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Hiding the Mouse Pointer (C#)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:41:15 GMT

Some applications require that the mouse pointer be hidden during use. Examples of such software include screen savers and graphical applications or games. Each may fundamentally change the manner of display or the general behaviour of the cursor.

Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically (C#)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:35:03 GMT

Although rare, there are some situations where you may wish to reposition the mouse pointer programmatically to improve the user experience or to enhance accessibility. This can be easily achieved using standard .NET classes and properties.

Desktop size, current screen resolution, ... in C#

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:18:20 GMT

Short hint on where to find information about screen sizes / resolutions.

Concept mapping tool

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:01:28 GMT

With limada::concept you can draw, edit and store concept maps. A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. They are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts.

Hexadecimal Viewer

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:36:08 GMT

Do you need a free Hexadecimal Viewer (control) for your .Net apps ?

Twitter Auto Follow Windows Application

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:51:17 GMT

A WInforms application that allows users to autofollow people based on the interest they specify. Its a great tool to build your following.

Registering System-Wide Hot Keys

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:10:30 GMT

Some Windows applications execute in the background and are activated only as required. To enhance such a program's usability it is useful to register a system-wide hot key. This allows the software to activate when a specific key combination is pressed.

Real windows image acquisition (WIA) Example

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:40:49 GMT

I have been looking for a Windows Image Acquisition that worked to get images from a flatbed scanner. Couldn't find one. So I Patched one Together. I only have a flatbed scanner to test it on but it should work with digital camera, or any device that you can see in Scanners and Cameras on Vista and XP

Customize User Controls with Smart Tag feature in Windows Forms

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:21:49 GMT

This article explains how to add Smart Tag feature to a user control in Windows Forms applications. As we all know, user controls are commonly used in Windows Forms applications for reusability purposes providing various functionalities across the project.

PDF From Web in AxAcroPDF

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:48:24 GMT

How to show a web hosted pdf in a Windows Forms application.

DotNeBar for Windows Forms 8.0 Released

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:28:31 GMT

DotNetBar for Windows Forms 8.0 Released with new Advanced Property Grid Control

WinForms ComboBox with LINQ

Thu, 28 May 2009 06:50:28 GMT

How to use RadComboBox with LINQ

Patent on Forms Validation Using REGEX

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:44:09 GMT

Unbelievable patent has been granted to IBM, aparently they invented form validation in 2009.

DataGridView Tricks #2: Set Tooltip on Individual Cell or Entire Row

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:16:42 GMT

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.

DataGridView Tricks #1: Set Hand Cursor for Entire Cell

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:15:33 GMT

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.

Easy Data-Driven UI Using Windows Forms

Sat, 02 May 2009 08:36:31 GMT

In this tutorial, I go through the motions of setting up a simple GUI that lets you view customers and manage their pets, all without touching any control events, using BindingSource controls.

Many free controls for developers

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:20:34 GMT

I have searched and found the following controls wich are free of charge, these controls are free and some of them i'm using for long time.

TextSreen Animator for .NET

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:07:42 GMT

A .NET Component which can be used for showing animted text just like the way credits are shown at the end of movies.

Aram.NET Progress Components

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:05:16 GMT

custom created Progress Bars and Progress Pies. They can have gradient look and their value can be changed by using mouse click and drag. You can add image to the background as well as the progress itself!

MVP (Model View Presenter) - Supervising Controller.

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:55:45 GMT

This articles discusses a general implementation of the Supervising Controller MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern for a win-forms application and the use of a dialog broker to allow pulling additional logic into the controller class.

Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:02 GMT

As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I thought I will develop my own screenshot capturing tool which will allow me to take screenshots as well as save it in just two clicks. In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to develop your own tool using .NET. Let's get started.

Using a Form in Place of a Control

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:46:48 GMT

When you have developed a Windows Forms control, you may find that it would be helpful to have it behave as a control. This would allow you to use the form within another form, potentially including it several times and promoting reuse.

Thread marshalling

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:30:16 GMT

This short series presents some basic approaches to thread marshalling in the UI: * Part 1 - Creating a thread in Windows Forms - Some basic ideas about firing a background and how to synchronize it with the UI. * Part 2 - Using BackgroundWorker - the .NET 2.0 way using a BackgroundWorker component * Part 3 - Automatic Marshalling - creating your own component with auto-marshalling

Speeding up GetPixel with Unsafe Code

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:38:14 GMT

Examines how the GDI+ GetPixel method can be replaced with unsafe code for a huge speed increase, with performance examples. C#.

Alvas.Controls controls now can be used for free

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:29:51 GMT

Alvas. Controls controls binary library now can be used in any of your projects for free.