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Through out April 2007, I'll be posting details about the new feature Folder Difference currently in the Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP release ( download ). In addition to the name change from TreeDiff to Folder Difference :), I'll stay focused on...

Happy New Year! Last time we finished with using CompletePC to backup the OS partitions/drives as well as work files and left with the question: how do I restore just my data/work drive, just a folder, or even just a file? Today's blog discusses a...

Happy Holidays Everyone! What could be better than spending the Holidays backing up your computers? :) If you have Windows Vista (Ultimate Edition) and if you are thinking about using Vista's new Backup and Restore Center, here are a few things that...

Welcome back! Before we get started on Tree Difference customization, I would like to bring forth some known bugs and their work-arounds. The bugs and their work-arounds are discussed in these blog postings: File extension masks do not work ...

Message boxes are centered on the desktop. Occasionally I get a request for C# code for centering a message box to its owner . Before pointing you to some sample code, I would strongly encourage you to reconsider changing the default behavior of the system...

Jason Prickett has put together a step-by-step how-to for using the TableLayoutPanel container. The detailed steps are very nice for those who are new to the Visual Studio 2005 Designer and TableLayoutPanel control for auto-layout. Check it out! ...

Shrink: Mockup of a popular DVD Compression Program Project Name : Shrink.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Multiple-level nested TableLayoutPanel Nested SplitterPanels Menu and toolbar Screen Shots : ...

XP Calculator: Mockup of the XP Calculator Project Name : Calculator.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Many rows and columns in a single TableLayoutPanel Screen Shots : Dialog Designer Layout : ...

Dialog 8: Custom control inside a dialog Project Name : Channel.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Multi-channel custom control Overlapping containers Screen Shots : Dialog Designer Layout : ...

Dialog 7: Dialog containing two splitter-separated side-by-side lists Project Name : SideBySideListsVerticalSplitter.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Two side-by-side lists separated by a splitter Fully collapsible left...

Dialog 6: Resizable dialog containing two vertically splitter-separated lists Project Name : StackedListsHorizontalSplitter.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Lists’ widths resize with dialog Lists’ heights are controlled...

Dialog 5: Resizable dialog containing two equaled-size vertically stacked lists Project Name : StackedLists50PercentSplit.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Resizable dialog contains two vertically stacked lists Each list...

Dialog 4: Horizontally resizable dialog with growing/shrinking label Project Name : AutoSizedLabelFixedHeightDialog.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Fixed height dialog with resizable width Auto-size label which grows and...

Dialog 3: Fixed-sized dialog containing GroupBoxes Project Name : GroupboxesFixedDialog.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Fixed-sized dialog containing GroupBoxes which in turn contains checkboxes and radio buttons Screen...

Dialog 2: Horizontally resizable dialog with textboxes Project Name : TextBoxesFixedHeightDialog.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Fixed height dialog with resizable width Screen Shots : Designer Layout...

Dialog 1: Resizable dialog containing auto-sized label and list Project Name : SingleListGrowShrink.csproj. Download source . Characteristics : Dialog width and height resizable Multi-line text label which grows and shrinks in height...

Samples A companion of this document is the actual source code of a Visual Studio solution (AutoLayoutByExamples.sln) that contains all sample projects and the driver program MainMenu. Download source . It is highly recommended that the reader...

AutoLayout by Examples Author: Tan Phan Contributors: Chad Boles , Jason Prickett History: Date Author Comments 2/10/2006 Tan Phan Creation. Many of the tricks and tips shown in this document...

Auto-laying out dialogs using the WinForms TableLayoutPanel control is brand-new in Visual Studio 2005. This is the first of a series of postings that will show different examples of auto-layout dialogs using Visual Studio 2005. Attached is a zip...

Well... yes. I was beach-bound for many years on various locations in NC enjoying windsurfing. I do miss those days... My name is Tan and I do have a natural tan complexion - Permanent Tan. I am a developer on the Version Control team of the Microsoft...