Here’s the WinForms scenario:

You have a listbox which has a context menu. If you try to right-click and item AND choose from the context menu, normal functionality will not choose the item you are actually selecting with your mouse. Normally, you would need to select the item with the left button and then use the right-button on that item to get your context menu. Although irritating, that’s the way it’s been since before VB6.
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If you have tried to set the width of a control (like a table) in code, you probably have received an error since it’s expecting an integer/unit. However, it’s very possible to set the width as a percentage, and probably a little easier than you would think.
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Sometimes it becomes necessary to create a solution and either you don’t have a solution file for your project, or your solutiion file has been renamed or has become corrupted. At that point, it’s not as straight forward as one would like in order to get it done. However, it’s not a laborious task at all. (btw – this post is referring to Visual Studio 2010)
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The scenario is as follows:

There is a file that you need to edit, but it shows as being checked out by someone else. Either that person is no longer around, or no one will admit to having it checked out. Maybe there’s a guy who even goes so far as to check it back in, but it still shows as being checked out and can’t be edited.

Whatever the case is, you can’t edit the page because you get a popup that it is checked out or being edited by someone else.
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If you’re In SharePoint Management Shell (PowerShell), you’re using the add-spSolution cmdlet, and you get this error, don’t worry, there’s a very simple fix.
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Ok, so, you’re working along, developing in your SharePoint application and all of a sudden, you need to know the name of the SQL Server with which your SharePoint site is associated. But – you just can’t remember off the top of your head.
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If you are trying to copy a file into a SharePoint 2010 site using SharePoint Designer 2010, there’s an easy fix for it.
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I came across a situation recently in which I was working with Silverlight and the navigation property of a HyperLink Button required a URI instead of a URL.
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Here’s the scenario:

• You have a document library which stores SSRS reports
• You want to have users create subscriptions to the reports
• When they try, ‘Email’ is not in the list of Delivery Extensions

This means that you must set up your SSRS installation for email delivery.

To find out how to accomplish this, Microsoft has an excellent page to show you how:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159155.aspx

When you’re running SharePoint PowerShell, deploying a solution, if you get this error, there’s a very simple fix.

Since you must be on the server at the time you got this error, just go to Start/All Programs/Administrative Tools and choose ‘Services’. When the Services screen comes up, search for ‘SharePoint 2010 Administration’ and do 2 things. First, start the service. And lastly, make sure that the Startup Type is set to Automatic, so it will happen every time the system restarts.