A System.Windows.Forms.Button with FlatStyle set to 3-D (Standard) is not
3-D enough for my application.  Its hard to tell when the button is up or
down.
Users of my application need a strong visual feedback.

   I just fould a issue with MessgeBox. When i show the messagebox in my
app. Now if the user click any where else on the form out of messagebox. The
click event is kind put in a que. Now if there is a button or other control
where that person clicked, the button / control click ...

I am using simple databinding on a small form with only about 10
controls. My problem is that the _second_ time I open the form and
edit a value, I am no longer able to tab or click out of the control
that I just changed the value in.

I want to create "the biggest" windows form, but, at design time, I cannot
exceed 1292,972. My maximum screen resolution is 1280/960. I'm using Visual
Studio .NET 2002.
I found this at

Is there a quick and easy way to draw a table on a winform? For my
university assignment, we are asked to practice drawing with GDI+, so we
are not allowed to use any built-in controls.
The table has 5 columns and 2 rows and the first row is the heading.

I have a TabControl with 5 TabPages.  I made sure to set
CausesValidation to true everywhere possible.  I put Leave and Enter
handles on each page which supposedly will fire each time I'm changing
pages, but for some reason it doesn't work.  No events get fired.  Has

Hi,
I'm writing a client-server winfroms application, I've notice that every
time I use the wizard to create a bound datagrid, I create a new
sqlconnection.

i write a smtp client winform (using socket 25 connect to smtp server),and
deploy it to iis by NTD (no-touch deployment),i can launch the form from the
client machine,when i want connect to the smtp server,the security exception
is thrown,i know that i have not assigned the socket ...

I have a sortable listview control (ie, can click on any column and sort
asc/dec) however I would like to include a small icon, a 'triangle' or
'arrow' indicating that column the sort is on. This is common behaviour
almost everywhere, including the windows explorer.

I have an application that simulates heat exchangers.
There is a Edit form that allows to edit the parameters of the heat
exchanger - 50-60 parameters. Currently Iam using 6 structures (each with
8-10 elements) that I pass between the main form and the edit form. These

I'm writing an app in vb.net 1.1 and all of my forms use a combo box to
navigate to different records.  when the form loads I databind a dataset
table to the combo box.  However, the form is opening up to a blank - new
record and I don't want any text showing in the text area of the ...

I have a vb.net 1.1 winforms app and have several combo boxes on a form  2
combos have the same data and are populated from the same data table using
the bind method. One is the ShipToAddress and the other is the
BillToAddress.  when the user selects an address in the shipto combo, ...

I need to build a testing scenario generator that will create binary
messages for an application we have built.  The UI would look like a
movie editor in that it would have parallel timelines for the actions
of several people and several machines.   The user would be able to

In my application, I am binding controls in a dialog box to a DataRow.  The
first time I launch the dialog, it works fine.  But if I launch the dialog a
second time and bind it to the same DataRow again, the first control that I
modify will not relinquish input focus to any other ...

   Does anyone know if it is possible to distinguish between a user
pressing the dedicated Home key versus the Home key on the number pad
(NumPad 7 with NumLock off)?  I'm working in VB.NET on WinXP Pro.  The
standard KeyPress/Down/Up events return identical key codes.  I've tried ...