In the simplified code below, shouldn't the thrown exception cause the app
to terminate since it is unhandled?  It doesn't seem to do anything in Debug
or Release mode.  I do get a first-chance exception message in the debugger
but that's it.  Something seems to be intercepting ...

I've noticed that the FontDialog only allows positive integers as input when
you show the dialog.  Is there some reason for this?  The font that it
returns allows singles and I can't really find anywhere that explains why
this might be.  We're writing our own FontDialog (due to ...

Hi all, is there a simple way to draw one label on top of another?
Or does this require overriding OnPaint?
Thanks,
Novice

I have an application where multiple TabPages (within the same
TabControl) need to contain the same components; switching tabs changes
the data source feeding into the components.  I guess this is a problem
a lot of people have solved in the past, but I can't seem to get it to

Hey all, I have fairly deep nesting of controls in my Form.  At a
relatively high level in this hierarchy I would like to react to mouse
click, mouse down, mouse up events.
But the events don't seem to perculate up through the containment

I would like to have a grid or list where I can edit cells and put any
controls in it (like comboboxes, buttons, usercontrols, etc.).
In fact, I'd like to use the control that has been used to build the
Tasklist in VS.NET 2003, or the tasklist in Outlook 2003 if possible.

Hi all - I was wondering what would be the best way to implement a
hierarchical structure so that I can use it in databinding.  
Here's my situation:  We are building a windows form app, and we are not
using DataSets.  I have various business entities, and custom collections

I would like to display a large amount of data stored in a file (100Mb
or higher) in a treeview control.
It would be very inefficient to preload all the data into the treeview
since it would take an extremely long time to load the form and it

I found a bug using SaveFileDialog and I was not able to find any
similar issue on the web.
This seems to apply to any .NET Applications using SaveFileDialog.
To perform the bug:

I have a datagrid control encapsulated inside a user control.  When I use
the user control on a form and change its size, is there a way to get the
datagrid inside the user control to adjust with it accordingly?
Thanks.

Just installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.
When attempting to link to a data source which
is a ms access database I get the following error (if I wrote it
down properly).

I have a class which inherits from Component. I want to put this component
on a usercontrol. but i get the following error message:
The Type System.ComponentModel.Component isn't marked as serializable.
do i have to implement the ISerialization-interface?

I've made something like that:
private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs
e)
{

All - How can I get an icon associated with a particular file extension and
then get the icon displayed in a picturebox?
I have an app with a picturebox.  The picturebox displays pictures and other
files stored in SQL. If the SQL data is an image, it displays the image but

All,
I'm getting this exception error when I attempt to exit out a Win Forms 2.0
application with the following sample code:
   Private Sub RaythomConfiguration_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object,