I'm trying to create my first Smart Tag designer in VB 2005 but am
unable to create a class derived from
System.ComponentModel.Design.DesignerActionList.
Public Class xx

I have a ClickOnce applicaton that has been published to a remote server. It
requires logging in. However, when running the install it fails with a "401"
error... I am not sure why since we are able to log onto the install page.
Anyone have an idea on how to diagnose this?

I'm sure this is something ridiculously simple or just not possible
without custom coding:
How do I tell a DataGridView NOT to create column headers from the
first row of a data table using an Excel datasource?

Apart from simple test harnesses, I haven't done much with WinForms. As for
WPF, I know what it stands for :-)
Having Googled for a while, I couldn't find a no nonsense web site that
helps me understand where WinForm and WPF sit in the Microsoft world. For

I’m a C++ developer and a very beginner in both C# (.Net) and Word
Programming. What my company wants next is something like this: from
different texts to build a Word 2007 document and then open this in the real
Word 2007 application to give the user the possibility to change ...

i am creating a windows service. i have created a windows form on the
same.
when i logout the windows form get closed. Is it possible to only hide
the form at the time of logoff.

The MaskedTextBox only allows a single prompt character to be
displayed upon user input. I need the ability to display different
prompt characters for certain character positions. How can I do this?
Also, due to the nature of the text being inputted, I suspect that I

Im creating windows service program for the following purpose :
1. to save a file to the shared resource every 5 minutes. the file contents
come from the database.
2. i need to put the above task in the queue and execute the save task one

I would like to take the values contained in columns of a selected row and
display them in textboxes for editing.  When I dbl click the datagridview
control it creates an event handler for the selected cell.  Isn't there a
specific event handler for a selected row?

I'm trying to create a textbox with a dropdown form:
Dim TextBox1 as New TextBox
Dim popup as New ToolStripControlHost
Dim list1 As New ListBox

Ive created a MDI app..
I've used one of the mdi child forms as the backgroud scrren on the parent..
and set it's WindowState to 'Normal' and StartPosition to 'CenterScreen'..
to get the look n feel of a background iamge.

Environment : .NET 2.0 / VS2005
I am creating a usercontrol ( progressbar ) and every time I add my control
to the project it gives a XP progress bar because of the EnableVisualStyles
function .

How can I get rid of the record selector on the left side of the grid.

Greetings all.
I'm having a very strange (not to mention frustrating) problem.
I'm developing a Windows Forms C# application in VS 2008.  On the bottom of
the form, I have four controls.  Originally they were all set to one size -

This must be quite a common question with CAB's Event Broker - is
there any way to Raise Events dynamically at runtime ?
We would like to remove the hard coding from our "Event Dispatching"
pump along the lines of the following pseudo code: