Hey, I don't know if there is a reason your changing the order via the DisplayIndex, or what your using to write your code, but if you right click on the datagridview and go edit columns, then you can change the order by moving them up and down in the list(In Visual Studio .NET 2005). Hope that helps, if not disregard.

So, I solved it myself. Clipboard.SetText(theTextString); will set the desired text in the clipboard. The somewhat cheesy solution for the paste was to do: timer1.Start(); and in the time1_Tick handler, do: SendKeys.Send("^v"); Not necessarily elegant, but it did the trick. It isn't enough to do well in life. One must do good when and where one can. Otherwise, what's the point?

I suppouse the datarow is in a datatable.. if you have a datatable then you can bind it using BindingSource. set the DataSource of the BindingSource object to the table object. then set the DataSource of the ComboBox object to the BindingSource object and the DataMember and DisplayMember to proper column names from the table. someBindingSource = new BindingSource(); someBindingSource.DataMember = "tableName"; // if the table is in a dataset someBindingSource.DataSource = someDataTable; // or DataSet someComboBox.DataBindings.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.Binding("SelectedValue", someBindingSource, "Column2name", true)); someComboBox.DataSource = someBindingSource; someComboBox.DisplayMember = "Column1name"; someComboBox.ValueMember = "Column2name"; someComboBox.DropDownStyle = System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList; life is study!!!

both of these ways are basically cheating :)(they still work), but maybe in the onLoad you could do a foreach statement that deselects everything, and if that doesn't work, you could try making a foreach that selects every tab page once before the form is actually shown. Sorry for a lack of a better answer. X|

The Select() calls were killing me. It was actually faster to just select everything, sorted by ItemId and iterate through the two arrays using a while-loop nested within a for-loop, bailing out of the while whenever I got a match or when the Id I was comparing was greater than the current one in the while loop. Ended up cutting down the processing time to maybe a second or so. Should have realized how inefficient the original algorithm was. :(

Correct. Generally if you need to unregister an event handler you need to save the needed instance information in class variables. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Christian Graus wrote: How do they get into your drop down list to start with ? That's obviously where the problem is. Well, I believe I just followed the steps outlined in the MS documentation to do this. I set my main form's IsMdiContainer property to true. I added a menustrip via the designer. The entries are added by setting the MdiWindowListItem property of the menuStrip to the desired menu item (In my test case, "windowToolStripMenuItem") from within the designer and then I call the following when I want form2 to show: form2.MdiParent = this; form2.Show(); The problem seems to me to be when I handle the FormClosing and set e.Cancel = true. I don't know what is going on behind the scenes to manage the list of windows that show up in the menu. I can call Hide() on form2 from its parent window, form1,and when I use the control to show form2 again it shows up in the window list as I would expect. Anyway, thanks for the quick response. Matt