
While answering this code review question, I proposed a solution with List<DataTable>. I am trying to encapsulate this data structure into a "...
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Undo/Redo Functionality in DataGridView c#
I have looked at many topics related to this topic, but I could not find or understand for datagridview table. Finally I made the undo / redo implementation myself using datatable lists. This solution ...
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A Tiny Image Tagger Implementation in C#
I am trying to implement a tiny image tagger with customized tag options in C#. The main window is as follows.
The left block is a picture box MainPictureBox and ...
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This code loops through a GlobalEmployeesList, eliminates duplicate email and phone records for the selected employee, and populates listboxes
I have a DataGridView which displays an employee list. I use the employee ID to filter my global employee list and display information about the selected employee in various listboxes. This is my ...
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final code of my first winform application
I am learning .NET for about a month now ..and i am practicing by making a simple WinForms project ..now almost my WinForms is completed ..i need to gather your suggestion on how my progress is going ...
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Simple target shooter game using Windows Forms
Currently, my game is a basic target shooting game.
The targets rise to the top, if the target reaches the top an end screen is shown.
If you shoot a target you get more score, and the speed in which ...
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What is the correct way to alter ComboBox between two DataSources?
I am looking to alter one combobox between two DataSources depending on the button clicked.
Here are the 2 lists:
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Is my structure of program readable?
Just looking for reviews to improve my coding and my structure of C#. It feels I probably have some unnecessary code that is not needed, been following some YouTube videos to accomplish some tasks.
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Getting data from database and present it on Winforms
Currently, I am working on this project where I need to achieve the following...
Get column named Category from MySQL database. And whatever the output is, check ...
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WinForm Logon Best Practices
I have a working logon for a WinForms Project. I use the program.cs file to launch the login form. I am not so sure there isn't a better way of implementing this.
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Applying OOP to refactor my Windows Forms APP [closed]
Could you please give me some direction about how I could refactor my code? As I add functionalities to my Budget App the class is getting bigger and I'm sure I could start looking at separating ...
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C# easier ways to filter values in data-grid by month
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My goal is to filter datagrid by selected month from dropdown options.
January, February, March etc...
I'd like to know if ...
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Windows Forms Log in and Dashboard
I'd like to see and hear some reviews on my current WinForms Login and Dashboard code.
It's a desktop application to be used only internally and not over the web.
If you have any code suggestions - I'...
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C# Window Form Application Loading data into DataGrid and highlight specific values based on their values
I'd like to hear some reviews or tips where I can improve in my code - or better if you can post your own version of the code from somebody experienced where I can visually see to why you have coded ...
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Identify clickable area in a big panel
I have a panel that has 4 images per row and a lot of rows. Each image has a 15 pixels separation and are 250,250 each.
Here is a screenshot:
I'd like to be able to click on a picture and identify ...
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Web API wrapper design and sharing EF database context
I'm trying to keep my sanity while working with a legacy winforms application that uses an web api, both maintained by my team.
In the past we have multiple cases of methods using wrong api endpoints,...
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C# MineSweeper Game using winform
I designed a game with trying to use solid principles. What changes should I do for making program more extensible, readable. Thanks in advance.
Cell class
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Entering specific models, brands, and prices into system
Specifically the if/else statements trying to match model and brand. The code works, but it's ugly. Any suggestions to clean it up?
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C# MySQL connection and some queries
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I am trying to get the hang of using MySQL connections within C# windows forms.
These are such areas I am targeting:
Loading dataGridView correctly
Refresh dataGridView from an external form (...
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C# Windows Forms App: Adding An Element To The BindingSource And Save These Changes To The DB [closed]
I have build a C# Windows Forms app that used Entity Framework(DB first model). For the data I am using a .mdf database file.
The data view of dbo.students:
GUI:
The Form1 class:
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Is there a better/cleaner way to assign values based on the result of radio buttons?
I have 3 radio buttons all grouped inside a group box in a WinForms project. Currently, I am checking which button is checked and assigning values using the following if/else statement, similar to the ...
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Minesweeper Implementation c# winforms
I made a minesweeper game in c# as a method of studying, and right now its fully operational.
I tried to use inheritance, recursion, and other fundamentals as clean as possible. Also I tried to use ...
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Simple winform that randomizes images in a picturebox
I wrote this code for a simple app that gives us random images. The code works, but I feel like I'm doing something wrong. And one thing I would love to know is instead of grabbing from a folder ...
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Work-in-Progress Form to be used throughout an application
I want to write my own Work-In-Progress form to use it throughout my app (for the time being, mostly as an exercise).
I came up with the following code, I would like to know what are the design ...
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TreeView class in WPF class
We are converting a WinForms application to WPF. so I need to accept the input like WinForms. As I don't want to change the logic of it. Ao I write the class for those its works. But the is not good ...
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Reading Data from XML and storing them into SQL Database
I am developing a C# Windows forms application. In that, I am reading data from XML which is coming from a web API and storing that XML data into SQL database. I am able to achieve this. But my only ...
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Page-by model of data output and search results with values for UI
This is my first experience of designing classes with inheritance. I would like to get feedback on the interaction between the presented classes. It is unlikely that this code will seem complicated. ...
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ROT13 encoder/decoder
This is a simple utility, intended to sit on the desktop for when needed, that does the simple ROT13 encoding and decoding.
I am used to coding in VBA, and I am interested in more .Net idiomatic ...
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Small application for manipulating users and their activities
I made a small application using C#, SQL Database, entity framework , and windows forms to manipulate users (...
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Adding filtered data from database into a grid view [closed]
I'm trying to optimize this nested foreach and if statement function for work. My code is retrieving data from a SSMS SQL database with thousands of fields from multiple tables of data, moving them to ...
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Initialize global repository or in forms? [closed]
Until now we have always initialized the repositories, that containing MySql functions, at the beginning of each Form
Something like that
Form example code:
<...
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Spliting PDF and get thumbnail while adding it to a ListView
I'm doing a application to work with PDF and TIFF files.
To divide them, the user opens the file or folder (if it is a folder, it gets all the files inside) and the app splits the file, getting a tiny ...
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