We all know that .ShowDialog() is great but sometimes You want to show user some window and keep program running. (.ShowDialog() freezes code execution in method as we all know) Let's say You have this scenario that You want to have form that will not loose focus but at the same time You...

forms

Single Instance Form Application in C#

27 Dec 2013 by AdventureDriver

Make a single instance form application that redisplays the one and only interface of the other instance.

Windows

Visual-Studio

forms

XAML tutorial for Manufaktura Controls API

19 Jul 2015 by Ajcek84

Overview of music notation library

IntelliSense TextBox in C#

10 Mar 2014 by Alain Peralta

This is an alternative for "IntelliSense TextBox in C#"

keypress

forms

Use of delegates for form reusability- Dependency injection principle

21 Dec 2010 by Albin Abel

We may come across situations where a form may be called from many other forms but business logic it has to execute may be different. How can we handle it?

.NET

Design

forms

IntelliSense TextBox in C#

3 Mar 2014 by Anand Gunasekaran

Auto Word Completion for Multiline Textbox (Minimal Intellisense)

keypress

forms

Dragging a Borderless Form

12 Jun 2010 by Anshul R

The original snippet I made is in VB.NETProtected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef e As Message) MyBase.WndProc(e) If e.Msg = &H84 AndAlso e.Result = &H1 Then e.Result = &H2 End SubI used Reflector to translate it to C#protected override void WndProc(ref Message...

.NET

WinForms

forms

Cropping Tool

22 Apr 2013 by assamheart

Crop a photo and signature from an scanned image

Printing Images Quickly and Efficiently to an A4 Page [VB.NET]

1 Jan 2015 by Benjamin Lifshitz

With this code, you can print images quickly and efficiently, using the largest part of the A4 page for your image.

How to suppress input events in .NET Compact Framework

10 Feb 2012 by Bertus Bever

Suppressing key and mouse events while loading

Avoid redundant calling of container events when adding controls at run-time

22 Nov 2011 by BillWoodruff

Suggestions for adding controls in code

jsRemember

11 Aug 2013 by Celso Jr

Save the form entries to local storage preventing loss of data on browser crashing

Make a WindowsForm fade in on form load and fade out on form close

19 Apr 2011 by charles henington

forms

Simple method using Enum.Parse to change the dockstyle to control on form with combobox

14 May 2011 by charles henington

XML

Design

forms

Simple method using Enum.Parse to change the dockstyle to control on form with combobox

7 May 2011 by charles henington

using System;using System.Windows.Forms;namespace WindowsFormsApplication1{ public partial class Form1 : Form { private Panel panel1; private ComboBox comboBox1; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } ...

XML

Design

forms

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

Dynamically positioning a form/dialog, whilst also keeping it all on one monitor/screen

25 Aug 2015 by CharlieFoolsTheComputer

Constraining a form/dialog to a single monitor

Using the jQuery Unobtrusive Validator with Twitter Bootstrap Tooltips

21 Jul 2014 by Cristian Moldovan

jQuery unobtrusive validation plugin with Twitter Bootstrap 3 showing error messages as tooltips

Simple Bitmap Buttons for WinForm Applications

6 May 2014 by Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack)

This describes a simple way to create interactive, bitmap based, buttons for WinForm applications.

Database Object Model

21 Feb 2012 by databaseobjectmodel

A Sample ORM project

DataGridView Column Width Grow Only Sizing

20 Jun 2010 by DaveAuld

A simple way to create a grow only Column Width routine

forms

DataGridView

Dragging a Borderless Form

13 Jul 2010 by Dima Popov

A slightly different solution.using System.Runtime.InteropServices;private const int WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = 0xA1;private const int HTCAPTION = 0x2;[DllImport("User32.dll")]private static extern bool ReleaseCapture();[DllImport("User32.dll")]private static extern int...

.NET

WinForms

forms

Tabbed IE Browser Control

3 Jul 2013 by Emmery Chrisco

Tabbed Browser Control addon

Make a WindowsForm fade in on form load and fade out on form close

19 Apr 2011 by Erion Pici

using System;using System.Configuration;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.ComponentModel;using System.Text;using System.Windows.Forms;namespace FadingForm{ public partial class FrmSplashScreen : Form { /// /// Indicates whether the...

forms

Resize form using GraphicsPath

23 Jul 2012 by hari19113

This code will help us to reshape our Windows form.

Handling Excel Lists with Interop

29 Sep 2015 by HP2M

This tip covers handling two Excel lists using Interop.

Sudoku Generator using DataGridView

21 Feb 2014 by Ivan Tsurkan

Sudoku Generator

Converting Multiple Image Files to PDF

30 Aug 2015 by jansok

A tip on converting multiple image files (BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF) to single or multiple PDF

Simple method using Enum.Parse to change the dockstyle to control on form with combobox

9 May 2011 by jarvisa

ComboBox items do not have to be strings.The combobox calls ToString on each object in Items so simply add the enum values to the combobox.using System;using System.Drawing;using System.Windows.Forms;namespace Anchor_Form{ public class Form1 : Form { public...

XML

Design

forms

CRUD Many-to-Many Entity Framework

4 Apr 2015 by Jean Carlo S. Passos

CRUD over Association Entity that maps to association tables

SharePoint 2010: Using InfoPath Forms

17 Jun 2012 by Jean Paul V.A

Usage of InfoPath Forms along with SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Forms and Rules

17 Jun 2012 by Jean Paul V.A

Exploring InfoPath Forms with Rules.

SharePoint

InfoPath

forms

All-Purpose Message Box in WPF

3 Mar 2014 by Joezer BH

Avoiding a cumbersome message box or input box that locks the application in WPF.

Dragging a Borderless Form

12 Jun 2010 by Kristian Sixhøj

A code snippet which makes a borderless form draggable.

.NET

WinForms

forms

How to separate MenuItems with a horizontal line programatically

2 Oct 2011 by lukeer

A MenuItem with special text is rendered as a separator

forms

Rendering of Segmented Numbers

31 Jul 2015 by majaak

Explains how numbers can be rendered like segmented numbers (looking like old-school digital clock)

Numeric Pattern Painter

16 Aug 2012 by marshalDavout

Draws a sequence of ascending numbers evenly spaced on a grid system for use on game maps and such.

VB.NET - Dynamically Resize and Reposition All Controls when Form is Resized, Including Font Sizes

3 Sep 2015 by Member 10974085

VB.NET - Resize and Reposition all controls when Form is resized

VB.NET - A Different Approach to Creating Control Arrays - Create controls at Design Time, Process Them as a Control Array with Shared Event Handlers

4 Sep 2015 by Member 10974085

VB.NET - A different approach to creating control arrays - Create controls at Design time, process them as a control array with shared event handlers

Windows

Dev

forms

Getting the Image Displayed in a Windows Forms TreeNode

11 Jan 2017 by Midi_Mick

Extension methods to get the index or key of the image currently displayed in the node of a Windows.Forms.TreeView control

Using jQuery unobtrusive validation with Twitter Bootstrap

7 Nov 2015 by mnguyen88

This is an alternative for "Using the jQuery unobtrusive validator with Twitter Bootstrap tooltips"

Avoid Form Resubmit on Refresh

18 Aug 2015 by MRBULL93

In this tip, I am presenting a simple way to avoid refresh resubmit

Keyboard Control .NET

26 Jul 2015 by NightRider92

Custom .NET Numerical Keyboard Control

.NET WinForms ReportViewer: Non-printable Report Background (Elements)

14 Mar 2014 by Nikita D. Sinelnikov

HowTo: make the report background (elements) of Microsoft .NET Report (.rdlc) non-printable

Simple Animation for your Windows Forms or Controls using C#.NET

11 Nov 2014 by Noble KC

Simple Animation with Timer control in C#.NET (Sliding and Scrolling Effects)

How to prevent Form from loosing focus (in the application)

24 May 2010 by radioman.lt

dialog.Owner = this;dialog.Show();// ;}

forms

Caching web pages in asp.net 3.5 on hard drive

12 Jul 2015 by Sem.Shekhovtsov

Caching the entire asp.net 3.5 web forms page using modules.

Auto Updating the exe from a network location when application starts

27 Jan 2015 by SREENATH GANGA

Auto updating the exe if the latest exe is available in the network share

Communication with Cross Domain IFrame - A Cross Browser Solution

1 May 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

This tip will help you to communicate with a cross domain Iframe which is added in the form.

Data Entry Form made Easy, Enabled / Disabled controls on Data Entry Form

18 Sep 2010 by Tajwer Jalal

Data Entry Form made Easy, Enabled / Disabled controls on Data Entry Form

forms

DataTable

toolbar

Show Forms Current Monitor on Dual (or more) Monitors

5 Jul 2015 by Tantum

How to show your forms in the current active display on dual (or more) monitors

A simple example of adding movable label controls at runtime

23 Jan 2013 by Tarek Elqusi

I created a simple form with a button to add a label control at run time sequentially numbered; labels are movable and lines are drawn between labels.

[tut4] Draw Lines with Circle and Rectangle End

7 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

[tut4] how to draw lines & to draw different types on end shapes like rectangle and circle using C#

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

How to prevent Form from loosing focus (in the application)

25 May 2010 by tonyt

Form f = new Form(); f.Shown += delegate(object s, EventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show("Here you go!"); } f.ShowDialog();