I am trying to detect if F3 is pressed to mimic the typical "find next"
scenario in a RichTextBox. The function keys do not seem to cause a key press
event to occur. How can I detect that a function key has been pressed?
Thank you.

The alignment on my tab control is set to Bottom (so the tabs are on
the bottom) but the default painting of the tabs is still as if they
where on top.  I am assuming that it is already pretty well document on
how to override the OnPaint to flip things around.  Can someone point

how can I change a DataGridViewTextBoxColumn to a
DataGridViewComboBoxColumn programmatically?
Thanks...
With regards

I have been unable to get the DataReceived event of the SerialPort component to
fire.
Here is a sample of the code I found on the web that is said to work around a
bug in this control, but if the event doesn't fire, I don't see how it can do

I need to know when user cancelled adding a new row to the DataGridView.
Is there a way how to do it? I explored the DataGridView events but
failed to find any usable one.
The thing is I need to do something when user adds a row to the DGV.

How to raise an event of button (click event) from textbox's onkeydown
event?
I have a button which have or not a click event and a textbox which have
onkeydown event.

I have MDI application and now that I look at the performance of it in
depth, I see setting the parent property of my mdichildren forms is slowest
and then again followed by showing.
Although application loads in under couple of seconds, is there any way to

Any suggestions on how to make a form not visible when displayed via
Form1.ShowDialog() ?
If I put a button on the form called "Close" and in the click event I put
Me.visible = false, the form closes and my application terminates.  I don't

Can any one please help me out. I need to add a in place tool tip on a list
view items. Do any one knows how to achieve this?
- Angelina

I have a UserControl with a TextBox in it. TextBox has Validating event
handler that can cancel the validation. If I place two UserControls
like this on a form then Validating event will be firing twice. To
demostrate this I put the following code inside the UserControl.

We have a bit of a problem with application settings and user control. In
short, we have developed a user control that should, as it happenes, get a
value stored in application settings of its host application. The app.config
of the host application looks like this:

Using dotnet 1.1.
Say I have assembly "A" with a drived textbox like this :
public class MyTextBox: TextBox
{

If I want to set up my Vb 2005 windows app so users can print some data from
a dataset, what options do I have to do this?  It seems I should be able to
find a whole section on printing data but I haven't been able to find my way
around in "Help" to well.

Suppose I create a Windows Form app and then add a public method
like this:
class Form1 : Form
{

which Form event is triggered first during application startup? I need
to load data from a database before RowEnter event of a DataGridView
comes to life. I've put the loading code into Form_Load, but that is not
good enough, because RowEnter is triggered sooner. Hence, an exception