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March 2006 - Posts

Chuck is all about the yield statement

One of the cool things about working on Cider is that I get to work closely with Chuck . We were chatting the other day about the new yield statement, which I hadn't played with yet - but he walks through in his article on building a LinkedList . Old-school Read More...
Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 1:31 AM by jfoscoding | 2 Comments

Windows Forms documentation team is blogging

Welcome the folks behind the reams and reams of Windows Forms documentation to the world of blogging! In their own words: We're the Windows Forms User Education team at Microsoft. Here you can find updates on documentation related to Windows Forms, ClickOnce, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:12 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Tracepoints are AWESOME!

So I was debugging a function this week that is called whenever my program is focused, which leads to a huge frustration when setting a breakpoint in it. (You know the moment you F5 your debugger, then ALT+Tab back, the focus logic strikes again and you're Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:45 PM by jfoscoding | 11 Comments

Tried the Express Editions of VS yet?

There's a new contest with fabulous prizes. Coolest thingee wins. The catch? You gotta use the "Express" stuff to build it. Good luck! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:01 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

WM_GETCONTROLNAME

Folks quite often ask how to get information about controls from outside the process. In addition to active accessibility (the recommended solution for testing windows forms applications) there's also a handy window message which Control supports called Read More...
Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 12:12 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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ProfessionalColorTable - what does what?

If you've read the ToolStrip FAQ, you may already be aware that you can replace the colors of the ToolStrip by passing in a new ProfessionalColorTable to the constructor of the ToolStripProfessionalRenderer. How can you tell what color does what? Create Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:43 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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The new window manager in Windows Vista (DWM)

Greg Schecter shows of what he's been working on for the last 21 months . It's worth a read, as he points out: "The primary takeaway for desktop composition: the way an application gets pixels on the screen has fundamentally changed ." Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 11:09 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

Using Windows Forms on Windows Vista?

Brad wants to know your experiences... Read More...
Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 12:30 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Commanding in WPF

There's a nice article out on commanding in WPF. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:05 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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