I hope that this is the right group for the creation of custom user
controls. If not, please point me in the right direction.
I'm creating a user control. This control is itself is constructed as the
composite of a number of other controls. For example, I'm using the

How do I programatically access menu strip item subitems?
I can get to top level menu items via MenuStrip.Items.Item(x), but how do I
get to the .DropDownItems collection from there?
Example:

There must be some way to do this in VB.NET which I'm simply
overlooking;  I'm sure of it.
What I have:  A label in a panel in a usercontrol (which is sometimes
in a tab control) on a form.  All of these are anchored top+left.

I have a panel with a bunch of controls on it. I want to be able to set the
readonly property on the control ...but only the client area portion so that
the scroll bars continue to work but none of the controls can be edited. Is
there a way to get the client area control and set ...

Is it possible to set a Treeview control to show checkboxes on root
nodes only?
- Don

I added to PropertyBag the ability to pass an array of strings for an enum -
http://www.davidthielen.info/programming/2007/05/passing_an_enum.html

I want to have a combobox with some commands in it and a data source.
Basically the list should look like
command1
command2

The only place I found for setting background colors in the tab control is
within each page. Doing that does not change background color of the TabPage
where the Text is displayed. It just changes backcolor of  the rectangular
area below the captions.

Hi;
I have a property grid where I need to pass it an object with N properties
in it that are each an enumeration (but not an enum). These properties and
they enumerated values are read from a database - so we don't know beforehand

Background:
For a RichTextBox control, the RichTextBox.Multiline property affects
whether or not the control will automatically resize, as follows:
If RichTextBox.AutoSize is set to true and RichTextBox.Multiline is set to

Setup: WinXP Pro SP2, Microsoft .NET 2.0, Visual C# Express
Here is the problem. I have created a custom control that has a groupBox and
within it it has a pictureBox, a listView and two buttons. This views ok in
the designer and I was able to drop it as three different instances ...

I  using VS2005 and Webbrowser loading it with some WORD AND Excel
documents.
Each time I navigate to a document, a Filedialog is showing up.
I don't want any dialogs to show, and tried to stop them with this command:

Can anyone please tell me how it is possible to get the following crash when
accessing ListBox.SelectedIndex property:
Message: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Stack Trace:

I want to resize a control at run time.  To do this I want to draw a border
rect of the object being sized starting on the MouseDown event and continuing
until Mouse Up.  The resizing border should "Float" over any other controls
on the form.

I have a form with a MenueStrip in it.
Well, as usual, if the user moves the mouse over one of the menue items, the
background color automatically changes. If he now clicks on such a menue
item, the menue drops down.