The common controls provided by Windows are shipped as part of the OS in the Common Controls library. When .NET was first introduced we had the v5 version. When XP was released a new version (v6) was introduced. Applications that needed to run under W2K or XP had to target v5 while XP-only applications could use… Continue reading The Old (New) Common Controls
(Originally published: 5 March 2007) It is very common to have to perform work on a secondary thread. This allows us to provide a more interactive UI to our users while still allowing us to do lengthy work. Unfortunately this is not as easy as it first appears. We will discuss the problem, the standard… Continue reading Updating the UI On an Arbitrary Thread
(Originally published: 15 September 2007) This article was originally written when .NET v2 was released. Some of the information in here may be outdated with newer .NET versions but there is still some good information on persisting form settings and avoiding some pitfalls in the process. Therefore this article is being posed unchanged from its… Continue reading Persisting Form Settings
A while back I wrote up a simple IP address control for WinForms. This control relied on the underlying IP Address common control from Windows. The goal was to provide the ability, in WinForms, to enter and validate an IP address without having to write a bunch of code. But a mysterious problem occurred when… Continue reading The Case of the Mysteriously Changing Font