What is the best way to make a label transparent when it is sitting on top
of a gradient backgroun or gradient image streched in a picturebox control?
Do you know of any thirdparty controls that makes this easy?
Thanks,

I've built a user control that includes an image. I have a scrolling panel
that contains a number of these controls, but when I scroll the panel the
controls flicker terribly as the Paint method gets continually called.
If I use native controls such as PictureBox controls, the ...

I create a custom event as follows:
        public delegate void delegMarkReceivedMessege(char ch);
        public event delegMarkReceivedMessege MessageReceivedEvent;
and I want to fire it.

I am writing a program that performs some simple chemical formula analysis,
in an effort to improve the UI, I was hoping to extend the Treeview Control
(.NET Framework 2.0 Windows Forms) to allow superscript and subscript text in
the treenode names. Any help with this would be ...

I have extended the TreeView control:
public class PropertyTreeView : TreeView
I want to take advantage of the form designer's capabilities but it
complains that it's not a proper user control, etc. I can't subclass

Can someone give me step-by-step instructions for associating a custom
editor and designers with controls in a WinCE5.0 Control Library?
At http://www.mooseworkssoftware.com/VS2005%20Control.htm I found this:
"...we set the Editor attribute of the class to that editor as shown

Can anyone point me to an article/example of how to do a copy from a
datagridview?
I have a datagridview in which a user can select a block of cells (not
necessarily complete rows).  I would like them to be able to copy this

I need to make a text blink. I thought of a System.Threading.Timer and
an Invoke function but this approach gives me headaches. Is there a
better option ?
      Victor

Could someone please tell me how to override the default text when
placing a custom control on the design surface?
I have created a button control that inherits from
System.Windows.Forms.Button.  The only things I want to happen at

My table styles blows up
Dim dgts As DataGridTableStyle = New DataGridTableStyle
dgts.MappingName = "composition"
CatCompositionGrid.TableStyles.Add(dgts)

I have a component, which have an icon (converted from the bmp files that
comes with VS2005), it is correctly displayed. The problem occurs when the
component (non visual, like the menu strip) is placed on the form (the area
below the form in the IDE). The "transparent" color is ...

Hello, I have a problem that I'm trying to solve in VB.NET but having any
success. I have a user-defined control that is button. When the user clicks
this button it changes the forms title bar to the appropriate title; for
example, when the user clicks the ADD button the title in ...

I have a derived data grid which shows a custom control.  This works fine.
When the something changes it calls ColumnStartedEditing which shows the
pencil.  This works fine.  If the user moves to the next row or column the
pencil leaves and the data is saved.  This works fine.

I'm working on a WinForms app and I need to provide my users with the
ability to insert files into the RichTextBox control.  I have successfully
implemented the drag & drop as well as being able to Paste a document  into
the control.  However, I can't seem to find a way to allow the ...

Hi, I've been playing with RichTextBox and rtf format for a little while..
I've learned how to insert a color table in the head of my document and I've
learned the mark-up for coloring text...
So, let's say I have a header and color table like this: