I have a textbox on a form that I want to display the
entered data as a date, without the user having to use a
date seperator. I've tried user-defined date formats and
user-defined number formats(to insert the seperator).  But

Windows Forms provides a Closing event that the form being
closed can cancel.  It seems clear for modal dialogs but
not for modeless forms.
The method Close() on the form causes the event to occur

I'm using simple data bindings to wire windows forms controls to the
properties of an object (the data source).  I'd like to track which
properties have been modified by the user.
I'm looking for recommendations about how to do this in a generic

If I base a PropertyGrid control on a class, I have a certain amount of
control on which public properties exposed by the class appear in the
control via the [Browsable(true)] attribute of the property. I need to have
a finer degree of control since (based upon a number of factors) ...

I have an ocx developed in VB 6.0 and I nedd to use it in
Window Form application in C#. When I do it, I get a
System.NullReferenceException
I've added the reference and in my application I wrote:

Check out this software I found on the net...
http://www.dualdot.net/default.asp?nav=imagebatch
It's called ImageBatch and has a batch mode for converting, naming and
resizing images...

My treeview is populated with different icons for various items in the
structure. I would like to use cursors which look similar to these
when dragging these nodes around.  Also, I allow files from explorer
to be dropped on the treeview for some nodes.  I would like to use a

I want to create a readonly grid.
By this I mean that none of the cells should be editable.
At the moment I have set the readonly property of the grid
to true.

When I launch a form from a c# dll (part of the c# project), after I do a
show the launched form freezes.  If the dll host launches the same form from
an exposed public method in the c# dll project then no problems.
Is there anyway I can launch the windows form that is part of my c# ...

i'm working with an mdi application in which i have several mdi children
open. as i minimize these children they are visible in the lower left hand
corner of the screen on top of the mdi parent form. however, each of these
mdi children have been minimized to the point that they're ...

I'm starting with vb.net, and i already come across with
some problens.
i have three forms.
The start form is form1.vb, and it have two buttons.

I have an XML file which has elements with nodes. I can
load this XML file into a .NET xml document and then
populate a dataset with it.
Since this xml file has nesting (only 1 level, like master-

If an event (such as a click on a button) is not handled
by that button class, is it not passed to the containing
window, (say the form) so it can be handled there?
I basically have a form with 30 small buttons on and wish

I want to make custom control. The problem is, i want to inherit from
System.Windows.Forms.Control class not System.Windows.Forms.CustomControl.
Although i have overriden the method OnPaint in my class and draw something
inside it, it doesnt draw in the main form that i add my ...

Hey group!
first of all, happy new year to everyone.
I have a small problem that I haven't worked out yet and it's driving me a
little crazy.