I'm using the RDLC Report Designer in VS2010 10.0.3 RTM release.
I'm trying to turn on the gridlines in RDLC design view. I can turn on the rulers, but I can't seem to find the option to turn on grid lines.
Anyone know how to do this?
Unfortunately they dropped the grid in the VS2010 report designer and replaced it with simlilar lining up/space between functionality you see in the Form Designer.
In my opinion this was a mistake as there are many times when you want to work on an "absolute" grid as opposed to lining up "relative" to other elements, especially when trying to replcate existing reports.
I realize I'm posting an answer to an old post, but I was also looking how to do the same thing for my SSRS reports and tried:
Tools -> Option -> Windows Forms Designer -> General the Settings by default:
LayoutMode=SnapToLines
ShowGrid=True
SnapToGrid=True
The grid snap worked but no grid showed up.
The next best thing or work-around I found would be to also have the ruler show up so at least I could see where the snapping was taking place.
Next to the zoom dropdown on the designer is a ruler icon. Clicking that toggles the ruler on and off.
Hope this helps others trying to find a solution to the missing grid lines.
Right click on the blank section outside of the report, click View then Ruler.
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In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind together for both files.
I want to scroll just one of the sides while the other stay pinned also I want to avoid comparing outside on the VS.
I can't find any solution online and there is no obvious option in the VS.
I'm Using VS2015 with TFS.
Thank you.
EDIT
New feature request for microsoft was opened
Feature request
EDIT
In VS1029 Version 16.11.3 feature exist, by pressing it you can unbind the windows
In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind
together for both files.
For this , I am afraid this is by designed. The same is true for my test in visual studio2019.
You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site , which is our main forum for product suggestions. After suggest raised, you can vote and add your comments for this feedback. The product team would provide the updates if they view it.
how can i find the specific button on design mode where i have several buttons ie: hundered of buttons so that they all like spaghetti and one button may be under another button or a groupbox (i might be playing with the visibilities ) and i want to see my button number 83 on the design. how can i see him? where is he hiding? :) i use visual studio as an IDE. thanks.
MessageBox.Show(" where is the specific button? i know that he is somewhere on the form but cant distinguish it on the design since its somewhere under something i cant find it");
Use Document Outline (View - Other Windows - Document Outline)
Just pick the button from the tree and voila.
PS: this works for other types of designers (WPF/Silverlight, ASP.NET)
You can access it via the Properties Window. There is a drop-down that will list all of the items in your form in design mode.
Then use the drop-down. The drop-down will list all of the items on your form so you will scroll through the list to find Button number 83.
Images were pulled from MS Visual Studio: The properties Window which contains an explanation of the window.
Have you tried using the properties window?
In VS2010, I've created an rdlc report that I want to view using the reportviewer. On the report, I want to use a scanned image underneath all the text (since it must look like the agency's letterhead), and this image must take up the whole page. The problem is that the text boxes on the report are all bumped down beneath the image. Can someone help me figure out how to make this work?
Right click the image, select Layout, Send to Back.
I'm doing this in VS 2012 now, but I think it's the same in VS 2010.
Right click the body of your report (in design mode),
Select "Body Properties..." and from there you can specify a Background Image.
You can place text above the image at design time. When ReportViewer display the report, it will look bad, but if you export the report in PDF format will look the same as you wish.
I know my answer does not resolve the problem. After working a lot on the subject, it is all I could get.
I have now tried in VS2013. No change.
Problem
I have created a blank report (mychart.jrxml).I cannot figure out how to add a chart to my blank report in the designer view.
What I have tried
I went into the samples folder under the iReport folder of the installation and opened up one of the samples that has a chart. In that example (charts.jrxml) the chart definition is expanded in the Summary section on the left tree navigation bar.
So I go to my blank (mychart.jrxml) file and try to right click "Summary" to see if I can add any type of component but I cannot.
UPDATE
I have noticed that in the main navigation bar the the Palette menu item under tools is empty.
Does anybody know how? Do I have to get the pay edition to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Official answer: Click on Window->Palette This will open up a Palette Widnow on the right
The form designer in Visual Studio is giving me fits and I'm hoping someone can at least point out what's going on.
The latest incarnation involved a tab sheet with some controls on each of the sheets. Sheets #2 and #3 were done and I was working on #1--when suddenly two controls on sheet #2 vanished in the running program. Some hunting showed that they had their width set to zero--yet they are fine in the designer.
The common factor I have had (I have had other such disappearances) is that the components are invisible when the form is created.
For any given state of the program the behavior is completely consistent but when other controls are created or destroyed the behavior may change.
Do you use Visual Studio's Document Outline Window? It's very useful for visualisation when dealing with complex layouts.