We have rolled out an app, and are experiencing complete application and
system slowdown as users open and close windows forms in our app throughout
the day.
It usually happens about 50 or so form opening/closing cycles.

Can someone recommend a book on C# WinForms?

the read only property is no substitute for the locked
property of a textbox in vb6.  The read only property
allows the text to be changed or wiped out
programmatically.  You simply can't change it by clicking

We have a weird problem, where we are popping up a msgbox, and
intermittently it is displaying BEHIND the main app form.
Basically, our form is up, we call a simple msgbox, and 97 times out of 100
it pops up exactly right. 3 times out of 100 it pops up behind the app. It

I have an MDI app with some non-trivial child forms
(tabs, maybe 50 controls or so).  When I open several
child forms maximized, then close them, the control boxes
remain in place as if the child form is still open.  

I left a Microsft DevDays some months ago with the idea that if you anchored
all of your controls to all four sides, then the screen would size up
proportionally when the form was maximized or made larger.  My current test
form most emphatically does not do this - controls overlap ...

I am wondering what is the proper way to terminate an MDI app that has
"dirty" forms.
In my case, the child form is editing some data.  If the user presses the
"X" button on the main form, the code I have is

I don't know if this is the right group to post or where else I have to post
it, but I want to do the following:
I want to make a programm that receive e_mail. Then I want to perform some
actions depending on the content of the email. Does anyone has an idea where

I am deciding whether I should use MFC or C# to write a Management Station
which has lots of GUI components
I would perfer C# for shorter development time...but I am a bit concerning
the performance when there are large number of UI components

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but it has to do
with the automatic code generation of a WinForm for the
Compact Framework.
Anyway, I thought I'd report an issue I've been having. I

In the past two days, I've run up against several major limitations with the
Framework RichTextBox (I'm sure there are others):
1.  There's no Framework way to assign custom borders, and the FlatStyle
border doesn't work properly (it draws a flat border around a 3D border --

i am having one datagrid, i am fetching more than 25k
records in that datagrid.
At present i am displaying all the records in one grid.
so the datagrid takes hell lot of time to fetch record

How can I place a push button on each row of a grid?
Thanks
Regards

How I can remove or hide a row datagrid without removing
from database ?

I first put the code and then I'll comment it:
... somewhere in Form_Load ...
Binding binding = new Binding("Value", myTableDataView, "StartupDate");
binding.Format = new ConvertEventHandler(StartupDateBinding_Format);