For compatibility reasons, I'm developing this solution in Visual Studio 2005, so that the provided sample code will work in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. I wanted to enable tear-off toolbar ...

What's the "AutoScaleMode" property of the form set to? I always set my forms to "None", as odd things tend to happen to the form when you run your application if it's set to "Font" (the default).

More likely, C# novices will make it through the start of the book to get enough understanding of C# and Visual Studio to get started.

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.