Articles by tonyt (Article: 1, Tip/Tricks: 4)

This short class demonstrates how to activate an MDI child form without the fireworks that you see if you just set the ActiveMdiChild property of the MDI parent form.

Form f = new Form(); f.Shown += delegate(object s, EventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show("Here you go!"); } f.ShowDialog();

Either method is good for testing if you are in the designer, but another problem aside from preventing code execution, is preventing code from being jitted in the Designer. For example, you may reference assemblies or components that are dependent on native code, which cannot be loaded into any...

How about typing the 'this' parameter as ICustomAttributeProvider ?Also, ToList(...).Where(...) is bad Linq usage, becauseToList() triggers enumeration of the sequence. Try Where(...).ToList() instead.And the ToList() in 'ToList().FirstOrDefault(...)' is entirely pointless.

namespace System{ public static class SystemExtensionMethods { public static string GetAncestry( this object target ) { return string.Join( " -> ", target.GetTypes().Reverse().Select( t => FormatName( t ) ).ToArray() ); } public...