I have an inherited form.
The base class has some panels and a splitter for resizing them
In the inherited form, I've placed some child controls in the right-panel.
This all works fine, run the app everything looks great.

I have a form with a notifyicon. I have set ShowInTaskbar to false. When I
minimize the form, the form minimize, but there is a symbol on the windows
desktop for the minimized form. This symbol is the same as for child windows
which are minimized to its mdi-form. What I make wrong.

In order to display multiple lines in a column, i am creating creating a new
column style deriving from the DataGridTextBoxColumn.  To get the height of
each row i am using the following code in one of the methods of this custom
columnstyle class.

i want to get the first name of the logged in user on the current machine,
windows application
i used the following code but i get System.NullReferenceException when it
reaches the Console.Writeline line

I stripped off the frame from a window but I still want the user to be
able to move it. If the user click on the background and moves the mouse
around I have some code that hooks into that and does the move but the
window keeps trying to redraw itself and it greats really crazy. ...

I'm doing some stuff with the Form's Opacity property.
Basically I'm changing it's opacity to less than 100% when it's being moved,
and then resetting it to 100% upon completiong.
What I find is that after the Opacity property has been adjusted (to

If I add a menu (or context menu) to a component class by dragging it from
the toolbox, it is added correctly but I can't find a way to edit it.  The
Edit Menu command appears in the context menu for the item but it doesn't
seem to do anything.

I have a form where I was using databinding to bind all of it's fields to a
business class.  Now I'm converting it over to binding to a list object
which is a list of the same business objects.
Note: me.Me.CustName is a textbox in this form, "Me.CustName" is a property

Is there a way to find out, on the leave-event, which control that is about
to receive focus?
Rgds
Egil Winther

I have a non-delimited fixed-field text file with a record length of 5919
bytes long that I need
to load into an existing empty dataset with 159 columns.
Currently I am building a mapping like this:

I need to to have a combobox column on the grid.
The problem is when the user selects a value from the combo , when the user
clicks the combo in another row i need to remove the previously selected
value from the combo list. So the user has only the left available values to

I have spent hours on the following two problems:
1 - Resizing a column to a new width
2 - disabling the addnew feature of the datagrid, without making cells
uneditable (i.e. by locking the control)

How can I display a balloon tooltip from a system tray icon??  I can find
plenty of examples on how to do this from C++ or even Visual Basic by calling
the Shell_NotifyIcon function, but I can't find how to do this from inside C#.

I want to install my user control in the GAC, regasm it and run it in a
browser without pulling the control from a web URL.
This is possible and explained in the MSDN KB article 305624
http://support.microsoft.com/d­efault.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305­624

I have a .NET application which is targeted at both W2k and XP. My form's
icons are XP style icons 32-bit. When it is running on W2k, the icons do not
look correct. I understand that W2k does not support 32-bit icons with 8-bit
alpha channels. My question is what can I do so that ...