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Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application

by Josh Smith

A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it

Using a TypeDescriptionProvider to support dynamic run-time properties

by Nish Nishant

This articles explains how to implement a TypeDescriptionProvider for a class to support multiple object types using a single class type

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

by Marc Clifton

Review your project dependencies.

An extensible ExifReader class with customizable tag handlers

by Nish Nishant

An ExifReader class in C# that supports custom formatting and extraction. StyleCop compliant code, with demos for WPF and Windows Forms.

Latest Articles

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 3)

by Ralf Meier

The article walks through ShellySceneComponent and ShellyScenesComponent, which allow users to define scenes with multiple actions assigned to a control or controls for Shelly devices.

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 2)

by Ralf Meier

This article is a continuation of a series on controlling Shelly® devices in a smart home. It introduces a component that works with standard controls without requiring adaptation.

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

Testable WinForms Applications

by Mirnes Mrkaljevic

Make WinForms testable

All Articles

Windows Forms

'Inheriting' from an Internal WinForms Designer

26 Jan 2011 by OrlandoCurioso

Customize an internal designer by encapsulation in a custom component designer

.NET File Browser

27 Oct 2007 by carlos@takeapps

A basic .NET file browser fully based on the framework

.NET implementation of the SynchronizerToken pattern

7 Oct 2005 by Fred Wang

An article on resolving the issue of unintentional web form resubmission.

.NET MNG Viewer

9 Apr 2009 by SprinterDave

A native .NET library and application to view the PNGs embedded in a MNG

.NET Multicast Delegates

2 Dec 2008 by Cirilo Meggiolaro

Multicast delegates provide functionality to execute more than one method.

.NET Native Multiple File Compression

16 Jan 2012 by Simon Bridge

Multiple-file, searchable, streaming compression library implemented natively in .NET.

.NET Resource (.resx file) Translator

27 Aug 2012 by Kumar, Ravikant

A .NET resource (.resx file) translator. English to any other language.

.Net Script Editor (C#,Vb.net Mini IDE)

13 Jul 2008 by Rajneesh Noonia

The source code / article published here is to provide features of MS Script control (Functions like AddObject) and some features of VSA/Visual Studio editor like intellisence, code completion etc

.NET Shape Control

3 Aug 2005 by Sautin.net

Drawing shapes in GDI+.

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

12 Oct 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

.NET String Resources

19 Apr 2012 by Jani Giannoudis

Concepts and patterns for the handling of strings in multilingual applications.

.NET TrayBalloon with hyper-links and fading

17 Nov 2010 by PavPS

.NET C# TrayBalloon component with hyper-links and fading.

.NET UPS XML Tracking Interface DLL

20 Jan 2005 by SuperJason2k

A .NET DLL and sample application that interfaces with UPS's XML API to retrieve tracking information. You can also use it to generate an RSS feed..

21st Card Magic in C#.NET

10 Nov 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Coding a simple magic with cards!

8 Oct 2009 by Anthony Mushrow

Create and edit 2D maps using tiles

A (very) simple XSLT test utility

7 Sep 2006 by Riaan Hanekom

A (very) simple XSLT test utility.

A .NET Component for Localizing String and Message Boxes

4 Mar 2010 by vtchris

Managing strings contained in a project-scoped resource file can be a real pain. This component makes it easier to colocate the strings with their corresponding classes, even if they are business objects.

A .NET Snap To Screen Form

24 Aug 2006 by Perry Marchant

An article on snapping a Windows Form to a desktop screen border.

A 13x13 Grid Poker Hand Chart Windows Forms User Control

18 Oct 2010 by Gagey1971

A simple .NET control to display the 'standard' 13x13 grid for two card poker hands.

A 3-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Net In C#, with Graphical Display

15 Sep 2020 by Gary.Miller.WPF

MNIST Digit recognition in C#

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

A Base Windows Form for displaying, editing and automatically updating Many-to-Many relationships - Part I

29 Sep 2005 by Gordon Moore

A base Windows Form for displaying, editing and automatically updating many-to-many relationships.

A basic DataListView implementation

21 Nov 2005 by Stanciu Vlad

It implements an object that is intended for data viewing; the idea was to derive from a ListView.

A basic Particles System

19 Apr 2005 by Itay Sagui

Introduction to the basic idea of the particle systems, and how to create basic effects such as explosions and water fountains.

A behavior study of Windows form events

31 May 2008 by Johan Fourie

How much can we rely on WinForm events to fire in a particular order when loading.

A Better ProgressBar - Using Panels!

29 Dec 2008 by Saul Johnson

Crafting your own progressbar UserControl from scratch.

A C# 3D Surface Plot Control

19 Feb 2021 by Leif Simon Goodwin

A 3D surface plot control in C#

A Chained Property Observer

8 Mar 2011 by Sacha Barber

Set of utility classes to observe a chain of INotifyPropertyChanged objects.

A Chat Server/Client Solution for Local Networks

31 May 2011 by Evren Daglioglu

A chat server/client solution for local networks, terminal server/terminal client environments

A class to load and use file associated icons

24 Apr 2008 by Vitaly Zayko

An article about using SHGetFileInfo in C# (a simple class and demo are included).

A Class to Print and Print Preview a DataGrid or DataGridView Control

24 Jan 2016 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A class to add to your application to generate nicely formatted prints from a DataGrid.

A ComboBox with a CheckedListBox as a Dropdown

22 Nov 2008 by Stelios Alexandrakis

A ComboBox with a CheckedListBox as a dropdown

A common class for executing tasks with a responsive UI

24 Jan 2009 by Paul B.

Execute actions while making the form wait and still be responsive to other tasks.

A Currency-Masked TextBox from TextBox Class

7 Sep 2011 by JRINC

This is an useful control that masks the input text with currency symbol and thousands and decimals separators.

A curtain hiding screen updates, and blending old and new content with a nice fade effect

13 Jan 2007 by Mathieu Jacques

Freeze parts of the user interface until all drawings are done, and blend old content with the new one smoothly.

A custom DecimalBox for accepting only Digits and a Decimal Point

29 Jul 2009 by paul1307

If you need to restrict user input to digits or decimal data, this is one way!

A Customized User Control Combo (smartCombo) that can handle generic connection

24 Nov 2008 by arif_uap

A Customized User Control Combo (smartCombo)

A Data Bound Combo Box

4 Dec 2004 by Stanciu Vlad

This article provides a combo box that is easy to use with data sources.

A data-bound multi-column combobox

27 Jul 2007 by Nish Nishant

An ownerdrawn multi-column combobox class with support for data-binding

A DataGridView Column Show/Hide Popup

23 Dec 2008 by Vincenzo Rossi

A class adding column show/hide capability to a DataGridView

A DateTimePicker with working BackColor

3 Nov 2008 by Vincenzo Rossi

A DateTimePicker derived class showing the background color we want.

A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2009 by jebarson

New features of Visual Studio 2010 discussed

A DXF Reader Solution and a Simple DXF Viewer

31 May 2011 by Evren Daglioglu

This project gets a DXF file, extracts and interprets data and draws it on screen.

A Fast and Performing Gauge

24 Aug 2012 by A.J.Bauer

This article shows you how to write a performing control using .NET 2.0 and GDI+.

A Fast, Compact C# Color Selection Control

21 Feb 2005 by Kevin Menningen

A color selection control that quickly lets the users zero in on the color they want.

A Filter Dialog for a DataGridView

28 Sep 2006 by nauthiz69_3

This is a dialog window that allows filtering a DataGridView. It can build filters with any depth of parentheses.

A floating-point Margin structure, now with TypeConverter

29 Mar 2007 by AlwiNus

A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.

A Fully Characterized SplitButton

25 Dec 2010 by tgis.top

A SplitButton with its button part has all the characteristics that a Button has.

A Fully Customizable Knob Control Without Images

17 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Add a flexible knob control to your .NET projects

A Generic Method for Cross-thread Winforms Access

17 Jun 2009 by colonel720

A convenient shortcut using generics to check for InvokeRequired on a Winforms control

A Helper Class to Bind a DataTable to a Class

9 Nov 2007 by Marc Clifton

Binding to the DataTable without the System.Windows.Forms namespace.

A highly configurable MDI tab control from scratch

4 Jul 2011 by Eduardo Oliveira

A completely configurable tab control to use as tabbed MDI forms.

A Hue/Brightness Color Wheel Style Chart for System.Drawing.Color Values

21 Mar 2009 by ZTransform

Enables side-by-side comparison of close matching color swatches.

A Joystick Control

31 May 2005 by Member 1702012

A joystick control using a simplified polar coordinate system to return an orientation and magnitude, and a custom Vehicle UserControl with an Offset method that uses the said coordinate system.

A listbox with disabled items

2 Apr 2009 by Ron Levy

A custom listbox control with disabled list items.

A Managed C++ Button Control

20 Apr 2008 by Gene OK

This is an example custom button control, written entirely in Managed C++.

A Master-Detail Solution Using Single Input Controls

25 Nov 2005 by TofuBug24

Shows a solution for creating a Master-Detail relation using textboxes.

SQL-server-2000

A method for providing software unlock keys

23 Feb 2009 by Rick Hansen

Here is a very simplified method for selling relatively secure unlock keys to your customers. The unlock key you provide will only unlock that specific customer's download instance for a specific feature set or product.

A modal dialog that fades the background to gray-scale imitating the XP shutdown screen

23 Feb 2006 by Nish Nishant

DimmerDialog is a .NET class that shows a modal dialog which grays out the rest of the background, just like the Windows XP Shutdown dialog. This can be used when your application needs to show a very important message box or form that requires immediate user attention.

A Much Easier to Use ListView

8 Nov 2015 by Phillip Piper

.NET ListView maxed out on caffeine, guarana and steroids.

A Multi-Color, Multi-Font CheckedListBox

7 Dec 2015 by Tim Bomgardner

A CheckedListBox with dynamic foreground, background, and font

A multi-purpose XP Office 2003 Style hover and flat button with container bar

10 Oct 2006 by carloqueirolo

A versatile and multi-purpose button and button-bar with full Office 2003 colors and style.

A Multipanel Control in C#

17 Jun 2009 by liron.levi

This control acts like a tab control but without the tabs...

A Multipurpose Message Dialog

17 Apr 2018 by Darryl Bryk

A C# class for a multipurpose Windows message dialog

A New Concept in Date Range Picking: the DateRangeComboBox

2 Nov 2008 by Erichero

It could take 11 clicks or 20 keystrokes to choose two dates representing last year. Why not choose "Last Year" in a ComboBox?

A New Way to Approach APM in .NET

18 Jun 2009 by mahosi1

A wrapper for the Asynchronous Progamming Model in .NET

A numeric keypad for payment amount entry in C#

14 May 2017 by Kourosh K Tari

This numeric keypad helps you enter payment amounts in a text field

.NET-Compiler-Platform

A Panel control that you can flip over

20 Mar 2007 by thebeekeeper

This article shows how to create a 3D style effect using only GDI+ image manipulations

A panel control with positionable captions and icon for Windows Forms

26 Jun 2006 by Prasad Khandekar

A panel control with caption support, which can also dock child controls properly.

A PicRS232 control with a PIC microcontroller serial port

11 Dec 2009 by Metaconta

You can have a small home automation system controlling the serial port and a PIC microcontroller.

A Picture Viewer Class that can Scroll and Zoom using API

10 Dec 2007 by Mohammed Abd Alla

This is a simple class that can view scroll and zoom pictures

A Plug-in Wizard Framework

21 May 2008 by Marc Clifton

A wizard framework that supports plug-ins for the wizard pages.

A Practical Use of the MVC Pattern

8 Jan 2007 by Zoltan Balazs

Another approach to the MVC pattern

A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C#

28 Jun 2014 by Tom Clement

A splash screen with some neat predictive progress bar features

A Process viewer with alert notification

20 May 2008 by Ashutosh Phoujdar

Simple process viewer that is capable of setting alerts for process events.

A Professional HTML Renderer You Will Use

29 Jan 2009 by JoseMenendez

100% managed code that draws HTML on any device

A Professional Ribbon You Will Use (Now with orb!)

12 Jun 2012 by JoseMenendez

A serious project on an Office-like Ribbon control

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

17 Jun 2009 by Marc Clifton

Review your project dependencies.

A Pure .NET Single Instance Application Solution

17 Nov 2007 by Shy Agam

This article shows how to enforce single application instancing, and perform interprocess communication (IPC) using pure .NET code.

A Quick and Dirty WCF Service and Client (Using WCF and Winforms)

14 May 2007 by Jason Henderson

An example of how to use Windows Communication Foundation services.

A Remoting Event (Simple and Efficient for Enterprise Solutions)

21 Aug 2006 by Hossein Ghahvei Araghi

This article contains the simplest solutions for: the security problem for DelegateSerializationHolder, the IO problem, and the messaging speed problem. Note: Messaging speed problem will appear when your application has worked for a long time.

A Responsive Design Technique for WinForms

17 Oct 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Design to scale automatically to different screen resolutions

A rotating gauge

10 May 2005 by Member 1702012

An article on a custom control in the form of a rotating gauge.

A Rotator Control for WinForms

12 Sep 2006 by Stefan Bocutiu

A rotator control for Windows Forms.

A Secure Role-based Windows Form

30 Sep 2009 by Arjo Kalisvaart

This article describes how to implement Role-based Windows Form security. The solution includes a "SecureBaseForm" which allows/denies access to an inheriting Form and may fire the UserIsAllowed or UserIsDenied events.

A Self Contained Thread Safe TextBox Control

16 Nov 2007 by Jim Weiler

This control will eliminate the need to ensure that updates are thread-safe from your main program. Everything is handled automatically the way it should have been in the first place.

A Serious Outlook Style Navigation Pane Control

15 Nov 2010 by HawVie

A quality rendered Outlook style navigation pane control

A Simple Alternative to Windows Forms Data Binding

10 Apr 2008 by Michael L Perry

An open source library of Windows Forms controls that update themselves automatically.

A Simple and Clean .NET Design and Implementation Method - Part 1

24 Apr 2008 by Yang Yu

A fast and simple way in using application design patterns - Part 1.

A Simple C# Labyrinth and Maze

20 Jul 2010 by _H2_

An application and algorithms for best path in maze

A simple C# Scrolling AboutBox Control

26 Jan 2006 by Man_Man2612

Describes how to create a simple scrolling aboutbox usercontrol with C#. The control can manage its display object list including text or image.

A Simple Class to Catch Unhandled Exceptions in WinForms

25 Sep 2006 by Vitaly Zayko

Explains how to catch an unhandled exception and send a stack trace along with other debug information to the developer.

A Simple Clock Using GDI+

9 Oct 2009 by Arash Sahebolamri

This is a simple analog clock that demonstrates the use of GDI+.

A Simple Configuration Form for Applications

13 Sep 2005 by Kisilevich Slava

A simple configuration form for applications.

A simple crawler class

27 Dec 2009 by Haim Nachum

A multi-threaded crawler that downloads pages and saves them localy while preserving the site tree structure.

A simple custom progressbar

21 Dec 2009 by P.Sandgren

A simple custom progressbar.

A Simple Drag And Drop How To Example

10 Dec 2004 by Marc Clifton

The basics, along with some things I learned along the way.

A simple framework for adding undo/redo support

21 Jul 2005 by nschan

A framework for adding undo/redo support to a Windows Forms application is presented.

A Simple Graph Control

5 Mar 2010 by slelong

A simple control to draw graphs of points as a function of time

A Simple Image Slide Show

21 Jan 2008 by vidyaputra

A simple image slide show for beginners.

A Simple Immutable Hashtable for C#

21 Nov 2007 by bearvarine

A Hashtable wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.