Thanks much. That seems to work. I was just confused about how SetData and GetData worked apparently.

Tune us all in if you find anything good :) "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Some quote from the MSDN[^] site: "The KeyPress event is not raised by noncharacter keys; however, the noncharacter keys do raise the KeyDown and KeyUp events." You should do Keydown's instead of ProcessCmdKey, that's what you are doing anyways... bradsnobar wrote: switch (msg.Msg) { case WM_KEYDOWN: Just do it on the .NET way. bradsnobar wrote: switch (keyData) { case Keys.Down: You could write your switch statement on OnKeyDown method: private void _yourcontrol__KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e) { switch(e.KeyCode) { case Key.Down: //Do something ... } ... } Beside, embedding System const's in your code is not a nice thing to do. Microsoft could just change the values and your code will go to the outerspace.:laugh: ps.: Some words from MSDN[^]: Notes to Inheritors When overriding the ProcessCmdKey method in a derived class, a control should return true to indicate that it has processed the key. For keys that are not processed by the control, the result of calling the base class's ProcessCmdKey method should be returned. Controls will seldom, if ever, need to override this method. Diego Valdevino

I found it... here is the magic override... protected override bool IsInputKey(Keys key) {    switch (key)    {      case Keys.Up:      case Keys.Down:      case Keys.Right:      case Keys.Left:      return true;    }    return base.IsInputKey(key); }

Instead Use MessageBox.ShowDialog(), if u deliberately want to use MessageBox.Show mean pass the mainform's handle as the first parameter(owner) of Messagebox.Show

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Use the asynchronous BeginGetHostEntry method, it will not block. (You can also use BeginGetHostByName, but it's marked as obsolete in .NET 2.0) regards

Do you know of a link that is for design time support for a regular windows control? The methods that are overrided in that ASP.NET example don't seem to have a counterpart from to override for normal winforms programming. Thanks, Brad

Hello Maybe I'm not following you! So forgive me if I stray. You don't have to worry about painting any controls inside your custom control. Just define their sizes and locations and they will draw themselves. You have only to paint your control to be viewd properly to the user, and of course to have a valid size to view all sub-controls. So in the paint method you only have to paint your control, maybe would want to refresh() or invalidate() all sub-controls and they will draw themselves. Another event you might want to handle is AddedControl. Have a look at it on MSDN. Regards:rose: