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Post · February 25, 2009

An Essential Tip for Working with Windows Forms

I couldn't resist borrowing my title from Christopher Bennage's post entitled "An Essential Tip for Working with XAML." My "essential tip" is identical to what...

Post · August 18, 2006

Creating a custom control that allows dropping controls on it at design time

This post is just as much for me as it is to share... I was attempting to create a automatically resizing GroupBox control that would let users drop controls...

Post · June 30, 2006

BindingList - data binding the way you would expect in .NET 2.0!

If anyone out there knew about the BindingList before today, I sure wish one of you would have told me. Now I know, if you had known I was looking for...

Post · March 22, 2006

Masked textboxes are for programmers...

At work, we're slowly moving from a classic ASP Intranet environment to a smart client environment. It has been very interesting watching (and being a part of)...

Post · March 8, 2006

More on the FlowLayoutPanel

I've blogged about the FlowLayoutPanel in the past. It is a highly useful control in certain circumstances, but it doesn't behave as expected a lot of the...

Post · March 6, 2006

Setting a focus on load

This may not be new for everyone, but I just learned it today. In webpages, to set focus to a control after a page has loaded, you handle the body's onload...

Post · January 24, 2006

Some notes on the FlowLayoutPanel

I've been experimenting with the FlowLayoutPanel. There are a few catches to using it that can cause some confusion. In my case, the confusion came from...

Post · January 13, 2006

A second look at Windows Forms validation

Continuing on my thoughts from yesterday regarding Windows Forms validation, I first began using Michael Weinhardt's validation library on MSDN after doing a...

Post · January 12, 2006

Windows Forms Validation

I've been doing some research on best practices for validation in Windows Forms, and I came across a nice set of MSDN articles by Michael Weinhardt where he...

Post · January 3, 2006

Designer and property fun!

I ran into a strange situation this afternoon with visual inheritance and threading. I've created a master form for my area at work so that we can have a...