Custom Controls in ToolStrip or StatusStrip

This is not something I have had to deal with too often which is why it wasn’t apparent to me the first time around. FACT: You cannot drag and drop a custom control or any System.Windows.Form.Co...

Telerik RadGridView Column Format Calamity

Wow… just wow. I lost about an hour trying to figure out a: TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation. This is probably one of the most useless exception m...

WinForms: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I wrote about this already, but I just wanted to write a post about a very very weird encounter with this error while working with Win Forms. I kept getting the dreaded “Object reference not set...

DataGridViewButtonColumn Text Won’t Show

This is a stupid Gotcha, like most Gotchas it is just irritating and something that frankly could have been designed better. The Gripe If you set the Text property of a DataGridViewButtonColumn it do...

DataGridView Loses Formatting and Columns After Setting DataSource a Second Time

Problem This was particularly annoying. If you have a DataGridView you are working with, you have setup the DataGridView through the designer and you have set the DataSource once. Then you set the Dat...

Windows Form Designer File Hell: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why a form I was working on was telling me that there was something wrong with a control in the designer and that is why the form wouldn’t render. I was gett...