when you open the DateTimePicker, when you press on the year you can change
it by using the UpDown control attach to it. i want to also to be able to
write the year (i know you can highlight it and copy the text). is there a
way to do this?

I try to save a DB table and it takes few minutes. So I decide to add a popup
progress window. When it’s done the saving work, program code will close the
window.
I created a progress window form with a timer and a ProgressBar control, and

I am trying to make my winform always on top of other windows and want it to
be focus once it's on top of the others:
// some codes
SetWindowPos(this.Handle, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);

I am making my first windows mdi application. It seems like I cannot add a
mainmemu to the mdichild form. The mainmenu can be transferred from the
toolbox to the windows form in designmode, but it will not display. Is there
a limitation or do I have to do some additional steps to ...

Any idea?

How can I measure the lenght of a text from a TextBox (in pixels) ?
I want to measure in KeyPress event the lenght of the text typed in a
textbox to put a listbox at the end of the text (something like IntelliSense).
I read about SizeF and MeasureString but I don't have a drawing ...

How do i change the back color of MessageBox

VB.NET is saying the file I am creating is in use by another process and
won't complete its task of moving the file to the specified destination
folder.
Here is my code (the main bit anyway)....

since Control.OnLostFocus doesn't supply in the argument the new window
that gained the focus, how can I get this information ?
Thank you
Herve

I have a VB.NET Windows Forms application. The main form calls a worker
class to do some work. Currently I implement this call syncronously and
would like to show the progress via a progress bar as this work is being
carried out. What is the recommended method of doing this?

in the OpenFileDialogBox component, how do I set the initial file view to
Thumbnails? It defaults to detail on my computer, but I want to force it to
the Thumbnails style in my VB.NET application.
Thanks in advance.

I am making several forms that will make heavy use of images to create the
look and feel of various controls.  I typically have just used the bitmap
format to store all of my images.
Can anyone give me an idea of what the pros/cons of using other file formats

I want to display a datagrid with values from a dataset(using Windows
application). That works, but now, I want to color the row red if a certain
field is empty
Can anyone help me?

I have a combined Direct3D and Drawing (GDI+) application. In the drawing
part I can paint a height map that dynamically update its 3D representation.
The Direct3D and the Drawing part are placed in seperate controls hosted on
the same form.

We are receiving error reports with NullReferenceExceptions from our users
with stacks like the following:
at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc,
IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)