Hi,

To prevent users from deleting a box, handle the BoxDeleting event and set e.Confirm = false. That event is raised when the Del key is pressed, but not when deleting items programmatically.

To prevent copying or cutting items to the clipboard, remove the box from the selection before calling the CopyToClipboard or CutToClipboard method.

To prevent resizing the boxes, set

box.MnpHandlesMask = 256

so only the movement handle remains enabled. In version 4 syntax that will look like

box.EnabledHandles = Handles.Move

HTH
Stoyan