Soma's blog describes some of the projects that have been undertaken by Microsoft Research lab.

Today I recieved a question on Winforms discussion list about SelectNextControl function on control and I thought it might be worth sharing some thoughts on this topic. The name "SelectNextControl" suggests that this function would select the next control...

Control.Invalidate() v/s Control.Update() v/s Control.Refresh() Before discussing each one of the above functions, let’s look at how winforms controls paint. Windows controls paint is response to WM_PAINT messages . This message is sent when UpdateWindow...

Brian explains how these features in whidbey can be used to design abstract forms. As usual, a great post by Brian .

Coding : 1) Use BeginUpdate( ) and EndUpdate( ) while performing any bulk operation that would cause the window to redraw itself. a. Large number of items to ListView. b. Large number of nodes to TreeView. BeginUpdate() sends a WM_REDRAW message passing...

This is a great one stop shop for 1.0 and 1.1. APIs that map to there corresponding Win32 APIs.

How IntPtr’s can be dangerous? IntPtrs are usually used to store GDI/Kernel/OS or Window Handles and are used by managed code to pass these handles to native code using P/Invoke. Problems will occur if the IntPtr represents some native resource (memory...