I'm trying to develop a development tool for a business object that conceptually resembles Windows forms.  I read the brilliant article by Tim Dawson about hosting the forms designer at: http://www.divil.co.uk/net/articles/designers/hosting.asp, which was just the ticket.
My ...

When I create and position a new button programmtically, the accelerator is
not being displayed when the form is displayed.
In the code below, the button is displayed simply as "Exit", not with the
"x" character underlined.

I'm trying to use 32 bit png as images for toolbar control in my windows forms application
They seems to be drawn correctly when I load them in my ImageList Control, but when I select one of them as toolbar button image, transparency is not rendered correctly: all my Icons have ...

System.Windows.ListView is incredible slow if filling huge amounts of data
in (>3000).
Additionally there is no such thing like good ol callback-items in .NET. Why
didn't they allowed a similar behaviour with databinding in ListView?

  I have an app that I want to start minimized to the system tray.
Problem is that there is an activeX component on the form that I need to
use. As activeX components do not support windowless creation, I actually
need to create the window somewhere.

Hello group,
  I have a ListBox control, populated by a DataSet with a DisplayMember and
a ValueMember.
  I have a list of values (a string[] in my case), and I'd like the ListBox

The FolderBrowserDialog only allows you to select a folder on the host
machine, or other machines if you already have drive mappings. How can I
allow the user to browse any machine on the network and select any folder ?

I need to have an item in some sort of list, either listview or datagrid,
that would span multiple columns.  Say I have 5 columns, each 100px wide.  I
want to make one of the rows one column 500px wide instead of the standard 5
columns 100px wide.

Hi i'm trying to hide or disable the last row (add new record row) in the
data grid - anyone knows how

I'm attempting to format rich text with C# by sending messages to the
underlying richedit control.
The text can be formatted by sending an EM_SETPARAFORMAT message.
However, when I set the wAlignment to be PFA_JUSTIFY, it doesn't work.

Hi all;
This isn't the proper newsgroup but let me ask you vb.net experts,
some questions about infragistics. I really need help on this:
Can someone tell me how to add a button to a toolbar with an arrow

Am having an interesting issue with the context menu component on a number
of forms I have written.  On right clicking on a listview control I show a
context menu, when you click on one of the menu items a new form will open.  
However after the new form has initialised and is ...

How do you obtain the height of a form minus the top bar (the bar where the
caption is)? The actual working area of the form. In VB6, it used to be
ScaleHeight I think.
Thanks in advance!

I have an app that supports multiple languages. At run time I have to set
the text of the buttons to the currect language. I need whatever language's
text to fit the size of the button. I don't want to have to make the button
really wide to try to guess the maximum width necessary ...

   We have observed a very strange behavoiour...when an .net
application is launched that contains a Form...the memory consumed is
around 6-7MB...then if we minimise it and again make it normal the
memory consumption goes down to around 1.xx mb...is this a known issue