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Winforms Gotcha: Form.Close() doesn't always call Dispose()
I just ran into a weird issue. During profiling I saw that controls on a form which was already closed were still reacting to events. I checked whether the Dispose() routine of the particular Form was called, but it wasn't. However, the Dispose() routine...

Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 6:06 PM by FransBouma | 12 comment(s)

The evil of the Office UI ribbon license
For the next major version of a certain application I'm working on (gee, what might that be ) I'm researching some UI frameworks and techniques. In the past few months I've spend most of my time working on application support library code, language designs...

Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:21 PM by FransBouma | 16 comment(s)

VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 / .NET 3.5: Windows Forms ComboBox contains nasty bug.
The Windows Forms combobox control contains a nasty a lot of people who will try .NET 2.0 applications on .NET 3.0 will run into: the Sorted property makes comboboxes unable to bind to data: they stay empty. This is particular bad, because any solid working...

Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:13 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

.NET 2.0's ToolStripMenuItem are hard to disable...
Say, you have a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application with one form and on the form one menu strip at the top, you know, very simple. On that menu strip, you have the menu 'Foo' and on that menu you have a menu item 'Bar', which are in .NET...

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:27 AM by FransBouma | with no comments

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