I am have a data grid view, with 2 columns for each day of the week:
Monday | Monday | Tuesday | Tuesday|  etc
Hours    | Tasks   | Hours     | tasks     |
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I'm using vb.net 2003.  i have a windows form with a drop down list box.  If
i click on a "row" in the drop down, it finds the data and all is well.  the
problem is, the data is not displaying on the drop down. it's there, but not
displaying.  if i run it from vb.net, in debugger ...

It seems by default the text that is drawn within a DataGridView control
has several pixels of margin or padding around it. For my application I
need a very compact display so I would like to reduce that padding but I
can't figure out how to do it.

MDI Children wont opacitize!
Have to work around.

Hi all, I realize this should be obvious, but I don't know what I'm not
doing.  I have a form to which I add a variable number of controls.
All I need the form to do is to shrink or grow according to the size of
the controls added.

When i am trying to remove the last item in a listview:
lstServers.Items.Remove(item);
i get the exception:
A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException'

Is there any sample code?

I am trying to get a QueryContinueDragEvent per the MSDN tutorial on
Drag&Drop from a TreeView control.
My TreeView is at the same time source and destination (basically I am
trying to manually rearrange nodes). I try to abort the D&D when outside the

Is there a way to determine if your winform application has the current
user focus?
I am looking to implement something that works somewhat like Outlook's
new email notify window. The specific behaviour that I am trying to

I have met a problem.
If anyone on Earth knows why does .NET 2.0 is subclassing Common
Dialogs' owner window, and why doesn't it set back the prevous WinProc
address when quiting but is calling DefWndProc directly???

I am writing a windows form application (C#) which access's data from an SQL
server. The SQL server is using windows authentication only.
At the moment I have to grant the domain users access to the database for
the application to work. However, the database includes information ...

How to I resize the combobox and set it a bit passed the largest string
in the box. By the way, the box gets built by a db table. Thanks for
your help
Dave

Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
wc.DownloadFile("http://jared.site.net.au/resort/version.txt",
"c:\mytext.txt")
The remote server returned an error: (406) Not Acceptable

I build an object with a method and an event.
In the method, I start a thread(child thread) and after a long process, the
event is raised (from the child thread unfortunately).
When I use this object in my form (main UI thread), I get an error which

Hi yall!
I have created an image selection dropdown editor for use in a
PropertyGrid. My selector form is called dropdown by a
IWindowsFormsEditorService and so far it's all sweet.