I have a MDI application where the MDIParent calls up one of several
ChildForms.  Each ChildForm has a standard toolstrip that merges with the
MDIParent's toolstrip with no problem. Also, each ChildForm has a
BindingNavigator control and some have a secondary toolstrip.  How do I

I have set ShowNodeToolTips = true;
The documentation says:
In order for ToolTips to be visible, you must set the ToolTipText
<P_System_Windows_Forms_TreeNode_ToolTipText.htm> for a TreeNode.

VS2005. Have not had the need to build a custom control before, so I'm doing
a test to create a custom textbox. After I built it, I added it to the
toolbox and tried to use it in a separate project.
Two questions: after putting it in the toolbox, it has that "gear" symbol

I am having trouble finding good info on how to use radio buttons.  Every
thing I find from google or msdn tells you how to programmatically set the
checked property or change their appearance.
Isn't the primary purpose of the control to get a selection from the user?

I need to write .Net component (UserControl) that acts like ActiveX
control. This includes:
- drawing form with several textboxes, listboxes, comboboxes etc. and
"submit" button on web page (<object classid="">),

I have created a custom button control. The custom button is inherited from
System.Windows.Forms.Control class.
Everything is working fine, except the Click event is getting raised even
when I right-click the button.

Is there a way to change border color for a control, e.g. Panel?
Overriding OnPaint event and drawing a border doesn't help as you can
only draw such a border within client area of that panel affecting
whatever is in there, in other words it will not be a real border.

I use a SplitContainer control in my application but I have a problem
with it. I don't know how to display the splitter bar, which is between
Panel1 and Panel2. Right now it's completely invisible and the user
won't find it if he cannot see it.

I have a string I am reading in from a database. That string can either
be plain old text, or Rich Text (RTF). I'm going to be putting this
text into a Rich Text box, either by setting .Text=string, or
.Rtf=string.

I have a datatable that each row is effectively one item, with each column
being a different attribute of the item some attributes can be blank..
What I want to do is when displaying the data on screen be able to have the
attributes be spread over multiple lines in the ...

Hi, all
I used UpDownNumeric control in my project, when I
use mouse wheel On It, the number of it increament of decreament'step
is THREE, I want it's step is ONE, how can I do ?

How can I create the expandable/collapsible properties such as those for
"Size" that expands to "Height" and "Width", or "Location" that expands to
"Left" and "Top"? I have looked for documentation for the property headers
such as <Browsable()> and <Category()>, but can not find ...

How can I make inherited control, which I can edit in design mode: add more
controls on it etc. Basically, I need a usercontrol, but it cannot by inherited
form UserControl class but from some another class (say GroupBox). If I inherit
directly form GroupBox, I loose design mode ...

I'm using DateTimePicker control in a WinForm. My country represent
date using dd/MM/yyyy format so I set Custom format for the DateTimePicker.
The issue I face is the DateTimePicker show the "Today" under the
calendar in MM/dd/yyyy format while the editable area show dd/MM/yyyy.

Could someone tell me how to write the code so I can copy cells from
Excel and paste them into Datagridview cells?
A user should be able to to to excel, highlight some cells, hit ctrl c,
then go to the windows form and paste those in a datagridview control.