Writing shell extensions in anything other than .NET 4.0 is highly recommended AGAINST. If your entire experience is writing simple applications, a shell extension is going to be a major shock to you. Unless you have a very good working knowledge of COM and how to interop, you'll find this task very tough. For a sample of what you'd be getting into, read this[^]. seanwright wrote: so that I can drag files from my desktop and deposit them on a server via a web service. A stand-alone application would allow you do this much easier than writing a shell extension, and you can write this in any lanugage you want. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Generators are great until you modify the generated code, and then you are stuck maintaining it. I, of course, recommend Diamond Binding[^] for an end-to-end ORM solution. We plug into VS, and are probably the fastest to get off the ground with. (Check the example section) Subsonic use a build provider approach which is quite reasonable. Subsonic also provides some UI framework, which is either a blessing or a curse, depending on how you feel about separation of concerns. NHibernate is great, but difficult to use. Diamond Binding uses NHibernate to do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. But avoid code-generators like the plague, they tend to give you a very inflexible model, which can be difficult to extend. Mark Churchill Director Dunn & Churchill Free Download: Diamond Binding: The simple, powerful, reliable, and effective data layer toolkit for Visual Studio.

You have forgotten to give the argument in the indexer a name. Y this[object _index_] --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

True as told in http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?forumid=1650&select=1799913#xx1799913xx[^]. The best way; have overridable sections overridden in respective web.config. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

I don't think you actually draw outside the control. What you could do is: 1) Use a scrolled window as your container control. When the image grows larger than the window, use the scroll bar to view the hidden portion. Or 2) Support panning capability. Basically, when the image is larger than the window, press the left key and drag the image so that the control window shows the portion that you want to see. In implementation, you draw the entire image to a graphic buffer and only render a portion of it (the same size as the constrol) to the control window. Hope this helps. Best, Jun

Found a solution that should work nicely: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/43/216202.aspx

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Your question would be better handled in the Embedded/Mobile Forum[^]. You question is more specific to the platform functionality than it is to VB.NET. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome