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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:24 AM

Windows Forms and Longhorn

It appears many PDC attendees seem to have questions like: WinFX is wonderful and all that, but do you guys have anything I can use before the Longhorn timeframe? Hey, I just moved to .NET and started writing Windows Forms apps. Are you telling me this
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Monday, October 27, 2003 11:24 PM

Whidbey Roadmap

BenjaminM  has posted a nice summary of BradA 's Whidbey Roadmap presentation. I love these roadmap talks - they help you get the big picture right. The slides for PDC sessions should be  available online soon.
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Monday, October 27, 2003 10:01 PM

Finally!

With the first day of the PDC drawing to a close, there is a bunch of information being made available publicly about Windows Longhorn  and Visual Studio/.Net Framework Whidbey. Hopefully, everybody can now see why people at Microsoft
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Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:34 PM

Control and UserControl

If I want to write a custom control, what's the difference between inheriting from Control and UserControl ? How do I decide which of the two I should derive from? Brian Pepin replies: Main difference is not the "UserControl" part of the class, but
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Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:25 AM

Forms and Dispose

As I have mentioned before, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained from reading internal Microsoft mailing lists. I plan to share some of that when I get a chance - under the category .NET - Random Tips . Here is one such. If you have code like this:
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Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:31 AM

On Blogging

I just read an interesting  piece  on Internet News  about blogging, in the context of Microsoft, Longhorn and the PDC. I definitely think blogs have had a pretty substantial impact on the flow of information about new and existing
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Friday, October 17, 2003 3:47 AM

OneNote

While installing the final release build of the new Office 2003 a couple of weeks back, I also installed this thing called OneNote that was optionally offered. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but last weekend I thought I'd check it out and
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Friday, October 03, 2003 2:14 AM

Feedback on EnableVisualStyles

A Google search for EnableVisualStyles points out two things: Good news: A lot of people found the existence of this method useful. Bad news: A lot of people have had problems using it! Hope my previous post here on this topic will help
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