Drawing Custom Borders in Windows Forms,<br />Part Three: Introducing

submitted by crpietschmann 18 days ago

geekswithblogs.net — Almost a year ago I've published first two articles titled "Drawing Custom Borders in Windows Forms" and they turned out to be the most successful part of my blog with almost 13 000 web views (however barely 2 000 people made through to the second part), 86 comments and almost 3 000 downloads till date. If so many people seem to be interested I guess it's about time to give you something new. I've been using this code in my own project for a while and was always told how cool it looks compared to other applications. However, there were also some people asking why wouldn't we do a full skinning engine and let people choose the skins themselves. Until now, I was excusing myself that there is no more time for such nonsense. What changed my mind? If you are using Infragistics NetAdvantage you already know what's coming from them in next release. In short I've got inspired by what they've done and in order not to fell behind I've decided to add my own skin support. read more...

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Drawing Custom Borders in Windows Forms

submitted by crpietschmann 18 days, 1 hour ago

geekswithblogs.net — I have split the code into two primary classes. First one, FormWithNonClientArea, extends the standard Form class by adding support for non-client area messages (more on this shortly) and can be uses for various scenarios. Second one, CustomBorderForm, utilizes these messages and represents a base class for drawing graphical borders composed of several bitmap parts. It also draws a form header including icon, text and form buttons (more on this later). This way I can separate dirty plumbing required for enabling non-client drawing and actual drawing of the graphical elements. So lets see how it works. read more...

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Migrating to Debugging .NET after Win32

blogs.msdn.com — Some of the differences between Win32 and .NET debugging read more...

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Creating a Native Win32 Splash Screen for your .NET Apps

submitted by crpietschmann 3 months, 26 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — I though I would share a native Win32 splash solution with you on this rainy night in June (well, it is June here and it is raining from where I am, YMMV). This is slightly different from your typical splash screen as it’s done using the Win32 API calls and it’s fired off before the .NET Forms engine even gets started. As a result it’s quick and snappy and doesn’t intrude on your normal WinForms programming. read more...

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Add System Menu Items to a Form using Windows API

submitted by crpietschmann 7 months, 3 days ago

pietschsoft.com — This is something I used to have a code snippet for in VB6, but I haven't needed to do this in a while so I never wrote up an example in .NET. So, here's the simple code necessary to add some custom menu items to your applications System Menu. If you're not familiar, the System Menu is the menu that shows up if you click on the apps icon in the upper left or if you right click the app in the taskbar. read more...

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Converting between Win32 COLORREF and .NET Color

submitted by rprouse 1 year, 1 month ago

alteridem.net — If you are ever rewriting an MFC/Win32 program in .NET, you need to be aware that you cannot convert directly between a COLORREF value and a .NET Color structure. The byte order is different and will need to be swapped. read more...

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Chris's Free Developer Tools

published 1 year, 11 months ago, submitted by korayem 1 year, 11 months ago

sellsbrothers.com — This is a set of .NET, COM and Win32 tools that Chris Sells has built and contributed to the world. You may use them without royalty (and without support) in your compiled code. You may not redistribute the source code. A mention in the documentation of your products is always appreciated. Enjoy! read more...

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