I want to create a simple form containing, lets say, two TextBoxes within a
Panel. Both TextBoxes should resize equally when the user resizes the
window.
Can the Forms layout manager handle this? And how do I have to set the

I want to monitor "applications" much
like the Windows Task Manger does.  All I want to know is what applications
are running, and which application is on top.  However, I don't want to
"poll" the task manager for that info periodically.  Instead, I need to know

I want to write a small tool having only the NotifyIcon as its visible GUI.
I don't need the form associated with the NotifyIcon. How can I set the
form's visible status to false? If I write "this.Visible=false;" after the
call to InitializeComponent() nothing changes; the form's ...

If a form returns a dialog result and it can be handled immediately, then you
can just check for the result and proceed accordingly.
However, if the result of a dialog has to be returned from a deeply nested
method in the call stack to the original caller in the call stack, what ...

I have an MDI application. Initially I open say 5 forms, they position themselves in a cascaded manner. When I close all of them and open another form it positions itself in the location which would have come after the 5th form. It is as if the MDI parent is remembering the ...

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From: Zaher Zeidan
is there a way to resize a form so that it's bigger than the screen size of the windows??

A form has a background image. On that
form there is a button.  Partially overlapping
that button is a class derived from Control,
with only one customization: it makes its background

I have written a small C# wizard that I thought other people may find
useful. I have always wanted to be able to create a simple popup dialog with
an OK and Cancel button in C# with one click. So I wrote a small add-in that
adds a new choice to the list of items that may be added ...

 I'm on my way to my first OOP-for-real project in C#, and having some big
trouble with code architeture.
 I have four namespaces:
 - Layout

I have a parent form that has a combobox.  In the parent, I placed a
UserControl (created as NEW) inside a Panel that contains a grid that
returns data.  As I change the selection of the combobox on the parent, I
would like to see the data in the UserControl embedded in the panel ...

I get an "ArgumentException: Invalid parameter used at
System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(Stream stream, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)"
exception. it is too ridicilious to get such an exception, can anyone see what
might cause that exception?

This one has me stumped.  I'm using sample code in the C# Programmer's
Cookbook as a guide.  Specifially, Recipe 4.3, Execute a Method Using a
Timer.
I created a form with a ProgressBar on it (Min=0, Max=100).  When I

We're trying to bind a nested table from a DataSet that is loaded form XML
that looks like this:
<RootNode>
 <RootRecords>

I'm developing some kind video player application. I want to control the
current position in the video using a slider. Could somebody give me a
starting point on how I create a slider in a toolbar?
regards,

This may seem like an odd question and I'm not talking about using a browser
in my smart client. Rather the following:
I find it easy to create a nice UI when building a web application but since
the project I am about to embark on is local to the machine, making a smart