When programming in access I can make this call
dialogResult = Application.OpenFileDialog.Show()  ' May not be the exactly
correct syntax
The user can manipulate the column sizes the sorting,etc.

I have 2 listboxes side by side where the user can move an item from left to
right or vice versa by double clicking the item or clicking on a button(s)
between the two listboxes.  I want to enable to disable the move left or
move right buttons as determined by the number of items ...

Is it possible to do away with the "selected" appearance of an item in
a CheckedListBox (v1.1)?  When I click an item, its background turns
blue and its text turns white.  I want the checkbox to toggle (which
it currently does), but I don't want the list item to appear

I have a DatagridView bound to a bindingsource. I programmatically add a
ComboboxColumn and bind it to another BindingSource like this:
           Dim colActType As New DataGridViewComboBoxColumn
           colActType.DataSource = ActivityTypesBindingSource

HI, there,
I am developing the desktop application using VB 6 as well as VB.Net.
I have noticed one significant difference.
A created an empty windows app in VB contsing of a single form and there is

I am trying to unit test a control that uses a background worker component
and have discovered that the RunWorkerCompleted event does not fire in this
scenario. The documentation doesn't say anything about this behavior, and I
was wondering if anyone here could tell me why the ...

I have a listbox with 3000 entries, all of 4 chars, and the user needs to be
able easily select dozens of them...
When the user is selecting items, they type for example ABB, and the listbox
first goes to A, then B, rather than searching for ABB.

I'm building a UserControl that contains a number of other controls
that it creates and lays out at runtime.  I've been messing about
quite a bit with containers and docking and anchoring, and I can't get
it to do exactly what I want it to do.  What I want it to do seems

Hi - I am communicating with my UI thread using the following
technique. This has appalled one of my co-workers ;) - any comments
about it's brilliantness or lack thereof welcome.....
two threads:

Is there an easy way to detect when someone has pasted text into a
textbox?

My situation is a bit more complex then my example here, but if I can
figure this out then the rest should fall into place. Thanks in
advance!
Example:

I have developed an application, now want to localize my application
according to regional and language option what user has selected in the OS.
To do this, Do i need to edit each and every label & captions of Form
controls to specific language?. I do not know the equivalent words ...

Curious to see if anyone has experience or knows about any alternative
components to using the WebBrowser control.
I found this component:
http://www.syncfusion.com/products/htmlui/windows/default.aspx

I have created a grid which is totally table driven. All the required
information(column info, control info etc) are obtained from the
database tables. Is it possible to handle the events for the dynamically
generated controls within the grid?

Hi, Im using VS 2005 and winforms
I need to select a row in the datagridview, but clicking the enter key,
because our customer says that for him is more simple to use the enter key
instead the mouse