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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:03 PM

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 controls and components like StripControls (ToolStrip, MenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip, StatusStrip), DataGridView, SplitContainer, WebBrowser. We have also added
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Monday, March 21, 2005 9:16 AM

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 as a containerControl (panel) which allows me to add controls at design time. In V1.0 and V1.1 you had to write a lot if code to do this, but in Whidbey
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:52 PM

Mark Boulter video...

Mark Boulter (Technical Lead PM) Dot Net Client team explains the new features for Whidbey. He explains his definition of "smart" clients in the first half and then talks about his work here at Microsoft. Here's the complete interview Part1 Part2
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Friday, February 25, 2005 11:37 PM

Microsoft Research ...

Soma's blog describes some of the projects that have been undertaken by Microsoft Research lab.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:10 AM

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 above functions, let’s look at how winforms controls paint. Windows controls paint is response to WM_PAINT messages . This message is sent when UpdateWindow
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Monday, February 21, 2005 11:40 PM

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 post by Brian .
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:16 AM

Winforms Tips and Tricks:

Coding : 1) Use BeginUpdate( ) and EndUpdate( ) while performing any bulk operation that would cause the window to redraw itself. a. Large number of items to ListView. b. Large number of nodes to TreeView. BeginUpdate() sends a WM_REDRAW message passing
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Friday, February 11, 2005 4:09 PM

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.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:46 PM

What are SafeHandles?

How IntPtr’s can be dangerous? IntPtrs are usually used to store GDI/Kernel/OS or Window Handles and are used by managed code to pass these handles to native code using P/Invoke. Problems will occur if the IntPtr represents some native resource (memory,
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Monday, May 17, 2004 12:18 PM

XP Style WinForms

If you want to use XP themed forms in your solution (in pre whidbey) then remember that XP requires a manifest file to be in the same directory with the EXE to make this work. (e.g) put the app.exe.manifest in the same folder as app.exe There are articles
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Friday, May 14, 2004 12:30 PM

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 me curious to find out more information about thread apartments. This is a great article which explains the threading models.
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