I want to capture certain events of a textbox control at design time
but I'm having a difficult time finding any events that fire
consistently during a design-time session.  Is there such a list of
events somewhere I could reference?

I have a user control (inherited from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl) which
shows some kind of interactive graphic to the user. The user control is
placed in a System.Windows.Forms.Panel with AutoScroll set to True.
If my user control is larger than the container panel the panel ...

It seems that the PreferredSize property is only calculated using the  
Control.Font property value which doesn't make sense for a RichTextBox  
because it can have several fonts.
I want to resize the height of the RichTextBox so that it shows no  

I know by now I should have expected this half baked implementation by M$,
but this is just getting silly now!
Direct quote from M$ documentation:  "The Windows Forms CheckedListBox
control extends the ListBox control. It does almost everything that a list

I am developing a application which has to simulate web browser
navigation through proxies which need authentication by userid and
password. As proxies are challenging my webbrowser control for userid
and password it is putting up the IntenetErrotDlg to accept userid and

I want to change a row of ListView Cells into either Dropdown Lists and
TextBoxes on click of a button 'Edit'.
Can anyone help me on how to do that?
Thanx.

I have a tab control with many datagridview controls on it.  I have an ID
column in column 0 on most of them.  In the edit columns area I set the
columns visible property to false yet when I run the program it still shows
up.  To fix this I can hide it if I do it programatiacally ...

Has anyone experienced that
System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor is not available?
I need to implement a collection property for a usercontrol and thus
need that class very bad.

I don't want to use Control Collection.
I want to control name as string only for changing some properties.
Ex.
Me.Controls("NameLabel").Text = "Full Name"

The only UI for my application is a NotifyIcon and its associated context
menu (displayed in what used to be called the "system tray", next to the
time in the task bar).
In Visual Studio 2003, I was able to run my application without a visible

How do I change the width of the "row header" column while I'm setting up a
grid in the designer?
TIA - Bob

I have a splitter pane with a treeview control in it. I'd like to put some
kind of raised panel with a textual caption above the treeview. For some
reaosn I can't seem to see how a "Panel" control can be of a "raised" style.
Any recommendations?

I posted this earlier today on languages.csharp and now I discover this
newsgroup. Sorry for the duplicate!
I populate a TreeView (tv) with 1110 nodes like this:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

I have a form and a tab control on it. Is there a quick way to make sure the
size of the tab control matches that of the form when it resizes? or do I
have to intercept the size change event from the form and 'manually' change
the bounds of the tab control?

Two questions about ListViews in NET.....I am using the StateImageList
option to display state information about items...if I set the
StateImageList member AND set the CheckBoxes propery then the correct image
is displayed based on the StateImageIndex value for the item... ...