One of the great disappointments of a programmer’s workday is creating a component only to discover shortly after finishing that someone else had already created the exact same component. Happened to me the other day. Literally 30 minutes after quietly putting together a DevExpress DateEdit that only displayed years and months, I hear a coworker …

A couple exciting episodes of resolving issues with that pesky class, ApplicationSettingsBase.

If you assign a balloon-style ToolTip to a control on a form, the balloon’s stem will correctly point to the assigned control during a mouseover event. If there’s room, the balloon will display above and slightly to the right of the assigned control… …if there isn’t room (because the control is too near a screen …