the event MouseEnter is triggered when the mouse enters the
ClientRectangle of the form. What can i do to have this (or any
other/custom) event fired when mouse enters the actual form area
*including* its borders? is it possible?

I am building a runtime Control hierachy visualizer and want to display
the icons the controls would have if displayed in the VisualStudio
designer toolbox.
MSDN says that there is a ToolboxBitmapAttribute which can be applied

I'm rewriting an old clipper / dbase application in VB.Net 2005
I'm trying to get the textboxes to do a couple of things;
1) Respond to the Insert key to enable insert / overwrite switching for text
entry

there is win32 control (custom scroll bar) in native dll. it handles all
messages that common scroll bar does and can replace it in any win32
applications without any problem. i would now like to inherit from managed
ScrollBar class and make that new class use native custom ...

Sorry for my awful english.
I would like to know, how to i can serialize a usercontrol?
I wan't to serialize my usercontrol with the binary formatter.
But when i try to call the serialize method of the binaryformatter and pass

I need the MouseDown event be trigged everytime when you press mouse in a
datagrid (System.Windows.Forms).
But seems mouse event will only fire once, and it seems changed to edit mode
for the cell (even the cell is read).  The mouse event won't fire again

Hi, I'm using datagridview to display the data stored in a table of my
database to the user. Notice that the first column of the datagridview is
beige colour with an arrow sign pointing at the selected row. If I click on
one of the cell in this first column, the whole row will be ...

I've created an auto-completion combo box by subclassing ComboBox.
Tracking down a bug in my app, I've tracked it all the way down to what
I think is a bug in the Framework. I'm wondering if anyone here can
either confirm this behaviour, tell me that it's known and documented,

using C# -  I'm using DataError event of the DataGridView.  
The DataError event checks to make sure that 4 columns in the  row have been
input - if they have not - a  message is displayed - with specifics on the 4
columns.

I need to set the height of all rows in a datagridview. My DGV is bound to a
database. I what the row heigtht of the rows in the DGV to be larger than
the default.
I have tried a number of autosizing options but that turnes out to be too

A while ago I implemented a fully owner-drawn list box in MFC (Vis. C++
6) and through a variety of means, completely eliminated flicker from
the control even though I was doing all kinds of visual updates. I was
happy.

Hi to everybody,
I have the following situation:
I have an interface (ICellEditor - a custom, utility interface).
The final classes will have to implement this interface and, in the same

This one will be hard to explain.
On a standard Windows form, I have an 11 x 11 TableLayoutPanel with all
kinds of controls nestled within the cells. One particular control, a
combobox, can be located in the Designer's Properties window by looking in

I have a huge problem with a ListView. It can contain many lines and
initially the active (selected) line can be anywhere in my list. When I
display the list for the user, it always shows the first lines and it marks
the very first line with a focusrect that indicates that ...

I have a PropertyGrid that shows the property of a third-party components
(so I don't have access to source code and other stuff).
However I'd like to hide the "Layout" category so that noone can move the
control around the form.