I'm relativley new to .NET but one thing that has instantly hit me is that
text doesn't seem to draw correctly in controls like the label and frame.
The issue is that labels draw with a wider horizontal font-spacing than they
should.

I'm developing an application with a tabview. Each tab there are a no: of
controls and control events.
I dont want to keep all tabpages in a single .cs file. Options are to create
usercontrols or custom controls.

   There is a way to create an instance of windowsforms (and open it) that
is located in another assembly ?
I have tried:
Dim o As Object = System.Activator.CreateInstance("General.Windows.UI.dll",

I have a form that has a Datagrid. The datagrid is use to display data from
different table selected by user onme at a time.
I can programatically customized the Column's Title of the DataGrid by
specifying alias in the SQL statement.

I have a problem with one of my application (actually I suspect this problem
happens with other programs, but this is the only program I am sure of ).
I have a winforms application with a main window & a dialog box that I open
from the main menu.

I have a rather tricky problem: On one of the Windows XP Pro installations,
my .Net application has nothing more to say then:
System.InvalidOperationException: It is invalid to push a main message loop
in this context. This may cause your application to not respond to Windows

I have a problem with the TabControl control in Visual Studio .NET 2003/.NET
Framework. Looking thru some old posts it seems that others have had this
problem before, and I can't seem to find a solution.
Basically, with XP theming, my application draws fine - with the exception

C#.  If I minimize a window programmatically (form.WindowState =
System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized), and then restore it
programmitically (FormWindowState.Normal) I can see in the debugger that the
form.Size changes both times.  So where is that size saved away?

Suppose we are using a DataSet within a windows application. Should we
dispose it when the form closes or leave it for Garbage Collector. DataSet
might be hugh.
Please advice.

Why Closing and Closed events are not visible in vb2005, framework 2.0.
Richard

Framework 2.0 Beta
How do you start a project from a sub Main instead of a Startup Form.
Please help.
Richard

I'd like to emulate in a DataGrid the outlining feature of MS Project,
where tasks are nested under other tasks hierarchically.
I'm not necessarily looking for a Gannt chart, just for the nesting of
grid items using in an indent-outdent fashion.

I would like to know how to go about embedding an Excel spreadsheet into a
c# Windows forms application. Any tips or pointers to some articles to get
me started would be much appreciated.
John

I know this topic has been covered in various forms but I still can't
seem to come up with a solution that works correctly.
I want to create a modeless hidden form in my application. This is NOT
the main application form. The best way so far is as follows.

i am trying to draw an alpha effect on top of the icon for a treenode.
here is my code:
node.ImageIndex = 9;
ImageAttributes ia = new ImageAttributes();