in vb.net 2005 i havecreated a mdi child form
when i open that form it opens in normal window
even if i ahd set it propertise to maximzie
when i minimixe it  and agin maximize it

How to create format string for decimal data type
which shows blank for zero and default format otherwize ?
I tried format string "f;f;#"  but this shows f for nonzero numbers.
Andrus.

Took a look at a demo of font dialog for WPF, and it looks
complicated. You could do the same thing in C# 3 WinForms 2.0 in about
one-half to one-fourth the code.
So I wonder, for you that have made the transition to WPF, how much of

I would like to get default(T). However, I don't know what T is until
runtime; I just have a Type. Is there an equivilent means of getting
the results of default(T)?
Thanks,

If we have something like this
object x = null;
MessageBox.Show(x.ToString())
we get an error. That kindof makes sense but there is no reason the

static tc gto;
public class tc
{
public int a=99;

when i press enter key , i should get all valuse of selected row/column in specific text box

Im running into problems installing either VS 05 or 08 on a Vista
Premium 64 bit machine and, ahem, it isnt going sweetly.
When installing i get an
"Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly

I believe all strings in .net are unicode by default, I am looking for a
way to remove all non ascii characters from a string (or optionally
replace them).
There is an article on code project which kind of looks like it does

When you create a system that takes "plugins," does that mean that
your plugins give new additional methods that were not there in the
original plugin interface previously or does it only mean that I have
a set of interfaces that must be implemented and those new

I am running out of printing paper trying to debug this...it has to be
trivial, but I cannot figure it out--can you?  Why am I not printing
text, but just the initial string "howdy"?
On the screen, when I open a file, the entire contents of the file is

Beware newbies:  I spent a day before I figured this out:  copying a
bitmap (image) file to file is not quite like copying a text file--you
have to do some tricks (see below), like using a "Graphics" object to
wrap around the image (!).  It's not so simple as shown in most

Can i write what line is work now?
try
{
...

Being doing a little UI work in vs 2008 and I noticed something. After
reading over the docs for the listview control it seems to me that some
things are missing.
I'd created a listview for my own use back in vs 2003 that implemented these

I can't get the below code to work, no matter how many times I change
it.  I do have the Image file, Image1, created (in another method),
and using "hard coding" I can save it (it's a filled rectangle) on my
hard drive, but I cannot use the Dialog box to select a user defined