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Friday, April 21, 2006 12:53 AM

Visual Studio Express will be free permanently!

Great news - it was annouced a couple of days back that Visual Studio Express , originally offered free for one year, will now be free permanently! Haven't heard of Express products before? Read this FAQ . Not only are the Express products free, they
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:30 PM

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 and size of forms when they are closed, so that the next time they are shown, they can be restored to the former position. The Application Settings feature
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:59 AM

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 occasionally seen a white error screen instead of the design time form. This screen, fondly referred to as WSoD in our team, shows up when error(s) are
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Friday, February 18, 2005 1:41 AM

WinRes: Improvements in Whidbey

One of the first posts I made, after starting this blog, was about WinRes , a UI localization tool that ships with the .NET Framework SDK. The reason I wrote that post was that I had been increasing noticing how many people had the same set of issues
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:42 AM

Smart Client in focus again

Good to see that Soma's keynote at VSLive! San Francisco brings the concept of 'smart client' back in focus. This is something I am personally passionate about and it is also the theme of this blog. Here is Soma's blog post on the topic and you can view
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Monday, November 22, 2004 8:56 PM

Windows Forms Bug Reporting Challenge

Feels good to return to blogging after a long break! We in the developer division have been pretty busy last few weeks working towards a stable Whidbey Beta 2. ScottGu's blog post has a good description of where we are in the Whidbey product cycle. If
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:39 PM

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 months (and will be for a few more weeks) driving towards a high quality Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey). This next release should be far more
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:10 AM

Localization in Whidbey

Before I describe how Windows Forms localization works in Whidbey, let us first take a look at how it works in VS 2002/2003. Consider a Form with a Button control on it. When you mark it Localizable = True in the property grid, the designer generates
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:29 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Beta!

It's finally out - Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1! Here are the relevant links: VS 2005 Beta Developer Center - portal for all VS 2005 Beta related information, including links to download. VS 2005 Express Products - described as “lightweight,
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Friday, June 18, 2004 10:00 AM

Client Settings - Part 3

RichB has some interesting questions in his comments about my earlier post on the client settings feature. I thought it might be worth a separate post to answer them. I don't have the CTP available, but from the documentation it appears that ApplicationSettingsBase
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:07 AM

Designer Hosting in Whidbey

If you have had a chance to play with Visual Studio Whidbey, you may have noticed some of the cool new features in the Forms designer - snap lines, smart tags and so on. Now what if you desire to expose some of this design time UI in your own application?
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:49 AM

Strongly typed resource model in Whidbey

In Visual Studio 2003 and earlier, managing resources like images and icons in your project is somewhat difficult. For example, when you try to assign an image to a PictureBox through the property grid, you get the FileOpenDialog. When you pick an image
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Monday, May 24, 2004 11:57 PM

Whidbey content on WindowsForms.net

If you haven't looked at it already, you may want to check out the new Whidbey section on WindowsForms.net . It includes overviews and screenshots of the new Whidbey features for client application development. There is also a link to forums where you
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:04 AM

What's this new GenerateMember property?

If you have played with Whidbey builds of Visual Studio, you may have noticed this new property called GenerateMember that shows up in the property grid for all controls and components you add to a Windows Form. Wondering what it is about? It is actually
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Sunday, April 25, 2004 2:23 AM

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 ).
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