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Implementing multi-column filtering on the IBindingListView

A couple of years ago, I a whitepaper about how to implement searching and sorting on the generic BindingList for data binding in Windows Forms. About the same time my colleague, Karl, wrote a whitepaper about adding an auto-filter capability to the Windows
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DataGridView Watermark Cell

I returned from my end-of-the-year vacation to find the following reader comment in my inbox: > I am trying to create a custom DGV column that will show a watermark for the empty cells , in the same manner like windows live search box ... any advice?
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Client Application Services and WPF

Although my sample for Client Application Services (CAS) uses Windows Forms, you can adapt it to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with little effort. The configuration steps are the same, and the client source code is the same, although some of the

Implementing the IBindingListView for filtering

Due to customer feedback and requests, I've been working on an article that demonstrates a simple implementation of the filtering portion of the IBindingListView . This implementation works with the DataGridViewAutoFilter code that Karl first published
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Filtering Code

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System.Reflection; using System.Collections; public class SimpleFilteredList <T>
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DataGridviewAutoFilter sample updated

I've made a few bug-fixes to my DataGridViewAutoFilter sample, which is described in Building a Drop-Down Filter List for a DataGridView Column Header Cell . It might be a week or two until the article is updated (as of December 5, 2007), but the new

Client Application Services sample updated for Visual Studio 2008 RTM

I have updated my Client Application Services sample (previous posts here and here ) to work with the Visual Studio 2008 RTM release. See UsingClientApplicationServices.zip . Additionally, the final documentation is now available on MSDN. See: Client

Client Application Services sample and walkthrough updated

Back in May, I posted an early version of my Client Application Services walkthrough, which was used as a lab session at TechEd. Since then, there have been many improvements to both Visual Studio and the walkthrough. For one thing, the Beta 2 version

Tech-Ed Notes

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Acropolis and Windows Forms booth at Tech-Ed! Double thanks if you answered a few of my questions about documentation. You can be sure that the Windows .NET Client UE team will be reading your comments. A few of you
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Client Application Services in Windows Forms: End-to-End Walkthrough Available

The Beta 1 release of Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" includes a new feature called Client Application Services. This feature enables Windows client applications to easily access user-management services hosted by a centralized ASP.NET Web service application.

What does "not supported" mean?

Periodically someone questions me about a caution that appears in all of the System.Drawing.* namespace overview topics. It reads: "Classes within the System.Drawing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows or ASP.NET service. Attempting to
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Windows Forms and WPF Interop Docs

Now that interest in WPF is really heating up, we've been getting more inquiries about WinForms and WPF interop. Fortunately, we have a lot of coverage in the SDK docs, which shipped in November: Migration and Interoperability How to: Enable Visual Styles

DataGridView Drop-Down Filtering Tip

Recently, a reader asked how to detect filter changes with the code in Building a Drop-Down Filter List for a DataGridView Column Header Cell . That article describes how to derive from DataGridViewColumnHeaderCell , so it seems like a trivial matter

It's a juggling act

If you are reading this blog post, it’s likely you saw Karl’s post highlighting some of the recent updates and improvements we’ve made to the existing Windows Forms documentation set. You might be wondering how we decided to make this particular set of
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Recent Windows Forms Documentation Updates

Since Visual Studio 2005 was released, we've received a fair amount of feedback on the documentation. We have been able to clarify and update many help topics in response to this feedback, so please keep it coming! You can provide feedback from links
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