Hi there ... I have been searching for information on how to create
graphical (skinnable) winforms (such as media player, messenger ...) for a
while and have not found anything.  Any pointers in the right direction
would be great (sites or books)

I have a SDI Windows form application were the secondary form when shown
should appear directly below a text-box in the calling form. I thought the
code below might work (use to using ClientToScreen in Delphi) but alas it
doesn't. Any thoughts on how to do this?

I subclassed my own ListView which supports column sorting. It
automatically draws the up/down sort arrows in the column header. The
arrows that are used are drawn by me. I noticed that Windows XP systems
uses different sort arrows than Windows 2000 and earlier systems. (open

I am trying to find a way to tell if an .NET windows forms Button
(System.Windows.Forms.Button) is "depressed" (pushed down). For my
application, I can not use a check box control set to button style, I
must use a System.Windows.Forms.Button. I can not find a way to tell

I have a program which dispatches a time-consuming process to a new thread,
which sends an event when it is done (I have a custom eventargs class to
store the result).  The eventargs contains an array of Bitmaps.  If I post
the event with only one Bitmap in the array, it works ...

My .NET application is using shortcut keys Ctrl+P etc. When I localize my
form into German, I want the shortcut to be shown as 'Strg+P' just as other
localized applications do (e.g. Internet Explorer).
How can I make this localization happen?

I am building a text input interface using Windows.Forms. RichTextBox
control.  Now, since the units of different parameters are not pixels as far
as my application is concerned, I would like to put additional \userprop tags.
For example, when the character spacing changes, I ...

I need to eumerate all available drives in a C# Windows Form application (
and then of course the directory tree, but that's not the problem)
My question is, how to I enumerate all the available drives?
My initial thought was along the lines of

I am using VC# Express (beta 1) and as the subject says, here's what I am
trying to do:
   FbConnection conn = new FbConnection(conn_str);
   FbCommand cmd = new FbCommand("select numero,nombre,ciudad from

How can I tell a DataGridView column to accept only Kapitals or to convert
all inputs to upper case?
Is there any style setting to do that?
Thx,

Is any easy way (eg a function) to check if a key that was
pressed is a normal character (A..Z, a..z, 0..9, !@#$...
etc)?
How can I handle other character sets (such as greek) in a

Hi list,
I have following situation
dim s as string = "KEYFIELD"
I have a form with a usercontrol on it named "KEYFIELD"

When I try to resize form , my controls on the form mainly datagrid, get
distorted i.e location of the datagrid on the form get changed.
Please Tell me what is happening actually.
Thanx.

The method that is envoked using an asynCallback to asynchronously call a
web method. I read the following article and implemented what it said:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/NET/. It says that the
Application.ThreadException won't catch exceptions of other threads, ...

For an Intranet application, what would be some reasons NOT to use WF and
use ASP.Net instead?
I can't think of any.
Thanks in advance,