Cool Client Stuff

Raghavendra Prabhu

Goodbye!

After 4½ wonderful years here at Microsoft, I have decided it is time for a change, and am going to...

Author: rprabhu Date: 02/21/2007

LinkFromDomain and tips for authoring Macros

Andy Edmonds has an excellent post up on the Live Search blog about the new LinkFromDomain operator...

Author: rprabhu Date: 10/17/2006

Search Macros V2 is Live!

As some of you must have noticed, the new Live Search shipped a couple of weeks back, and last week,...

Author: rprabhu Date: 09/16/2006

Mike Harsh talks about WPF/E on Channel 9

If you were at MIX'06 or the last PDC, you have probably heard of WPF/E (or WPF/Everywhere), which...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/19/2006

MIX06 sessions available online

In case you missed this announcement - videos of all the MIX06 sessions, including Bill Gates'...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/12/2006

Busy week for Windows Live!

Wow, lots of Windows Live related news this week: 1) The live.com team released an update just a few...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/05/2006

Visual Studio Express will be free permanently!

Great news - it was annouced a couple of days back that Visual Studio Express, originally offered...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/21/2006

Using Live.com as a Search Page

I have always felt there is a fundamental distinction between a 'search page' and a 'home page'. A...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/04/2006

Got any cool Search Macro ideas?

In last Friday's update to Windows Live Search, we released the ability to create and manage your...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/28/2006

MIX '06 Day 1

Bill Gates kicked off the MIX 06 conference today in Las Vegas with his keynote. Some of the goodies...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/21/2006

Who is linking to my website?

It turns out very few people are aware of advanced search operators provided by all the major search...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/17/2006

Windows Live Search - Macros

The Windows Live Search Beta launch yesterday gives me an opportunity to write my first post on...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/10/2006

Channel 9 videos are great fun!

Wow, first post in a long time, and the first in 2006! Since switching teams back in November, I...

Author: rprabhu Date: 02/10/2006

Client Settings FAQ updated

I finally got around to updating my FAQ on the settings feature in .NET 2.0. Look for 'Update:...

Author: rprabhu Date: 12/10/2005

Saving out a Form's Size and Location using the Application Settings feature

A very common requirement for Windows Forms applications is the ability to 'remember' the location...

Author: rprabhu Date: 11/29/2005

Whidbey Launch, Live.com and Me

Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since my last post. Time does fly by. Well, a lot has...

Author: rprabhu Date: 11/08/2005

I have heard of the BSoD - what's a WSoD?

If you have used the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 2005 enough, chances are you may have...

Author: rprabhu Date: 08/11/2005

Client Settings FAQ posted

We have been getting lots of feedback on the new Whidbey Settings feature that I have blogged about...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/29/2005

Client Settings FAQ

One of the cool new features in .NET 2.0/VS 2005 is an easy to use, extensible API to manage...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/29/2005

Brief encounter with Channel 9

At a recent component vendor dev lab on campus, I ran into Charles Torre of Channel 9 and we spent a...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/11/2005

Generated by a tool?

[Update: This is a repost of a post I made on Friday 5/6, since the original post was lost due to a...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/10/2005

Why doesn't my TypeConverter get called?

Consider the following code: public class MyControl : Control {...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/25/2005

Do you really need a custom CodeDomSerializer?

When you author a new component for .NET for which you want to offer a smooth user experience within...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/16/2005

WinRes: Improvements in Whidbey

One of the first posts I made, after starting this blog, was about WinRes, a UI localization tool...

Author: rprabhu Date: 02/18/2005

Win32 <-> .NET API Mapping

This is another of those links that you simply must add to your favorites if you develop using .NET....

Author: rprabhu Date: 02/15/2005

Smart Client in focus again

Good to see that Soma's keynote at VSLive! San Francisco brings the concept of 'smart client' back...

Author: rprabhu Date: 02/09/2005

Worldwide response to Tsunami

The Tsunami disaster in Asia has been a sad and tragic event, but I think one bright spot amidst it...

Author: rprabhu Date: 12/31/2004

How does the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio load a Form?

Here are a couple of questions we often get from developers who are new to Windows Forms: 1) The...

Author: rprabhu Date: 12/12/2004

Windows Forms and Avalon roadmap

If I am planning to write a Windows client application in the coming months, what technology should...

Author: rprabhu Date: 12/04/2004

Smart Client Developer Center reloaded

Check out the new and improved MSDN Smart Client Developer Center page - it is a great place to...

Author: rprabhu Date: 12/04/2004

Windows Forms Bug Reporting Challenge

Feels good to return to blogging after a long break! We in the developer division have been pretty...

Author: rprabhu Date: 11/22/2004

Impact of the MSDN Product Feedback Center

Its been quite a long time since my last blog post. We have been pretty busy over the last couple of...

Author: rprabhu Date: 10/06/2004

.NET Framework SPs now available on Windows Update

The final versions of .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and 1.0 SP3 are now available for download on Windows...

Author: rprabhu Date: 09/08/2004

Localization in Whidbey

Before I describe how Windows Forms localization works in Whidbey, let us first take a look at how...

Author: rprabhu Date: 08/04/2004

.NET Framework SPs - Tech Preview announced

Technical previews of .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and 1.0 SP3 are out. You can find links to download,...

Author: rprabhu Date: 07/08/2004

Visual Studio 2005 Beta!

It's finally out - Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1! Here are the relevant links: VS...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/29/2004

Smart Client Developer Center

If you haven't seen it already, check out the Smart Client Developer Center on MSDN launched earlier...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/28/2004

Client Settings - Part 3

RichB has some interesting questions in his comments about my earlier post on the client settings...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/18/2004

Designer Hosting in Whidbey

If you have had a chance to play with Visual Studio Whidbey, you may have noticed some of the cool...

Author: rprabhu Date: 06/15/2004

Over 600 bloggers on blogs.msdn.com!

Wow - I just noticed the count of Microsoft bloggers on blogs.msdn.com alone has surpassed 600! And...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/28/2004

Strongly typed resource model in Whidbey

In Visual Studio 2003 and earlier, managing resources like images and icons in your project is...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/25/2004

Whidbey content on WindowsForms.net

If you haven't looked at it already, you may want to check out the new Whidbey section on...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/24/2004

More bloggers from .Net Client

I just updated my post on fellow bloggers on the .Net Client team - we have two more! This is great...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/21/2004

What's this new GenerateMember property?

If you have played with Whidbey builds of Visual Studio, you may have noticed this new property...

Author: rprabhu Date: 05/06/2004

New articles on Whidbey Windows Forms and ClickOnce

Nice overview of some of the new features in Windows Forms and ClickOnce (via Chris Sells' blog).

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/25/2004

Brian explains Components, Containers and Services

Brian blogs about the fundamental concepts of the .Net component model. The post is typical of Brian...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/20/2004

How to create non-rectangular Windows Forms applications

Ever wanted to write an app with forms that have arbitrary shapes rather than the usual rectangular...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/03/2004

Client Settings - Part 2

In a post a few months ago, I wrote about a new Whidbey feature called Client Settings. While we...

Author: rprabhu Date: 04/03/2004

Whidbey Community Preview is here!

Check out the new Visual Studio 2005 home page. If you are an MSDN subscriber, PDC/VSLive attendee...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/26/2004

Why are the interop definitions in System.Windows.Forms internal?

In a comment on BradA's blog, Chris wonders why Windows Forms didn't expose the structures and...

Author: rprabhu Date: 03/25/2004

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