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Win32	Movement Restricted Dialog Form 19 Feb 2008 Updated: 25 Feb 2008 Rating: 4.39/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,743 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 2,147 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to restrict a dialog form's movement area. Useful for MDI applications.
	Toggle Keys Controller 30 Aug 2009 Updated: 3 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,303 Bookmarked: 50 Downloaded: 1,357 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A class that enables you to control and monitor the toggle keys such as CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock.
	Application Idle 22 Oct 2008 Updated: 2 Mar 2009 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 8.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 238,560 Bookmarked: 168 Downloaded: 6,007 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WinForms component to notify when your app has been idle for a specified timespan.
	Generic Background Worker 5 Sep 2009 Updated: 8 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,765 Bookmarked: 131 Downloaded: 5,491 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. No more unboxing/casting! Use generic type parameters with this background worker. Source code for C# and VB.NET.
Windows Forms	Simple Numeric TextBox 9 Nov 2008 Updated: 9 Nov 2008 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 129,845 Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 5,727 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WinForms TextBox that only accepts digits.
	ProgressWorker 13 Mar 2009 Updated: 13 Mar 2009 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,375 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 1,556 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WinForms ProgressBar control with a BackgroundWorker wrapper.
	MIDI Out Setter 10 May 2009 Updated: 10 May 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 97,468 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 7,487 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Allows changing of the default MIDI out device in Vista and Windows 7
	Versatile Application Settings 21 Mar 2009 Updated: 21 Mar 2009 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,680 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 284 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Shows how to use your types and generic lists in application settings.
	An SNTP Client for C# and VB.NET 19 Jul 2009 Updated: 22 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 156,619 Bookmarked: 66 Downloaded: 8,932 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A complete overview and implementation of SNTP from a client perspective.
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C#	An Introduction to Operator Overloading in C# 31 Aug 2008 Updated: 29 Sep 2008 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 108,246 Bookmarked: 115 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Conversion, binary, unary, and comparison operators for your types.
	Events Made Simple 22 Jan 2008 Updated: 17 Feb 2009 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,629 Bookmarked: 90 Downloaded: 573 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Events made simple
	Complex Properties in C# 5 Sep 2008 Updated: 5 Sep 2008 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,615 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 851 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 'Complex properties' and Size3D in C#.
	Binary, octal, and hexadecimal 32 bit structs 7 Aug 2008 Updated: 6 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,023 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 571 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simplifies the use of base 2, 8, and 16 bit data.
C# 4.0	Generic Event Arguments 5 Oct 2009 Updated: 5 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,915 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 272 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Save your keyboard and fingers, and write less code using generic event arguments.
	DateValidator using SNTP 8 Jul 2009 Updated: 8 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,050 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 467 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Check if the expiration date of your application has been passed regardless of system date.

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Win32	CD / DVD Tray Locker [Tip/Trick] 30 Aug 2009 Updated: 13 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,421 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to prevent a CD/DVD drive from being opened.
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C#	Pointer Arithmetic Utility Struct [Tip/Trick] 3 Jul 2010 Updated: 3 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,160 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A uitility struct to assist with pointer arithmetic
	BackgroundWorker and ProgressBar demo [Tip/Trick] 23 May 2010 Updated: 23 May 2010 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 307,500 Bookmarked: 47 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple demonstration of how to use a BackgroundWorker with a ProgressBar
	Pass value between forms using events [Tip/Trick] 30 Jan 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,222 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The correct way to inform another object that something has happened or a value has changed.
C# 4.0	Allow write/modify access to CommonApplicationData [Tip/Trick] 28 Feb 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 110,716 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Now your application can update it's saved data regrdless of the account it is running under.
	Changing a WinForms Control on the 'UI' Thread from another Thread [Tip/Trick] 22 Mar 2010 Updated: 21 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,318 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to access a control from a different thread + good alternatives by other members!
	Basic Event Creation in C# [Tip/Trick] 3 Sep 2010 Updated: 3 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,860 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A few quick examples of how to correctly create events.
	Generic List Conversion [Tip/Trick] 6 Sep 2010 Updated: 6 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,922 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to convert a generic List of derived types to a generic list of base types.
	CustomBackgroundWorker where the initial argument is passed to all events [Tip/Trick] 12 Feb 2010 Updated: 22 May 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,714 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Enables access to the original argument in all events
	Generic Thread Start [Tip/Trick] 22 Mar 2010 Updated: 22 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,862 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Starting a thread using a generic argument
	Attaching a Console to a WinForms application [Tip/Trick] 27 Mar 2010 Updated: 7 Feb 2012 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 43 Popularity: 7.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 166,176 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to have a real console window as well as your forms

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