I've got a Windows Forms app that I want to return an error code to the caller
- it's a utility in a larger build process and I need to aboort the build if
the utility fails.
I've tried Environment.Exit(<code>) but I only ever get 0x00 returned for any

In datagrid I have a invisible column(width=0) in column styles at the first
position, the horizantal scroll bar doesn't respond when you click the arrow
it sends a small increment with the value of 1. Anybody faced this before?
Dincer

How do I make a property accept only a value from an enum type?  Let's say
for example:
using System;
namespace Test {

This doesn not seem to be a regular drag-and-drop operation.
I poked around but could only find information on dropping from the
clipboard and dragging special items (such as list-view items).
So, how exactly do I go about making my form open files that have been

I want to create a collection type: LineRuns containing type: LineRun.  I
would like to implement the IEnumerable interface to be able to use foreach
against the LineRuns collection.  The LineRuns class has a method called:
AddLineRun() which will create an instance of the ...

I have a question regarding connection strings.  Most of my apps have
multiple forms each of which stores a connection string back to (generally
speaking) the same SQL db (i.e. it's set up the way that VS.Net appears to
work by default).

Hi all. I have a user control that contains a picturebox within a panel with
the panel set to autoscroll the picturebox. One thing that I have noticed
with the default functionality is when you click and drag the scroll box
(thumb track) the picturebox does not scroll until you ...

Hello, everyone:
when I use a image as background of a windows button control, the control
alway has a border around the image no matter I set the flatstyle as flat,
standard, or popup.

I have created two forms namely form1 and form2 in my application. I
created a button "start" in form1. When this button is clicked form2
is initialised as a child object and an instance of form2 is displayed
at the same time hiding form1 from the user. In form2 I have an "exit"

Several of our windows applications are rendering the items created in
controls like ComboBox controls as blank. The items are actually in the
collection but the window that is displayed what the ComboBox is open shows
all items as blank.

I suspect it is right in front of me, but I can't seem to find it. Is there
a toolbox with things like lines, rectangles, etc that I can drop onto a
form in design view?
Thanks, Steve

I use the following code to send an email in ASP.NET, when i try to run it
in Console or Window Application, it give me errors, Any Idea whats wrong in
it??????????
Dim smtpmail As Mail.SmtpMail

I have a group of controls that make up a "form".  This "form" may be used
for displaying data in a database, entering new data, editing existing data,
or entering search criteria.  I want to create a class that has the controls
for the "form" and the layout stored, but that can ...

I want the horizontal scrollbar location to be altered during runtime.
I have read msdn, and the scroolbar property of the datagrid is readonly, so
there seems to be no apparent way to simply set it.
My next guess was to override the HorizScrollbar property and play wiht the

In my application (c#) I have a boolean that is set to true everytime a
documents content is altered. Everytime the user saves the document my
boolean is set to false.
I want to be able to monitor this boolean. It would be great if I could