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October 2005 - Posts

Using BackgroundWorker Effectively

If you are not familiar with the BackgroundWorker , it is a newly released component within Windows Forms 2.0 which adds safe, easy, multithreading capabilities to your application. By using a pattern of method calls (RunWorkerAsync, ReportProgress) and Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:58 PM by jfoscoding | 2 Comments
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Office feedback

I've been following Crabby Office Lady , and this week she has links to sending in feedback/product suggestions for office products . Read More...
Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 11:45 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Notify applications where the form disappears from the taskbar on minimize

Jim asks: "I've been following your Windows Forms articles, and was hoping that you could post about the correct way to minimize a Windows Form to the tray. The ShowInTask property of the Form is mentioned in newsgroups, but the Form still shows in the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:15 PM by jfoscoding | 14 Comments
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Figuring out AutoSized, Word-Wrapping Labels

Don't rip out your hair on this one, try reading the answer to this frequently asked question first . Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 4:48 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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New samples: TLP ToolStrip, TrackBar for ToolStrip and Readonly Controls

Here's three new samples I whipped up recently - hope you find them interesting/useful! Creating TrackBar for your ToolStrip (ToolStripControlHost sample) Using ToolStrip.LayoutStyle = Table in the designer How to make any old control "readonly" without Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 9:47 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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UseCompatibleTextRendering - Compatible with whaaaaaat?

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion around this little old flag that has cropped up in VS 2005. In Windows Forms 2.0, we added support for drawing GDI text. At first we had grandiose plans of poking and prodding at the DrawText API such that we Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:53 AM by jfoscoding | 10 Comments
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Creating a Name property on your component

Say you're creating a simple component with a property called Name.... namespace WindowsApplication428 { public partial class MyComponent : Component { public MyComponent() { InitializeComponent(); } public MyComponent(IContainer container) { container.Add(this); Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:02 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Five bullet points you might not see on the back of the box

Coming in to work today, I was thinking of small improvements that make everyone's life just a little bit better working with the designer experience in VS. I thought I'd come up with the list of five bullet points that may not quite make it to the back Read More...
Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 6:37 PM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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