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The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011 , details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we took a look at the TreeView . This time we will look at the ContextMenuStrip control: ContextMenuStrip [System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip] Represents a shortcut menu. Default Event: Opening Why use a ContextMenuStrip control? Use the ContextMenuStrip when you want to display a menu of commands when the user right clicks on a specific…   More »

New versions of PrimalScript 2011, PrimalForms 2011, and PrimalSQL 2011 are available. Registered users can download the latest service builds from MySAPIEN. Release Notes: PrimalScript 2011 v6.0.157 Fix: Allow easier default template creationNew: New default skin setting (Office 2010)Fix: Script2Exe not signing executablesFix: Crash if PowerShell profile corrupted or read access prohibited   PrimalForms 2011 v2.0.18 ADD: ScriptEditor context menu option to call a Project FileADD: View Spotlight article links to ToolboxPane and PropertyPane's context menusADD: Link to view all product related blog articles to the start page.ADD: Ribbon Button to link to Spotlight articlesADD: Help menu options to designer…   More »

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The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011, details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. In Part 1 of the Spotlight on the TreeView control, we looked at the TreeView properties, methods and event. Now we will focus on the TreeNodes and the TreeView’s Nodes property. TreeView Nodes Property Revisited: The TreeView keeps track of its nodes via the Nodes property, which consists of a collection of TreeNode objects.…   More »

The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011 , details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we looked at the TabControl. This time we will look at the TreeView control. Since the TreeView is one of the most elaborate controls we are going to split this Spotlight article into two parts: Part 1: TreeView Overview Part 2: TreeNode Overview TreeView [System.Windows.Forms.TreeView] Displays a hierarchical collection of labeled…   More »

Is your form suffering from shrinkage? Nobody likes it when your form shrinks to sizes where you can no longer see any controls. How embarrassing! Well there is hope! Stop embarrassing shrinkage with our simple solution! With a single application you will impress instead of depress! The PrimalForms Solution: Click on your form in the designer and alter the MinimumSize property in the Property Pane. Yes, that’s right! You can specify the minimum size your form will shrink to. Enter the minimum width and height and you’re done! And no more shrinkage problems! But what if you have the opposite…   More »

New versions of PrimalScript 2011, PrimalForms 2011, PrimalSQL 2011, and PrimalForms 2009 are available. Registered users can download the latest service builds from MySAPIEN. Release Notes: PrimalScript 2011 v6.0.152 + Compiled ActiveXPosh for PowerShell V2+ Document explorer cannot be switched off for VBScript and PowerShell+ Debugging VBScript can result in Error message when stepping+ Add execute selection in Shell (Ctrl+Shift+R)+ FTP files not recognized when unicode+ FTP upload to root folder fails+ Encoding of XML files not maintained, default to UTF-8   PrimalForms 2011 v2.0.16 FIX: Parsing Issue with Function Parameters and assignmentsFIX: ToolTip Property Issue with multiple TooltipsFIX: Issue…   More »

The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011 , details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we took a look at the MaskedTextBox control. This time we will look at the TabControl control: TabControl [System.Windows.Forms.TabControl] Manages a related set of tab pages. Default Event: SelectedIndexChanged Why use a TabControl control? Use the TabControl when you wish to present a series of related controls that are separated into…   More »

The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011 , details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we took a look at the MaskedTextBox control. This time we will look at the ImageList control: ImageList [System.Windows.Forms.ImageList] Provides methods to manage a collection of Image objects. Default Event: N/A Why use the ImageList control? Use the ImageList to store a group of images that can be accessed by other…   More »

New versions of PrimalScript 2011, PrimalForms 2011, PrimalSQL 2011, and PrimalXML 2011 are available. Registered users can download the latest service builds from MySAPIEN. Release Notes: PrimalScript 2011 v6.0.152 ADD: Support %ForceSTA% for PowerShell scripts ADD: Menu topic to debug script with elevation FIX: Filter used as member of an object results in faulty code folding FIX: Post mortem variable output slow for large FIX: Amount of variables Stepping in PowerShell debugger very slow with large number of variables FIX: Cmdlet parameters not picked up for Exchange 2010 PrimalForms 2011 v2.0.15 FIX: Function parameter parsing Issue FIX: Stored Procedures missing…   More »