I have encoutered this very strange error when Im trying to modify one of my user controls on a winddows forms module. It's the first happened to me so I assume I can fix this just by cleaning up the bin folder, update references, reload or restart the project. To no avail, I have googled around and...

Lately, I was wondering why the Autosize property of label on windows forms is set to true, this is annoying and tiring if you love using windows forms designer(yucks! kidding ), because you often want a properly aligned controls and fixed with labels on data entry textboxes.But not until i want to loicalize...

In ASPNET we only have SelectedIndexChanged ( DropDownList ), in Windows Forms we have both, but which one to use? My first .NET project is a Windows Application which uses databinding a lot and we were using SelectedIndexChanged of Combobox back then and it gave me a headache. I also encountered the...

Last time, I reported a bug on the ToolBar control of Windows Forms which I have discovered upon a query of an officemate. I just saw that there is an update on my reported bug as Won’t Fix due to a breaking change, :p.

The CollectionCodeDomSerializer uses reflection to serialize a serializeable collection properties to locate methodinfo with “Add” and “AddRange” as names. We have a coding convention here to use prefix to clearly distinguish methods from properties, and others. Method like these should have been exempted...

I tried to use the ControlCollection class defined inside the System.Windows.Forms.Control to use as temporary storage of layout-affected controls in my last post. Not knowing the internals of the said class, I got some problems when child controls of the container control are not added to my instance...

The ideal way to set the default size for your custom controls is to override the readonly DefaultSize property of the Control class and not set it in your derived control’s constructor. The said method is queried once the control is properly instantiated before setting any of its non-default properties...