Try ICSharpCode TextEditor (the one used by SharpDevelop). I use it and it is quite good.

Thanks for your post, but it doesn't help me. I only need a user control (not a custom control) where I can control which panel is the container for the .NET form designer. Also seems like the entire Taskpane control acts like the container and not just a limited area within (panel)... controls can be resized and moved to overlap the toolbarfor example. /B

Thanks for the code... I'll try it later :) So far I have solved my problems by using a 3rd party component (Xceed) which was part of a suite we had allready purchased. It workes perfectly, is very easy to use and is apparently more efficient :)

"problem" solved. I have implemented my own drag'n'drop functionality into the FlowLayoutPanel.

My current solution (which is not 100%) works a lot like you describes : detects which comes first, "," or "." But the case where there are no decimals but thousand delimiters... example : 123,456 It impossible to know if this means 123.456 or 12345.00 without knowing the input format. I was just wondering if there was a ".NET way" of converting strings back to doubles and specifying a format string which the parser should use... just like the ParseExact which the Date type supports just fine. It seems this is a big oversight from the .NET team. Unfortunately I can't limit the formats the users can enter to a predefined set - the users expect full freedom here and the old (non-.NET) version of the app had this functionality :(

*triple bump* I can't be the only one with this problem ?

One more in VB.Net: http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm#MyExampleCode http://www.lvr.com/files/hidclass.zip

OK. I didn't see this before, but since you have a complex object (MyReport) with a second level of serialization (ArrayList), the XML Formatter won't go into the ArrayList to serialize it. In other words, the XML Formatter is a Shallow formatter. This article, Object Serialization in Visual Basic .NET[^], on MSDN will show you a handful of different scenarios for serializing different objects. You can implement the ISerializable interface in your Report object and supply custom formatter code to get it to work with the XML Formatter. If you don;t want to do that, you'll have to switch to using one of the Deep formatters, either the Binary or SOAP formatters. I would suggest implementing the ISerializable interface. It'll give your Serialization experience a very useful boost for future projects. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

The VB.NET compiler won't build a "real" ActiveX OCX control. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

A simple search on Google for "Scheduler source code" revealed tons of examples: Google search results[^] RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

IIRC (I worked with Lotus Notes a long, long time ago), the Lotus Notes client has an ActiveX interface. If you install the client on a machine, you can send e-mails directly. BTW, good luck (you'll need it): Lotus Notes is the most buggy piece of software I have worked with. Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

Have I got this correct: HWND passed into .NET Object to be displayed as a child of a .NET form in the DLL? Look into NativeWindow.FromHandle or Control.FromHandle. This should give you a .NET object from the handle and expose some more functionality. If you just want to display the HWND as a child of a Form created in .NET you can use a windows UI function from User32, SetWindowParent will be able to reparent the child form as a child of your .NET form. J James Simpson Web Developer imebgo@hotmail.com P S - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated Mitch Hedberg

I used the Sleep method which worked ! Thanks guys :)

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