Lines and Boxes in VB.Net

11 Apr 2005 6:22 AM

bdtmike

Ok, dumb question from a newbie who does most of his development in
MSACCESS:

Access has a line control and a box control for placing lines on my
form. How is this accomplished in VB.Net? Hopefully we're not back to
using pixel coordinates and a draw method!

-Mike

11 Apr 2005 7:02 AM

Cor Ligthert

Mike,

One of the things that are missing is the posibility to draw a line on a
form in Net. In my opinion is the most efficient to use a very small control
that has lines

Copied from a message from Herfried, I don't know if it is original his.

You can use a label control with width or height set to 2, and
'BorderStyle' set to 'Fixed3D' to create an inset line.

I hope this helps,

Cor

11 Apr 2005 9:34 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

<bdtm***@hotmail.com> schrieb:

> Access has a line control and a box control for placing lines on my
> form. How is this accomplished in VB.Net? Hopefully we're not back to
> using pixel coordinates and a draw method!

Shapes and lines:

Advanced Shape Control
<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/advanced_shape_control.asp>

LineControls.exe
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vb/LineControls.exe>
<URL:http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/e/0/7e070297-47fe-4443-9194-ab57acd8ea01/LineControls.msi>

Creating transparent Windows Forms controls.
<URL:http://www.bobpowell.net/transcontrols.htm>

Rules:

Wrapping Win32 Controls in .NET - Horizontal and Vertical Rules
<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/hvrules1.asp>

Alternatively you can use a label control with width or height set to 2, and
'BorderStyle' set to 'Fixed3D' to create an inset line.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

12 Apr 2005 12:28 AM

bdtmike

Thanks. This is very helpful. At least there's a workaround for
everything. It looks like they left a lot of stuff out but I guess
that's what Whitbey is for...

12 Apr 2005 8:58 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

<bdtm***@hotmail.com> schrieb:

> Thanks. This is very helpful. At least there's a workaround for
> everything. It looks like they left a lot of stuff out but I guess
> that's what Whitbey is for...

Whidbey won't include shape controls :-(.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

14 Apr 2005 3:13 AM

bdtmike

That's amazing.. There are shapes on just about every dialog box you
dessign. Why leave that one out?

14 Apr 2005 11:19 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

<bdtm***@hotmail.com> schrieb:

> That's amazing.. There are shapes on just about every dialog box you
> dessign. Why leave that one out?

Only Microsoft knows...

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>