Access has the Bound Object Frame control which allows you to support a very
neat drag and drop container into which almost any file can be dropped
including pictures in the clipboard.
Does Windows Forms have anything similar?

I'd like to filter the rows in a DataGridView using a technique like that in
Excel where the first row (or the header cells) contain controls that the
user can fill in/select to specify their filter.
For example, have a combobox that contains distinct items from that column

Here is the situation: I have a base class (BaseUserControl) which
inherits from UserControl. Now I created a bunch of controls that
inherit from this base class and that I add to different Forms.
The load event is being called in design mode. And i know this is by

I got A node that is selected,
but went the treeview loose focus, It become Grey but not enough to see that
it is still selected
I would like it to remain selectedDarkBlue as it was when the tree has

How would I go about getting the selected text out of a WebBrowser control?
I have searched the net and found some code which uses the mshtml interface
but I couldn't cast my webBrowser1.Document to IHTMLDocument2 using Visual
Studio 2005.

It seems that the behavior of NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip is different under XP
and Windows 2000.  If I call it twice in a row on XP the second balloon
replaces the first (as the MSDN documentation explains) but on Win2K it
creates a new balloon over top of the first, such that ...

Is it possible to create my own custom control that can be placed inside a
ToolStripContainer?  What I'd really like to do is to place a property grid
inside a ToolStripPanel but this is not supported; I may only place it in the
central ToolStripContentPanel. I'm wondering if I ...

I need to change the text of my textbox within TextChanged event handler.
The problem is that the textbox keeps triggering the TextChanged event
recursively.
Is there any way to prevent the text changed event when I change the text of

I am playing with VS_2005.
When I place ToolStripContainer to MDIParent form it is always shown over
all MDIChild forms.
Is there any workaround for this?

(sorry for the previous message...hit the wrong keys)
Hi all, I've got some performance issuses with the GDI+ drawing of my
Controls.
I've got a panel in which I'm creating quite a few objects (50-100) that

I have created a class that inherits from RichTextBox.  I noticed that on
version 2 of .net if the property ReadOnly is set on the control, then the
BackColor is set to gray.  Since I need the control to be read only but
don't want to gray it, I am specifying the BackColor as ...

When I run a winform app (.NET 2.0) with some toolstrips on it, I find
that if the winform loses focus, and I rteturn to the winform, I need
to click on the tool button twice in order for it to fire the click
event. The first click seems to give the winform focus and the second

I've created a Custom Control which looks like this:
[Designer(typeof(myNamespace.FixedSizeControlDesigner), typeof(IDesigner))]
public class MyControl : UserControl
{

Thank you,
Max

I have a small problem: I would like to block the WM_PAINT message in a
user control. However,  when I override WndProc, all child controls
that are placed on the form together with this control don't get
painted either. I thought ONLY the message for this control inside the