September 8, 2003

It happens quite often that you have a DataGrid with hidden columns (with width = 0), because you need their values but don’t want to show them to the user.

Have you ever tried to change the BorderStyle, HideSelection, MultiLine, ScrollBars, WordWrap and TextAlign properties of a TextBox, or the ComboBox

‘ Create an InputBox like the one of VB6. You can define the dialog’s title,’ question and default value.’ Example: MessageBox.Show(InputDialog.InputBox(“Type your name:”, “Test”,’ “Marco”))Public Class InputDialog Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form#Region “

‘ Return a reference to the control with the specified name,’ searched into the specified container and its sub-controls’ Note: it requires the GetAllControls function” Example: get a reference to

‘ Insert an image into a RichTextBox, in the current position” This version takes in input the target RichTextBox and the path of the image ‘ to insert’ Example: InsertImageIntoRtb(RichTextBox1,