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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:27 PM

Creating an icon in the system tray

A standard part of many Windows forms applications is the system tray icon. Most commonly it is used to provide an application or event status. Tray icons are added to an application using the NotifyIcon control. It includes properties that simplify displaying
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:13 PM

Setting the Tab Order with Visual Studio 2005

Tab order is used to determine which control gets focus and can accept keyboard input. It’s called tab order because you can change focus from control to control using the TAB key in a Windows form or the soft input panel in a mobile application. Tab
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Monday, May 01, 2006 5:50 PM

Dynamic controls and event handlers

Question : I am trying to create an ASP.NET 2.0 Web site with dynamic controls. Really what I am looking for is basically to have a label and a button on the page. When the user clicks the button I need to set the text field of the label to some value.
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Monday, January 02, 2006 3:38 PM

Looking at the Report Viewer Control

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 includes a report designer functionality and a new set of ReportViewer controls that can be used to build and display reports within custom applications. Reports may contain tabular, aggregated, and even multidimensional data.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:19 PM

The Occasionally Connected Application

The occasionally connected application is becoming an important part of many enterprises. The goal of these types of applications is to provide a consistent and reliable experience for users regardless of their current network status. Of course for developers
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Friday, June 03, 2005 2:37 PM

Introducing the Data Sources Window

One of the new features for Windows forms development using Visual Studio 2005 is the Data Sources window. This window allows developers to add and manage a variety of sources using typed DataSets. The Data Sources window displays the schema of these
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Friday, May 27, 2005 8:14 PM

Introducing the Class Designer

The Class Designer is a new visual tool in Visual Studio 2005 that is used to examine and manipulate the structure of classes and other types. The Class Designer provides a synchronized editing relationship between the visual palette and the applications
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:42 PM

Quick Overview of ClickOnce

I was talking with a local customer the other day that was in the process of designing their next generation enterprise architecture. Their current architecture was really a mix of applications and data silos spread across many different systems. As part
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Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:59 PM

What is an Assembly?

What is an Assembly? Every time you create any kind of application or service using Visual Basic.NET you are building an Assembly. That is because Assemblies serve as the basic building blocks of the .NET Framework. They help to define versioning, code
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:51 PM

Quick Topics with Visual Studio 2005

I am finding that video is really cool in what you can do with it. I have been playing with some of the clips that I took during the recent Web Services Conference here in Boston and came up with what I thought might be an interesting idea. Basically,
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:03 PM

Smart Client with Visual Studio 2005

Thanks to everyone that attended the recent Edge Conference. For those that asked I have posted the slide deck here from my tutorial this morning on Building Smart Client with Visual Studio 2005.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:33 PM

The Edge Conference Session

As promised you can download the slides and code samples here from my session today at the Edge Conference. .NET Track - Techniques with Visual Basic.NET How You Can Amaze Your Friends And Co-Workers With Amazing OO Techniques Who says VB.NET programmers
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Monday, November 29, 2004 7:34 PM

Introducing the XMLTextReader

The .NET Framework provides a variety of classes and methods to manipulate XML. However, many times an application requires read only access to an XML Data file. This is the perfect situation for the XMLReader. This abstract class provides a fast forward
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Monday, November 22, 2004 6:17 PM

What is a GUID and how to create one?

Question: I am trying to create a unique identifier. I know that I want to create a GUID for this from what I have been reading. What is a GUID and how can I create one? Answer: By definition a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is a 128 bit integer that
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Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:28 PM

Forcing a User to Logoff

Question: I am developing a Windows Form application and need to force the user to logout. I have been through the various namespaces of the .NET framework and don’t see anything that will help me. Any ideas? Answer: You are correct that the .NET Framework
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