Basically, what I'm trying to do is as follows:
in one .vb ...
Friend Class frmBase(Of T)
 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Hello, all.
I have a Windows Forms app with a datagrid control, with several custom
column styles applied. One of the columns holds a decimal data type,
with a format string of "C" for currency, and this works precisely as

  I've got a question regarding a small amount of flicker I am seeing when
a form is first drawn that has a transparent background.  
I have a custom panel that I'm drawing myself which takes up all of the
client area of a form (rounded corners, gradients etc).  

I have a ListView control, and anytime I manually set the selected item, the
original item OnSelectedIndexChanged event fires twice.
Here is a sample of what I am doing in the OnSelectedIndexChanged function:
if ( listView1.SelectedItems.Count == 1 )

I have some code using forms and ShowDialog that was previously working
perfectly well, but now throws ObjectDisposedExceptions with message
'ObjectDisposedException - cannot access a disposed object called "Icon"'
when ShowDialog is called. Anyone had this kind of error before ...

I have VS2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Version 8.0.50727.42 with
.Net Framework 2.0.50727  
I have created a Windows Form Project.
I have installed OWC11.  I have Office 2003 installed on my machine.

I have a custom control which i want it to draw ina  rectangle a picture and
i have two buttons to do zoom in and zoomm out.
I want that when i click on one of these buttons make a zoom on the drawing
to see with more detail a region of it and scrollbars appear in the sides of

Hi.  Does anyone know how to create a visual studtio type GUI using
C#.Net.  I.e. an MDI application, but where there is no real parent
form, rather a set of floating, dockable child forms that will 'stick'
together, etc.?

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We have an application which dynamically loads an assembly and creates
instances of classes. For this we have written a factory class which
reflects the assembly and creates the classes and returns the created
objects as plain objects. The caller method casts the object returned

I am creating winform app vs.net 2005 and was looking for good
patter/practice for offline/online app.  In particular how to best store
local and sync with server when online.
I noticed there is a MSFT block but it is dated 2004.  Is there an updated

How do i set for my application to use the default System font instead of
Microsoft Sans Serif so i don't need to worry about changing the the font
field in the properties when inserting controls to the form.
Sometimes users change the look of the windows and i want my application ...

With .NET 2.0, insert a ToolStrip onto a form and add a
ToolStripCombobox item.
I don't know if I'm flat out missing something, but I cannot set the
width of a toolStripCombobox any smaller than 75.  It just seem

hi,
   I am new to winForm development. When I am using the .NET 2.0 MDI Forms,
I want to close one of the child form at the very begining. For example, I
want to close Form1, so I write

What is the typical memory usage for .NET application 2.0.
My app is around 30 meg, but sure sure that older version was around 2 megs.
What would cause dramatic change in size?