Articles by Derek Lakin (Articles: 8, Technical Blogs: 18)

An owner-drawn, flat, menu button that correctly handles the default state

An extension to CRichEditCtrl to illustrate simple syntax highlighting

Extended System.Windows.Forms.Panel classes for a collapsible panel and a panel bar to contain them, in a Windows XP style.

An extended tab control that allows tab pages to be added from dialog resources

How to get a list of users and their details from a specified server.

A Visual Studio Add-in that allows the current file, or it's containing folder to be compared using WinDiff

A Visual Studio .NET add-in to provide instant integrated access to an online repository of .NET components.

This article shows you how to subclass CWinThread to create a class that allows multiple instances to effectively use the same thread function, safely.

HyperlinkButton Gotcha

Like many people it seems I’ve been working on an application for Windows Phone 7 that integrates with Facebook

Checking Your WP7 Application Capabilities

Additional MessageBox features on Windows Phone 7.

Shows how to set the initial focus in XAML

After my initial successes in moving to a Prism-style bootstrapper in Part 1, it was time to move onto the next step. But in the case of a legacy application, what's the next step?

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Microsoft introduced the concept of “lookless” controls in WPF, which means that the control defines its behaviour without any information about how it actually looks, which is where templates and styles come in. However, all of the default controls provide a default look, which is in keeping with

Every now and then, you find yourself needing to bind some control or the other to the values of an enumeration, such as System.DayOfWeek. You'd think this would be fairly simple, but it's actually trickier than you think.

The other day I was hacking away in WPF and I decided that I needed to be able to do something specific when the Visibility property of a control changed...

This is the first of several posts on my journey migrating a legacy application to use the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, which (like Brian Noyes) I prefer to call Prism, mainly because it's shorter, but it's also cooler! I've watched the "Brian Noyes on Prism" dnr TV episode intently, rea

Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

Moving a WPF Window with a WindowStyle of None

I’ve been working on a couple of projects recently where I’ve been storing the source in the cloud using Live Mesh so that I could access the solution from any of the PCs and laptops that litter the house. On the whole this approach has worked fairly well, although it results in a lot of changes thr

Testing Private Members in Visual Studio

Today is the first day of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), which is being hosted on Microsoft’s Campus in Seattle right now as I type.