a few weeks ago we moved some old windows forms based application
to .NET 2.x. We had no problems so far, but some ComboBoxes now have a
strange behaviour. When the form opens the first (!!) time and one
clicks the dropdown, the list opens but closes immediately again. If

I have created a winform application, and need to change which form displays
first when it is launched.
It seems from googling that I should be changing the project, properties,
Startup Object: but this dropdown box only has two entries (not set, and

My HP printer works with Windows 2008 Server, Just FYI.
I was so happy to hook up my printer today.
It works with Windows 2008 Server, Just FYI.
Last week, I was on an Ubuntu kick, telling the world that Ubuntu was GOD,

I've just inherited some code that for the main part works, I've got a
properybag that is used to populate the propertygrid. Some of the
options use type converters as the data comes from Enums or stored
data. These options automatically use a dropdownlist to display/be

I want to add "Scale" menu with items 50%, 100% and 150%. When user selects
one of them, the form should be scaled accordingly.
Like if user selected 50%, the form controls should shrink to 50% of their
original size; in 100% should restore original size and of 150% is selected,

Hi,all
Can anyone tell me  what's the best performence DrawPixel in GDI+ ?
thanks

I want to bind a enum data type with XML datasource.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<GlobalSettings>
 <Employee>

I have  a client that has users all over the midwest and wants to have them
be able to access the company database on a server in Chicago.  Right now
they are using terminal server to have users connect to the server and then
start up my app and when done they log off.  This is ...

I have a form "form1" that I can open in vs.net 2005 designer. Now I also
have "form2" which is derived from form1. I can not open this "form2" in
designer view which shows null reference exception on design view.
On call stack, it is showing that designer is trying to call form1 ...

I'll kick myself when you tell me, but ...
I have a user control on a form, and I want the user control to see the
arrow keys when I press them. If I press just about any other key the
control's KeyDown event is fired, but not when I press a direction key.

When using .NET 1.1, we could use:
menuitem.Text = "Fullscreen\tF"; // see the tabulator inside
which displayed the key F as a shortcut in the menuitem which now
doesn't work anymore. We cannot assign F as a shortcut directly because

This is the situation.
In my Main Form cosing event, I create a new form (also note, that I call
ShowDialog() for it) which starts a backgroundworker to backup the local
database. After that is done, I let the application continue closing down.

I have a WinForms application, part of which was done by another programmer.
It contains this code:
 [DllImport("User32.dll", EntryPoint = "SendMessage")]
 private static extern int SendMessage(int hWnd, int Msg, int wParam, int

I want to start an IE instance within a Windows Form program, and put
the IE browser onto the secondary monitor.
But I got an exception at the following LINE 5 of the C# code when
called WaitForInputIdle on a process. Could you please help me out of

I have a .Net 2 WinForms apps that can spawn off co-existing multiple windows
(appears in task bar).
I want to bring the new windows to front without making them top most (so
Alt+Tab will work).  How can I do this?