I'm painting a gradient onto a control by overrideing the
"OnPaintBackground" method like so:
  Protected Overrides Sub OnPaintBackground(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)
      Dim brush As New LinearGradientBrush( _

Hoping someone can advise me on this one.
I have a form with about 10 text boxes.  A user will be entering numbers in
each box, I have written a small function that will correct the format of
the numbers, so if a user enters 5 it becomes 5.00, if they enter 5.5 it

How would I go about setting a gradient (from Color A to Color B) as a
background for something like a panel?
I don't want to resort to using XP-themes (so that it'll run on pre-XP
systems).  Basically I have some 3rd party controls that have gradient

My windows application needs a time out functionality.
After a specified time interval (say 20 mins) of inactivity, I need to show
the enter password screen.
I tried the Application_Idle event but that didn't work out well.

I would like to know your opinions about the best way of implementing
databinding in an application.
Let's take a simple example: we have a table called 'Employee' and we
would like to display its content in a DataGrid.

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Can anyone tell me the difference between a RichEditBox and a RichTextBox
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From: Henry Majoue

namespace ControlLib {
    [Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner,
System.Design", typeof(IDesigner))]
    public class MyTabPage : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl {

I have a small-medium sized Access application that is poorly written.  My
choices are to either rewrite large parts of the Access app so that it
functions reasonably well, or to convert the whole thing to .NET.
Not being an Access developer, the .NET approach seems most natural, ...

I just started getting an exception in my application it says "Unable to set the panel text." (Although it occurs the first time on setting the alignment property on one of the panels)I have several panels and this only happens on some of them. Any ideas?
Thanks
Alex

Hi to All,
Is it possibile to use an XP-Style border for a picturebox? I am referring
to the border that, under XP, listboxes and textboxes have (i.e. a single
blue line, if you use the default theme).

i put  a richtextbox and a button on the winForm.when the button is clicked,it generate several threads to write to the richtextbox,the code snippet as following:
private void btnSend_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
 for(int i=0;i<3;i++)

When using the AxWebbrowser control multiple times within an
application I have noticed that all of the controls share session
information. That is, if I retrieve a session cookie in one control
then it is available in all of the other controls.

I need my DataGrid control to display multiline text at all times.... not just when a Cell is being edited. Can anyone help? Maybe I am missing something, but many of the posts that I have read on the net about this mention the problem but no real resolution.

I want to design a Windows Form that basically looks like Windows
Explorer, except at the bottom there is a pane that runs along the
bottom of both the tree view and the list view.  What order do I
create everything in, and how should I set the dock styles?

Although an impossible question to answer, I fell urged to raise it anyhow.
Given a fairly complex ERP application scenario, what's your estimation for
the X-ratio
dev. time for WebForms app