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High DPI - it's an everyone thing.

As larger displays are becoming more popular, they're increasingly being used in places like the livingroom. And if you've ever tried to read text across the room with the default DPI setting, you'll find you may need a pair of opera glasses. In Windows Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:07 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Avoiding throwaway layout/painting/mouse code

I’m not normally a Hungarian fanatic or anything, but it is quite easy to create “write once” layout/painting code. If there’s ever a problem with the math the code needs to be tossed out because it’s too confusing or too difficult to update. I think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:20 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

How can I remember which order Margin properties are set?

Often you can stare at a margin property "10,20,30,40" in XAML and be slightly confused as to which is which property. If I have to deal with a format over and over again I will come up with a trick to remember how to work with it. My trick is to remembering Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 10:10 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments

VB6/Winforms interop

Check out the Microsoft InteropForms Toolkit 1.0 This toolkit helps you bring the power of .NET to your existing VB6 applications, by allowing them to display .NET WinForms from within the same application. Instead of upgrading the entire code base, these Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:42 PM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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Josh seems to be having fun with Renderers

It looks like he's put together a very convincing VistaToolStripRenderer , and promises a tell-all series of articles. Stay tuned! Read More...
Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 12:55 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Workaround for disabled flyouts

Frans ran into some trouble disabling parent menu items. Turns out they dont disable the evaluation of child shortcuts. This was an oversight on our part. That said, most applications remove flyouts that are not in-use so as to not taunt users with menus Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:56 PM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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Win32 Activation and Focus

For the most part, activation and focus work pretty darn well in windows, until you want to tweak something that doesn’t fit within the typical windowing model or roll your own menu. Most folks don’t separate out activation and focus, but they are really Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:53 AM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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Rule of thumb for System.Drawing

A friend of mine ran into this the other day. If you call a method to get a handle some sort of System.Drawing object, you may be creating an object that needs to be cleaned up through P/Invoke or some other function call. Bitmap.GetHIcon - requires p/invoking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:02 AM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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Tim resurfaces with another control

I enjoy talking to Tim Dawson quite a bit; we both know that making the decision to build your own menu is not one to be taken lightly. He's been busy lately . Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:38 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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How do I detect when the WindowState changes?

Most of the time, you can get away with checking it in the Form.SizeChanged or Form.Resize event. If you remember, there's no difference between the two events so it doesnt matter what you pick. However it was pointed out to me that if you specify a maximum Read More...
Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 10:53 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Tim shows how to get glass in your client area using Windows Forms

Here's how to do it . (Requires Windows Vista and some willingness to fiddle with how your app paints itself). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:25 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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ToolStripManager.SaveSettings and UserControls

Ingas asks a great question: In windows form I have a ToolStripContainer inside a control (inherided from UserControl). I allso have a ToolStripContainer on the main form. I am trying to do ToolStripManager.LoadSettings() (with ToolStripManager.SaveSettings Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:44 PM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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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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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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