I created my own toolstrip control using ToolStripControlHost. When I
add this to a toolstrip, I want to adjust the properties of the hosted
control in the designer but they always get reset when I compile. Can
anyone tell me how to fix this? This should be similar to accessing

I am developing a windows form in VS2008 C#.
A Text box control in the Detail view allows a user to press <CTL>-z to undo
the edit changes in the text box but the <ESC> key does nothing.
How can the <ESC> key work the same as the <CTL>-z key press to undo text

Hi;
First off, if I am always using the same 3 brushes & 2 pens when I
draw in a control, should I create them for the lifetime of the
control, or create/dispose of them on each paint/draw?

I am writing a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC application using Visual Studio
2005.
I am using Datagrid control to show values from a table to the user. I used
'Generate Data Forms' smart tasks option of the datagrid and this creates 2

Hi;
I am trying to draw a PNG file that is 16x16 pixels. But no matter
what I try to do, it draws it at 20x20 pixels, I assume because of
it's DPI setting.

I've found the following problem:
I've got a form "Form1" with a ToolStrip-Control. It's as public defined.
And I've got an 2. form "Form2" that inherit from "Form1"
In Form2 I can see the toolstrip-control from Form1, but I haven't any

I have some text that's too wide to fit into a DatagridView column so I have
used CellStyle.WrapMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewTriState.True.
Unfortunately, it only wraps on blanks, no matter how long the string is.
This means that I can't see last part of the string.

VS 2005.
I have a splitter on the form, and in the left panel, some groupboxes,
arranged vertically:
GB1 dock: top

Why doesn't the following sample code work? The click event never
seems to fire for the menu items. Similar code works for the
ContextMenuStrip class but I need the modal nature of ContextMenu.
private void ShowContextMenu()

I want to drag drop data from one app to another. If the other app
chooses to ‘move’ the data, I need to respond by deleting it from the
source app.
I was reading about the GiveFeedBack event.

I have a data-bound ComboBox. I want it to show the text "---- Please
Select ---" in addition to the bound data. I try to use BindingSource's
Insert method but it throws argument exception with this message : "Cannot
insert external objects to this list."

Writing custom properties for user controls... I have a property that
updates another property. But I only want this to occur when the one
property is changed in the property grid, not when the form is loaded in
design view (at which time the property that updates the other ...

       I have drag and drop a TreeView control into my Windows Form. I have
added some parent nodes and the child nodes to the treeView Control. I am not
able to find any property or any event for Enabling/Disabling all the child
nodes under the parent nodes.

Hi;
How can I get the "Microsoft Live" option in the OpenFileDialog
control?
thanks - dave