I have a windows forms data grid which I want to use for display only.
Is it possible to turn off the "multiselect" behaviour so that only one row can be selected at a time?
Is it possible to stop individual cells receiving focus (I want the whole row to be highlighted and want to ...

I'm trying to override the TextBox OnPaint method, but it never gets called.  Why?  How can I tailor the painting of a TextBox?

I have successfully got a parent/child relationship running across two
DataGrids (Windows Forms).
All I want to do now is to remove the Expand (+) in the parent grid.
Any ideas?

I want to Use MessageBox in a C++ .Net Windows Forms project.
I have a form with a button - clicking the button brings up some text in a MessageBox.
If I call MessageBox from the Click event handler in the .h header file - it works fine.
If I move the event handler to the .cpp file ...

I am in process of writing a small winforms control to read and copy data
off a removable drive.
I started it off as a winforms application and then dropped it in favour of
a control.

I have an editbox that returns e.Cancel = true in the Validating event (when its value is invalid).  The user can click on other widgets (e.g. Button) that have CausesValidation = true.  Shouldn't the e.Cancel = true prevent the click event from happening on the other widgets (so ...

In a MouseDown event, I want to find out what modifier keys are being held down to change the behavior of my program.  I can't, however, seem to find a way of doing this.  Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Thanks,
Charles.

I use NotifyIcon to minimize my app to the system tray. I also check
everytime my app runs for the previous instance, if it is running, call
SetForegroundWindow to bring its window up front and exit the second
instance.

I'm getting a NullReferenceException in Unknown Module when I follow
the below steps to create a simple NotifyIcon app that creates the
context menu on the fly(see a little analysis after the steps).
1. Create a new Windows Forms C# solution (I called mine DBChanger).

Is there any way to disable the "Normal" button of the form? A button
displayed between the Minimum and Maximize button?
I want the user to be allowed to either minimized or maximized, but not set
the window state to normal.

I would like to know if the following
    int cr = 13
    sw.Write(Convert.ToChar(cr));    
    int lf = 10

I am using VC++ for a WinForm project.  I have a TextBox that I use to display info/error messages to the user.  I would like info lines to be one color and errors to be another.  Is there a way to do this
Thank you
Joe

I have built a windowsform application. I want to insert a new record into a
SQL database using a stored procedure.  When I run the app I get an error
message "Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'usp_AddData'".  When I exec the
stored procedure in Query Analyser it works.  I have a ...

I got the message of "object reference not set to an instance of an object" when I click on the View Designer. The form is inherited as below. Can someone please help?
              public class frmShf : PME.frmCal
Regards,
Vivian

i'm sure this is an easy question.
I have a number of forms in my project, which i am converting from VB6 to
.Net
This is the previous code i have: