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Monday, June 18, 2007 11:09 AM

Quick Tip: Getting the Collection of Checked ListView Items

Have you ever created a ListView control and wanted to get the collection of items that the user has checked? While I was working on my demo for MEDC, that was one of the things that I needed to be able to do. If I were writing my application for the
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:57 PM

Separating Application Logic and Data Presentation layers

I'm a big advocate of separating an application's logic from it's user interface. By keeping the logic separate from the data presentation layer (UI), it becomes easy to swap out either component with minimal impact on the other. In addition to ease of
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Monday, April 17, 2006 5:05 PM

Programmatically Rotating the Screen using the .NET Compact Framework

Several months back, I wrote about how to determine whether or not a device supported screen rotation . This post prompted the question of how to programmatically rotate the device.. The snippets below check the device's current display orientation. If
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Saturday, April 08, 2006 6:19 PM

Chris Lorton on alpha blending with the .NET Compact Framework

Ever wonder how to write applications with really cool, alpha blended user interfaces? If so, take a walk over to Chris Lorton's weblog . There, he has examples of using the .NET Compact Framework and Windows Mobile 5.0 to do just that. He covers using
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:58 PM

Why do I get a NotSupportedException when updating a TextBox?

Have you ever been working on an application and found that when the code tries to update the Text property of a TextBox control that you encounter a NotSupportedException? Have you seen this with a Label, ListBox, Button or another control? If you have,
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:42 PM

Using a UserControl to combine related controls

Have you been writing an application where you needed to relate multiple controls to each other (ex: a Button and a TextBox) where multiple sets of the related controls are required? The scenario I have an application where I needed to have multiple Button
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:47 PM

Adding a Non-Modal Splash Screen to your .NET Compact Framework Application

A few weeks ago, Anthony Wong posted an excellent entry on adding a modal splash screen to your .NET Compact Framework application . His post started me wondering about how to create a non-modal splash screen. Why a non-modal splash screen? By making
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Monday, March 21, 2005 4:45 PM

Exploring the NetCF Web Crawler sample (Visual Studio .NET 2003) - Part II: Updating the UI

A couple of weeks ago, I discussed link tracking in the NetCF Web Crawler sample from Visual Studio .NET 2003. Today, I would like to use the Web Crawler sample to discuss updating an application's user interface from a worker thread. When updating user
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