I would like to write a line of code which will get used in several
debugging points, to look like this..
If app.Mode = IDE then Stop Else End
Or if Stopped ended an EXE mode that would be good.

I am using Windows Forms (C#.NET) in MDI mode.
My 'View' is set to 'Maximized', but when I switch from Form-to-Form I am
seeing all of the other Forms repainting (as non-maximized windows), and it
looks very sloppy.

Anyone knows how to add images to any given location in a ListView?
Consider the example code given under the ListView class in the MSDN
library
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr
fsystemwindowsformslistviewclasstopic.asp).

What is a generally accepted method used to ensure that one instance, at
most, of a form can be opened?
Thanks

I am looking for some infomation about dialogs and passing / sharring
variables best practices.
Q1 - What is the best way to pass variables to a dialog form from a main
form?  Constructor, properties?

I have a winform containing a TabControl with multiple TabPages. Each
TabPage in turn contains several controls (Labels, TextBoxes ...).
Now, when I load my form or switch TabPages, the controls within the
form do not appear in a smooth manner, i.e, I see the outlines of the

I am trying to understand exactly what the handle property of the
KeyPressEventsArgs does.  I thought I could set it to false to prevent
a key from being included into a textbox.  For example, if I wanted
only numbers in my textbox and the user pressed an alpha character key,

Hey All,
I'm wondering if I'm able to have create generic user controls in .net
2.0 much like one can create generic classes.
I would like to do this so that I can handle a set a types derived from

I have a listview whose contents are constantly being refreshed.  When a
refresh occurs, I delete all the items and add back.  I want to maintain the
scroll position before deleting all the items, and then want to restore it
once the items are added back.

I have three textboxes on the same row on a FlowLayoutPanel. I want the
one on the left and right to have a fixed width but for the one in the
middle to fill any remaining space depending on the width of the
FlowLayoutPanel. Is this possible? (The widths of the left and right

I have a Listview that is firing an event twice and both time the
selecteditems count is = 1
In the call stack there is form.show

I'm building an windowsforms application in dotnet2.0.
I would like to generate an invoice in Word for printing with data from the
sql server database.
Is there a good totorial on how this is done?

I am looking to implement a search feature into a Windows Forms MDI
application. Specifically I plan to embed 3 textboxes into a toolbar; one
for LastName, another for FirstName, and one for CustomerID. When the user
starts typing into any of these textboxes I would like to pop ...

I've recently moved to VS 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 (from VS .NET 2003 and
.NET Framework 1.1). And I have a trivial problem in designer:
1) I create a new project with default settings (C# Windows Application).
OK.

I am trying to understand how to work with multiple forms.  To aid in
my understanding, I created a project with two forms each with a single
button.  When Form1's button is clicked, the form is hiddend via
Me.Hide and Form2 is shown using ShowDialog.  When Form2's button is