I need to have text displayed over a picturebox with an image in it.  When
using a label whose BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent, the
background is not transparent.
I came across this explanation as to why .Net does not support transparent

Hello everyone...
I have 4 buttons (Button_1, Button_2, etc...), and I want to call the same
method regardless of which button is being clicked.
Once I am in the event, how do I know which button was pressed?  Or do I

In web ASP.net List Box can get the DataValue on selected Item easily.
Is there any way I can get DataValue on a Winform ListBox Selected Item?
I don't want to use Ctype(selectedItem,
DataRowView).Item("ColumnName").toString, neither

I just wonder if someone can help me:
I've built a custom UserControl which i use in several apps.
Is there a way to obtain it's size (height, width) without actually creating it?
Do i need to use reflection to invoke Size property or is there an easier way?

I'm using the free Adobe Acrobat ocx that comes with Acrobat (v6) to view
and print pdf's within a Windows Forms application.  This works, pdf's
display and print fine.   The problem is that acrobat takes several seconds
to start up when the pdf viewer form that I've written is ...

Hey folks,
Is there a .Net Windows Forms Control which looks like the Outlook Calendar?
All I can find is the Drop Down Calendar control, but I don't want it to be
drop down, and I need to be able to write text on the individual days.  I'm

Is there a way to control which monitor a form is displayed in with VB .NET?
We are running on Windows XP with a Matrox Dual Monitor card.

This question is probably one of the basic things but being a novice
programmer in c# and .NET environment, I couldn't get to find the answer.
I  have a menu item in one form and need to create the context menu with tht
menu item in another form. The first form becomes the parent ...

I enter data into several textbox's. and try to save it to a SQL table using the following code:
Before this code is executed I do a 'sqlDataAdapter->Clear', and then enter the new data.
private: System::Void btnOSave_Click(System::Object *  sender, System::EventArgs *  e)
        {

In our app (see: MDI Client problem - second try) clicking a button hides
(me.visible = false) the current client window and displays another client
window (form.show the first time and then me.visible = true thereafter ). We
have just noticed that if you tab to the button and ...

Hey folks,
This is really simple, but a little hard to explain, so bare with me.
I have a C# MDI application.  On one of my child Windows there are multiple
tabs.  One of the tabs is fully populated by a User Control which has on it

I was trying to create a simple Hello World application with .Net and when
the Message box appears it is blank.  There is no text visible on the form or
on any of the buttons.  If you have any ideas how to fix this problem I would
appreciate it.

  I am getting this error when I wrote MessageBox.Show("message") in my
Form_Load event.
'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll'
I am developing windows based C# application

I have this "template" form which is based on System.Windows.Forms.Form. I
created a new form(the derived form) which inherits this form.
I have observed that if, at runtime, I run through all of the controls in
the controls collection of the "template" form, I can have access to ...

I registered event handler to catch the AfterCheck event...
myTreeView.AfterCheck += new TreeViewEventHandler(myTreeView_....);
It works fine, however, if I set the checkbox as true or false
programatically(I mean..in the code, somethinglike node.Checked = true...),