May 2006 - Posts
This is a short and very basic tutorial about using the very powerful, yet easy-to-use FREE "Code Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005" download that is available at msdn.microsoft.com. By completing this tutorial you will learn the basic steps involved in creating custom snippets, and using them from within Visual Studio's Code Window.
This article is focused on developing SQL Server CE based applications using a Pocket PC emulator with Visual Studio.NET 2003. We will program to create databases and tables for SQL Server CE using Pocket PC together with Visual Studio.NET 2003.
In this article, John shows how to create a very simple and easy method for "plug-in" type architectures using Reflection.
What are Assemblies, and how can you best use them with your Windows Forms applications?
Find out what the "White Screen of Darn" is, and how it provides the information you need to solve your designer errors.
If you have a TextBox which is bound to that property, and you want the value of your property to be set to null you normally get an exception. However, you can add this functionality to Windows Forms with an Extender Provider.
This article reveals Windows messages to you, shows you how to capture messages that a .NET application doesn't normally capture, and demonstrates how to generate messages that .NET applications don't normally generate.
Lets say you're using the managed WebBrowser control in Windows Forms 2.0. At some point, you realize you want/need access to the underlying unmanaged WebBrowser control. Perhaps you need access to IWebBrower2, or you want to get the unmanaged IServiceProvider and query for something like ITravelLogStg (which exposes the URL history). How do you pull this off?
You've already been using a web browser control without realizing it. This article will explain how to use a web browser control a bit more flexibly than you have up until now.
The multiple document interface (MDI) is handy when your program needs to open multiple documents of the same kind. Peter Aitken shows how to take advantage of the MDI support built right into the .NET Framework.
Lucas Magder begins a five-part series on developing games for the Windows Presentation Foundation. See how to create the UI for a Sudoku game using WPF styles.
The Exception Message Box is installed as part of the SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack. It provides more flexibility than the default MessageBox. This article shows how you can add it to your Windows Forms applications.
You can easily create your own My.Application in a C# Windows Forms app. This provides a central location for application logging and other common tasks.
The TextRenderer class, added in the .NET Framework 2.0, improves the ability to add text in complex scripts to your Windows Forms applications. This helps you create truly world-ready applications.
I have searched all over the Web for good printing code and was unable to find it. I have created a printing class that allows text to be formatted at the character level.
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