i have a main form and it displays a modelss dialog.
when the user brings the dialog into focus,
the main form is left in the back.
how can i bring the main form into the front,

I am developing an inherited control (i.e. subclassed) and
I am having trouble figuring out how to set the default
values for BASE CLASS properties which appear in the
designer.

Simple, really. I have C# code in a Windows Form, thus:
int rc;
rc = Win32API.SetParent(ctrl.Handle, new
IntPtr(Win32API.GetDesktopWindow()));

After some playing around with icons and ImageList, I'm not quite
sure I understand what's happening.  Either the resources are not really
getting cleaned up like I thought they would or what I'm using to measure
the resources isn't accurate, or there's something else going on.