seems like the most basic requirement for a list control... but there we are.  use this as a replacement for the System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox.

using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Windows.Forms;


namespace Whatever

{

class ComboBoxWrap : ComboBox

{

public ComboBoxWrap() : base()

{

// add event handlers

this.DrawMode = System.Windows.Forms.DrawMode.OwnerDrawVariable;

this.DrawItem += new DrawItemEventHandler(ComboBoxWrap_DrawItem);

this.MeasureItem += new MeasureItemEventHandler(ComboBoxWrap_MeasureItem);

}


void ComboBoxWrap_MeasureItem(object sender, MeasureItemEventArgs e)

{

// set the height of the item, using MeasureString with the font and control width

ComboBoxWrap ddl = (ComboBoxWrap)sender;

string text = ddl.Items[e.Index].ToString();

SizeF size = e.Graphics.MeasureString(text.ToString(), this.Font, ddl.Width);

e.ItemHeight = (int)Math.Ceiling(size.Height) + 1; // plus one for the border

}


void ComboBoxWrap_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)

{

if (e.Index < 0)

return;


// draw a lighter blue selected BG colour, the dark blue default has poor contrast
with black text on a dark blue background

if ((e.State & DrawItemState.Selected) == DrawItemState.Selected)

e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.PowderBlue, e.Bounds);

else

e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, e.Bounds);


// get the text of the item

ComboBoxWrap ddl = (ComboBoxWrap)sender;

string text = ddl.Items[e.Index].ToString();


// don't dispose the brush afterwards

Brush b = Brushes.Black;

e.Graphics.DrawString(text, this.Font, b, e.Bounds, StringFormat.GenericDefault);


// draw a light grey border line to separate the items

Pen p = new Pen(Brushes.Gainsboro, 1);

e.Graphics.DrawLine(p, new Point(e.Bounds.Left, e.Bounds.Bottom-1), new Point(e.Bounds.Right,
e.Bounds.Bottom-1));

p.Dispose();


e.DrawFocusRectangle();

}

}

}

Found a safe/low-temp overclock @ 3.6Ghz for this board. Using 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM. standard air cooling in a z-machine GT1000 case.

RAM set to XMP profile #1. 8/8/8/24/1.66V/1.35v
BCLK:180
PCIE:100
Speedstep/turbotech:enable
RAM:~1450 Mhz
CPU Volt:1.25V
QPI/DRAM:1.35V
DRAM bus:1.66v

everything else auto/default
CPU Fan and chassis fan set to Standard profile.

44c @ idle. 66c under orthos CPU stress test.  The 1.25 CPU voltage keeps the temps nice and low, and it's very stable.  the 920 does this o'c with ease, could probably go lower but stability is more of a priority for a software dev PC.

you can rip a DVD and then stream the file to a remote computer, or with VLC media player you can stream the DVD itself, but that takes a bit of setting up.  i wanted to pop a DVD into my desktop PC and then play it remotely from a netbook plugged in to the TV.  so i share out the DVD drive on the desktop, all well and good, i can see the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders on the netbook, but there isn't an Autoplay option or any way to 'start' the DVD.  i found a useful tip from the VLC forums, you can drag the VIDEO_TS folder into VLC (on the netbook, for example) and then it will start playing the DVD, with full support for menus and chapters etc.  The bit i got stuck on was that you have to start the DVD for a few seconds on the host PC (desktop in my case) which authenticates the disc and allows it to be streamed. 

not very high tech, but handy, if you ever find yourself without a DVD player.

I have a nokia E52 and in general i'm very happy with the Nokia Ovi Suite software.  But today it refused to synchronise my calendar with a "Sync Cancelled" error message, other items synchronised fine.  The solution was to reset the nokia profile/files on my computer.  Make sure to close Outlook, Ovi Suite, and end the "nokiamserver.exe" process.  Then open up explorer and browse to C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local and C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Roaming.  You could delete these files, but just in case i renamed the "Nokia" and "Nokia Ovi Suite" folders to "xNokia" and "xNokia Ovi Suite".  If anything goes wrong you can always rename them back to their original names.
Then open up Ovi Suite again and reconnect the phone.  It should synchronise fine then, there must be some bug with the calendar synchronisation that can corrupt the local database.

Ran into a permissions problem today using Excel interop code from within ASP.Net, which had worked fine from a windows forms application.
Thanks to 'Frosty' for his post which explains how to enable the appropriate permissions, reproducing it here in case the link ever goes down:

From command prompt / start->run... type dcomcnfg

Select Component Services->Computers->My Compter->DCOM Config

Scroll down and select Microsoft Excel Applicaton

Right click on Microsoft Excel Applicaton and select properties.

Select the Security tab

In Launch Permissions group box click Edit button.

Add the appropriate user for your particular situation. In my case, I
selected MyDomainName\Domain Users.

Make sure that Allow check box is checked for your appropriate user.

Click OK

In Access Permissions group box click Edit button.

Add the appropriate user for your particular situation. In my case, I
selected MyDomainName\Domain Users.

Make sure that Allow check box is checked for your appropriate user.

Click OK

Excel interop will now work via asp.net

As any compact framework developer will tell you, the out-of-the-box ListBox control is a bit crap because it doesn't support horizontal scrolling.  what were they thinking??
anyway, after several work-arounds to this problem, i finally realised that the treeview control does support horizontal scrolling, and you can load up a treeview to look just like a listbox, having all the nodes added at the top level, i.e. a "flat" treeview.
the extra bonus with this approach is that Windows Mobile 6.5 has a brilliant touch friendly Treeview control that you can finger-drag up and down and left and right (at least the HTC HD2 has this, i can't vouch for other devices).

i've included a "Chooser" class i wrote to make user selections easy to code for.  to use the class, use the following approach, the SelectedItem string is kept as a static variable in the Form so you can close and dispose the form straight away, and still catch the "return" value of the form. If you pass in the parameter to use Checkboxes, you can access the CheckedItems static property which is a List<string>.

Chooser c = new Chooser("Select Item", new string[]{"Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3"}, true, true); 


DialogResult d = c.ShowDialog();

c.Dispose();

if(d != DialogResult.Cancel)

MessageBox.Show("You chose " + Chooser.SelectedItem);

here's the class then:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Threading;


namespace IbenzaMobileUtil

{

public partial class Chooser : Form

{

private MainMenu mainMenu1;

private MenuItem mmOK;

private MenuItem mmCancel;

private Label lblCaption;

public static string SelectedItem = null;

public static List<string> CheckedItems = null;

private TreeView treeView1;

private bool selectInvokesClose;



public Chooser()

{

InitializeComponent();

}


private Chooser(string Caption, bool FullScreen, bool SelectInvokesClose)

{

InitializeComponent();

CheckedItems = new List<string>();

SelectedItem = null;

this.selectInvokesClose = SelectInvokesClose;

this.lblCaption.Text = Caption;

this.mmOK.Enabled = false;


if (FullScreen)

{

this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;

this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;

this.ControlBox = false;

this.MinimizeBox = false;

}

}


public Chooser(string Caption, string[] Items, bool FullScreen, bool SelectInvokesClose)

: this(Caption, FullScreen, SelectInvokesClose)

{

this.treeView1.BeginUpdate();

foreach (string s in Items)

this.treeView1.Nodes.Add(s);

this.treeView1.EndUpdate();

}


public Chooser(string Caption, string[] Items, bool FullScreen, bool CheckBoxes, bool
SelectInvokesClose, bool CheckAll)

: this(Caption, Items, FullScreen, SelectInvokesClose)

{

this.treeView1.CheckBoxes = CheckBoxes;

if (CheckBoxes && CheckAll)

foreach (TreeNode node in this.treeView1.Nodes)

node.Checked = true;

if(CheckBoxes)

this.mmOK.Enabled = true; // don't require any user input

}


private void treeView1_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)

{

this.mmOK.Enabled = true;

if (selectInvokesClose)

this.mmOK_Click(sender, EventArgs.Empty);

}


#region Windows Form Designer generated code


/// <summary>

/// Required designer variable.

/// </summary>

private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;


/// <summary>

/// Clean up any resources being used.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise,
false.</param>

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)

{

if (disposing && (components != null))

{

components.Dispose();

}

base.Dispose(disposing);

}



/// <summary>

/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify

/// the contents of this method with the code editor.

/// </summary>

private void InitializeComponent()

{

this.mainMenu1 = new System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu();

this.mmCancel = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem();

this.mmOK = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem();

this.lblCaption = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

this.treeView1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TreeView();

this.SuspendLayout();

// 


// mainMenu1

// 


this.mainMenu1.MenuItems.Add(this.mmCancel);

this.mainMenu1.MenuItems.Add(this.mmOK);

// 


// mmCancel

// 


this.mmCancel.Text = "Cancel";

this.mmCancel.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.mmCancel_Click);

// 


// mmOK

// 


this.mmOK.Text = "OK";

this.mmOK.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.mmOK_Click);

// 


// lblCaption

// 


this.lblCaption.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Top;

this.lblCaption.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 10F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold);

this.lblCaption.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);

this.lblCaption.Name = "lblCaption";

this.lblCaption.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(240, 27);

this.lblCaption.Text = "...";

// 


// treeView1

// 


this.treeView1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;

this.treeView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 27);

this.treeView1.Name = "treeView1";

this.treeView1.ShowLines = false;

this.treeView1.ShowPlusMinus = false;

this.treeView1.ShowRootLines = false;

this.treeView1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(240, 241);

this.treeView1.TabIndex = 12;

// 


// Chooser

// 


this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(96F, 96F);

this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Dpi;

this.AutoScroll = true;

this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(240, 268);

this.ControlBox = false;

this.Controls.Add(this.treeView1);

this.Controls.Add(this.lblCaption);

this.KeyPreview = true;

this.Menu = this.mainMenu1;

this.MinimizeBox = false;

this.Name = "Chooser";

this.Text = "Choose Item";

this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Chooser_Load);

this.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(this.Chooser_KeyDown);

this.ResumeLayout(false);


}

#endregion


private void Chooser_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)

{

if ((e.KeyCode == System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Enter))

this.mmOK_Click(sender, EventArgs.Empty);

}


private void mmOK_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

if (this.treeView1.SelectedNode != null)

Chooser.SelectedItem = this.treeView1.SelectedNode.Text;

if (this.treeView1.CheckBoxes)

foreach (TreeNode n in this.treeView1.Nodes)

if (n.Checked)

CheckedItems.Add(n.Text); 



this.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;

this.Close();

}


private void mmCancel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.DialogResult = DialogResult.Cancel;

this.Close();

}


private void Chooser_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.treeView1.Focus();

this.treeView1.SelectedNode = null;

this.treeView1.AfterSelect += new TreeViewEventHandler(treeView1_AfterSelect);

}

}

}

Just back from a two week trip in the Lake District in England, what a discovery.  this photo was taken at sunrise at 500m on the last day.  unfortunately the first 10 days were mostly torrential rain, but it was worth it in the end. i want to go back next year.  i posted some more info on the trip at the wainwright society forum where i got some good advice before going.