I need to let the users change data connection in runtime.
I tried to let them specify the SQL connection string by hand, but it is
quite complicated to remember and an error is fatal.
I read somewhere that it should be possible to use the inbuilt connection

Any sample on how to create
a windows form like windows xp control panel ?
Happy Holiday
Stefano

is there no MS Flexgrid control in Windows Forms?
I tried using the MS Flexgrid version 6 and got a license error...
How do I use such a flexible grid in Windows Forms please?
thanks

I am looking at a problem where i need to create a menu in which the
child-items (the items in the dropdown) do not have the area for icons/
images.
If you look at an xp-style menu(in a word document) or the default

I have a user control with a datagrid in it.
Here is what I would like to do
* As the width of the datagrid grows or shrinks, have the user control
adjust so that it always looks full in the user control with no

I have a question regarding versioning with a Smart Client and a Web
Service.
If we deploy an updated web service for some reason (say we rearrange the
parameters on a function call, or added a new one) before we deploy the

Once your in an error state (icon is blinking) form won't respond to any
events until error is corrected.  I would like to allow user to press a
cancel button to override error and close form.  How do you do that?
Thanks,

I'm trying to cache a user object and gain access to it from a mutlipe
forms.
I have created a base class that all forms will inherit from.  In this base
class, I have a propery to a User class which I want to cache and reuse on

This is a very basic question here.  I must be missing something
here.
At run time, I am trying to set the text of the label control bold.
lblMyLabel.Font.Bold = true;

I am trying to populate a combobox and then fire an indexchanged event
handler.  My combobox populates fine, the problem is when it gets to
the datasource object (cmbClient.DataSource = ds), it immediately goes
to the event handler (SelectedIndexChanged), which later causes an

I found the GetPositionFromCharIndex(int index)  is a little different
from that in TextBox. And I have a question.
Explain:
If the length of TextBox & RichTextBox are both 2.

Gday,
I'm a java developer turned .net developer, and I'm unfamiliar with some
concepts, especially the event loop.
We have a form in which upon closing needs to save a significant amount of