The .NET ListView control doesn't support moving items freely as in Explorer
pane. Has anyone here come across any 3rd-party ListView control which
support the above feature and (optionally) grouping feature (as when we right
click on Explorer pane, choose Arrange Icons By - Show ...

do you any way how i can run a Windowsform as desktop background? I wanna
have an application as background similar to active desktop?
thanks
holle

I have a WebBrowser form and I want to record the events which user makes on
web.
I handle the event onclick of WebBrowser (handler returns true). Then I
can't write in <INPUT  type = 'text'> or change the selection in <SELECT>.

How can I programatically change the index of a combobox to, say item 2?  TIA.

I've got a pretty standard menu at the top of my main form, and the
MenuItem's have event handlers for the "Select" event to update the
statusbar text, but what I can't seem to find is a way to know when the user
has cancelled the menu without clicking anything so I can clear the ...

Does anyone know any way to find what control is under the mouse pointer?
In my application (MDI forms application) I need to track mouse move events
and find what control is currently
under the mouse, it can be MDI child form, button, label, etc.

I'm using Windows.Forms.TreeView control (.NET Framework 1.1).  When a user
select a a node from the tree, the text of the selected TreeNode object is
displayed in a Bold font. The problem is that when the text is displayed in
Bold font some of it dissapears. It seems as if the ...

I want to select the directories instead of files using the Open or Save
file dialog boxes. Is it possible to simulate this?
thanks
vinod

All - How can I tell / extract the name of the sub or function that is creating an error?  I'd like to extract this so I can write an event and include the sub name in the error text without having to go to every error handling statement and adding the sub as a string.
Thanks,

normally with a menu i use a simple switch statement.  i'm thinking this is
not a very good way of doing it.  does anyone have any suggestions on a
better way

Would there be a problem if I set the ColorDepth of an image list to 24 or
32 bits?
It seems to be working OK in my computer but I am wondering if other people
will have a problem. I am going to assume that you would have to have a very

Anyone know how to draw nice 3D buttons like this one by Code in .NET:
http://www.econtechvn.com/en/aquabutton_detail.htm
Please help me out.
Thanks in advance.

I've spent several hours on Google and founds 100's of entries that get close
to the answer, but can't quite get there.
I'm creating an component that acts as an ExtenderProvider for other
components.  One of the properties that it exposes is a class I've created

I am trying to build a windows forms control which derieves from TextBox.
The added functionality that i want is that
I want every character that appears on the TextBox should be in Capitals.
For this i have created a Class iTextBox and Derieved from TextBox and have

We are trying to rebuild a current Access 2002 (XP) mdb program to VB.NET
with a SQL database - we are having problems with a suitable combobox.
There are many threads discussing multiple column comboboxes in .NET.  We
are having success with the multiple columns similar to the ...