I have a splitter container control I'm trying to get set for a minium height on panel2..  I'm doing the following code in the SplitterMoved event...
Private Sub scAppDiv_SplitterMoved(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.SplitterEventArgs) Handles scAppDiv ...

I'm writing an application where I don't want it to be super easy for the
end-user to 'steal' the intellectual property of the application.
Obviously, if they're determined, they'll find a way, but I don't want to
hand it over on a silver platter.

I've got a databound combobox on a usercontrol in a VSTO app. I want to
handle the selected index changed event display/hide some other controls on
the form, which seems to be working fine in it self... but when I click the
button to submit the form, it seems to fire again, and I ...

I have a class as follows (this is over-simplified, but
representative):
class cMessage
{

I'm working on User Control for a VSTO Excel app, which has 2 radio buttons,
some textboxes, which are displayed, hidden by the radio buttons, and then a
normal button to process user request for a sales report.
The start of the button click looks like...

I'm developing in C++/CLI and using a DataGridView that is bound to a
BindingSource that uses a list of objects of my my custom class. This
objects have some properties that are displayed in the columns of the
datagrid. Some of these properties are of type int and therefor do not

For some reason, I have to manually raise the WM_DRAMITEM when drew a
ListBox, but I got a problem that I couldn't get the correct hdc.
See definition of DRAWITEMSTRUCT.  It has a field hDC, the description
is,

I have to show a time in a control, I new in v.s. 2005 and I think use the
maskedtextbox, I put the mas in the time normaly, but I like to change de
mask to show exactly the time in 12 hours, like: 2:34 pm and this format
must be validate. but this problem is not the main, the ...

I have sub-classed the Panel class in order to create a header region
on the top which is userdrawn. However, I have yet to figure out how to
limit a child control from being placed on top of the area of my panel
on which the header is being drawn. DockPadding.Top or Padding.Top

I'm wondering if any have good input on the best practice to use to
allow a (user)control to remember it's state.
For example, I have a UserControl that I use a lot of places in our
application. I want that contorl to remember it's UI state whenever the

Can someone explain how DataGridView.CellPainting event and
DataGridViewCell.Paint are related?  I've read how to add an event handler
method to a Form class, which will allow some customization of the
appearance of individual DataGridView cells.

I am using a TreeView control and have found a flickering problem that occur
in some situations.
If the node is expanded using Expand() the node expanding will flicker.
If the node is expanded using Toggle() the entire control will flicker.

Is there a way to determine when there is idle input in the textbox portion
of a Combo control?  The TextChanged event will tell me when the text portion
is changed; I want to know when the user has finished typing.
thanks,

In a ListView with ID = myListView
I use in a C# Windows project, I have two columns,
and about a dozen rows, i.e., members of the ListViews Items
collection.

I dropped a ComboBox on a WinForm. I then set FormattingEnabled to true and
the FormatString for Currency in the Designer. I then added a couple of
numeric items to the Items Collection in the Designer:
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