C# Archives - Page 8 of 10 - Nitesh Kejriwal

28/04/2014 by Nitesh

How To Round a decimal value to 2 decimal places in C#

Friends, This is a very basic post that will explain few ways of restricting a decimal value to 2 decimal places in C#. Normally, we need to output the decimal values to 2 precision numbers. However, sometimes we also need to restrict the decimal variable itself to store not more than 2 decimal values (For…

27/02/2014 by Nitesh

How to Add Child Forms to a Menu Item automatically in MDI Windows Form Application

Friends, When working with MDI applications in Windows forms, on several occasions we end up opening a lot of child forms and then finding across where the child form is. To provide a nice user experience, it is advisable to display all open child forms under a menu named “Windows”. This is not a must…

26/02/2014 by Nitesh

How to Add Custom Checkbox Column to DataGridView in Windows Forms

Friends, In this post we will see how we can add a custom Checkbox column to an existing DataGridView in windows forms. Generally, when you assign a data source to the DataGridView and the data source contains a “bit” column or “bool” column, DataGridView automatically converts it into a Checkbox column. However, at times we…

10/01/2014 by Nitesh

How to Move a Windows Form By Dragging

Friends, Today, I was working on a Desktop application where I was required to drag a form by Mouse left click as we do in normal drag and drop operations. the only difference in this scenario was I needed to drag the entire form and the form was not supposed to be dropped anywhere else….

10/01/2014 by Nitesh

How to Get Width & Height of Desktop in WinForms

Friends, In certain scenarios we need to know the screen resolution our desktop application will be running on. To get this information, Microsoft provides us with a very handy class namely SystemInformation that can be found in System.Windows.Forms namespace. Using this class, we can almost every information about the current system environment, the application is…