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There are a few things that have to happen for this "regression" to show up. First, you have to be working in .net 2.0 WinForms. Second, you must be using a custom application context. Third and most importantly, you must have at least one form open in...
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If you do anything "out of the ordinary" in your UserControl or Form derived classes in Visual Studio 2005, let me introduce you to a little snippet that will probably save you lots of headaches: if ( DesignMode ) return ; or, its equally useful counterpart...
This looks interesting. I thought Mr. " Just finished my last chapter of Beginning AJAX " would have for sure created this as an asp.net control...guess I should have read closer the first time ;) Could be useful in PostXING , ifn we ever put some real...
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I've got weak regex skillz. I'll admit it. I don't use them very much, so when I do need to, it's nice to know that regexlib is sitting there, waiting for me to come to it with my regex needs. In particular, there is an online Regular Expression Tester...
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I can't believe nobody called me on this: BackgroundWorker.IsBusy Property Reflector says it does exactly what I was looking for in a previous post . Technorati Tags: Windows Forms BackgroundWorker
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Here's a link to the hotfix for the winforms designer error that looks like this: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code...
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This is a private boolean member of the new BackgroundWorker class in .NET 2.0. If it were public, perhaps there would be less questions like this one on the gotdotnet messageboards . I ran into a similar problem recently and decided that instead of catching...
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A few people asked for the source code/a download for the little widget I whipped up on Friday, so I spent this morning adding a little bit of persistence. The original code for switching my networks is still in there (and still works on my machine if...
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This is pretty cool: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange.NetworkAddressChanged += new System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkAddressChangedEventHandler (NetworkChange_NetworkAddressChanged); I have a laptop that everyday switches between my wireless...
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*sigh* Winforms team, winforms team, when will you start making my life easier? As others have said (and I completely agree ) windowsforms.net is pretty useless. Well, there's some new Whidbey .NET 2.0 content, but all of the things I enjoyed when starting...
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