First off, I apologize if this gets long.  I'm simply trying to give you all
enough information to help me out.  I'm writing (almost finished, actually),
my first VB.Net application.  It's a forms application that is going to be
used to extract data from a legacy system (VSAM ...

For the first run of my application, the configuration dialog
needs to be displayed.  I have tried loading the config dialog
in the form load, but the form is not loaded yet.  What is the
easiest way to display the config dialog?

I want to find a code snippit library that I can use with my development
team to store code snippits (.NET) that we create.  It needs to be
searchable and organizable.  I have searched the internet but haven't found
anything that was Free and good.  If anyone has any suggestions, ...

Where can I find articles and/or an online tutorial on using NUnitForms
for Windows forms?
dbuchanan

I have seen talk of this around but none of them seem to be exactly my problem.
Anytime I compile the source of our application on my laptop I get the
following error when I run it:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by

I haven't been able to find any post regarding this problem...
the MSDN help about TreeNode.Collapse clearly says:
"The state of a TreeNode is persisted. For example, if the next level
of child nodes was not collapsed previously, when the Expand method is

I am writing a Windows Forms application that manages "Project" content on
CD-ROM and DVD media.  If the end-user wants to Open a "project", I have to
prompt them to insert the media if it not already in the drive.  Legacy
media contains a heinous Autorun routine that I must ...

Lets say I have a button whose click event closes the form by calling Close.
How can I tell if the form is closing from that button click or from hitting
the 'X' close button in the top right corner of the form, or by using Alt +
F4?

I just noticed a very bizarre situation. In Solution Explorer, some of my forms did not display
their forms icon, but rather a class icon. (This particular solution is under VSS control.)
Therefore, I cannot see the form in the forms designer. Most of the forms are inherited from

I have a form with some ComboBox controls on it. I am populating it on a new
thread in Framework 1.1. But it does't work with Framework 2.0 Beta. It says
"Cross-thread operation not valid".
What is the best way to do it in Framework 2.0.

I do have a Bitmap object  in a C# application,  i would like to create a
bitmap using the GDI function CreateBitmap which could return me a valid
HBITMAP (Dont want to use the GetHBitmap method which returns a 24bits bitmap
which will loose any Alpha informations like ...

While I was playing with VB.NET windows application I came across one
particular error.
Purposefully I made a button array and try to add an event handler like a
normal button.

I can not get NavigateComplete2 and DownloadComplete events
from the object AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser to fire on production.
I have tested on computers having Visual Studio.NET installed and
everything goes well.

I would like to draw centered text that takes up the entire paintable
area of my form.
I know how to use a StringFormat to center the text both horizontally
and vertically.

A button can be clicked by using the mouse, ENTER key, or SPACEBAR if the
button has focus. Is there a way for me to make it so that hitting ENTER when
a button has focus does nothing? I don't want ENTER to ever cuase the
button's click event to be risen.