Went to the MVP summit this evening - it was great to see everyone. I got a question from Tim about how to show a form without activation using Windows Forms 2.0. The first thing you should probably ask yourself is - can I host this in a ToolStripDropDown...

Here is a collection of samples I've written in the past few days to answer your questions from the MSDN forums, etc. I hope you find these helpful - keep the questions coming! How can I intercept the mouse down on a ToolStripGrip? How do I use Table...

Mike Henderlight seems to have started his very own blog just to cover the subject.

What's new for Windows Forms 2.0? There is an entire section of the Windows Forms.NET website devoted to all the new features of Windows Forms 2.0 (Whidbey). Where are the slides/code for the Windows Forms talks? You should get the webcast for...

Orangy asks: Hello, thanks for nice articles. Could you please write one about creating combobox-style controls using WinForms? I mean control with a popup element, which is hidden when user clicks (or tabs, alt-tabs, win-button, hit global shortcut...

Ben talks about working with custom controls that can crash VS, and how to delete the .suo file to prevent the designer from re-opening when you open the project again.

The notify icon article started out because I realized, even internally that the best practice for this wasn't very obvious. I thought I'd share the "other" solutions to the problem, and their pitfalls. ;-) Approach 1: Start off with Form.Opacity ...

There are a several windows forms talks - I'll plug the two I've previewed. Erick talks about advanced UI features in Windows Forms 2.0 in PRS402, and Mike answers frequently asked forum questions in PRSL01. We'll also be hanging out in the presentation...

Brian is blogging again - yeah! And it's all about the PDC. I'm wondering what he's going to show off ?

There are just some times when it is super handy to see when function X on the base class has been called with a certain value. The best example I have of this is debugging layout. 99.99% of all sizing/location logic routes through one single method in...

Shawn is real keen on getting the Windows Forms dev team's pencils, uh... keyboards going on writing whitepapers about Windows Forms 2.0. Let him know what topics you're interested in seeing!

Shawn , Ben , Andrew , Mike and I as well as some of the rest of the windows forms team will be there - you'll probably find us at the presentation lounge or the hands on lab . We're excited to find out what you're building with Windows Forms and show...