Lazycoder

This is definitely true. I see feature after feature that “didn’t make the cut” simply because they have way too many people dedicated on the unforseable future and not enough people dedicated to the immediate future. Dockable Tool Windows, for instance, have been available in the Microsoft IDEs since when? 5.0, 6.0? We see them in our VS.NET IDE, Macro Explorer, etc. But we don’t see them in our applications and why? We have a toolstripcontainer that allows us to dock toolstrips to any edge of a winform, what would be so hard about making a window do the same thing as their toolstripcontainer (formerly raftingcontainer)? Also, look at the TabControl. Try setting the tabs on the left side of the control. You can do it, but your text doesn’t adjust appropriately. It still writes horizontally instead of veritcally. I could keep going but its useless. If I see one more of my bug reports on these issues marked as “closed/resolved/postponed”, I’m going to scream!

I don’t have it open, but I was pretty sure you could pass in an applicationcontext object instead of a form. This essentially is the only want to start a formless winforms application. I wrote a Kiosk application a few years ago and I used a custom application context to keep the application from falling out of memory if someone found a way to crash the form. The application context would launch another form and always monitored to make sure that something was covering the screen at all times. Not pretty but it worked in a pinch.