June 2006 - Posts
Program Manager Mike Henderlight highlights the Crossbow runtime that enables interoperability between Windows Forms and the Windows Presentation Framework in this video.
When writing a application that uses command lines, you are left with a small dilemma of 'What if the User reruns the app with a new command-line?' By using a DDE link, you can pass the new commands through to the Previous instance of the application.
Windows Forms applications frequently need to work disconnected from the network. Watch this video where Steve Lasker shows how the upcoming SQL Everywhere will make this style of development easier.
In previous articles, we have looked ways of creating various Pie Charts and Bar Charts. In this Part of the series, we are going to take a first look at another common type of chart, the Line Graph.
The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form editing environment can be hosted in a custom Windows Form application by using the Form Control. Learn how to incorporate this control into your application, work with the XML data generated by the Form Control, and use IOLECommands to replicate functionality of the InfoPath 2007 form editing environment.
Download a chapter from Murach's C# 2005 and learn how to code a Windows Forms application using C#, and create an interface that meets your specifications.
There are developers who write code and then there are developers who write better code. The difference is obvious. Writing good code is skill that not all developers have. This also implies that this skill can be improved. A part of this skill includes ability to refactor the code that you or somebody else has written. VS.NET 2005 includes a set of features that help you in this regards. This article is going to discuss what refactoring is and how VS.NET 2005 helps you to refactor your code.
This article describes how to run state machine application framework based Win32/WinCE programs using window message hooking technology.
That designer error message is trying to tell you something. Find out how to interpret it, and fix the problem.
This article is an introduction to developing a Windows Vista application using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formally code-named 'Avalon', and the designer for the next version of Visual Studio, code-named 'Orcas'.
This is a short and very basic tutorial about creating, using and saving My.Settings default values in Visual Basic 2005. By completing this tutorial you will learn the basic steps involved in creating Settings that can be saved and re-loaded the next time your application is run.
Shows the creation of a TabControl, in which I have applied the XP-Look style with hot key feature.
There is a whole world of messages that the .NET Framework doesn't even capture. See how you can use them in your applications.
The "Funhouse" is a simple smart client application that delivers a crisp, functional, responsive user experience that is easy to deploy and operate over the web.
With mobile devices, the most challenging issue is how to support different form factors and screen orientations. In this article, Daniel Cazzulino shows how the Mobile Client Software Factory (MC-SF) is a simplification for authoring UIs for multiple devices.