Round those corners and make your user interfaces a little jazzier with a rounded rectangle Panel control; a fun chunk of code to incorporate into your application.
Creating a Rounded Panel Control
Published 12/11/2008
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Creating a Most Recents Menu Item with the MenuStrip
Published 09/24/2008
The MenuStrip and ToolStripMenuItem are a little harder to use than the Menu from earlier versions of VB. Walk through exercises using the MenuStrip, ToolStrip, and the Command behavior pattern to encapsulate a Recents menu for your applications that operate on files.
The Amazing GroupBox, Part 2
Published 07/21/2008
Gain the ability to contain controls and add a little preview for your control in design time.
The Amazing GroupBox, Part 1
Published 07/01/2008
Learn how to create your own GroupBox, with added features such as Alignment for the Title, and a scrollbar for child controls.
The Bare Basics of the Timer Control
Published 01/17/2008
Learn about some simple timer functions that produce some very complex effects.
Implementing Extension Methods in VB.NET
Published 05/25/2007
Extension Methods permit programmers to add behavior to a class without creating a wrapper. Here, you will learn how to implement Extension Methods in Visual Basic and .NET.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
Command Line Junkie
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While porting a C# applications to something other than Windows used to be hard, today command line tools can make it super easy!
Handling Exceptions in Visual Basic
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