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WinForms Tips & Tricks

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While I was looking for a solution for the disappearing image of a XP styled button, I ran into this small site. Mick Dohertys provides some nice tips and workaround for common Windows Forms (.NET 1.1) bugs.

January 5, 2006

Smart Client frustrations

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Well, I’m quite disappointed in the amount of tool support for developing Smart Clients. One my of current projects involves a Windows Forms Smart Client that uses .NET Remoting to connect to the application server. While developing on a system with local admin rights everything works okay (obvio...

December 15, 2005

NHibernate and LINQ

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Yesterday, two of my collegues demonstrated both NHibernate, an open-source object relational mapper, and the technology preview of LINQ, the C# 3.0 query language. I was quite impressed by the ease of use of NHibernate. Obviously, die-hard Java coders were already aware of the power of Hibernate...

October 19, 2005

Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 side-by-side

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We recently discovered that running Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 next to Visual Studio 2003 breaks the attach to process functionality of the latter in many cases. However, it seems that this is fixed in Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate. I still have to try it myself though.

October 19, 2005

Windows Forms key processing

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If I had to name one thing in .NET that is very difficult to grasp, I would name Windows Forms key processing. There are so many methods involved it is very difficult to determine which method to overload and what to do. The newsgroup post Key Event Processing in Windows Forms provides a great ov...

October 19, 2005