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Video for Gadget Window I have finished the video showing the process for creating a Gadget Style window. You can download it from here .  
Multi-Line commenting There are times when I have to wonder if I am the only person who does not know some things. I ran into this self doubt again the other day when I was watching one of Ron Cundiff's VB.NET Soup To Nuts WebCasts. During the WebCast one of the participants asked if there was a way to comment multiple lines of code.  When I heard this my ears perked up and I got very interested. In the, almost, ten years that I have been writing code, I always have com ... [ read more ]
ClickOnce Deployment – Deploying files with your application In a previous post , I showed you how you can deploy your application using ClickOnce.  Looking at how to deploy extra files, like my first look at ClickOnce, was prompted by a post on vbCity . Now I will admit that I wasn’t as sharp answering the original question as I could have been so be gentle with your opinion of me if you read through the thread.  (In fact it took me two days to work out that w ... [ read more ]
ClickOnce increments Rockford Lhotka posted up some details about how ClickOnce handles what is downloaded when it performs an incremental update.  The more I look at ClickOnce the more I am coming to appreciate it. I know this goes against the ClickOnce idea, but if the end user could only determine where the Application is installed.  I suppose if I want to be that fussy I would just distribute and install via a Windows Installer file.
Deploying applications with ClickOnce ClickOnce Deployment A recent post on vbCity regarding deploying an application with ClickOnce got me wondering about doing deployment with ClickOnce. I have always done deployment of applications by creating and using a Setup and Deployment package which created a .msi installer file, so it was interesting to see some of the differences between the two distribution methods. First off I created a simple application to test the ClickOnce dis ... [ read more ]
Text and Image for Button with Visual Studio 2005 Ok, let’s call this page 22,492 in the book of things I did not know about Visual Studio 2005. I was reading something the other day, if I can remember or find it I will post up a link, and was surprised that I had missed this little bit before.  (I have recently been reading “WPF for those who know Windows Forms” that can be found here   and watching webcasts by William Steele on his  WPF Soup ... [ read more ]
Video for WPF expander The companion video to my post on the expander control in WPF is now available for download. The video can be found here .
Video for tab control with WPF A couple of days later than I had planned, but I finished the video that is the companion of this post  about custom content in the tabs of a tab control in WPF. You can download the video here .  
WPF Expander Control There are a lot of neat options now available to us programmers thanks to WPF. One of these is the expander.  The expander is a control pretty much like a groupbox which can hold various controls.  The main difference between a groupbox and an expander is the controls in a groupbox are always visible where the expander gives the developer, and by extension the user, the ability to hide any controls and conserve valuable space on a windows form. As you ... [ read more ]
Drag and drop code to and from ToolBox Sara Ford blogged about this a couple of days ago and I thought it was a really cool feature of Visual Studio. She pointed out, what could be, a little known feature of Visual Studio.  You can highlight and then drag code snippets into the General tab of the toolbox. You will then fine the code as an item in the toolbox. If you want to see exactly what the code is all you need to do is hover your mouse over the item and the co ... [ read more ]
TabControl background colour video This is a follow up on the post about changing the colour of the TabPanel part of the tab control.  I created a video showing how I went about changing the template of the tab control using Expression Blend. You can download the video to watch from here .
Creating a Gadget style window with WPF and Visual Basic.NET 2008 I don’t know if it is a case of my actually knowing more or the fact that doing stuff with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is easier.  To me it seems doing what I want is getting quicker these days. The ability to create and use semi-transparent forms has been around for a while now, but the process to creating these types of forms has not been the easiest. Visual Basic.NET 2005 gave us access to the o ... [ read more ]


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