Here's the scenario: In 1.1 whenever someone types one character you want to replace it with another. (If you're thinking password textbox there's a TextBox.UseSystemPassword=true flag you should use). So you sync TextBox KeyDown, set handled to...

...and I have to say, made me giggle .

As you may know the Jan CTP is out , with improvements to the Cider Grid design time experience. We want to know what you think .

A year ago, I diagramed the maze that is Windows Forms keyboard handling . There are some new helper methods in 2.0 that I havent gotten a chance to mention, which I thought might be interesting. This first is PreviewKeyDown . If you've struggled...

I've gotten this question a couple times so I thought I'd share. If you want to allow keyboard access to your ToolStripButton, there are several options for doing so. Option A Classically, a toolbar button should be a duplicate of whats on your menu...

If you know anything about Seattle, then you'll know it's been raining quite a bit this winter ( denied from trumping our record 33 days because the 28th day did not have 1/100th inch of rain ). If you ask most folks, they're pretty grumpy about not setting...

As promised , I learned more so I'm sharing. Last time I figured out how to stuff plain text into the RichTextBox, but that's not very "rich", is it? How do I put RTF (rich text format) into a RichTextBox? It turns out the support for this seems to...

I had the pleasure of meeting Billy Hollis recently. He has an amusing history of BASIC languages and C-style languages .

I’ve been playing around with the RichTextBox, and as Richard points out, the free spell checking on WPF TextBoxes is really cool – especially for the “spelling challenged” such as myself. The programming model for the WPF RichTextBox is quite a...

Mark Rideout , PM on the Windows Forms team has started blogging, and has some great nuggets of information about the DataGridView . You can now personally thank him for his great FAQ .

Jim Galasyn never ceases to amaze me with what he's up to. It seems this week it's writing visualizers for windows media in WPF .

Watching the new season of BSG and reading Charles Petzold's latest book on Windows Forms .

Richard Bailey , fellow Cider dev, is blogging... ...and starts off by letting us all know how to put a mnemonic on a label in WPF. Instead of "&mnemonic" its "_mnemonic" (ampersands don't work so well in XML), and instead of using TabIndex, the...