I am using vb .net 2002. I have a datagrid where I am displaying columns
from a table. The columns that are empty are being displayed as "{null}" and
I want them to be just blank. I heard the onl;y way to do this was by using
a table style to map each column and use the  ...

Since i converted the project from VS 2003 to VS 2005 i am having all
sorts of problems with form designer, main is that most of my forms
don't open showing an error "The path is not of a legal form. ". When i
try to open a form for the second time it sometimes opens, but ...

      I am trying to read a file that is being written by another process
but i always get the exception "The process cannot access the file
"filename" because it is being used by another process."  How do i
simantenously read a file from c# that is written by another process? ( ...

One of the WindowsForms controls that I developed uses a richtextbox as an
editor in one of it's properties. As it does syntaxhighlighting, I get a lot
of flicker at this operation. Using LockWindowUpdate API helps a lot but at
the same time causes the desktop to flicker like a ...

that I have replaced the EXE of the external process with a newer
version and my WinForms app is still executing the old one. I am using
Visual Studio 2005 and programming in C#.

Ok, So call me dumb.
But I get a CA1812 erorr when I have a Class with Shared methods. How do I
get around this with out instantiating the class. I want it to be like a
module. Thus a static class. Which I thought I was doing be making the

I ran into a threading issue with vb.net 2005.
So I did some research and found out I could do one of two things.
I could use the following(Which I'm not a big fan of)
Dim ctl As Control

    I want to maintain gloabl variables in windows forms like session
in asp.net. How can i do this. Is there anyway to do this? If anybody
knows the solution pls let me know..
Thanks and Regards,

Hiya,
Got a small issue. I've created an app that can monitor what
information is sent from and to a webserver while navigating through a
particular scenario on a website (i.e. booking a holiday). Trouble is

Is there a way to programmatically set the location of the PropertyGrid's
splitter bar.
Often there is too much white space to the right of my property titles and I
would like to be able to move the splitter bar over.

In upgrading a Windows Forms project from 2003 to 2005 in VB.Net, I have
errors in setting the datasource for all of my embedded Crystal Report
objects.
What was working in 1.1 was

        I am developing a tool (in Windows Forms .NET 1.1)  which uses a
OpenFileDialog component to browse file in the local hard drive. I want to
be able to show some folders in the OpenFileDialog with a different image.
These folders are unique to the tool and has a defined ...

I've built a separate windows 2.0 form that i'm calling that has a progress
bar that runs  text file parsing code. However when that form is called, it
doesn't display until the progress bar has reached it's maximum value or the
code has finished running. Is there any way to ...

What is difference between Release and debugging compiling?

I have created a very simple custom forms designer, using the .NET2.0
DesignSurface. There are no implementations of any of the services.
If I change a property of any of the components on the designer host, for
example the font size of a label, then the design surface does not ...