While developing on windows forms, I found that most forms events (e.g. Load, KeyPress, MouseMove, LostFocus, etc....) have the equivalent virtual functions in the form of OnXXXX which can be overwritten. If I want to handle the KeyPress event, is it recommended to create an ...

I'm writing a docking window control, and need to write on the
desktop, so I can show a candidate dock rectangle on top of the dock
manager's child controls.
I found

Is there in VS.NET IDE something like the form layout window in VB6?
How cam I design a GUI independent of the client's resolution?
Best, Ohad

All,
I have a couple of forms that have a strange textbox behavior.  In all the text boxes, even if I add a new one, I can not set the caret anywhere in it except in 0.  It will select whole words and if I have the caret at 0, I can use the arrow keys to move the caret.  ...

I'm new .NET & C#. I have to do a form which has a tab control with 4
tabs.
I want to be able to switch between these tabs with an access key.
MSDN says that the '&' in a text of a button or label will enable an

I wrote a NTD winform application.  It checks links on any website to
see if they are good.  You can find it here:
   http://ntd.didah.com/
It works fine on my local machine of course.  But when deployed to the

How to add ListBox or TextBox to ToolBar

I looked everywhere through MSDN without any luck.
Considering that the 2002 version does not have the
Windows Form Designer, then how does one go about using
windows forms in VC++ .NET 2002? I don't mind handcoding

I have an mdichild form whose minimum size I want to limit (can't be dragged
below a certain size)
Even though I am running .NET 1.1 where the minimum size property supposedly
works, it's not working for my child forms.

If I set my form's IsMdiContainer property to TRUE at
design time, the form's BackColor automatically changes to
a dark gray.  Setting the BackColor property to something
else has no effect.

Jazzyfoot (jazzyfoot@hotmail.com) posted this message at 2003-02-11
15:40:00 PST:
"The problem occurs when my application creates multiple modeless
forms. What happens is that when these forms are closed focus changes

Hi all. I've seen examples on how to measure average
character width with StringFormat.GenericTypographic and
how to set the SelectionTab array, but the problem is, even
with fixed size font (Courier New in my case), the tab

I am developing a UI that will be mainly keyboard driven.
I have a datagrid that needs to return a value when the
user hits the 'Return' button.
I have tried the keypress, keydown, and keyup events at

.Net documentation says that the datatype of picture box
width and height are Int32 then why can't we assign
Int32.MaxValue (2,147,483,647) to width and height of the
picture box.

I use VB7
I would like to know if I can write a dataset object or
any other object like textbox to file with a single
command. Or do I have to tear apart the objects and write