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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.

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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

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Windows Forms

(AGauge) WinForms Gauge Control

29 Aug 2012 by Code Artist

(AGauge) WinForms Gauge control

[OoB] Shooting Paintball Marker with Relay, Arduino and .NET WinForms

5 Oct 2014 by morzel

How to shoot paintball marker with relay, Arduino and .NET Winforms

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

2 Apr 2011 by Chris_Green

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

Allowing Only Numeric Input in a TextBox

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to allow only numeric input in TextBox

BoxCop – Static Assembly Analyzer Tool

8 Feb 2013 by zenwalker1985

A small tool called BoxCop which is basically a static analyzer just like FxCop

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

23 Sep 2019 by Shameel

This article introduces you to BrowserSelector, an open source app that acts like a bootstrap to associate urls to different browsers installed on your machine,.

Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class

20 Dec 2011 by Giorgi Dalakishvili

Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class

C# Windows Form is Busy

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

There are two very common ways of telling the user that your application is busy. One is to show a progress bar that gets updated based on the progress getting done, and another is to show the "Waiting" cursor while the application is doing work.

Creating a Simple Sheet Designer in C#

11 Apr 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Give the user the flexibility to design his sheet, report, bill, invoice, whatever.

Creating a Simple Twitter Client Application

21 May 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

VB.NET and C# + twitto; a simple desktop Twitter

Designing a Windows Form Where Size Exceeds Your Screen’s Resolution

20 Oct 2011 by Manjuke Fernando

Design forms beyond the size of our development machine's screen resolution

Don’t Use ConfigurationManager!

15 May 2011 by Nathan Gloyn

If you’re one of those devs that slaps a ConfigurationManager.AppSettings in the middle of a class, then stop, please just stop.

Embedding Font To Resources

7 Sep 2010 by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use custom font, embedded in assembly resources

Extending ICSharpCode.TextEditor Syntax Highlighting Schemas

25 Sep 2010 by Ernest Poletaev

How to use ICSharpCode.TextEditor, free, easy to use, extendable and good quality syntax highlighting control for .NET program.

FilterableDataGridView (C#.NET)

29 Nov 2011 by Akos Orban

A DataGridView control with built-in Filtering

FindControl for Windows Forms

25 Nov 2009 by Joel Ivory Johnson

A quick implementation of FindControl for Windows Forms.

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

20 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

31 Jul 2010 by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

How to Move a Windows Form By Dragging

10 Jan 2014 by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to move a Windows forms by dragging

Introducing RSS; Developing a Simple RSS Reader

4 Apr 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

A brief discussion of RSS. Incorporating RSS into a simple RSS bar control written in VB.NET.

IronPython: A Quick WinForms Introduction

7 Apr 2014 by Dev Leader

IronPython: A quick WinForms introduction

Load And Use Custom Font Without Installing It

7 Sep 2010 by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use font, not installed in the system?

Moving a Form without the Title Bar

18 May 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to allow your form to be draggable from its body

NumericTextBox (C#.NET)

7 Dec 2011 by Akos Orban

A TextBox for numbers with built-in mathematical expression evaluation

Oriented Button in Windows Forms

3 Apr 2010 by Inaki Ayucar

Oriented Button in Windows Forms

Personal Schedule Management Tool

24 Apr 2011 by Wayne Ye

Personal Schedule Management Tool

project-management

PropertyGrid Collection Events

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

When changing collections in an object through PropertyGrid, the PropertyChanged event doesn't get called.

Refactoring Hooking and Unhooking Events TIP

4 Jan 2012 by zenwalker1985

Refactoring Hooking and Unhooking Events TIP

SharePoint SPSite ListView

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

How To Get All Site Urls Without Creating an SPSite object?

Show Properties of a Class on a PropertyGrid

20 Oct 2011 by Manjuke Fernando

How to show properties of a class on a PropertyGrid

Sortable ListView

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

The Windows Forms ListView control doesn't provide column sorting functionality. This article shows how to implement sorting while taking field type into consideration (sort by date, number, ...)

SPList Image and SPFile Icon

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Take advantage of SPList.ImageUrl and SPFile.IconUrl to improve the user experience of WinForm apps for SharePoint.

Start a WinForm Hidden

2 Apr 2011 by Chris_Green

How to start a WinForm Hidden

Understanding BackgroundWorker and Encapsulating Your Own Thread Class

30 Mar 2011 by Chris_Green

Understanding BackgroundWorker threads and how to encapsulate your own thread class

Unmanaged C++ OpenGL Drawing and C# (WinForms/WPF) Interoperability

14 Nov 2010 by pytelg

This post describes how to execute unmanaged C++ OpenGL drawing on Windows Forms and WPF to achieve very fast and reliable graphics rendering over stunning GUI done in WPF or Windows Forms.

Update Controls

9 Apr 2011 by Qwertie

UpdateControls not only keeps your GUI up-to-date, but it also separates the GUI from the rest of the code better than any framework I have seen before.

User Impersonation in Windows Forms Application

3 Aug 2010 by Raymund Macaalay

User Impersonation in Windows Forms Application

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

27 Nov 2011 by Dinesh K Mandal

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism

27 Dec 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism

Winforms – Model-View-Presenter – A tutorial

11 May 2009 by Wes Aday

Winforms – Model-View-Presenter – A tutorial

XML Editor Control

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

XML Editor with syntax highlighting

“Cancel me if you can” or PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in WinForms

12 Aug 2011 by George Mamaladze

PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in WinForms