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How to make entire Link Label area clickable?

I've been trying to get to make the whole area clickable, in the picture you can see the size of the linklabel, but only text is clickable, I want to make the background of the link label(the whole area) clickable too, is that possible? How can I do that?
I've tried using
linklabel.LinkArea = new LinkArea();
But it only works for the text that i have. I've checked out StackOverflow Posts such as this or this but i couldn't get something out of it.

You can use a panel, with a mouseclick event on it, after that you can add a label or whatever you want
Panel

set text and image in button on c#

I have a WinForms application.
In the Main form I have some buttons and I want to add an image beside the text.
I set the background Image property to the image I want and on the FormLoad event
I set the image relation like that:
button1.TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation.ImageBeforeText;
so i was expecting to get something like a "list" when on the left side there is an image
and on the right side there is a text.
but all i'm getting now is the text on the center of the button and multiplicity of the image vertically and horizontally

You should use Image property of the button, not the BackgroundImage. The TextImageRelation works with the Image property.
This is an incorrect usage of BackgroundImage.

Ok I solved it by setting the BackgroundImageLayout to None

Do nothing with the FormLoad event. Just click the button you want to change image and text of and press F4, that will bring the properties window. find for text and set it to nothing i.e delete anything you find in the text. for image you need to find for image in properties window and then brouse your desired image. that's all

C# Button with Text and Down Arrow

Is it possible to create a button with WinForms which has the text "Details" and then a down arrow next to it.
It is not vital to my program but I personally think it looks nicer for the user, especially in dialog boxes which expand to show more error details.

The below code will give your Button the word "Details" with an arrow pointing downwards next to it.
Button1.Text = "Details " + char.ConvertFromUtf32(8595);

It sounds like you are asking about the contents of the button itself and want to handle the expand/collaspe functionality yourself. You could create a png with the "down arrow" image, and then position the icon right-middle using the image property of button in the designer.

Issue with how to slide user control left/right

I have a view and within the view, there are two user control, each with a button on it. When the page loads, the first user control will load. when i click on the button in the first user control, I would like to slide the first user control left, making it invisible and display the second user control. when i click on the button in the second user control, I would like to slide the second user control right, making it invisible and displaying the first user control again. can anyone help on how to achieve this?

If I get correctly, you want something like Carousel in wpf. In case that's it, here's the link. It allows you to slide several items left-right to switch between them.
Another way to go would be using default animations in WPF, meaning DoubleAnimation applied to Margin property that increases margin from 0 to 500 (to move it off the screen) and back to 0 (to return it) or something like that. Head's up for double animation and moving controls is here and official documentation here.

Rather than hard-code an animation designed for your specific scenario, you could do something a little more generic and adapt the TransitionControl that uses pixel shaders. Set the content property and you can specify which shader effect you want it to apply as the transition.

WPF button with graphics for both the button's background and content

I am skinning my app and want have a generic button graphic for all buttons, and then each button have unique content. I've created a DrawingBrush for the generic button graphic and applied it the button's background using a style defined in my resource dictionary. This all works great. However, when I then try to add something other than text to the Content of the button, no content shows up. I just get the background graphic. What do I need to do to have graphical content for both the button's background and content?

If templating, you need to have a ContentPresenter for displaying the content of the button.
See here for an example on templating a button. In Stage 2, he adds a ContentPresenter to the template. (He actually adds two for a double-effect, but you could just use the simpler one.)