Key benefits of the new release are: - 2 new themes for all VIBlend WinForms Controls - Pivot Design panel - DataGrid Localization Provider - Improved Ribbon Bar performance and rendering - Quick Start projects now have a full support for VS 2010 which will decrease development time

Here's an example of how to use the IProgressDialog Win32 Interface to harness the power of the Built-in Progress Dialog in Windows within your own .NET applications. I have test this on WIndows 7, but it should work as expected on Windows XP and Vista. The MSDN Documentation for IProgressDialog say...

Here’s another gem if you wish to display ancillary data in a tooltip to your users, this method can be used to display varying information dependant on which cell they have hovered over, or could be used to display a tooltip over the entire row, no matter what cell they are on.

I remember trying a few different solutions for this a couple of weeks ago, none of which would work enabling me to set the “Hand” cursor when hovering your mouse over a particular DataGridView row’s cell.

In part 1 of my Vista programming series I discussed how to add CommandLink’s to your application. In part 2 this chapter, I wish to discuss how you can enhance your Windows smart client application (primarily targetting Windows Forms in this example) adding a Windows Vista Aero “glass” effect to yo...

I will describe an easy way to use an inherited DataGridViewImageCell and inherited DataGridViewColumn control to achieve an image per row in your DataGridView with Enum support.

Before you rush and view my blockquote and jump to the conclusion “oh, it’s just that standard threading issue”, well let me assure you this is different to the norm, and please.. Yesterday, was a very annoying day dealing with multi-threading in my app, you would think I would be good at this by n...

This article demonstrates creating an elegant native Vista "CommandLink" with pre-Vista OS compatibility in a few easy steps. Also all the steps are wrapped up into a sample application with source code posted below for immediate use.

Examples and explanation on integrating a lightweight slick Vista-style task dialog (extended message dialog) within managed .NET code. Both Vista and lower compatible through emulation techniques.

9 C# examples of creating a fast and responsive UI with multi-threading, very clear and streamlined examples to get up and running quickly.

Learn to write C# programs for the Windows platforms.

This simple program allows you to add remote control, commercial skip, and instant replay functionality to any Windows computer - not just Media Center.

Nice ideas of what we should thing if choosing between WPF and WinForms.

Simple fast way to move controls using keyboard arrow keys