Soaked in CIDER !

Subhag Oak, SDE, Cider.

Visit Cider blog for updates from WPF/SL Designer team ....

Here is all the information you need: https://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/default.aspx

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/03/2010

Performance boosts in CIDER for RC release ....

BrianPe (the Architect) of Cider has an all-informative post about the perf work we (read he) have...

Author: subhagpo Date: 01/08/2010

Whats coming in VS 2010 - WPFDesigner.

Mark Wilson-Thomas (PM on Cider team) gives a sneak-preview of whats coming in VS 2010 :...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/07/2009

XAML PowerToys for VisualStudio!

Karl (our newest PM on the team) presented cool power tool that enable developers to quickly layout...

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/29/2008

PDC unleashed ...

When you have a chance watch the great stuff that was showcased at PDC here

Author: subhagpo Date: 11/04/2008

Everything about SilverLight ....

Get started ... https://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Author: subhagpo Date: 11/03/2008

WPF and VS updates at PDC 2008

Here's a great post by Tim Sneath that talks about new features in WPF and VS-shell. :...

Author: subhagpo Date: 11/03/2008

first blog for cider !

This is my first blog since I have changed teams last year. Wow, its almost 5 months since I am in...

Author: subhagpo Date: 04/24/2006

What's new in Whidbey? : Part 1 - ClipBoard Improvements.

There are lots of new things in the Whidbey release for Windows Forms. There are a bunch of new...

Author: subhagpo Date: 08/31/2005

How can I drop controls within UserControl at Design time?

One of the most frequent questions asked on the community forum is how can I make my userControl act...

Author: subhagpo Date: 03/21/2005

Mark Boulter video...

Mark Boulter (Technical Lead PM) Dot Net Client team explains the new features for Whidbey. He...

Author: subhagpo Date: 03/03/2005

Microsoft Research ...

Soma's blog describes some of the projects that have been undertaken by Microsoft Research lab.

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/26/2005

What is Control.SelectNextControl(...)?

Today I recieved a question on Winforms discussion list about SelectNextControl function on control...

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/25/2005

Whats the difference between Control.Invalidate, Control.Update and Control.Refresh?

Control.Invalidate() v/s Control.Update() v/s Control.Refresh() Before discussing each one of the...

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/22/2005

How can TypeDescriptor and TypeDescriptionProvider be used?

Brian explains how these features in whidbey can be used to design abstract forms. As usual, a great...

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/22/2005

Winforms Tips and Tricks:

Coding: 1) Use BeginUpdate( ) and EndUpdate( ) while performing any bulk operation that would cause...

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/17/2005

Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map

This is a great one stop shop for 1.0 and 1.1. APIs that map to there corresponding Win32 APIs.

Author: subhagpo Date: 02/11/2005

Welcome Andrew..

Andrew (SDET) from Dot Net Client Team starts blogging.

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/10/2004

Threat Modelling information:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secmod/html/secmod76.asp

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/09/2004

Garbage Collection Basics:

When are the objects GCed? When the garbage collector finds objects that can be reclaimed, it checks...

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/08/2004

What happens to Winforms once Avalon is out in the developer space..

Joe Stegman (Dot Net Client Team Lead PM) explains in this video :...

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/07/2004

Power of windows forms:

Joe Stegman demos the power of new Windows forms features....

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/07/2004

Brian explains the Design within System.Design.dll ...

https://www.urbanpotato.net/default.aspx/document/1936

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/07/2004

A nice article by JFo explaining what should be the base class for UI objects..

https://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/archive/2004/12/03/274186.aspx

Author: subhagpo Date: 12/07/2004

TreeView adding a horizontal scrollbar when adding Nodes as the TreeView is created...

I have seen a lot of querries why does the TreeView shows a horizontal scroll even though it doesnt...

Author: subhagpo Date: 07/30/2004

Dot net client articles.

Find some interesting information regarding “How to in Windows Forms?“ here .

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/21/2004

ActiveX controls on WinForms?

You can use Windows Forms controls in web pages – see...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/21/2004

Whats new in Whidbey?

Windows Forms 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (both codenamed "Whidbey") are the next release of...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/21/2004

New Layout Mechanism in Whidbey.

Whidbey provides a rich Layout Mechanism. This is provided by two new containers, namely, the...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/18/2004

XP Style WinForms

If you want to use XP themed forms in your solution (in pre whidbey) then remember that XP requires...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/17/2004

What are these "Threading Models" and why do I care?

I had a recent bug on my plate about Drag-Drop operations not working on non-STA Threads. This made...

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/14/2004

How does Z-ordering work?

There is this great article on MSDN which explains the z-order for the windows forms controls.

Author: subhagpo Date: 05/14/2004