I have an application that recently has received a few complaints because of
slow repainting/refreshing of certain forms.  For example, I am throwing up
a messagebox that prompts the user to perform an operation, if the user
clicks yes, I perform the operation which is rather ...

I have a windows form application that looks a little bit like outlook
in that it has a menu system on the left and then the main area to the
right has a horizontal splitter thing going on.
Many of the controls are contained in panels, which are in turn

Developing VS2005, SP1, .NET 2.0, VB Windows form program on WIN XP Pro,
SP2.
The program reads a large amount of records from a flatfile.  While it is
doing that i tried  to display a record counter in a label control.  The

I have a problem with keyboard navigation using winforms and an MFC based
host application.  Do you see any problems calling PreProcessMessage as a
work around?
Here is the solution I came up with:

I render different views of the same data using different forms (coincise
view, detailed view and so forth...), and I would like to avoid to fill in
the table adapters going back and forth among views.
The forms are built using standard components (dataset, datagrid,

I'm trying to utilize a resource file with my generic control class, but an
exception is thrown when I attempt to load the resource file, stating that
the file doesn't exist.
Since a control utilizing a generic class cannot be opened in the designer,

I come from the asp world where I'm used to developing web pages.  I have
just taken a new job where they want me to be a winform developer.  I am
presently creating a project that will have about 12-16 differnt pages.  What
is the best way to develop the project.  I could show ...

I am using vb.net 2005
Is there any way to find out if the folder is shared or not.
If shared then what is the shared name.
I'll appreciate any help you can provide.

  I have created a very simple window service. This window service in turn
is calling a function that exist in a windows form.
When I am trying to run this windows service. window service does not run
and start throwing error message.

I have a requirement to be able to draw EPS files from Adobe Illustrator on
WinForms using C#. Any idea how I achieve this? is there an SDK or a
commercial component that can do this?
Thanks

I have created a custom control that uses a generic class to determine what
type of objects will be managed in the control.
The declaration is:
   class MyCustomControl<T>:Combobox{

I have two forms namely form1 and form2. In form1, I write the code
to show the second form form2 and then I immediately dispose form1.
But the form2 which was opened also gets closed. Is there any way I
can keep form2 open irrespective of whether form1 is opened or not?. I

I finally have to breakdown and ask.....
Is there a basic "Separating Line" control or "Bevel Line" control. It
appears as a simple 3D line.
I'd like to know if there is such a control or will I have to create my own

I am playing around with extending controls. I have a textbox that I want to
add a design time property to as a drop down list. The options I want to have
displayed are:
datetime

....do I stand any hope of changing the carat (the vertical cursor
position thing) in a TextBox ?
according to my boss this needs to be "more visible"...
any ideas appreciated.