Skip to content

P3.NET

Site Moving

This site is moving to a new URL - http://www.michaeltaylorp3.net. Content on this site will no longer be updated.

Category: WinForms

The Old (New) Common Controls

Published on November 7, 2010 Author Michael

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 →

Categories Windows UI, WinForms

Updating the UI On an Arbitrary Thread

Published on July 18, 2010 Author Michael

(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 →

Categories WinForms

Persisting Form Settings

Published on July 18, 2010 Author Michael

(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  Some of the information in here may be outdated with newer .NET versions but there is still some good information on persisting form settings and avoiding some pitfalls in the process.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 →

Categories C#, WinForms

The Case of the Mysteriously Changing Font

Published on May 2, 2010 Author Michael

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 →

Categories WinForms

Recent Posts

  • Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 2 February 20, 2016
  • Documenting Web APIs with Swagger February 7, 2016
  • Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 1 January 18, 2016
  • Documenting Web APIs November 14, 2015
  • WebHooks vs Message Bus November 7, 2015

Categories

.NET ADO.NET ASP.NET C# ClickOnce CodeRush Data Access DisKeeper Entity Framework Extensibility MVC NuGet Office SSIS T4 TFS Tools Uncategorized UnitTesting Visual Studio VS2012 VS2013 VS2014 VS2015 WCF Web Web API WebHooks Windows Windows 8.1 Windows UI WinForms

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

© P3.NET. Powered by WordPress & WPstart Theme.