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February 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:09 AM

Calling Validate() and ValidateChildren() from Validating and Validated Events

Don't do it - it won't work. Both methods will automatically return false, in order to prevent infinite recursion from unskillful implementation of the event handlers. I've added a note about this to the relevant sections of the docs. Mind you, I'm not
Posted by WinFormsUE | 0 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2006 3:34 PM

Achieve Slide Show Effects in Windows Forms Easily with the WebBrowser Control

I love the new managed WebBrowser control. It makes it so easy to hack any number of fantastic things into Windows Forms. Let's say you want to do a slide show between various images. You can muck around with DirectX...or you can just use the transitions
Posted by WinFormsUE | 6 Comments
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 5:16 PM

Application.ThreadException sample now works!

Several customers have pointed out to me that the sample for the ThreadException event doesn't even compile, let alone work. Similarly, the topic containing it never clearly differentiated between exceptions on Windows Forms threads (which are handled
Posted by WinFormsUE | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:43 PM

Blog Content in Windows Forms, Part II - My.Blogs

If you haven't already, check out what the VB team did in creating an RSS wrapper that plugs into the new My object in Visual Basic.NET.
Posted by WinFormsUE | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:26 PM

Using WebBrowser in Windows Forms to View Blog Content Syndicated Through RSS

With the managed WebBrowser control in Windows Forms 2.0, it's a snap to take an RSS feed and display it as formatted HTML text in the browser. Using transformed RSS in lieu of the original site has several benefits: the transformed RSS is usually faster
Posted by WinFormsUE | 3 Comments
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:02 AM

InPlaceHostingManager: Install ClickOnce Applications Programmatically

System.Deployment.Application.InPlaceHostingManager lets you download ClickOnce applications using a programmatic API, making it perfect for managed SMS installs, or for creating a custom Windows Forms "dashboard" application that lets your customers
Posted by WinFormsUE | 1 Comments
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