In the windows forms designer my buttons have rounded edges and things in
general look good.  However, when I  run the application the windows form has
the old looking square buttons and the text and other controls don't look
like they do in the designer.  Why?

Hello NG,
I am despairing, please help me.
With VS2005 i drag 2 Listboxes on my form and a bindingsource.
Listbox1 is bind to a bindingSource1.DataSource = data

Does anyone have a link to a good reference on using the Theme API? Here's
what I'm trying to do:
I'm modifying a project I got off of CodeProject. It's a collapsible group
box. This control has a standard plus/minus graphic, but it's always a

I have an explorer type application with navigation on the left half of the
form and a viewing/details panel on the right.  The right panel can show
different content types based on what is clicked in the left side.
What is the best way to organize this code.  Should each ...

Is there a way to suppress the dropdown of a combobox. Instead of showing
the dropdown list I would like to show my own control as popup dialog when
user attempts to view the drop down?
Any code examples would be appreciated.

Is possible to upgrade their workstations to Internet Explorer 7? If so,
they can then zoom what is in the browser window. Works really well.
Everything is zoomed: fonts, pictures..

can anybody tell me why OnMouseMove isn't working while doing a ListView item drag operation?
thx
stax
using System.Windows.Forms;

How do I set overlay images for ListViewItems in a Windows Forms
ListView? I want to overlay an additional Icon on top of the
ListViewItem's icon. Since I can do this in MFC/Win32 I suppose this
API is somehow exposed in WindowsForms too ? Or do I have to use P/

Given a "PropertyGrid" with one particular property that appears as follows:
-Size
    Width    10
    Height   20

I have a usercontrol that doesn't contain a control. When I try to
drop the control on a form I get an error:
Failed to create component'TestcaseUserControl'. The error message
follows: 'System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to

Can someone guide me to a place where I can learn how to, in the
Setup/deployment project for my application, add my Application to the "Open
With" menu?

special fonts are not included in my deployed windows forms application (.net
2.0). How can I include them during installation? I am using ClickOnce and
all I have read is that you need to create a Setup and Deployment package and
install the font to the users windows directory.

I think I have a question that probably has an easy answer, but I can't
manage to find it.
I come from a Sybase PowerBuilder programming background, and pretty much
all PB developers used the following technique:

Twice now that I have opened a control it's blank on design surface.
Designer code is there, but nothing renders on form and getting no
compilation errors.  What's going on?
Thanks,

I am trying to setup a usercontrol as a base class, so that I can
derive my usercontrols from it.
the base is pretty simple:
Imports System.Xml