Is it possible to call the OS Search (Start/Search) from a windows
form application?
What I'm looking is to develop an interactive cd using vb.net with
search capabilities. The cd will have some pdf, word , excel and html

I want to show a modal dialog box at a moment when I don't know which form
of my application is focused, so I can't call ShowDialog(owner). Keeping
current form in a global variable would be troublesome. Other ideas?

In my MDI Application, I have an MDI Parent Form which contains two
Child Forms, childA and childB. childA has a TextBox which has an
Validating event Handler
When the Users enters some text into this TextBox which does not pass

I'm going to use .net for developing winforms on a pda or other hand held
device and have a fat client with sql server ce on it and sync up to sql
server on a main server. any GOOD easy to read books on this subject. I'm
very experienced with .net on web forms.

Does the Wheel Mouse not automatically scroll a textBox ?
Suggestions?
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I have a DataGrid that lies on a TabPage with a TabControl, and when I
associate the DataSource with a DataTable that has more rows than can be
displayed, I do not see any scroll bars! I cannot figure out why they are
not being drawn.

Hi NG,
I'm using a datagrid which is bound with copies of remote objects in my app.
It works quite well but the problem is that the grid refresh is very very very slow.
I'm refreshing only two fields by row (using Invalidate(Rectangle)).

I would like to be able to customize how data is displayed in my databound
combo box.  The user will be selecting one of these values which will
correspond to a row in the database.  However, I do not want it to display
in the selection items simple a single value from each row.  I ...

I'm developing a Multilanguage application using C# that supports English
and French and Arabic.
I have created the Forms with the default language and changed the language
to each of the languages that I want to support and do any locale specific

Is the AppUpdater restricted to localhost use?  I have an application to
works fine retrieving updates from a virtual directory off of the default
web site, but when I try to create a deployment web site, I get the
following:

This is an obscure question, but I'm hoping someone may have
experienced something like it.  My program uses RichTextBox controls
for all the text.  Currently text in the Kannada language is being
entered into it using the font KN-TTUma (ttf).  One symbol in

Using the tab order in VB on a form works fine but to me it seems
tedious (at times) to have to set or be concerned with the tab order.
I can't seem to get a control to have focus on the load form
event...am I doing something wrong or do I just need to control this

I'm trying to get DrawItem and MeasureItem working on a ListView, with
a view to drawing items in LargeIcon view. I've managed to get
DrawItem working okay, using the code below. My problem is with the
MeasureItem event. The event is only ever called once, and most

If i create a Brush object I believe it is good practice to explicitly
dispose it or use it within a using block.
Is it correct to assume that this does not apply to brushes from the
SystemBrushes collection?

I have few forms linked each other into the mdi project
the second form's scrollbar is not visible,only parents scrollbar is
visible,
regards