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November 2005 - Posts

How Windows Forms Works - Webcast tomorrow

I'll be giving a super-basic overview of the anatomy of a Windows Forms application on Tuesday, November 29th at 11AM PST. I'll be taking questions at the end - hope to chat with you tomorrow! Register for this webcast MSDN webcasts Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 4:27 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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DataGridView FAQ now posted

As promised : here's the link to the DataGridView FAQ . There's also a set of demo applications . There are whole bunch more FAQs up on Windows Forms.NET with quite a bit of good info in them. <shameless ask for plug> Please check the FAQs out if Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:11 PM by jfoscoding | 10 Comments
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Visual Studio Image Library

A customer from Las Vegas DevConnections asks: It seems like, but I may be mistaken, that you said something about posting some new set of toolbar icons on your blog? Was I in a Vegas-induced stupor or did you really say that? Yes, I really, really did Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:57 PM by jfoscoding | 5 Comments
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Brief intro to GetPreferredSize / WrappingRadioButton and CheckBox sample

Here's a brief intro to GetPreferredSize and how you can build an AutoSized RadioButton and CheckBox that word wrap in the new layout panels. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 2:33 PM by jfoscoding | 2 Comments
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Getting started with Windows Forms 2.0

Here's a great set of stuff to get you started using some of the new controls/features in Windows Forms 2.0! Client Settings [ FAQ | Feature Page ] Data Binding [ FAQ | Sample and Demo | Feature Page ] DataGridView [ FAQ | Sample and Demo | Feature Page Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 2:29 AM by jfoscoding | 5 Comments
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New sample: SplitButton

Now that the toolstrip has a split button, everyone seems to want one for their form too. While you could tweak out the ToolStripRenderer to do this, it's probably just best to use the ButtonRenderer class on your own custom button. The following sample Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:32 PM by jfoscoding | 6 Comments
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Namedropping

I'm not usually one for namedropping, however when I was in Vegas I met a whole bunch of folks doing really great stuff with .net: Julie Lerman , Charles Petzold , Billy Hollis , and Kathleen Dollard (who happens to have the greatest bear hug this side Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:19 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Formatting XML and other stuff in VS

Customer question from DevConnections conference: I have XML that spits out into one line in a text file - when I view it in Internet Explorer it shows all indented, when I edit in Visual Studio it's all one line. How can I use Visual Studio to indent Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:30 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Going from Blue to Tan

Brett asks: During the PDC we chatted about how to make the toolbar have the same look and feel that the toolbar in Visual Studio has (namely the tan gradients as opposed to the blue ones) and you mentioned you would be posting on that soon ... so, I Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:26 PM by jfoscoding | 9 Comments
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Off to Vegas to talk about The Strips...

...yup ToolStrip, StatusStrip, MenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip - as well as DataGridView, BackgroundWorker and Layout. I'll be at the Visual Studio Connections conference in Las Vegas - if you happen to be going - the session number is VMS254 . Hope to see Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 9:14 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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