I've created a new Windows form and then another form inhereted from
the first one.
When I try to open Inherited form in Designer View, Visual Studio .Net
2003 silently closes my solution.

Would like to detect when a column header of a DataGrid is
double-clicked.  I'm really puzzled why there is not an obvious way to
differentiate between column, row, cell clicks of a DataGrid.
Please note that I have looked at the syncfusion.com/faq/winforms

How do you perform wordwrap in a listbox?  I tried an
example with the owner drawn listbox, but the text did
not wrap.
Could someone please help me?

vb.net app(windows app)
I have 2 forms
form1 and form2
Could someone give me some code on how I would make form2 and inherited

Anybody have an idea on how to get a Service to STOP itself?
I have a Service that needs to be able to be stopped, by itself!
I have the "onStop" procedure which basically kills a thread. That works
fine. But when the proc. is finished, the Service still shows as running.

We have a smart client application comprising of 1 exe and 6 dlls. All of
them have been signed with the same key pair. We have trusted the exe using
the .NET Trust Assembly Wizard but still we get a security exception when
trying to run the exe using the url location. Is there any ...

I am trying to get the tag of all items selected in a listbox.  I cannot
seem to figure it out.  I think I am getting stuck on the Dim and dimming it
as the correct item.  Any help would be great.
Private Sub lstSelectAircraft_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As

I have an application in which the constructor for the main form pops
up a user name/password dialog and validates the user.  If the user
hits the Cancel button in this dialog, I want to close the application
without ever showing the main form.

I implemented a timer on a form but when it is enabled
the key down events for the form will not fire.  The
application is using the .net compact framework.
Any help would be appreciated.

have tried several different approaches to try and get the
Visual Studio VB.NET to work with Inherited Forms. Every
approach I have tried results in the display of an error
message in the Designer View for the inherited form class.

I have a variable of type float that i want to display it in text box as a
currency, does any one has an idea of how to do it?
example:
float a=  10.0;

Anybody know of a tool/framework/widget/product/technique that empowers the
end-user of a .NET winforms app to design/customize what appears on the
forms the app uses?
In other words...if a user thinks "I'd like this Form that displays my

how does the system compute the color that is used in disabled controls (for
example, TextBox)? how do I change that color (disabled controls are not
quite readable)?
(I do not want the control to be ReadOnly, I must have it disabled).

Is there any way to associate some variable with a MenuItem object?
Most of the controls in Windows Forms have Tag property that holds anything
that you assing to it. It is very useful, but unfortunately MenuItem doesn't
have this property. The only customizable item is Text ...

Had seen this article on MSDN  titled "the return of the rich client" ...
which dicusses CAS with rich clients in perspective ... Does anyone know
anything else on this topic ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/06/rich/default.aspx