I'm trying to design a control that we can use with the Tablet PC SDK.  What
I would like to do is have the control be the size of a sheet of paper.  If
the control's width is increased then it's treated like a zoom out and when
it's decreased, this is like a zoom in.  Does anybody ...

I am trying to build a combo box that supports the standard MS Office keyboard shortcuts for accented Latin characters, when entered from a US English keyboard.
Example:ctrl-',e results in é.
I subclass ComboBox and override ProcessCmdKey to detect and translate the keystrokes. ...

If I want to open a form and pass a parameter, I would usually say:
private frm as new frmMyForm
frm.CustNumber = 123
However, I've created a generic procedure to open the form based on the class name:

I would like to get current position of scrollbars when they are present for
scrolled content and revert to it later. Without this sometimes Form scrolls
automatically to top when getting focus back.
Any pointers?

I am developing a windows app the includes data access from an Access 2000 Database. I am getting the following error:
 'Filter expression 'sum(Per)' does not evaluate to a Boolean term.
From the very simplistic code snippet below.
       With DataTable1

Can someone tell me what the event is that is raised when you exit the
row of a datagrid. I need to sum a column and place the value in a
textbox each time a row is exited. This would also include if the user
returns to a previous row and re-edits the data. I am building an

Hi...would any of you be kind enough to tell me
1. how to set the row header text of a datagrid
2. set the backcolor of only the 1st column to be a particular color
3. Set the width of the columns to be the width of the longest entry

All,
I just watched a webcast where the presenter showed performing some
async work via using ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(...).  This call
uses thread from the .NET process thread pool to do some work in a

Okay this is the scenario :
I have design a form with the following size :
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(504, 344);
I then run the form and everything looks fine.

I'm working on a large VB.NET WinForms app, that uses the
System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabel extensively to create links within text
blocks so users can navigate around. I have come upon a major flaw in the
base LinkLabel: you can't have more than 32 links in a LinkLabel (error

I was hoping someone could explain what are the differences between a
winform and a user control besides the fact that a user control is designed
to be hosted in a winform.  But you can also host a winform inside another
winform by setting the toplevel property and adding it to the ...

I'm having a problem when trying to compile a user control from the command line.  I know I have the path mapped correctly but it immediately throws the error "vbc is not a valid Win32 application".  This is driving me nuts
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I have a Windows forms application that I'm creating and the application has
several child forms.  The child forms are always displayed above the main
form but they are not MDI children because I want to restrict them to the
form area of the main form.  I'd like to hild the child ...

I am having an strange behavior in a .Net application. Sometimes an
exception is thrown from Windows Forms assembly, I paste below the full
stack trace. The exception general is thrown after invoke an option in the
menu with a shortcut, but it was thrown with different options and ...

I'm writing a usercontrol which displays the typical two listboxes and the ability to move items from one to the other.
The listboxes are populated with my custom objects (SwapItem), which simply have a ValueMember, DisplayMember a couple of other properties and the tostring ...