When I am using the Collection Editor, the left hand side member always
display the collection class name.
1. How to display specify property name?(e.g. Collection of TabPage in
TabControl, it can show TabPage.Name value instead of

I have couple of group boxes on my windows form. How can I tab on controls
only inside a group which I have focus on. Somehow it tabs across all the
group boxes on all the controls.
I did use the visual studio tab order property to set tabindex for each

I'm having problems with the BackgroundImage property of a panel. When the
panel becomes scrollable (because the contents are larger than the displayed
size and the AutoSize property is true), scrolling the panel leaves the
background image distorted: a residue is left where a ...

In a Windows Forms application I plan to have a collection of structs - each
of which contains a bunch of properties describing a person (e.g., LastName,
FirstName, EmployeeID, HomeAddress, ZipCode, etc). So each instance of the
struct will describe a person - and about 900 ...

I was curious as to the curent best practices for data sharing within NET
2.0 Smart Clients.
Typically I have have isolated data/datasets, webservices interaction, file
IO, etc. using the Component class (IComponent), relying heavily on the

I have a winform that is shown as a dialog that unfortunately has to
contain a very large amount of controls, nested controls, etc. The
result is that there is a fairly noticeable draw sequence when the form
is shown.

Microsoft provide a wizard class under System.Web.UI.WebControls.
Can I use it to implement the regular window's wizard(e.g device
installation wizard)?
Thanks

At run time I want to know if my form is "hidden" behind another window.
The "Visible" property of the form returns true even when the form is NOT
Visible!
My application updates the form at intervals - I only want this to occur if

I am using VS2003 C# and i have a problem with DataGridBoolColumn.
I am using DataGridBoolColumn for show open/close Value, but the column not
work like i need :
1) The columns are gray. all other columns are ok.

I've encountered a strange problem with GDI/GDI+ and windows forms/win32. To
explain it shortly: I've a user control with a NC area. When painting the NC
area I ask for a window DC using GetDCEx with parameters DCX_WINDOW |
DCX_CACHE. I also use the wParam of the WM_NCPAINT ...

I am storing method names in one xml file , on run time i read method name
for ex class1.Method1  , I want invoke this method is there any facility in
system.reflection to load the methods like we load assemblies using
assembly.load. I would have instantiated the class before ...

I'm starting work on a new and non trivial Windows Forms application.
What are some generally accepted recommendations for organizing the project
folders and for breaking out different parts of the applicatoin into
separate projects (i.e. multi project solution) and/or separate ...

I have a class that derives from a Windows forms datagrid and of instance of
this class is hosted within a Windows forms user control.  In the derived
class, I have overridden the ProcessDialogKey method and the
PreProcessMessage methods in hopes of trapping a press of the up and ...

I have created a simple smart client that downloads some xml and puts it into
a document on the client machine. It then launches the default editor for xml
documents (using the Process class and setting the process.StartInfo.Verb =
"Edit"). It then creates a FileSystemWatcher to ...

I have found some code saying that the correct way to get application
settings is to use the ConfigurationManager that is in namespace
System.Configuration, but in my VS2005 enviroment this doesn't exists.
What am I doing worng?!?!?! How should I do it?