A common user-interface feature is to select the contents of a text-box when the textbox gets focus. The CF textbox control doesn't do this by default but it's not difficult to add with managed code. While I'm at it, I'll add a SelectTextOnFocus property...

In yesterday's post I stated that "non-character keys do not trigger KeyPress events." While that is perfectly true, I misunderstood what was meant by a non-character key. In the non-managed Win32 world, pressing a key generates a WM_KEYDOWN, one or more...

With a couple of exceptions, the UI controls provided by the .NET Compact Framework are thin wrappers around the controls provided by the operating system. Perhaps I'm too sanguine, but I expect the basic controls (button, check box, radio button, edit...