I'm having a lot of trouble finding a universal and stable solution to the
problem of detecting a session's idle time. I have a .Net application that
runs in the system tray, much like many of the messenger services out there.
From what I've read in the newsgroups, there are ...

Can anyone tell me how can I display the progress in percentage in the
middle of the progress bar with "invert color" using VB.NET, this is very
common and available with most of the applications, like
at the begining the text "0%" is shown in black text and the background

I have a panel with a backgroundimage with a docked transparant label. If i
enablevisualstyles the backgroudimage disappear.
Any ideas why?
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I have some boolean columns in my datagrid. To minimized the column width I
want to change the height of the header row and write the header text in two
lines.
Is this possible ?

Here is one I am stuggling with:
I have a project I'm developing in VB .NET.  I have a datagrid in a window
with two columns.  The first column is readonly and the second column is not
and initialized with Zero's.  The values in column two must be numeric.  How

I would like to know if there in C# an equivalent to the
VB.NET RaiseEvent statement.
I would like to raise an event of a control in my code as
if the user's action provoked it.

Does anyone know of a control that can display (and ideally allow
users to manipulate) a graph structure (similar to a tree structure,
but where a node can have more than one parent)?
This would be most useful!

I know it is possible to use a listener on a directory so
that if there is any change I can catch it and update my
application accordingly.
Anybody know or have a code example as for how to do this?

I have an MDI form containing child forms. I want to handle form closing to
display a confirmation message when a form is closed or when the main form
is closed. However, the Closing even of the child forms is raised before the
Closing event of the MDI form when you close the MDI ...

In my application I receive a Byte Stream (Dim bytFile() As Byte) which
contains a jpeg-picture, which I want to display in a picturebox.
I want to display it directly from the bytfile() without first writing it to
a file and than reading it. Does anybody knows how to do this?

I'm fairly new to distributing .NET applications, and so far no one is able
to use the apps I create. They do run on all 3 of my machines. I include the
dotnetfxredist with the setup files. One person cannot even install the
framework from Windows Update. It's giving them errors and ...

How would I make a TextBox control auto-scroll to bottom after calling
AppendText? I have tried various methods but none of them seem to
work. This is already tried:
textBox1.HideSelection = false; // Called from Init method

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I need to implement functionality to support function keys(F1..F12) and shortcut keys(example Ctrl R) in windows forms.User will use just the key board to access and navigate the forms, User will not use mouse.If any one has any suggestions can you please ...

Does anyone know how to restart an application from itself? Or is there a
way to completely reload an application form code simulating a restart?
Thanks in Advance!

I need help solving a couple of problems (and learning a couple of concepts)
involving ComboBox columns in my DataGrid.
The first problem involves my custom ComboBoxColumn class. I don't have
experience making custom classes so I downloaded some code.  From what I've