I am wondering if someone knows how to trigger a mousdown event in a TextBox
from code as if someone clicked the textbox.
I have tried to derive a TextBox and manualy call the RaiseMouseEvent metod
whith a propper MouseEventArgs, but this doesnt work the way I want. The

Hallo !!
How can I make window content visible while dragging without turning on
this effect for all windows in system - I want this effect only for one
window ????

Thanks in advance

I'm inherting from the winform [TextBox] control.  I'm wanting to override
the OnPaintBackground paint a custom background, however these method are
not being called.
Is the TextBox doing something funny in it's implementation or am I missing

I'm trying to right-align a context menu with its source control.
Here's what I have to LEFT align it:
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Dim pt As New Point(0, myButton.Height)

When I create a winform app (even with no additional code or controls), it
typically takes 7 - 10Mb on startup.  An app with 3 forms can take 3x that.  
That memory is allocated to the process only until I minimize the window,
which drops it to < 1Mb.  

I have a need to populate a collection class from one form and need to access
and/or modify the values in it from a second form such that it is still
available to the first form.  Of course, using the New keyword as in "Class1
c = New Class1();" returns zeros and null values in ...

I have many dlls with same namespace (say X). I would like to combine them
and make it a single dll , called X.dll.
onw way to do this is by copying all the source code into a same project and
compiling them. but its a maintenance and extensibility nightmare.

I created a list view control which has 4 columns. I am
planning to add a dynamic tooltip to the control.
Everytime when the mouse hover over any subitem on column
4, the tooltip will display the content(text) of the

I'm a VB .NET developer. I would like to how to set Height of DataGrid to
fit the font height?
Thanks,
KPH

I have a readonly textbox that is limited in width. There are cases when the
text in it exceeds this limit. In such cases I want to add "..." at the end
(for example: "somelongt..."). The problem is that I don't know how many
characters the control cancontain, because its seems that ...

how can I set a MDI container without scrollbars (if the child is
larger than the parent)?
Set AutoScroll = false doesn't work.
Please help me.

I have a bit of a problem, Im building my own component which shows a
specialized list of data. Its used to allow you to select patterns from the
data. Each cell is its own control and stored in the parent control.
The problem is that I want to be able to select an area when shift ...

I try using API CreateCaret with bitmap from PictureBox. But this function don't work. Can anybody to help me&

I have relatively little experience in Dot Net graphics.  
I have a picturebox with a background image.  For the purpose of this
application it is necessary to draw polygons (both filled and outline only)
to emphasize parts of the image.   It would probably be better if the