If I am drawing an object inside of something, say a Form, and the user
starts dragging that form narrower and then wider, how do I capture that
resizing event so that I can redraw my object while they are dragging the
form size?

I m using the visual studio designer to create 1 Dataset with 1 table
with 3 columns : Id, Name, Birthday.
Once this done, still with the designer, I m creating a datagridview
and choose my dataset as DataSource.

I am wondering what is the fastest way to get plain text such as "abc def 12"
from an HTML string.
I can parse it, but not sure how to deal with those special characters, such
as   & and >. Is there an API to get the right plain text?

I am writing a client app that communicates with a legacy system via email.  
The legacy system uses very primative mail messaging and thus doesn't support
MIME or Base64 Encoded attachments.
Since System.Web.Mail is supposed to be deprecated my client is using

I am wondering whether it is easily achievable to create a custom combo
box control which contains certain items preloaded.
Basically I have a form which will contains several combos, each of
which will contain the same items.  Rather then iterating through each

I recently started with .NET and C#.
I have a stored proc in SQL Server that returns a dynamic/variable set
of columns depending on the parameter I pass. I'd like to display the
information in a gridviewand be able to show the column header names

the company I work for has an application that would greatly benefit,
All customers run Windows 2000 or better, will they all have to
manually install MSMQ on their systems to send messages out?

I would like to enable anti-alias in a rich text box, is this possible, know
of any alternative controls where this is possible.
Regards Jesper.

I have a class library that has app.config that has <system.diagnostics>
that specifies trace listeners. The class library is loaded by a third party
unmanaged application. I want the .NET framework to read the diagnostic
section and create listeners for me. For a managed ...

I wanted to change the Non client area height. This was not possible in
the existing Form TitleBar. So I set the FormBorderStyle= None and I
calculated and introduced the Non Client area myself. So the height and width
of the Non Client area is 15 and 4 pixels border respectively ...

I have a small unmanaged app that I would like to somehow "host" in my
C# app. Can I somehow put it in a window in my C# app, so as far as the
unmanaged app can tell, it's just running as normal?
Any pointers would be helpfull!

I store my server and database names in a static class that all
libraries use.  Using a config file, I can switch from test, staging,
or production servers easily.
I like what TableAdapters are generated by VS.NET 2005 do.  It seems

SQL Server 2005 SP1 Standard & Express
.NET 2.0 and ADO.NET
C#
Hi,

I'm playing with an Access 2003 (Converted Northwind & Split) DB.  I 'copy &
paste' the split Access DB into the 'Solution' of C#.NET and make the
'connection'.  I then 'copy & Paste' the DB (from the original into the
'Output Directory' of the Project - Debug).  I then went into ...

I want to compare to double values, as follows:
double max = 1000.0;
double y = 1000.0;
if (y>max) throw new ApplicationException("Value y exceeds the max");