If in my own application I use Windows common icons generated by
\system32\SHELL32.dll and used, for instance, by Windows Explorer (regular
folder icons, Favorites folder icon, My Music folder icon, and so on) will I
have legal problems with MS? What's the deal here? Are they ...

i am working on an application where having a common theme for the
buttons in all the application is  a requirement.
Does anyone know how can i change the icon of the propertygrid buttons?
Thanks and appreciate your reply:)

I've added a custom button to my form's caption bar to perform a pin
function.  However the font-family that contains the pin/unpin image is
VisualUI (which come with VS.NET).  However I can't seem to get this font to
display.

Basically i have an overlay form which sits on top of the main form. So when
the main form gets focus i show the overlay form by calling
showDialing(mainform). This makes child window to be always on top of the
mainform. But i want these two forms on top of all forms of the ...

I'm making a windows app but I've noticed that the ui elements - in particular
the buttons - arent the normal rounded XP style I'm used to. I am developing
on an XP machine. All the applications running on my machine are using the
XP style but when using Visual Studio and running ...

Does anyone know a way to create a winform window that has similiar
functionality to the 'Output' window in VS .Net - i.e. that basically acts
like a console window but is proper MDI child of the main winform
application and does not look like a DOS window :). I have tried using ...

Dear Sirs,
   I need to create a form with a button, when the button is clicked I need
to run an access application residing on the local drive, how can I do this?
Regards,

When I recompile my application in VS.Net 2003, I occasionaly get this error.
There are no other errors listed in the Task List.  Does anyone know what
might be causing this?  If I close and reopen VS, everything works fine.  
This most often happens after I recompile a web ...

I have a VB2005 program that has to import data from a 3.5 floppy drive and
USB drives.  I use a file open dialog to choose the file, works great.  The
problem occurs the next time I wish to open a file.  If the last import was
done from a floppy drive the program looks for a floppy ...

how do i create a groupbox which has a checkbox instead of a label as
caption. with that checkbox i want to enable/disable the controls inside the
groupbox
thanks

All,
i was not geeting the preformance improvement with the pre-compile.
I have a un-managed app (vc6), which uses windows forms user control. The
use control in tern contains 2 user controls. each of them are in seperate

Hey all,
What is the best Event to use to trigger a DataAdapter Update so that any
changes to the bound DataGrid are immediately updated to the underlying data
source?

I'm using a bitmap as background with a TransparencyKey to give the
impression of a skinned form. The transparent color is not transparent when
deployed to PCs whose color depth is greater than 24bit.  The bug workaround
suggested in

I have an asp.net application that will use a SQL Server DBMS for the
backend.
On my asp.net form. I have a next, previous, last and first buttons on my
form.

I've two threads in my program: 1) The original program thread and 2) a
worker thread.
For simplicity my worker thread writes its output into the static controls
and status bar by itself.