I have added this code in an attempt to prevent the user from closing my
simple 1 form application, but the application now prevents logout and
shutdown. What is the proper way to prevent a user from closing the app but
still have it close gracefully at shutdown/logoff?

Another dumb newbie question, sorry. I want to be able to create
applications by dragging my own version of controls onto a Form. The reason
for making say a button as a user control, is I want to button color to be a
specific color and not the default color. When I drag the ...

Is there a way to get to the default "drag" cursor
("arrow-and-some-rectangle") during drag-and-drop? I'm doing drag-and-drop
in TreeView and need to show user that he/she cannot drop dragged item in
particular nodes. So, this part actually works great, user sees Cursors.No

How to do this with MenuStrip and/or MainMenu?
Adding items to the top level is easy, question is the second and third
level sub-menus etc.

Anobody can help me to increase scrollbars in ListBox (wider for both
scrollbars). I try to design applications specialy for touchscreen, but
can't find any solutions in documentation.
Thank you,

I have a windows.net aplication with a couple of list boxes on the main
window form.  Each list box is databound and is filled in the constructor of
the window form.
When I run it on one machine it works fine.

  I have been trying to access a local 3rd party application through a web
service, but it seems that IIS has no access to the "user space" that the
application runs in - even though I have experimented with impersonation, the
IIS rights on my filesystem and so on.  The idea now ...

I'm new to WindowsForms, but have done a good deal of work with ASP.NET. What
I thought would be a simple task because it is in ASP.NET, I've realized
isn't in Windows Forms.
I'm trying to create a quick way of displaying a list of rows from a

In my old unmanaged apps, I'd store a list of "recent files" in the HKCU
registry hive, so that I could display the last 4 opened files on the "File"
menu of my app.  And, this was specific to each user.
I'm not sure where I should be storing something like this in a managed (C#)

I have a Collection of custom objects (MyObject) that I am trying to
databind to a ListBox.
It works every other time I call ListBox1.DataSource = MyObjectCollection
I have set the DisplayMember to Name, which is a property of MyObject, the

I have a 16x16 icon that I've set to be an embedded resource. I have also
added the icon as button image for one of my buttons. It compiles just fine,
but when I get the this line in InitializeComponent
this.pauseButton.Image =

How many more years will it take for the geniuses at Microsoft to fix
the TabPage control so it uses the proper xp-theme when specified to do
so?
I'm betting another 5 to 7, how about you?

This seems like such a simple task.  I have a textbox that is bound to a
database field, the text box displays the expected value but in my code when
I try to evaluate the text (ex.  If txtSecurityGroup.Text = "purchasing") the
text property is = "".  I am sure I am missing ...

Hi, how do I get path to current user's Application Data directory?
Thanks.

I am using a timer to renew the items in a TreeView control, but every
time I am renewing the items they are flickering. I've called
BeginUpdate() before changing the TreeView control, and EndUpdate after
changing them, but the is no effect.