When I add a resource file it creates a new class in My.Resources namespace.
But the Class is Friend type, and also all the Property resource string is
also Friend type.
My question is how do I make it public instead of friend. Is there any way

I got some sample code from the following website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr
fsystemwindowsformslistboxclasssortedtopic.asp
This example is actually showing how to invert the selection on a listbox so
this is my code:

Does the tree view in VS 2005, have mutli select capability?  If not does
anyone know of any alternatives.

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

Click button in first form, which opens another form.  Type in text if
desired then click the OK button here.
The tooltip text for the button on the first form is briefly flashed when
SetToolTip is called.  But only if the two buttons are clicked by mouse (not

I can't find a good way to draw a nice shadow behind a rectangular object. I
can of course display a light grey rectangle behind the rectangle, offset by
a few pixels, but this just does not look very professional. Instead I want
a grey shadow that is "blurred" at the edges. I ...

  We have developed a WinForm application in .net 1.1 sp1 and we are
getting spontaneous errors while working with the application under
Citrix. In a normal Client it works well...
Can someone give some pointers...

      I am looking for a way to drag drop components(specially panel,
label, picturebox) around in a form just like the capability provided
during the design time. Just not able to find a resource out there. Any
pointer would be great!!

Hi all, I've got a UserControl that contains a few PictureBox objects.
If I click on outside of the Picture in the UserControl, the scrolling
with the mouse button works - however, no amount of clicking on the
PictureBox objects will get that scrolling working.  However, after I

after we developed and tested the application in VB6 we had a menu option
that was Publish, Know in VB.NET we don't!
the only thing that pop up to my mind is, as this is developed for .NET
framwork, all we need to do is copy the EXE and past it in othever computer

I succesed in changing the colors of the menuitems but now i wan't to change
the color of the Mainmenu background. Is there a other way than making the
last menuitem as long as the window?

I've got a need to display a splash screen while the main form loads. The
main form will be doing some initialization and posting messages to the
splash screen for display. Here is what I have in a nutshell (irrelevant
methods omitted):

There is a way to display a class with public shared properties? In fact the
propertygrid control is always blank, with no infos ...
Thank you in advance

I have an application with splitters, listviews and resizeable forms. Is
there an easy way to serialize the control settings??. For instance saving
if the user has moved the splitter making a listview larger and have
manipulated with the length of columns in a listview.

I'm creating a C# (.NET BETA2) Windows application (NOT a Web application, a
Windows application), and I would like to programmatically selecting a row
inside of a DataGridView.  It seems like it should be pretty easy to do, but
I'm have a hard time with this.