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My name is Pedro Silva. I’m the development lead in the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft, working on VS Extensibility features, enabling VS extensions and the VS SDK.

The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.

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List of WinForms and C# Links
There's been lots of WinForms and C# related content posted recently, and I have a list of things that I had meant to blog about, but never got around to. I'm going to post of list of some of these, so I can clear my backlog, keep track of them, and let Read More...

Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 9:40 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Check Out Gel Buttons for Winforms
Chris Jackson has two posts about Gel Buttons that he's created for WinForms. They look really good and implement design-time support, so they're good examples on how to do that as well. Creating Gel Buttons With Window Forms: Part 1 Creating Gel Buttons Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:40 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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Using 'Open With' System Dialog in C#
Vivek has a project where he's written the interop layer to access the Windows shell's 'Open With' Dialog -- the one where you can associate a file extension with the application that should open it. It's a dialog that you may find useful in one of your Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:05 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Using XBox 360 Controller in C#
Here's a very cool sample that uses Managed DirectX to support input from the new XBox 360 controller in a simple Windows Form in C#. Paul Stubbs : MDX: XBOX 360 Controller Windows Forms Application [via Greg ] Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:46 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Radio Button in a .NET 2.0 MenuStrip
I just ran into a problem doing this and found a great post about how to work around it. It appears that the MenuStrip doesn't support radio button items be default, but you can create a radio button effect by using the ToolStripMenuItem.Checked property Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:39 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Minimize to System Tray Revisited
Earlier in the week, I posted about a project that implemented system tray support for .NET applications. That seems like a good project, but it's a bit complicated. I was just trying to add this functionality to an app that I've been playing around with, Read More...

Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 8:51 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Using My Namespace for Splash Screen
I posted earlier about using the My namespace in VS 2005 to create a single instance application in C#. You can also do a similar thing to use the My functionality for displaying a splash screen when your .NET application is loading. Here is Tyler's post Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:43 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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.NET Application Running on the System Tray
Here's a link to sample code by Chris Szurgot for creating an application that can be placed on the system tray . It's become much more common to have things on the system tray recently, and this code allows you to implement this feature using .NET 2.0. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:46 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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