I'm having a bit of an issue with a popup toast window.
   I have an application that starts up as a component application.
I'm doing this because I need it to run in the system tray for most of
the time.  And of course, if you double click the icon, a main form

I have 2 (simple) questions about threading.
1)How can I get a notifiication that a thread has completed its work?
2)When I try to abort a thread thats currently suspended I get the
following error:

   How can I erase the content o a Data Grid so the next content will be a
fresh one, instead of ADDING to the last line in the datagrid...?
   Thank you

I use the same routine to handle the click event of any MenuItem
I want to get the name of the selected menu before do something...
Select Case CType(sender, MenuItem).Name
Case "A"

What's a good way to time how long a specific section of code takes (in
milliseconds or even smaller units).
Is there any way to get both elapsed time and cpu time ?

I was fine with my typical event driven structure of my app (IE:  User
Clicks "Delete Item" button, the event fetches the Business Object from the
selected TreeNode's Tag property and calls the Business Object's Delete()
method.  I would then update the tree somehow to reflect the ...

I'm sure I'm missing something, but what's the difference between these two
events? Both of them always fire one after the other and I can't find a case
where one would fire and not the other.
I tried loading a ComboBox with a list of items, some of which had the same

Can anyone give me some hints on how to create a custom brush deriving from
the Brush class?
Thanks
Cristian Mori

         Is there a way to implement an excpetion handling for an
application domain? I am developing a windows application and i want to
catch any unhandled exceptions. I want to implement something similar to
Application_Error event in ASP.NET that is used to catch all the ...

Wondering if anyone can help me here.
I want to be able to progmatically set an item check state in a list view to
the indeterminate (i.e. grayed in Windows Classic/Filled Square with XP
theme) state.

Can anyone tell me how to fire and use a listBox onScroll event. The
language I am using is C# in a windows forms application
thanks

How could I format the background of a DataGridView cell with a gradiant
brush?

I've just installed the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and suddenly things that used
to work are giving me problems. Specifically, I have a grid (not an MS
DataGrid but one from a third-party) which is bound to a DataView. One of
the columns is boolean and the grid displays checkboxes, ...

How do I initialize the font parameters when creating an instance of the
FontDialog class?  All the properties I'm interested in setting prior to
showing the dialog (Bold, Italic, etc.) have only "get" accessors but no
"set" access.

I have a form and when the user presses the F3 key I want to set the focus
to a textbox where the user can enter a search query.
I figured this had to be really straightforward, but it turns out it isn't.
I tried putting an eventhandler KeyDown on the form, but it never gets