I am developing a C++/CLI winforms application. In Outlook 2000 and
2002 there is vertical bar on the left hand side which allows the user
to switch between modules (Mail, Calendar, etc).
1. Is there a similar control for .NET that comes close to that?

Is there anyway to get a thumbnail of a file similar to the way explorer
does that can be used in an application? I want to for example if i drag a
file over a picture box, if it has the ability to have a thumbnail, show it
in the picture box.

I have written an app that uses the MSComm ocx, the .NET IDE creates a
Interop.MSCOmmLib.dll wrapper.  I copy the executable and the wrapper to the
client machine, but the application fails to run, presumably this is because
the MSComm ocx is not registered on the target machine, ...

I have a MDI Windows Form application, within it I have three child forms
that allows a user to provide about 5 paragraphs of text. Instead creating a
large multi-line text box on the child form, I created a "Detail" form, which
contains the large textbox, that the three forms ...

I'm trying to access listview control in a VB application from C#
application.
Follwoing is my code
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I guess the subject line says it all.    Does anyone know why this
restriction exists?  It does seem rather arbitrary.  Also, can the
helpbutton's behavior be mapped to another button, like one in a toolbar?
Can the question mark cursor be invoked other than by clicking on the ...

I am working on a custom DataGridColumnStyle that can host a UserControl.  I
have created a public property on this ColumnStyle of type MyUserControlBase.
I would like to be able to set this property in the PropertyGrid by choosing
from a list of UserControls that inherit from ...

Every time when I add text in my RichTextBox control via AppendText method -
the control
is autoscrolled to the end of text. I need avoid this effect. How can I do it?
Thanks in advance!

I'm going to start a windows-form application ,but I am not very familiar
with techniques in windows-forms.I'm an ASP.NET developer and pretty
familliar with a lot of things like user controls,Framework and libraries
around.I was thinking about strating with a sample to design ...

What is the official (ms) way to embed word/excel into a winform application
so that the document is editable with word toolbars displayed?
ActiveDocumentHost has been droped from 2.0 (not in VS2.0 beta 2)
Is it true that MS can't devise a way for word/excel to be used in a .net

I understand the use of Application.DoEvents() to process all outstanding
messages on the message queue in a winforms application if you have long
running process on the UI thread. But can anyone explain to me why I need to
call DoEvents when I am using a COM component that calls ...

The GDI+ function GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap seems to be broken. When given
an image with an alpha channel, it produces an HBITMAP with its colours oddly
skewed. Only translucent pixels are skewed. This is evident, for instance,
when adding 32-bit RGBA System.Drawing.Bitmap ...

I retrieve data from sql dbo and place within a dataset datatable using a
simple select statement. One of the fields is nullable and the data returned
may be null. When I use IsDBNull(dr.("fieldname")), the check fails because
the actual contents are the characters "<NULL>". I ...

I'm trying to get the "about to be used" directory  from an Open/Save file
dialog.  I'm not talking about InitialDirectory (which only seems to be
useful if you are setting it) but the directory whose contents will be
displayed when the dialog is shown if InitialDirectory is ...

I need to be able to force a form or control to render itself to a graphics
bitmap instead of
(or as well as) the screen device. This is not the same as basic
capture/print screen functionality.