I would like to cancel the selection of the ListViewItem in the
ListView on MouseClick?
Any help would be appreciated.
Etienne Lebeau, ing. jr.

I'm writing a program where I have to draw custom tooltips onto a control
through OnPaint.  I've figured out how to get the text color and the box
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how to figure out what the font is.  I've looked through ...

I have a DataGridView that is bound to a list of objects through it's
datasource property.
If a cell in the grid is changed by editing directly in the cell I get
a CellValueChanged event.

When handling the Lost_Focus event, is there a way to determine which control
will get the focus before leaving the Lost Focus handler ? and then prevent
the current control to not loose the focus ?

I am trying to customize the appearance of a textbox but with overriding
the onPaint Method it doesn't work!
I have read that drawing of a textbox is done by Windows and not by .Net
and therfore the WndProc method has to be overridden.

I have a question regarding databinding via the Visual Studio 2005 form
designer. What I wanted to do is not a very good practice, it was just
"quick and dirty" in really small application. I had a WinForms
form with a  typed dataset and a lot of controls bound to it via

Using VS2005 and .Net 2.0.
I have a MDI parent form, and MDI children.  What I would like to do is
similar to merging menu's.  I found you can define the menus on the
child, specify a merge index and have the menu merge nicely with the

I have a textbox with data in it that extends beyond the size of the text
box.  I am looking for a way to display the data in the textbox with the
data scrolled all the way to the right:
Before:

When doing a Drag & Drop SWF.Timer don't seem to work anymore.
What can I do in such case?
For now, as the OnDragOver event seems to be fire repetitively I use it.
But I cannot control the time interval.

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specifically set Me.Visible = False but the form still displays?
Any suggestions ?

I am trying to prevent the combobox from dropping down; how do I
override this effect?
Thank you.
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I am trying to use the Microsoft Chart Control COM component in dotnet 2.0
but keep getting "class not registered" exceptions when I try to run the
code.  I have done the following so far to try and get around this issue:
- registered mschart20.ocx using "regsvr32 mschrt20.ocx"

I have a windows forms .net 1.1 question:
I tried adding an image (a picturebox) to a column in my grid, but haven't
been able to do it adequately.  The pictures are there, but they don't seem
to be visible until I click on a cell and then the picture is visible.  Not

I have an MDI application with the MDI parent container has a
tabcontrol on it.  When I bring up any child MDI forms, it won't show
up over the tabcontrol.  I have tried the form.bringtofront() and that
doesnt work.  Short setting the controls visible property to false, I

I am new to SmartClient. Can anyone provide some links for SmartClient
sample or tutorials
Thanks,
Baren