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As usual, WinForms GUI programming is a terrible PIA. Even worse is the flagship of all controls the great beast known as the DataGridView. Working with the DataGridView bends your mind like offensive cutlery at Uri Geller’s dinner table.

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BlackBox - A simple puzzle game where you shoot rays of light into a black box, and determine the location of atoms inside the box based on the entry and exit points of the ray.

Seriously addicting.

Here is a Wiki article about it and an online-playable Flash version.

So, you may have found yourself building a nice user-friendly, somewhat complicated Windows Forms application, that had lots of drop-down menus and right click context menus, and what not.. You may have naively assumed that you could share your menu items, so that you have a consistent set of options, icons, and more importantly event handlers for a particular menu item or set of menu items.

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If, you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having a dynamically created Gridview control in your ASP.NET page AND needing to handle the SelectedIndexChanged event… as I was, you may find yourself banging your head against the monitor trying to understand why the event isn't getting fired.

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So, Visual Studio is pretty great right? It makes a lot of things really easy, really automated… saves a lot of typing, etc… However, there are still some areas where people find themselves repetatively doing the same thing in certain scenarios.

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