jfo's coding

adventures in windows forms and wpf

March, 2006

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    Chuck is all about the yield statement

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    One of the cool things about working on Cider is that I get to work closely with Chuck . We were chatting the other day about the new yield statement, which I hadn't played with yet - but he walks through in his article on building a LinkedList . Old...
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    Windows Forms documentation team is blogging

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    Welcome the folks behind the reams and reams of Windows Forms documentation to the world of blogging! In their own words: We're the Windows Forms User Education team at Microsoft. Here you can find updates on documentation related to Windows Forms...
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    Tracepoints are AWESOME!

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    So I was debugging a function this week that is called whenever my program is focused, which leads to a huge frustration when setting a breakpoint in it. (You know the moment you F5 your debugger, then ALT+Tab back, the focus logic strikes again and you...
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    Tried the Express Editions of VS yet?

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    There's a new contest with fabulous prizes. Coolest thingee wins. The catch? You gotta use the "Express" stuff to build it. Good luck!
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    WM_GETCONTROLNAME

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    Folks quite often ask how to get information about controls from outside the process. In addition to active accessibility (the recommended solution for testing windows forms applications) there's also a handy window message which Control supports called...
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    ProfessionalColorTable - what does what?

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    If you've read the ToolStrip FAQ, you may already be aware that you can replace the colors of the ToolStrip by passing in a new ProfessionalColorTable to the constructor of the ToolStripProfessionalRenderer. How can you tell what color does what? ...
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    The new window manager in Windows Vista (DWM)

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    Greg Schecter shows of what he's been working on for the last 21 months . It's worth a read, as he points out: "The primary takeaway for desktop composition: the way an application gets pixels on the screen has fundamentally changed ."
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    Using Windows Forms on Windows Vista?

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    Brad wants to know your experiences...
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    Commanding in WPF

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    There's a nice article out on commanding in WPF.
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