I cannot find the property to set that will disable row sorting when
the user clicks the column header.
Any suggestions?

I have a fun problem in that when I copy and paste controls in my
designer applciation I get duplicate tab indexes.  In order to help the
user out I want to know wha tthe highest tab index is on the screen and
then increment it for the newly pasted controls.  Sicne users can

I am interested in any controls or techniques that may allow me to make my
Winforms (.Net 2.0) more visually appealing.
I am especially interested in visual interfaces that look like those of
TuneUp Utilities 2006.  You can see an example at

We have a multiple project VB.Net 2003 solution running under VSS 2005
encountering all sorts of unexplained and inconsistent bugs.  VSS Analyzer
comes back clean.  The development team believes that VSS is to blame, and we
will work on our code without VSS to make sure . . . but ...

Is there any generic event arguments which will suffice all type of event
arguments for example I want to capture all the events in the form like this
public sub generalEvent(byval sender as ..., eventarg ...)  
control.Mousemove,mouseclick,click etc

 I have 3 combobox in my winform, Entity, company and department, one drive
another.
 I like have Entity bind to a datasource and have a default value selected,
so company also get a datasource from entity. but not default value. I would

How can I close a form (or stop it from opening, thus returning control to
its caller) from it's constructor ?
I've tried both the following but they just seem to carry on and open the
form.

This is the first time I post a message so first of all my apologize about
my poor language.
I have a problem:
I have a Windows Forms (STA) app in which I have to use an ActiveX for a

I'm new to using the clipboard so forgive me if this is a very dumb question.
All the documentation recommends puting as many formats in to the clipboard
as you can so that other applications will be able to paste what was copied.
I have code like this in a copy method:

Hello everyone, I was just wondering if the Windows Forms are possible to use
for development of webapplications in any way?

How can I evaluate which mouse button was pressed when the event being fired
does NOT have a MouseEventArgs argument? In this case it's the
BalloonTipClicked message from a NotifyIcon control :
private void trayIcon_BalloonTipClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)

Can anyone tell if there is an easy way to change the background color of a
cell on a datagrid depending on the cell value?
Thanks
Richard

I have an MDI Parent form with 2 mdi children.
I have implemented a copy of data from one child to the other, and the
target form should then become the active mdi child.
But when I try to do this:

At least I think it's using an API (i don't totally understand the
concept.)
I'm using Act 6. I need to interface with the act database and add
'contacts' to the database. The reason I need to do this is because i'm

is there a way I could have a multi-column treeview in .NET 2.0?
Something more UI pleasing than the TreeListview control. I read
somewhere that we could create it in VS.NET 2005 inherent controls...