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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

C# Windows Forms, painting combobox borders

We need to show our disabled comboboxes as an image. The image has the same height as the standard combobox, but for some reason it cannot override the borders of the combobox.
Instead, it end up looking like this:
We would like them look like this image, i.e. that the image is shown on top of everything - including the combobox borders:
Any ideas?
Thanks.

First of all, what you are trying sounds really dirty - the best way would be, if your ComboBox would just look like your image as soon as you disable it!
If there is really no other way:
Create a PictureBox in front of your ComboBox. Set the image as the PictureBox's image, make it Visible whenever you want to "disable" your ComboBox.
But again, using controls to simulate behaviour you would expect to be part of another control is dirty.

Get the location of you textbox, set it invisible, then a the same location place an imagebox

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

Recreate Chrome's "status text" functionality with WebBrowser

I am trying to recreate Chrome's method of displaying the "status text" of the web page with a WebBrowser control.
These are two methods I am trying to recreate:
Displays the text in a box in the bottom right (or left depending on cursor position) corner
Displays URL of hyperlinks when hovered over
My method:
As of now I have thought of using a ToolTip control and displaying the text within that ToolTip using the WebBrowser.StatusTextChanged event. Obviously this is a somewhat crude way to go about doing this.
So that leads me to two questions:
1: Using my current method, how could I set the position of the ToolTip to appear in the bottom-left corner of the WebBrowser control. (Note I'm using .NET 2.0)
2: What would be a more efficient way of doing this besides the method I've came up with so far?

I think you can simply use a Label and put it over your WebBrowser control, somewhere at the bottom. You'll have to take into consideration the webbrowser's horizontal scroll bar (there is a WebBrowser.ScrollBarsEnabled property and then you can obtain the size of the scrollbar via SystemInformation.HorizontalScrollBarHeight and positin the label so that it doesn't overlap the scrollbar).
I don't think that using ToolTips is a good idea because they have some limitations (they dissapear after a certain (system-defined) amount of time, they are always on top).

Is it possible to get your user control to display those alignment guides when placing them on a WinForm?

In Visual Studio (2008) when you place a textbox on a Windows Form, and drag it around, you see very helpful guidelines which help you align it (left, right, top or bottom) to other controls. You also see a line the represents the bottom of the text in that control helping you align the text within your textbox, to the text within a label, regardless of the height of that label.
I have user control that contains a textbox and a couple of buttons. Can I force the VS2008 designer to show me the same line for the bottom of the text, from the textbox within my user control? If so, how?

Seems like this answer might be what you need - Baseline snaplines in custom Winforms controls