I created a simple splash screen with a progress bar in it that should
keep the user entertained while my application is busy loading resources.
The code goes like this:
    // Display the loading splash screen while we're busy.

The showModalDialog() function allows you to pass a value into the
dialog window. If the method is called from .net managed code and a
variable is passed to it, as opposed to a literal value like "hello",
accessing the dialogArguments property of the window object from within

As I do to fill out two droplist of different tables in the event open of
the webforms.
I get to fill out one, but when I try two says that cannot open another
connection.

I noticed that components that use XmlSerializer class cause CLR to probe
for XmlSerializers assembly. Is this default behavior, i.e. whenever
component try to serialize/deserialize one of its classes, CLR will search
for pre-compiled serializer? If so, can I simply use SGEN tool ...

When using the Enterprise Library Excption Handling Application block,
how can I pass extra contextual information to the Exception Handling
block so I can make more user-friendly exceptions.
Here is an example where I'd like to add contextual info.  I have a 3rd

I am writing a large and complex sub procedure in a form, and when there is
a certain amount of code or more I receive the error 'Common Language
Runtime detected an invalid program' when it reaches this sub procedure
during runtime.

Example:
namespace _111_
{
   public struct S

How do you send a windows message in the .net framework?  Creating
messages is easy, so is intercepting messages, but I cannot find a .net
equivalent to the windows api sendmessage() function.

I need my setup and deployment project to install Framework 2.0. I have got
the redistibutable dotnetfx.exe but can't see how to include it in the setup
project. There used to be a setup.exe and Settings.ini file in V1.1. Can't
find the same thing for V2.0

Given an arbitrary ".resx" file (not ."resources"), does anybody know how I
can identify that this file actually contains a Windows form (in code). Once
identified, I then want to collect information about the form and all its
controls. Presumably I would want to read this file ...

If this is a stupid question, please accept my apologies!
I want to create 'trial' based software that expires after 30 days unless
the user purchases a licence.
However, it generally doesn't take long before some smartass has cracked the

I have recently added a mutex to the startup of an application to stop
users from opening multiple instances. Works great except the
application no longer works on NT4. The error I get is:
The Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.

What is the best way of managing scheduled tasks?  My current requirement is
to be able to check on the status of tasks that are supposed to run overnight
- mostly to be able to check that they have all completed successfully.  I've
seen talk about wrappers being available but ...

I cannot seem to a get ToolTip to display for either a WebBrowser control or
a RichTextBox control.
I CAN get a ToolTip display on all the other controls on my form.
Is it possible to display ToolTips on WebBrowser and RichTextBox controls?

i upgraded from vs2003 to vs2005.
upgraded from framework 1.1 to 2.0.
did a conversion on my code.
my site is working on my local machine, however it is failing on