Due to the nature of our application, it is necessary to set a system
setting that increases the size of the scrollbars when the application
is the "active" one. When it is not, the system setting is reverted so
that the scrollbars appear in their normal size.

I am currently writing a program in Visual Basic .NET and need to be able to
find the day of the week when given the date (Ex. 1/20/07). Once the
function is given the date it will the deliver the day such as Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and so on. Thank you very much.

I'm talking about the ones that are displayed in the XP Start menu?
Does anyone know
where they are/how to get a list of them.
Cheers,

I need such library to make UML modeler with which i'd be able to make
UML schemas(primarily for designing software projects).What i'm trying
to achieve is to make something like any other UML drawing tool.
I've found some commercial ones(yFiles.NET, Essential Diagram)and

Is it possible to redirect the rendering of a windows form to the video
port/overlay device of a video card? In my situation I must present the
contents of a window on an hdtv and I can't use a desktop clone trick
because there's going to be another application running that cannot

I am trying to display a simple modal form from a button on a displayed MDI
child form toolstrip.
Does anyone have some simple sample code example to send me.
Will be much appreciated.

I have noticed that Autocomplete stops working when you set a TextBox to
Multiline.  Is this the designed behavior?  Is there any way to make it work,
other than developing your own custom control?  I would also like to see a
behavior where the list of suggested items resets ...

Hi....
I'm using FlashWindowEx to flash the taskbar and titlebar when my processes
are done.
I set the number of flashes to 5.  But when the user returns to the window

I'm curious, given the below code, where does .NET perform the drawing
of the treeview? I'm especailly interested in how a TreeNode is painted
on the screen with a checkbox in front of it.
And yes, I'm fully aware of the TreeViewDrawMode.OwnerDrawText and

I have a product which is customized for multiple vendors for eg:-
cisco,hitachi,sony etc.
When user installs the app on a cisco vendor all the icons,bitmaps, strings
should be cisco and viceversa. What's the best way to achieve this.

Say cbRoadwayType is my combobox:
       for (int i = 0; i < cbRoadwayType.Items.Count; i++)
       {
         cbRoadwayType.SelectedIndex = i;

I'm looking for some kind of form level event that I can hook/add/use
to tell me when ever some input control has changed its state. As a
hack currently I set KeyPreview to true and hooked the KeyPress event.
This works great for text boxes etc, but if a user uses the mouse to

Hi! Is there a way to package registry file only? I can not seem to find the
way using VS 2003 & Package and Deploy Wizard.
In a nutshell, I need to merge a .reg file to create some keys + values.
I need to create an .msi package as our clients do not accept anything else.

I'm baffled. I have a column in a SQL Server Express database called
"Longitude," which is a float. When I view the table in a DataGridView,
some of the numbers, which only have two decimal places in the database
show up with *15* decimal places and are ever so slightly off (in the

My application has a main form with its "IsMdiContainer" set to 'true'.
I create a form to serve as a child form, setting its "MdiParent" to the
main form before calling its "Show()" method.  The "AutoScroll" property is
set to 'false'.