I think your talking about creating a class that inherits from system.windows.forms.form. Then in each of your form's designer's change the inheriting from system.windows.forms.form to this new class. Put code in the new class and each form gets that code? if not -> need clarification with what your trying to do. 'Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.' ~ anonymous

tnx. BTW should I do the same for Application.ItemContextMenuDisplay event? i.e. private this.Application app; .. { app.ItemContextMenuDisplay += new... } ???

DataPropertyName I added a new combobox column during runtime and bound it to the companies table. set the valuemember and displaymember, and defined DataPropertyName to the same column name as the one I need it to be bound to and vwalla... any changes made to the combobox saves it automaticly to the database (need to add an event on cell changes the have the context submit_changes() function)

Running total only works if you want the total at the bottom of the group. Now try putting it in the Header! Make a custom function and there is a method to sum based on group (IIRC) Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way. Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.

The problem was on the IIS application pool. in order for me to use Win32_share I need to setup the predefined Identity of the Application Pool to Local System. otherwise I have no premissions to use WMI. I can also set the Configurable to a user with the right premissions to do the same. To access the Identity you need to open the IIS Manager. Colpase the Apllication pools and either create a new pool to be used or edit the deafult by right click and Properties. Go to the Identity tab and choose your wish. Also do not forget to go to under Web Sites and on your selected website/virtual directory properties to set under the Application settings the Apllication pool to the one with the new premissions.

I've created a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn named "cbx". Added 0->"male",1->"female" to it's items; I've added the "cbx" to my GridView as "sexA" column and for each row I "sexA".value = "sex".value; i used this line: gridview.Rows[0].Cells["sexA"].value = gridview.Rows[0].Cells["sex"].value; Just as a remainder, "sex" is int type and also the "cbx" value is int type. thought the results should be to show the displaymember on "sexA" by the value of "sex" it doesn't show anything on "sexA". Although later on I can edit and select a new value to "sexA" but can't do that using code! it's seems like it doesn't update the gridview. I tried GridView.Refresh(). Any ideas? tnx

Anyhow I found the answer my self already. It's all in the registry. in order to retrive which application is associated with the extention you need to access the OpenWithList key for the extention. all the extentions are located under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts there you can find your extention and all you need is to open the OpenWithList key i.e. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.doc\OpenWithList in this key you will find DWORD's a,b,c each represent and application to use in order to open this file. "a" is the default.

tnx but my problem is bigger than this. I need to buckup the whole folder including other files that might be in use (xls,spss & etc.) it's a pain. but tnx anyway

leeoze wrote: How can I setup my form to act like the taskbar; which will not allow the new application window to load behind the bar? You need to register your application as an AppBar for this to happen. See this[^] MSDN article and this[^] CP article. /ravi My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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Just handle the SelectedIndexChanged event of your listbox and do something like this in there: tabControl.SelectedIndex = ...; // index of the tab // or tabControl.SelectedTab = ...; // an actual tab control instance I don't use Windows Live messenger, so I hope that's what you actually wanted to know. regards

Resize event doesn't quite work like that, it gets fired when the forms size has changed. So when you resize your form with your mouse, every time you see a visible change in the size of your form, then event has been fired. Sadly you can't get the mouseDown mouseUp events for clicking on the border. The only way i know to get that information is to override WndProc and look at the messages, one of them is sent when you mouse down on the caption bar/border and other are sent when the mouse moves or the button is released. But, i tried using SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout with docked controls, and i think after ResumeLayout the controls just stayed where they were. So you should check that. Good news is though, if you also override the OnPaint event you can stop any drawing yourself. So if you use WndProc to work out when the form is being resized then you can set a bool to false or something, and have an if statement around base.OnPaint(e); in your OnPaint override. Of course even without drawing it will still try to reposition all of the controls every time the resize event is fired, so it may still end up going slow. Well, good luck. My current favourite word is: Bacon! -SK Genius

if you use timer to count down then in each Tick the App fire the Idle event. then I would suggest not to count down rether use the intreval and fire your event on the Tick; Plus since there is cross-threading issue use Bool (i.e. ISTiCked) to set whether it has been ticked and in ur App.Idle even fucntion check for (true/fals) in ISTiCked.