I need to access all components of a winform (controls, and any other
component which does not inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Control) both in
design and run time.
In design time I access the components and iterate through them using form's

I have an application that has an MDI main page.  I would like to open up
multiple non-modal forms for some of the items within that MDI application.  
Essentially, I want to open SDI forms from and MDI main application.  I have
the forms open, but they don't open up on top and ...

This must be quite simple! But I couldnt figure out whats wrong:
I have this following code, and I still see a blank datagrid:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient

In the background I want to load some control after form loaded.
I tried threading but it does not allow me to add control because current
thread have not created the form.
Also please tell me what BackGroundWorker control suppose to do.

I will appreciate any insights to set the right permissions to a Windows
Forms Control that is embedded in an html document. The control will be
downloaded by the html doc to the local system to do its job. It  requires
file system and registry access rights (read/write).

I have a ComboBox bound to a dataset. I want to add an Item "<Select an
Entry>" to the combo box. It is in addition to the items already added to the
control through the Dataset (From DB). How it can be done?
Thanks.

I would like to have a DataGridView that has a column in it that contains a
combobox only on certain rows. I have searched the web and the only solution
I have found is to create a custom DataGridView control. There must be an
easier way to do this. Any suggestions?

I'm developing a usercontrol which has an event SelectedValueChanged.
Below is the simple version of what i have:
//------------------------------
class SelectedValueChangedArgs: EventArgs

Hi to all,
In a .net 2.0 program, I'm trying to use the property grid. When the
property grid displays an object, it successfully displays its properties.
What I'd like to ask is: How can I make a property to have "sub-properties"

I have developed a custom Control inheriting from
System.Windows.Forms.Control
It has some children control.
Something really weird happen when I resize it, its children control move!

I am loosing my selected item when user click on a group in details modes.
Causes error and I would always like 1 item to be selected.
Any Ideas?

I can use System.Configuration classes:
string dns = ConfigurationSettings["name"];
to access the appSettings configuration
<configuration>

How can Typed datasets be generated in Data layer?

I am designing a table to contain a field to stores a value that must
indicate none, one, or many choices. The form will have a group box
with checkboxes (multi-choice)
You see the records in this table contain partially pre-configured

I need to change the color used by windows to paint the backcolor of all
disabled controls in my application, because users, in certain conditions of
light, can't read the text.
I Think that I need to change something like SystemColors.GrayText, but it