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I've been reading a series of ListView performance posts by HippieTim . He's done a really good job of showing different ways of using ListViews and how they perform compared to one another. And, recommendations for getting good perf with your ListView.
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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
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I'm always a big fan of new .NET wrappers for Win32 APIs that haven't been made part of the framework. And, I usually link to projects that implement that interop layer. Doing interop can be tough, so having code that someone's written for it is very
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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
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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
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Doing design-time integration for components and controls is always a big request. Being able drop a control or component in something like the WinForms designer, lets developers visualize what things will look like as they change properties. The following
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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 ]
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Sameera has an interesting article on CodeProject about creating a Gradient Editor control that lets you pick the colors and attributes for a gradient fill. It's similar to features that you've probably seen in professional drawing applications, like
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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Here is a good article on how to use Application Settings to save a windows size, location, and state. There were lots of good improvements to Application Settings in VS 2005, and now it's easier to use them in WinForms applications for custom data. Also,
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Here's some sample code by jfoscoding that creates a split button , with part of it behaving like a button and the other part flys out a menu. It's pretty useful, and you've probably seen similar buttons on toolbars and dialogs.
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Duncan MacKenzie created a tool to create an RSS 2.0 file from user entered data rather than as a feed from a blogging engine. Sometimes you have content that you want a feed for without it necessarily being in your blogging engine. Duncan created this
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