I want to do some very basic customization of a tab control. I've
successfully painted the tabs but want to change the background color of the
control itself and cannot find anything that gives me that ability. Am I
stuck getting a third party control that has more power built ...

I am having a problem with the seconds portion of time that I am writing to a
column in my VB .Net program.  This is the code that populates a Sql
smalldatetime column.  
ReportHistoryNewDataRow("rhDate") = Now

I have a DateTimePicker on an Add/Edit Form...
When the form is loaded the DTPicker is assigned Now in a ShortDate Value if
Adding, or the ShortDate from SQL Server when Editing.
When Adding, any date can be selected and works as expected.

The title says it all.
What I would like to be able to do is drag a folder from Windows explorer on
to a form and just capture the full path and folder name.
Failing the fully qualified path, I absolutely need the folder name (which I

I have developed a VB.Net application for storing images of customers.
now i want to scan customers images from within my application.
i saw something known as  TWAIN driver which was used for scannin (i.e
Reading data directly from a scanner) in many applications like ACDsee or

Does anyboy know how to implement following 2 features in .net?
1.Change screen color depth
2.Disable hardware acceleration
So far, I know how to change screen resolution in .net, but havent found

Datagrid1.Select(1) highlights the second row of a grid, but how do I get the
arrow pointing to the selected row?  TIA.

I am using the following code in C#,
private void menuItemStart_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
DataTable tbRand, tbShow;

We are planning to design separate C# windows project for each module. We
need to access(open) some forms from other project for better integration.
Since we cannot add the other exe project as refereces to  current project,
how can we open the forms from other project?

How do I return the path where the EXE is being executed, using something
like Systems. object?

Any idea how I can display in the "Window" menu all names of the active MDI
children forms like in most prof. windows apps ?
Along with this I would like to have the "most recently opened" files in the
File menu.

On controls - please make Enabled Overridable.  (If I use shadows it don't
work).
Let it be possible to inherit the System::String class.  Don't sealed it.
I think there is to many classes that is sealed, and there is to mutch

Is there a way to make a combobox non-editable?
So that the drop down works, but the use cannot type text into the text
area?

I have a form in a VB.NET windows application that, when a button is
clicked, runs a pretty intense database process which can take up to ten
minutes to finish.  While it's running, I would like to be able to send data
to the form so that the user knows the the application is ...

Background:
I'm pretty new to C++, so don't bamboozle me with anything too technical.
Also, my company is cheap, very cheap, and I have only got the standard
version of Visual Studio C++.