I have a combo box in which I want to display the distinct values in a field
in a table.
Depending on the table name and the field name entered by the user, I build
an sql statement

In VS05, I have a form that has a standard RichTextBox control in which my
client wants to be able to type an Enter key and have the RichTextBox
respond by inserting a new line instead of either moving to the next control
in the Z order or closing the form. He doesn't want to use ...

I want to open an Excel doc from my .NET 2.0 WinForm application.
I have a list of UNC path names of Excel documents a user might want
to open.
The way I'm doing it now works, but when the user closes Excel, it is

Just got a problem about "my.Computer.Screen.WorkingArea". It seems
not to work properly.
I have got my windows application developed with VB.NET in Visual
Studio 2005. What I want to do is to change the size of my forms when

I am trying to change the column header text to red and I have this code:
dCol.HeaderCell.Style.ForeColor = Color.Red;
This change does indeed stick and I can see it in the debugger.  However,
the column name text is still showing up as black.  I have seen this same

Hi,  I have an unbound DataGridView with just 1 column in it.  The
column is a combobox type, and I need to be able to attach the
datasource to it programmatically.  This is because it is a DataTable
that gets built dynamically at runtime.  But I can't see how to get at

1. Is it possible to force vertical scroll bar to display all the time in a
grdiview even if there are no records currently in dataview?
2. is it possible to group buttons on a toolbar such that if one is pressed
(selected), any other pressed button gets un-pressed (unselected).

Hi! I am tasked to write a Google-like toolbar application in C#. We explored
using Google Desktop SDK but found it too limiting in the way it handles
communications
with the backend and too limiting with UI presentation.

i've used a treeview control in my windows form....
i want to display the text of my treeview nodes as hyperlink..instead of
showing it as plain text......
how can i acheive it?

here is weird reqmt..
i need the color code of the textbox control 's border style,(Fixed 3d)....
by default, what is the color code set for it's border....please help out

Here are the goals:
1) Give the user the means whereby a row's height expands to display the
entire contents of its tallest cell.
2) Give the user the means whereby a row will shrink down to a single line.

I am using a library class that creates an entry in the Windows Task
Scheduler.  After saving the task, I am getting the following error message
when I close the task,
An unhandled exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException' occurred in

I have a combobox on a form that is populated with a bunch of items. A user
can select an item, and other related things on the screen fill in. I am
implementing an Edit mode, so that once clicked, the user can change the
information and save it. While in Edit mode, I would like ...

How to put this char buffer[300] = "ffffff" into label->Text?
I need to convert it to system:string:/
regards,
sonic

I am using the below code to get properties and then sub properties on an
object;
Dim Prop As PropertyDescriptor
Dim Props As PropertyDescriptorCollection