I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to do multi-row selections in a data
grid with a simple mouse click without using the shift key or the row
headers.  Simply  we want our users to be able to select several rows by
clicking on them with their mouse and have them all remain ...

I'm creating a custom control (inheriting from base windows control
RadioButton). I want the background for the control to be transparent, so in
the OnPaint method the first thing I do is clear the client rectangle with a
transparent colour:

VS2005b2 - I think TextBox.Cut, TextBox.Paste etc should not work with ReadOnly = true...
Because of that missing, I have to add tests in my code to prevent that.
Am'I missing something ?
TIA, AndreB.

Is there a simple way to change the colour of the checkbox's background
colour from the default white to another colour for the actual box (not the
label which you can do at design time).

I am have an application which uses cotnrols and i want to expose it using
browser in an asp.net application.
Is there a way to specify referenced assembly in html object tag. part of
my classes are in different dll and when it gives exception that it cannot

I'm searching for a good way to avoid the bug that a treeview displays
a horizontal scrollbar in non-XP style when you fill its nodes e.g. in
the constructor of your form.
This seems to work:

Is there any way of changing the header control 's ( column  header)
background color? I want to give different color to each of the column of
the listview's header.  I know owner draw ia one way of doing it but I would
like to if there are any APIs available to do this .

When selecting text in a textbox by moving the cursor while holding the
shift key
there are two 'modes':
1. if you start the selection by moving to the right then the selection

Please could someone show me how to do the following in VB .NET:
1. Freeze a column in a datagrid similar to the functionally in Excel where
you can 'Freeze Pane' - so when you scroll right you can see the first
column.

I would like to use the OpenFileDialog to allow the user to select a file
for processing.  Is there any way I can prevent the user from browsing to
folders other than the InitialDirectory?  For security reasons, I cannot
allow users to browse to other folders on the computer.

This is a hairy one.
I have a situation in which the textbox.validating event fires when it
should not. The Text box is itself contained in a user control, which is
then loaded dynamically into a panel on a form. The form has some buttons on

Hi, what is the MousePosition property of System.Windows.Forms.Control?  I
tried reading it but I can't relate the Point values to the real position of
my mouse.
Thanks.

Hi to all,
I have a text box that must display a string readed from a MSDE database.
In  Win2000/XP when a carriage return (e.g. where the user that entered the
string pressed ENTER) is encountered, I got a small box and the string don't

Hi, I'm developing a custom tabControl and could not intercept the
onPaint/onPaintBackground events in the inherited class. Is there anything
I'm missing here?
Here's the code:

My user interface design requires that ErrorProviders are used for errors
but also to indicate warnings to the users as well. In order to provide a
clear visual clue between errors and warnings its necessary to have two
differing icons.