Could someone clarify something for me please?
There is a rule about not creating a Windows control on a non UI thread
isn't there but what exactly is the rule. Is it I shouldn't construct a
control on a non UI thread or I shouldn't Show a control on a non UI thread.

We are using MDI Forms.  We have an MDI parent w/ a navigation panel
to the left. (Similar to the toolbox panel in the .net environment)
Then we click
on a link in the navigation panel, a new form is loaded inside the MDI

I created 2 buttons and in the .Text property in teh designer I set one to
"load..." and the other to "save..."
The "load..." button was fine but the save button was displayed as "...
save" on the form with the eplipses BEFORE the text, but the property for

   I'm searching for the right method to enable/disable my toolbar buttons
something equivalent to OnCommandUI.
  any hint will be appreciated.
yoramo

I am trying to validate a form with two tab pages by looping through each
control on the form and setting focus to it.  I am running into a problem,
each time I loop to a control on the tab page not selected it does not fire
the validating the event.  I am confused why this is ...

Can somebody please help me with this?
I have a hashtable which I converted to a datatable with "key" and "value"
as column names.
I also have a windows form with two datagrids.

We have an VB.NET Windows Forms application, which only when running under a
terminal server via a Remote Desktop Connection, hangs.
The hang occurs on a call to FillRectangles, via an Overridden OnPaint
method in our custom control.

I don't know why DrawString is causing this error:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+.
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawString(String s, Font font, Brush brush, RectangleF layoutRectangle, StringFormat format)
at System.Drawing ...

I would get a value of a VB.Net application from another session of the same VB.Net application..
I stored the value in a global variable and I would get this value from another session of the same VB.Net application..
The  steps I'm implementing are
1) Look for if another instance ...

Is there a way to find out what type called a certain method from another type? For instance let's say I have Type1.SomeMethod and I call if from Type2.SomeOtherMethod. From within SomeMethod how can I get the Type2 that called the method? I don't need the assembly only, but the ...

I`m writing an image browser and wonder how to store
thumbnails in a single file (ala Paint Shop Pro) so that they
dont have to be recreated each time a folder is opened.
Any ideas?

I want to know how to use the clipboard class. The class take
dataobjects. Does that mean that U cannot add controls to the
clipboard. I am designing a Form Designer and I want to implement
cut,copy and paste for that I need to use the clipboard. But it throws

Hi, I'm building an application that has many windows and I'm using modals as part of that... but I have a problem...
First of all I was building this as mdi but when a modal form then tried to show a non-modal form in the mdi it failed... so I changed the app to non-mdi.
Now the ...

I am about to write an application that is very much a Database GUI, with
entry forms and reports.  Given the number of posts with issues in VB.NET
databinding, are there any good reasons to not use MSAccess as a front end
to an SQL Server DB?  I prefer VB.NET, but the ease of ...

This is probably very easy - but I'm having a brain dead kind of day.
In my app I have two MDI Child forms - Form A and Form B.
In Form A, I have a WriteOnly Property:
Public WriteOnly Property propDocID() As Integer