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Howto: Manage Cursor Changing for WinForms Applications

As a long time WinForms developer I always have had the need to swap out the current cursor (mouse pointer, not some database cursor) for another cursor, normally the ‘wait’ cursor, while performing some task after things such as a button...

Published 10-06-2006 6:26 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, WinForms
Howto: Create a Simple Hourglass/Wait Dialog

Have you ever wanted to create a ‘Busy’ or ‘Working’ windows so that your background processing that takes some time to complete does not appear to take that long? The good news is that in .net there is a pretty simple way to accomplish...

Published 10-10-2006 6:29 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, WinForms
Data Binding a Business object to a UI Control (Text Box)

So one of the nice new feature in .net 2.0 is the enhanced support for binding business objects to UI controls. This is very nice because it will allow you to write a single line of code that allows the business object and the UI control (text box) to...

Published 10-02-2006 6:33 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, UI
Howto: Creating and Using Custom Collection Enumerators

Another one of the cool new features with .net 2.0 is the ability to create your own custom enumerators for enumerating through collections. I am sure that most of us have had collections that we wanted to loop through, looking for a specific type of...

Published 10-05-2006 6:48 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net
TextBoxes and Password Chars -- Strange behavior

So, today I needed to create a 'password' entry text box for my application at work. I needed to have this perform like every other password text box, but I also needed the text box to be MUCH larger than normal (the application is for Tablet...

Published 10-25-2006 6:29 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, WinForms
Google Docs, pretty cool new application....

Not sure how many of you have had a chance to use the new app by Google called Google Docs (found at docs.google.com ), but it is pretty cool. This application is a typical Google application, clean, simple and too the point. I started playing around...

Published 10-14-2006 6:47 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Cool New Tools
Using Microsoft.Ink with a WordList

Not sure how many of you have needed to use the Microsoft.Ink SDK, but I am currently learning how to use the SDK on my current project. I have to say, that the reconizition that they provide is really, really good. The Ink SDK comes with a TextBox and...

Published 10-24-2006 6:33 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, UI, WinForms
Best Day of the week to go live with a new product/version

Recently I had a conversation about the best day of the week to go live with a new version of an application. In the context of my conversation we were talking about website, but I really don't think the type of application matters so much. Day by...

Published 10-12-2006 12:39 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

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Howto: Manage Cursor Changing for WinForms Applications

Howto: Create a Simple Hourglass/Wait Dialog

Data Binding a Business object to a UI Control (Text Box)

Howto: Creating and Using Custom Collection Enumerators

TextBoxes and Password Chars -- Strange behavior

Google Docs, pretty cool new application....

Using Microsoft.Ink with a WordList

Best Day of the week to go live with a new product/version