Can anyone point me to a resource that describes how to spawn a thread that
allows an image (such as a rotating globe) to launch, while an application is
processesing (probably on another thread)?
My issue is that a user action (such as a double click on a row in a grid)

Is there any way for a MDI child form to be notified when it's parent
receives focus? In my example, I have a MDI application with several
child forms, and one of them contains a "Paste from Clipboard" button
which I want to dynamically enable/disable depending on whether there's

I have a windows application (c#) which does not display any scroll bar (I
really don't want it to!). However, I want to capture when the mouse
scroll-wheel is used to "page-through" some of my data, without recourse to
a scroll-bar. Can I capture when the mouse scroll-wheel is ...

I am trying to implement simple(!) drag and drop on a Windows
UserControl. I want to use Windows messages directly (using
PreFilterMessage) to do this, rather than simple MouseDown/Move/Up
event handling, due to other constraints in the system.

How to access the full text of a cell when i mouseover on a DataGridView
Cell. I need to get it like a tool tip when i mouseover on a DataGridView
Cell. Any Sample code is greately appreciated.
Thank you

If a company have a SQL Server and many retail store in other location. If
the retail store doesn't have T1  connection and just broadband or modem to
connect to the internet. Then the retail store have VB.NEt application
installed and connect to the company SQL Server. Will this ...

I'm going some drawing via "Graphics" in a "Paint" callback and the commands
will only manifest themselves if I minimise the window and then maximise it
again.
I'm new to windows programming and so I am obviously missing a lot of the

any New feature of VB.net 2005 and how to upgrade from 2003?

Let's say there a bunch of textboxes on the screen, and there is a toolbar
on the form (Infragistics). When a button is clicked, whatever field the
user was last on needs to be validated, and then some work done based on
what the button was that got clicked.

if we write the connection string in app.config, then it can be changed
easily after deploying, but the password, and user name will be exposed to
the client and posing a security problem to the sql server, any good advice
to do this

quick question: If I've overridden both the "OnBeforeSelect(...)" and
"OnAfterSelect(...)" methods of a Treeview control, and have:
e.Cancel = true;
in my OnBeforeSelect(...) method  (in order to cancel the event), will the

I have a manifest file called app.exe.manifest and it works great on any
developers machine, but once we deploy the application (smart client) on the
web server and the users use the url to bring up the application it doesn't
have the xp themes any longer. Is the application ...

I have an app that creates customer information and creates a pdf
report.  It ecrypts it and password protects it.  The report is sent as
an email attachment. THe report is confidetial.  
All of the pdfs open fine on local machine but customer gets errors when

I've included a picture below to show what I am trying to accomplish.
It is best to copy/paste into notepad to get the spacing correct.
I have a dataset that contains 3 tables.  Two of the tables contain
data and the third links them together.  The dataset has a constraint

How to implement MouseHover event in TabControl in WinForms...
I want to select the Tab depending on which the mouse is, so that user
does not have to click on Tab..
Thanks