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I suspect this is more a Windows question than a language one. And it's not homework, I'm trying to get a handle on Windows programming. The goal is to create a checkerboard, without the checkers.

I have a UserControl which has an overloaded OnPaint method. The strangest thing is that when I try to draw the control any where on the page other than at (0,0) it gets cut off as if something is ...