I am manualling setting a TopItem, for most of my listview grids this works
fine, but for one it will not work?
What would cause TopItem property to be ignored on  a set?

I have the following as the only statement in a Form's Load event:
txtDriveLetter.Focus()
But the textbox is not receiving the focus.
How to fix?

I am programming in c# and making a windows forms application.
I don't want to make a windows service.
How can I make sure that only once instance of the application runs ?
If you try to run another instance , it should bring the running instance to

I believe there must be some difference between them, such as,
which has higher performance?
how to implement these OnXXX() by MS?
how to determine which one is preferred in a specific case?

Is there a way to achieve  what .Net 2.0 Form::ShowWithoutActivation
does in .Net 1.1?  I am working on a project that uses .Net 1.1 and it
is not certain when we can migrate to .Net 2.0.  I'd like to get the
achieve what Form::ShowWithoutActivation does within .Net 1.1

I' like to now how to use formatting strings for certain or all methods in
.net ..
I keep coming across problems such as displaying a timespan and getting
hours, mins date and all the milliseconds

Hi, all
I'm develope a editor, What event should I handle to get a char ?
KeyDown's KeyCode is not a char
any other event ?

In old Visual Basic there was a KeyPress event that happened when a key was
released some max time after it was pushed. I guess this was to allow a press
to be cancelled if held down for a while (like holding down a button) Is
there any such system-defined time between keydown ...

I saw many memory leaks problems in this group.
But It seems that it's the new one.
When you add controls to the form, then delete them using
this.Controls.Clear(), memory is not released.

When datasets are added to a windows from are they part of any sort of
collection that can be looped through?
I have a form with 11 datasets, and I need to check each dataset for the
same things.

Can any one have any idea that how can I group items in a listview,
somewhat like the XP style groupping. But the condition is that it
should works in win98 too. I am using .NET 1.1 fro development.
Please help me out.

ToolStripManager.LoadSettings - unexpected exception ArgumentNULLException
USING:
Visual Studio 2005, .net-Framework 2.0, C# (same effect with VB)
PROBLEM:

I'd like to declare a class that inherits from the fontDialog class and adds
a "Color..." button to the bottom of the dialog.  However, fontDialog doesn't
seem to have a "Controls" property according to the documentation.  In this
case how do I host the button?

I create a main form that has menu to open login form. The main form has
menus disabled at first load (except menu to open login form). When the login
form pops up, user can give his/her credential to connect to database and
activate appropriate menus based-on his/her level.

I have a question when debugging dotnet code when attaching vb6.exe code to
this process.
i get an error like :
unable to attach the process. there is no managed code running in the