I've managed to insert an icon into both the TextBox and the Combobox
controls. However, the DateTimePicker has no DrawMode property, nor can
I directly access the handle of the Textbox inside it (as I can with a
combobox).

I'm implementing in C# a simple drafting/graphics application.
I want to provide the user with controls for selecting linestyles, text
fonts, symbols, etc etc.
I imagine that I want these to look like the selectors in Word for font,

All,
I have recently begun some "exploratory" development work to ascertain how
much effort is going to be required to migrate our existing code base
(Visual Studio 6.0 SP6) to .net 2003.

I created a new Windows Control Library, which is inherited TextBox
(public class CMaskControl : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox).
When user right clicks by mouse on the textbox or press key context
menu on keyboard, he receives context menu (he can paste, copy, delete

I am working on a custom O/R Mapping software. Currently I am doing this:
foreach(DataRow row in table.Rows)
   MyList.Add(new BusinessObject(row));
But I really don't want to add objects of type "BusinessObject" to the

I would like to hide a column in my datagrid when the data source get
assigned.
e.g. below populated the datagrid
da.Fill(ds, "Table1")

i have a toolbar that uses icons from image list to show on it's buttons.
while i can see the icons on the buttons in design mode, in runtime the
buttons are just grey - no icon is shown, the buttons are enabled and fires
events on click, also tooltip is shown. It worked for me ...

When a RichTextBox control doesn't have focus, it DOES NOT scroll to the
last line that is added; however, if it does have focus, it WILL scroll to
the last line added.  I want to stop and start this behavior at will.  When
I stop the behavior, this will give users a chance to ...

Does anybody know where can I find somewhere on internet, source code of
appliacation similar with Ms Paint, or something easy for drawing.
Thanks a lot.

I am looking for a text editor control that is suitable for editing source
code, preferably written in C#, something like the code editor in Visual
Studio: with line numbers, outlining, applying color to parts of the text
without having to change the selection like in the ...

The VS 2005 tab control apparently has a rather nasty bug: If you have more
than one tab page, controls on pages other than the first page can't be
configured in code until after a page has been brought to the front. I have
a tab control with two pages; each one has a ...

  The data (Richtextbox) has format like indentation, Butted list, Font
Style and others.
  Is Windows.Forms.Label control be able to display the data with ints
format intact? How do I do that, the usual way of using its Text property and

Can anyone explain me why the control base class,
System.Windows.Forms.Control, isn't declared as abstract? When could it
be usefull or even necessary to create an instance of
System.Windows.Forms.Control?

I have a UserControl, created in VB.NET, which is displayed in a panel in an
unmanaged MFC application.  The control is very simple.  Just a multi-line
text box dropped on the user control.  The MFC application sometimes will
hide the control.

I am using NumericUpDown control. I have set Decimal places property to
3.
Problem is that when I programatically assign it a value which has 4
digits after decimal point ,