i'm new to winforms.....
i need to display certain data on form in  a texbox..
but few words in the data need to appear as colored text....
i've tried with textbox and rixhtextbox..but no luck...can anyone help me out

I've just been assigned my first Winforms development project in Dot Net 2.0.
It is a given in my current company that any Winforms program will have to
easily shift between multiple identical servers.  I would like to design this
to take maximum advantage of VS2005's design ...

I have an application in which I want to use a font that is not available
(standard) in Windows. Now, the font is free and I would like to embedd it
into my WinForms application. How can I do that without requiring the user
to install the font on their computers \windows\fonts ...

I wanted to catch escape key pressed event for DateTimePicker, so I
hooked DateTimePicker.KeyUp  in my application. But this event is not
firing when I press escape key and it is firing if I press any other
key.

I am using a DateTimePicker set to retrieve time information only.  I would
like to separately set the hour increment to 1 and the minutes increment to
30 but I cannot find out how I can use the different sections in the control.
Does anybody has an idea?

I'm learning Visual Basic using the .Net Framework 2.0.  I have been playing
with consuming web services in applications.
I am using a free web service that gives me information for currency
conversion.  The web service I am using is:

in VB6, I could set my applications, so that, with every build, it would
increment the version number.
However, I can't find that capability in VS.Net 2005....I can find it if I
publish the applicatioin, but I don't have any need for my users running the

Pls Help.
i have 2 images and some text which i want to send as mail. the imges
are leftframe and top frame. left frame comes till down and top frame
is on the top. inside this i mean Just under top frmae image i want to

I try to use Dock property in UserControl (if it matters) in the
following way
this.Dock = DockStyle.Left | DockStyle.Bottom | DockStyle.Right;
At runtime I gets :

I have function in c# program which selects a file & uploads to a directory.
I want compress/zip the selected file programatically & upload the zipped
version.
How can I do this, is there any free library/class available in .NET 2.0

I'm building an AppBar application, which needs to support auto hide status
(and on mouse hover - to pop up).
Can anyone give me some directions in how to do that? code snippets? The
application is written in C#.

How can we preserve good look and feel of forms and controls according to
changing screen resolutions?

I am attempting to create a specialized PropertyDescriptor for the Location
property on one of my custom controls.  When I attempt to debug it, my
breakpoint in GetValue gets hit when I expand the Location property in the
property grid to reveal the child properties (X and Y).  ...

I have installed .net framework 2.0.  I notice I also have the
following entries in Add/Remove Programs:
.net compact framework 1.0 SP3 Developer
.net compact framework 2.0

I have a ListView control and based on the item selection, another
control is updated. That update process is relatively slow.
I subscribed to the selectedindexchanged event, but that event is not
really helpfull in my case as it fires twice for every change in the