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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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