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

by Graeme_Grant

This article comprehensively covers the Microsoft ClickOnce Installer with a bare bones WinForm/WPF C#/VB Silent Updater framework plus covers how to implement, troubleshoot, test locally, to release.

Creating a Desktop Application for Converting Audio Files from Each Other

by Michael Haephrati

Desktop application that can be used to convert from and to various audio formats, such as .mp3, .m4a and .wav

Creating Test Objects With FakeModel

by Member 9913858

An introduction to using FakeModel to create test aata for you.

WebRTC Screencasting in Chrome

by Harry Truman

Screencasting (demo screen, screensharing) already works in Google Chrome. The technology allows capturing a window of the browser itself as well as windows of other applicaitons. For example, you can capture Firefox running in a separate window.

Latest Articles

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

by Graeme_Grant

Disable Driver Signature Enforcement with DSE-Patcher

by Kai Schtrom

How to use DSE-Patcher to disable Driver Signature Enforcement

ftp2? Evolving File Transfer with msgfiles

by Michael Sydney Balloni

A .NET client-server application for sending files over a network

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

by Aleh Baradzenka

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

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Desktop Programming

Sudoku Generator using DataGridView

21 Feb 2014 by Ivan Tsurkan

Sudoku Generator

.NET

Visual-Studio

Gridview

Windows Form: Limit Number of Lines in RichTextBox Control C#

8 Feb 2019 by DiponRoy

Limit number of lines in a RichTextBox

desktop

Button Tip - IsDefault / IsCancel (and other usability tips)

9 Oct 2013 by _Noctis_

Quick tip for forms/windows/views where save/insert/cancel buttons are used

Extend the GNOME 2.x desktop menu

11 Aug 2015 by Steffen Ploetz

How to group applications into user defined menus of the GNOME desktop menu.

Linux

Gnome

desktop

A First Impression of a clockwork using Simple Gears

11 Oct 2013 by wim4you

We wanted a first impression of a clockwork using simple gear for visual evaluation. A provisory prototype is made.

Windows

WPF

desktop

A Little Neat Trick to Grab Windows 10 Startup Desktop Screen Pictures

4 Sep 2018 by simonp_ca

If you like those beautiful Windows10 PC startup screens and wonder how to capture and save them as images, this tip/trick is for you...

Win10

Windows

desktop

Icon Pro - Create icons for Windows Desktop

13 Nov 2017 by Herbert Lausmann

Icon Pro - A C# + WPF open source tool for creating windows icons from PNG images or SVG vectors

Setting The Virtual Desktop Background (In Windows 10)

15 Sep 2015 by Blondy314

An application which allows you to set a different wallpaper for each desktop

Windows

desktop

application

Binding Enum-Values to a ComboBox

15 Mar 2015 by manchanx

Tidy, generic solution to bind Enums (with or without a DescriptionAttribute) to a ComboBox or other Controls

Interactively Add Multiple Shapes Using Linked Lists GDI+ SVG

3 Mar 2016 by The Zakies

Tutorial 2 (how to interactively add multiple shapes GDI using linked lists)

Multiple log files from one application, using log4net.

8 Jun 2012 by CodingLover

Learn how to manage multiple log files in a single application using log4net.

XML

desktop

log4net

WPF - Multiple Validation on Single Control

12 Mar 2014 by Rohit Dot net

Validation control with a single validation rule is easy, but what if we need to validate a control using different validation rules. This article tells how to achieve multiple validation on single control in an easy and systematic way.