I'm wanting to monitor the focused state of a Form.
In working with the GotFocus and LostFocus events of the Form object I
notice that these only fire if the actual Form object has focus.  If any of
it's sub-controls have the focus (which is generally the case) the form will

I have a form that calls another form....Is there any way to call method in
the old form from the new form?

I am using ADO.NET in a C# application to get data from a SQL Server 2000.
The SqlCommand.CommandText is read from a text file.
The text file with the Sql query contains line breaks that need to be
conserved.

Sorry if this question seems naive:
I'm writing a Windows Forms application in which all UI code is in the
Form1 class (controls added using the designer and event handler code
added by me).

May I know how to call methods from previous form using delegates? Thanks.

I created a transparent control using Bob Powell's transparent control
sample. I'm hosting this control in a designer and BringToFront/SendToBack
does not have any effect in this control until the user moves/resizes the
control.I tried many ways including refresh, invalidate, ...

I am using .net 1.1 SP1
Every time I open a new form then close it my application gains 2 GDI
object.
Apparently it is caused by a smallIcon field which is not disposed correctly

I have a login form and after name and password that forms closes and my
database form opens up.  I need to code so that when a user clicks the close
button (the X on top right) it displays a dialog that gives them the option
to cancel or exit.  If they exit it brings back the ...

That's nice you can edit a datagrid, but there doesn't seem to be any good
way to grab the row after the edit is completed or a submit button is
pressed? Is there?
-Max  (using VB)

Maybe this question has been answered before, if so please refer to answer:
I want to run some initialization code in my main form, after the form is
made visible.
My current solution is to end form_init with the following:

I created an abstract base class with some features in it, something like:
public abstract class MyBaseClass : Form
{
  // constructor, destructor, etc...

I've been struggling with this issue for some time and can't find any
relevant information about it in any newsgroup, including the managed
newsgroups. I have some information that might help someone else, though.
I'm running a WinForm and get the following on startup:

a quick question. When calling a URI using a HttpWebRequest I always add
the necessary proxy settings uptill now. But I'm just wondering if I
actually need to do this. When a user defined proxy settings for the
default connection on his OS, are those settings used? Is the request ...

My mainform is modeless, has mdiChilds, but I need to open modal forms from
mdiChild => I cannot minimize mainform when a modal form is opened.
I understand that's a "feature" = You cannot minimize applications that show
a modal dialog.

When setting Form.Localizable = True in Visual Studio, any ImageList on the
form is copied/serialized into the resources for each language. This
behavior is really annoying, since I only want to have _one_ copy of the
icons (the same icons for all languages). Right now I have to ...