Tasleem: Are you using Forms Authentication? If so are you calling FormsAuthentication.SignOut() in response to the log off event?

Hello, Oh, the issue is with the MDI parent. Here is a solution: 1. Get rid of the split containers altogether. 2. Add a panel to the MDI form 3. Dock the panel to the left side 4. Drop a splitter control (not the split container, just the splitter) to the right of the panel. 5. Put a panel inside the left docked panel. 6. Dock this new panel to the top. 7. Drop another control beneath the new panel. 8. Dock the splitter control to the top. 9. Drop another panel under the new splitter control. 10. Dock the new panel to the full extent. This will give you two panels that will adjust in size on the left hand side, you can put whatever controls you want to inside those panels. This also leaves the MDI form clear to accept adding forms to it. I tested this and it works fine for both the splitters and as an MDI parent. If you have any additional problems with this, I would be glad to send you a working copy of it; just email me an address and I will forward it along. Scott Lysle

Use two split container controls; drop one on the form and set its dock property to fill, then drop another one in the left hand panel of the first split container and set its dock property to fill also but set its orientation property to horizontal. The main container and the subordinate container will adjust to fill the window during use and in response to resizing the form. You can still adjust the size of the panels by moving the splitter bars up and down or left and right.

I generally build transparent GIFs; I originally build the icon as an image file in Freehand and then export the file as a gif and reopen it in Fireworks. From there I set up the transparency and save the gif. I have tried other image formats including PNG when I needed the effect and they always look bad; I have never had the problem with transparent GIFs. Also, if the image has a drop shadow, that usually will not work unless it was drawn on a surface with the exact same back color and the target location in the web page.

Manuall set the treeview selected node to nothing when you want to clear all of the selections, e.g., TreeView1.SelectedNode=Nothing.