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Xml in the WebBrowser? What about easy RSS in the WebBrowser in Whidbey?

A fellow blogger has been talking about hosting the web browsing components of IE as an ActiveX Control. With Whidbey this all goes away and you can now use the Windows Forms 2.0 WebBrowser control. It just drops into place, has a bunch of events for...

Follow-up: Toast Windows and AnimateWindow, a user found issue.

You can check out the previous entry here Watch out for "Power Toys", sometimes you get more than you bargained for. However, I'm more interested in examining why the failure occurs when adding a label. This is an issue that one of the users found when...
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Watch out for "Power Toys", sometimes you get more than you bargained for.

Okay, so I was checking out the VB PowerToys, and I have to say they are kind of nice. I can always appreciate a free download especially if it saves me some time. However, you don't reinvent the wheel when creating a new component and then append the...
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Throwing out some WinForms candy to all the kiddies: Singleton Forms...

A large number of people constantly ask about having their form pop up in the same place over and over again and they usually want the same values to be there as well. If you use something like the ShowDialog() command on the same form over and over again...
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Added the remainder of the VB .NET ports and a JScript .NET port for the Wizard Framework

Well, I had a couple of extra hours while I was sitting around this evening and I used the time to finish porting the Wizard Framework over to VB .NET. Now all articles have a corresponding code-only article that you can look at. I also ported article...
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Winforms Wizard Series code-updates. Adding full source code drops for VB .NET

I'm not going to convert the articles over, since they aren't really dependent upon the code provided inline to be read. I will be hosting full source dumps in VB .NET for each of the articles though, so you can try this out in VB or take a look at that...

WinForm Wizard Series Article 5: Designable Dialogs and a VS Project Sample

Adding a design time dialog and creating a VS project sample Abstract: Once I actually started using the designer to create my wizards I realized that a designable wizard dialog would be really useful. In fact, I was able to lay out two fairly decent...
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WinForm Wizard Series Article 4: Designer support for wizard panels, improved inheritance model, and refactoring the code only wizard panels.

Designer support is the only feature people have asked for in the wizard framework series. Since user's felt strongly enough to request that I add designer support, I figured it wouldn't be that difficult. This latest installment in the series talks about...
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Article 3 on WinForms Wizards - Named Navigation: When Duncan links your articles, you know its time to support them.

Well, I was going to wait a week or so before posting this jewel, but what the heck. I'm really excited about the game I have prepared to make use of the WizardController class, so the faster I get through all of the gritty details, the faster I can get...

Part 2 in the WinForms Wizard Dialog Series.

I just realized that the Wizard Dialog article was what got me started on this blogging stuff, so I figured I should pay my dues and at least revisit the concept of dialogs and wizards a few more times. My previous article covered the most basic of wizards...
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