As from any program, you can detect that using a FileSystemWatcher. This won't indicate if the file changed in Visual Studio or somewhere else, but it will give you a notification whenever the file changes on disk. Also, depending on what your plug-in is, it may be that it should not be a plugin at all but rather a "custom tool". If so, VS will re-run the tool whenever a file associated with the tool is saved. Look for example at the Coco/R for Visual Studio article here on CP.

Yes, I have considered it. As I understand it I may not distribute it without a separate license from the author. While not impossible to overcome, it adds some extra hassle with my boss. ;) Secondly my application is distributed through ClickOnce. It seems like an extra hurdle to distribute and use it given that the application has no rights at all in the client system. At this point I more or less gave up to be able to move on. I wrote some code that change the font to one of the Sim* fonts if needed. Nevertheless, thanks for the reply.

Thanks a bunch. It did the trick it seems. :)

I can confirm that they will disregard the attachment when using the mailto: link. This is the way that I have been trying to use. But it must be possible somehow. WinZip and several other archivers are able to do Zip and e-mail, so it must be possible.

Thanks! This works like a charm!

After showing the popup list, return focus to the text box to allow the cursor to be displayed. Handle keypresses on the text box and when appropriate respond to them by navigating through the list. Or Implement your own custom text box class, inherited from the TextBox and handle the drawing of the cursor yourself. The first option is defiantly the easier. Simon

Why would you like to do that? Could you provide the exact requirement? Regards, Dave Dave Traister Software Engineer ComponentOne LLC www.ComponentOne.com

glad you found a solution i will remember that :)

I have tried that, but since I want to share part of another project it seems like I must either branch the whole project or merge the files one by one when I want to update the second project. It seems to me like there must be a better way.

I dont think you can do that.

Thanks for the hint with IntPtr. I managed to convert it. Not that I think that the new sollution is less unsafe, but... ;-)

There may be other ways to do this. What if you change the location of the child control in the ControlAdded event if the child control is drawn in the Header area.

I'm just lazy. Even the most simple control like the label contains much functionality that you don't think about. Text alignment, auto size etc. If I am to implement all or most of it, it will have to do quite a bit of coding compared to inheriting and adding the custom functions I like. And sadly my work doesn't stop with the Label. Other controls that I would like to be transparent that I can come up with on the top of my head is the Panel, RadioButton, CheckBox... ;-) Thanks anyway. This has been an interesting experience. :-D

I have thought about that the app may remain in memory, but I cannot find any process in the task manager that seems to be the one. I have plenty of harddisk space available. I have implemented some code to retrieve a web-page in the code of the particular project that I have trouble with. I use the code from the MSDN library under the BeginGetResponse method of the WebRequest class. When I remove this code, everything seems to be working. I'm running VS2002 with .NET Framework 1.0 SP3, in case anyone wants to try to replicate this.

The UserControl does not look the same as the MainMenu. As for the MainMenu the main component is the one that sits in the yellow field below the actual form. From that, several controls on the form are created, one for every MenuItem. I want to make a component (inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component) and by using code in the component I want to create several controls on the actual form at design time. Just like the MainMenu or the toolbar of VS 2005. The reason for this is that I want to manage several controls from one location, the component.