Here’s the evolution of what should have been a clean reusable component in .NET and how it becomes a hack thanks to the limitation of the .NET framework.

I’m working on an application where I want two contextual menus on the notify icon. The right one will display a number of options for settings and creating new items and the left to switch between the various items.

I’m not sure why it doesn’t do this as standard but a simple event handler should do the trick:

People have asked (in the IRC #CSharp) why adding text to a TextBox is so slow and flickery. Normally they are trying: