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FlowDocumentReader Arabic strings
30 July 09 10:48 AM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

I had a customer question about how to use FlowDocumentReader in WPF, for Arabic text. I thought this was a good opportunity to share with you this short sample. This is a FlowDocumentReader that displays an Arabic FlowDocument. I included diacritics Read More...

Filed under: RightToLeft, FlowDirection

DataGridView with RTL Columns
29 January 09 12:14 PM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

I had an interesting customer scenario, which is common among developers that deal with more than language. Basically you have an English WinForm application that uses the DataGridView , but you have the Names field in Arabic. So, you want to keep the Read More...

Filed under: WinForms, RightToLeft

Mixed Time\ Date display
24 March 08 07:54 AM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

Hi, I wanted to continue posting in this blog in a hope that it would help people understand more the challenges in Arabic application development. Today, I'll talk a little about some wrong behavior in the mixed Arabic \English display of dates. I hope Read More...

Filed under: RightToLeft, bidi display

VBAME.DLL is the Middle East support file, for VB 6.0
13 August 07 12:54 PM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

This blog entry, is a flash back because I’ll talk about VB 6.0, I got several complains about using RightToLeft property with VB 6 applications… Although it’s not a new topic but I found little info about it on the internet, so I thought that it would Read More...

Filed under: RightToLeft

Layout Controls Properly without Re-arranging them Manually
29 May 07 09:00 AM | Dina Lasheen | 1 Comments   

I had a question last week from a customer who wanted to display a right-to-left WinForm but doesn't want to manually rearrange the items from right-to-left. What would be the recommended way to obtain the correct layout without rearranging the items? Read More...

Filed under: WinForms, RightToLeft, RightToLeftLayout

Changing the input language in a textbox at runtime
29 April 07 10:43 AM | Dina Lasheen | 9 Comments   

Today, I'll talk about changing the input language for a textbox at runtime, in VS 2005. The might have two textboxes and each would expect a different input language. In my example, I need TextBox1 to receive Arabic input, while TextBox2 should receive Read More...

Filed under: WinForms, RightToLeft

ContextMenuStrip images don't update quickly, if you have controls with different RightToLeft settings
24 April 07 12:51 PM | Dina Lasheen | 0 Comments   

A customer complained that the ContextMenuStrip didn't render images correctly when assigned to more than one control, where, some controls were RightToLeft, while the other controls were not RightToLeft. In this case, the context menu doesn't update Read More...

Filed under: WinForms, RightToLeft