As you may know, I love the WebBrowser control. You can do so many wonderful things with it. And one of those things is whipping up a quick, simple, but surprisingly rich DHTML editor. This interface was easy to concoct with the ToolStrip control...

Shawn over at the .NET Security Blog has a great tip about using gflags to debug a ClickOnce app that fails to execute correctly in partial trust. Check it!

I've been going back and forth lately with Karl Erickson, another member of our team, and the guy who owns the TabControl docs. It appears that my gripes with TabControl weren't mine alone. He's been fielding reports of various weird bugs, such as the...

A while back, I posted some information on how to get on demand assembly download to work for ClickOnce applications . As MVP Corrado Cavalli noted to me privately, however, this technique will not work in partial trust - and yet, the download APIs themselves...

I wanted to do something today that I thought was simple: take a Windows Forms TabControl and render the tabs horizontally on the right- or left-hand side of the form . The good news is, it is simple. You just have to know the secret sauce to pull it...

Need to deploy satellite assemblies for your ClickOnce app? One way to do it would be to generate a new deployment for each localized version of your app, and include only the satellite assembly required for each localized version. Needless to say, if...

[Can I say "boneheaded" on MSDN? If this post disappears in an hour, you'll know I've received an email from HR...] As a Programmer/Writer for Windows Forms, I develop code examples in both C# and Visual Basic.NET. Today, I was finishing up a code...

Saurabh Pant is posting tons of great information about ClickOnce these days. Today, he has a great article explaining why ClickOnce apps can't be launched from Firefox - and what the ClickOnce team plans to do about it.

I just finished a bunch of work on the ClickOnce documents regarding Platform Detection, which ClickOnce uses to check that the operating system and installed CLR are of the appropriate version, and also that any controls required to be installed in the...

Saurabh Pant, a PM on the Windows Forms team (and former ClickOnce tester) has some great info up on how ClickOnce uses file patching to streamline application update downloads . We'll be adding this to the official docs this week.