I'm looking for thoughts on the "correct" design for this problem (DotNet
2.0 - in winforms).   I've got two combo boxes (combo1 and combo2), both are
populating via database calls (using a separate DB handler class).  "combo1"
contains a list of countries and is fairly static, ...

Ok this is probably really easy and i am just being really stupid, but
how do you create a toolbar button similar to the highlight/fill or
Font button as seen in microsoft products where the colour stripe
changes depending on the colour selected.  I need to add a colour

How do I clear a bitmap to a single color, or draw a rectangle into a bitmap
to clear it? Do I have to iterate over the pixels myself?

Does anyone know how to actually "abort" the event (component change)
described in the following link. Apparently it's doable as mentined in the
"Remarks" section but how. Alternatively, it would be better to prevent this
event from being raised in the first place if anyone knows ...

VB.NET StartupNextInstance and ClickOnce (.NET 2.0)
VB.NET StartupNextInstance and ClickOnce (.NET 2.0):
A call to ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.ActivationUri.Query
returns same paramaters in event handler MyApplication_StartupNextInstance as

I'm trying to automatically enter some data into a row when the user
first enters the row. So I created a  RowEnter event handler that
contains several statements like the following:
_dataGrid.Rows(rowIndex).Cells(columnName).Value = newData

I'm looking for input / ideas on the following design problem:
As an example for the business layer, there is a class "DataObjectHandler"
with one method "Get()" that returns an initialised list of the class
"DataObject".  It also contains a method "Add(DataObject)"  This adds the ...

When using the Publish Application option in a Windows form application
in VS.Net 2005 to a file share, the client successfully installed it on
their pc and can run the application. However the application.exe file
can not be found on the pc and the start menu shortcut does contain ...

I got IDE problem. Some key is pressed by me and It uses dot(.) for
every white space
Can anybody know how to reverse this? Any short cut key or setting
I tried to find in option-text editor but cannt get any thing..

I am working on integrating some help modules and i need to launch the
browser with a url like
X:/WebHelp_WithTOC/index.htm#mergedProjects/ProductA/ProductA_Form1.htm
while i can have a form and a webBrwoser control in it and pass this as

I wrote a c# winforms application in .NET 1.1 which uses DragDrop
functionality to allow a user to drag a file to a list view.  It works fine
in Windows XP, but in Windows Vista I get the "No drop" symbol.  This holds
true even when right clicking the application shortcut and ...

I am building an application that is similar to spy++. I want the user
to be able to click on a 'window' (textbox/combo/etc) and have it
highlighted.
BUT... the window they click on may share common coordinates with

We have the strange problem that sometime in our application
Application.ThreadExit is raised and out application shutting down.
We do not see any previous exceptions before this event fires.
Moreover the Application.ThreadException event is not fired at all, so

The point is I completely don't konw how the win32 control is created,
other than I can get its handle.
Besides, I have to show it in a windows form control, hwo to?
Thx.

I have a desktop appliction currently compiling with Visual Studio 2005
written in C#. The client recently switched from Classic Windows to
WindowsXP and many of the controls and background colors are washed out and
can't be seen.