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How do I suspend painting for a control and its children?

I have a control which I have to make large modifications to. I’d like to completely prevent it from redrawing while I do … Read more

Update: A sample project reproducing this bug can be found here at Microsoft Connect. I have also tested and verified that the solution … Read more

How can one get word wrap functionality for a Label for text which goes out of bounds? 20 Answers 20

I have a main form (let’s call it frmHireQuote) that is a child of a main MDI form (frmMainMDI), that shows another form … Read more

I want to have a “select-only” ComboBox that provides a list of items for the user to select from. Typing should be disabled … Read more

In C# WinApp, how can I add both Text and Value to the items of my ComboBox? I did a search and usually … Read more

I have a string “test1” and my comboBox contains test1, test2, and test3. How do I set the selected item to “test1”? That … Read more

I have an image in my project stored at Resources/myimage.jpg. How can I dynamically load this image into Bitmap object? 16 Answers 16

I have a published application in C#. Whenever I close the main form by clicking on the red exit button, the form closes … Read more