It appears that when you first click on the combo box that it just sets the
focus to the control, then the 2nd click makes it drop down. Is there a way
to make this work with just one click?
This is very annoying as a user to have to click twice whenever I use the

i was wondering if there was a way to disable the text within the banner
area, so there is just the image. there isnt a property for it.
Bruce

I am using the native client of oracle through the System.Data.OraClient .
Find gives to the following error “Unable to find an entry   point named
ocienvcreate in dll oci.dll” when I execute the Open method of the
OracleConnection object. I believe that it must of being by some ...

I'm working on a video player app, and I want to implement a trackbar
that behaves like the one in Media Player, that is the cursor position
moves to where the user clicked instead of moving in that direction by
a fixed value.  Has anyone implemented something like this before?  I

I've been executing the CopyFileEx code below in a Windows Application for
several months...
    Try
       If CopyFileEx(fiSource.FullName, strTargetFile, Fpr, ACTION_COPY, 0,

Hi, spent a while trying to figure this out myself and i seem to be missing
something.
I want to create a windows user control in vb.net 8 that i can then use in
office applications like powerpoint or visio. So in VS 2005 i create a new

Can someone please kindly show me how to determine if a type (read value
type) is Nullable.
MSDN has this KB:
How to: Identify a Nullable Type (C# Programming Guide)

I am try to marshall the following:
/*typedef struct tagRAWMOUSE
{
  USHORT    usFlags;

hello friends,
                   i want to retrive my ebay customer order
information from ebay web page.(i am seller on ebay site)
                   i have used ebay API for that.

does anyone have good random number generator?
the .NET one does not generate a wide enough range of values as i have to
populate a psuedo array that has approx 500 million entries, using the .NET
generator the same sequence eventually repeats.

Hi there,
I have a curious problem I can't seem to solve.  I have a list box that gets
filled with data, the user selects an item in this list, then a form view
displays the full details from that list.  The problem I have is that the

I'm having a problem implementing the Separated Interface pattern from
Martin Fowler's book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
I'm using C# in Visual Studio 2005.
The problem I'm trying to solve is one of validation.  Let's say I'm

I have encountered an error while attempting to sign an assembly.  I have
become quite frustrated since I seem to be going in circles and making no
progress.  Hopefully someone will have the magic answer.
I am new to this so I will try to describe everything as well as I can.  

I have a global class GClass with 2 contants. Both are declared public in the
form:
PUBLIC Const Const1 = "xxx". When I try to use the constant as a default
value (see code excerpt below) the program bombs, but when I use a hardcoded

Visual Studio saves lots of values in the project's app.config file
(connection strings for datasets, My.settings, etc.), but as far as I can
see, if the project is in the middle teir, these values aren't made available
to the user because only the exe's app.config file is copied ...