I've created a windows application with custom message loop, without using
an Application.Run method, and got all my forms not garbage-collected. Profiler
shows that forms' instances are referenced only by their own event handlers.
Clearing them manually helps, but this solution ...

I want to swalow all mousclicks in a comboBox control.
I created wy own 'public class roComboBox : System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox '
Created a property ReadOnly and call only the base events if the ReadOnly is
false (see code beneath) but the mousclicks still pass.

is it possible to create xml tag name at runtime i.e while running the
program it should take the parameter which the user enters and make that
as the tag name in the xml file generated.

Is there a way to determine what the size of a GDI+ string output would be
prior to drawing?
For example, If I have something like this:
Dim fnt As New Font("Times", 12)

The Enterprise Library seems to have a lot of good stuff in it.  However, am
I missiing something, or is the Data Access Application Block JUST for
Oracle, SQL server & DB2. What about OLEDB for Access DBs????

I have a simple windows app.  On the form, I have one panel which displays
an image.  I have a KeyDown event that I use to tweek the image depending on
which keys are hit. ie.  ctrl-D, ctrl-A, etc.  Works fine so far.
Now I've added a textbox (and there will be other controls) to ...

A few quick questions:
1. when a user sends a request to the server, does this reset the session
timeout back to the default? i.e.: 20 minute session timeout, user does
nothing for 15 minutes, submits back to the server, the user has a renewed 20

I would like to have your opinion...
Imagine i have a pattern that defines:
- abstract factory : my consumer always handle with a interface and not with
direct implementation, and calls a factory to get an object instance;

What I am looking for is the details on how Forms work internally in terms
of threads that get created, message loops, etc.
Here are the type of question(s) I am looking answer so I need info that
would help:

I have a window service that uses a filesystemwatcher object to monitor a
folder on the root drive. AFter about 40min of no activity, the
filesystemwatcher stops noticing changes on the folder.
I've done several things

I have an obect that needs to inform the outside world wheter prices are
synchronized or not. My first idea was to use a public property for this:
public bool PricesSynchronized
But I need to access a database and the query takes a (relatively) long time

Using Type.GetConstructors(BindingFlags), I can't seem to be able to acquire
a ConstructorInfo object for the implicit, parameter-less constructor for a
struct if it doesn't define an explicit constructor with parameters itself.
The same apparently works for classes, though - if ...

i currently have a datagrid with a price column and would like to know if
there is a way to formate the column so a '$' appears in front of everything
in the column.  i've seen a few of the table style utilities people have
built, but i can't help but think there should be an ...

I have 3 fields, SecurityID (int), Price (decimal) and DateStamp
(DateTime), up until now i've been recording the price in a SQL table
and reading it out. The reading is fine, but the boxes are really
stuggling with the writing, the Avg. Disk Queue Length is bordering on

I know its not possible to override explicit interface declarations in a
subclass.
But is it doable in MSIL?
what I need to do is to create runtime proxies for different IList