If the following snippet catches your attention, you ought to check The Last Component. It's real, and they don't touch the compiler, they do it overloading operators. Brilliant

ClickOnce supports using HTTP compression for the file downloads, a Web server technology that uses the GZIP algorithm to compress a data stream before sending it to the client. The client—in this case, ClickOnce—decompresses the stream before reading the files. This results in shorter download times for your ClickOnce deployments. If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS), you can enable HTTP compression easily. Enable Compression in IIS From the IIS snap-in, right-click on...

Component Factory has released a free set of Windows Forms user interface controls. It's called the Krypton Toolkit and it's targeted at Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. It's free for commercial use. It includes several controls: Krypton Button Krypton Group Krypton Header Krypton HeaderGroup Krypton SplitContainer Krypton Panel Krypton Label...

The SteepValley.NET: XP Common Controls are a collection of themed and unthemed controls that are currently missing from the Visual Studio IDE. This project is available for free including the source code

| From: "Juan Ignacio Gelos"| Subject: DataGridView| Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:07:46 -0300| Lines: 11| | Hi,| | Any simple, non-overcomplicated way of preventing the focus-rectangle| from being drawn in cells? By the way, and in case this wasnt corrected in| the latest builds, this should be the default behavior when SelectionMode =| FullRowSelect.| | Thanks,| Juan| In Beta1 build you handle the RowPrePaint event and set the CellsPaintFocus to false. In Beta2 builds you can leave it the same or handle...