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Shell and IE programming

C# does Shell, Part 1
Posted: 24 Jan 2003   Updated: 31 Jan 2003   Views: 349,643   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 90   Popularity: 9.58
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 355   Downloaded: 8,048
This article introduces shell programming using C#. It includes developing several utility classes for working with the shell and a class that wraps the extensible Browse for Folder dialog.
C# does Shell, Part 3
Posted: 2 Mar 2003   Updated: 2 Mar 2003   Views: 421,328   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 216   Popularity: 11.43
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This article is about Application Desktop Toolbars, which are applications that can align to the screen much like the taskbar. The article will develop a base class for developing such apps.
C# does Shell, Part 4
Posted: 13 Mar 2003   Updated: 26 Mar 2003   Views: 197,793   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 80   Popularity: 9.36
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This article is about the AutoComplete features enabled by windows and how to use them with C#. AutoComplete is the ability to expand strings written in an edit box. The article will develop a class for using this functionality in you applications.
C# does Shell, Part 2
Posted: 30 Jan 2003   Updated: 12 Jan 2010   Views: 309,035   Rating: 4.88/5    Votes: 115   Popularity: 10.06
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 292   Downloaded: 8,492
This article continues shell programming using C#. It includes Launching applications, doing Shell file operations (Copy, Move, Delete) with the proper shell response, adding files to Recent Documents list and doing some printer operations.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 1 – Introduction
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 1 Mar 2010   Views: 26,744   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.39
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In this article, I'll present the background information needed on the latest Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 2 - Basic Ribbon Wrapper
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 2 Mar 2010   Views: 19,087   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.81
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In this article, I'll present the basic .NET wrappers for the Windows 7 Ribbon Framework.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 3 - First WinForms Ribbon Application
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 4 Mar 2010   Views: 17,758   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 6.15
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In this article, I'll present how to create an empty WinForms application with Windows 7 ribbon support.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 4 - Application Menu with Buttons
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 4 Mar 2010   Views: 10,524   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.05
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 5 - Application Menu with SplitButton and DropButton
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 6 Mar 2010   Views: 13,480   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.73
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon drop button controls.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 6 – Tabs, Groups and HelpButton
Posted: 1 Mar 2010   Updated: 7 Mar 2010   Views: 11,156   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.73
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In this article, I'll present how to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 7 – Spinner
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 8 Mar 2010   Views: 8,838   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.88
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon spinner control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 8 – ComboBox
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 9 Mar 2010   Views: 11,252   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon combo box control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 9 – Changing Ribbon Colors
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 10 Mar 2010   Views: 8,780   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.34
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In this article, I'll present how to change the ribbon colors.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 10 – Working With Images
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 12 Mar 2010   Views: 7,572   Rating: 4.53/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.05
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In this article, I'll present how to work with images in the ribbon.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 11 – DropDownGallery, SplitButtonGallery, and InRibbonGallery
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 13 Mar 2010   Views: 7,371   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.98
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down gallery, split button gallery, and in ribbon gallery controls.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 12 – CheckBox and ToggleButton
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 14 Mar 2010   Views: 8,258   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 13 – DropDownColorPicker
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 15 Mar 2010   Views: 8,729   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 14 – FontControl
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 16 Mar 2010   Views: 7,607   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.21
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In this article, I'll present how to use the ribbon font control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 15 – Use Ribbon as External DLL
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 19 Mar 2010   Views: 11,963   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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In this article, I'll present how to load ribbon resources from external DLLs.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 16 – ApplicationModes
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 20 Mar 2010   Views: 8,202   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon application modes.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 17 – Contextual Tabs
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 21 Mar 2010   Views: 9,489   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.21
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In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon contextual tabs.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 18 – ContextPopup
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 22 Mar 2010   Views: 10,474   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.57
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In this article, I'll present how to work with ribbon context popup.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 19 – RecentItems
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 23 Mar 2010   Views: 7,782   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon recent items control.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 20 – QuickAccessToolbar
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 23 Mar 2010   Views: 8,503   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.73
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In this article, I'll present how to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.
Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 – SizeDefinition
Posted: 2 Mar 2010   Updated: 24 Mar 2010   Views: 9,916   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 6.10
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In this article, I'll present how to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements.

Smart Client

Sudoku and Smart Client techniques
Posted: 30 Jul 2005   Updated: 21 Aug 2005   Views: 155,808   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 64   Popularity: 8.64
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This article will develop a Sudoku game based on a web service, while presenting useful development techniques of Smart Client applications.

Trace and Logs

Minesweeper, Behind the scenes
Posted: 11 Jan 2003   Updated: 13 Jan 2003   Views: 413,444   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 200   Popularity: 11.37
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This article demonstrates directly reading another processes memory in C# using P/Invoke and Win32 Api's.
FreeCell & Hearts, Behind the scenes
Posted: 28 Jan 2003   Updated: 28 Jan 2003   Views: 203,261   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 125   Popularity: 10.33
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This article shows the insides of the freecell and hearts games, it uses the a library of reading and writing another process memory.

Average blogs rating: 4.94

Button Controls

Ribbon with C++, Part 4: Layout Controls in Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog]
Posted: 16 Jun 2011   Updated: 16 Jun 2011   Views: 7,835   Rating: 4.25/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.03
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This is the 4th post about Windows Ribbon Framework features. On previous posts we have introduced the Windows Ribbon Framework, shown a complete example of how to develop a ribbon enabled application and reviewed the different buttons-based UI controls that the ribbon framework provides. In t

Dialogs and Windows

Ribbon with C++, Part 5: Using Galleries with Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 3,618   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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This is the 5th post about Windows Ribbon Framework features. On previous posts we have introduced the ribbon framework, seen a complete example, and reviewed how to use buttons-based UI controls and how to control their layout. In this post we continue our exploration of the Windows Ribbon Fr

Miscellaneous

How to Check How Many Writes Are Done While You Build [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 May 2011   Updated: 10 May 2011   Views: 2,566   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
How you can measure how many read and writes (in bytes) your build takes.

Shell and IE programming

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 0 – Table of Contents [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jan 2010   Updated: 31 Jan 2010   Views: 32,061   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 6.02
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Complete Library for using the Windows 7 Ribbon from C#, including 18 samples and 21 blog posts documenting the Ribbon features.
Crash while closing application that uses Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog]
Posted: 14 Apr 2010   Updated: 22 Apr 2010   Views: 6,859   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Since that’s the third time I’ve been asked about it, and in fact came across the problem myself, I thought I should blog my reply to help future users.Problem DescriptionYou use the Windows Ribbon Framework, either directly (in C++) or in managed code using my Windows Ribbon for WinForms library. Y
Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Oct 2010   Updated: 27 Dec 2010   Views: 13,388   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.34
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Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism
Ribbon with C++, Part 2: First Ribbon Enabled Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Jun 2011   Updated: 8 Jun 2011   Views: 9,706   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
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In this post, we continue our review of the Windows Ribbon Framework feature brought to us in Windows 7. For more information on the ribbon feature in general and Windows Ribbon Framework in particular, make sure you read Part 1.
Ribbon with C++, Part 1: Introduction to the Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog]
Posted: 5 Jun 2011   Updated: 13 Jun 2011   Views: 21,555   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.61
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The basics of the Windows Ribbon Framework - a rich command presentation system that provides a modern alternative to the layered menus, toolbars, and task panes of traditional Windows applications.
Ribbon with C++, Part 3: Using Buttons with Windows Ribbon Framework [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Jun 2011   Updated: 13 Jun 2011   Views: 7,983   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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On previous posts we have seen an introduction to the Windows Ribbon Framework and learned how to develop a ribbon enabled application. In this post we continue our review of the various features in the Windows Ribbon Framework. This time we will focus on the most common feature in the ribbon: Butt

Applications & Tools

Workaround For Crash In Performance Profiling Tools for WPF [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 4,104   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
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Introduction Every WPF developer knows the situation where you have a large line-of-business application, you’ve implemented all the features and when you finally run it on real data – it runs s-l-o-w. Optimization Time! Optimization for performance is fun since a 1% change of code gets you 99% c

Silverlight

Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Sep 2010   Updated: 21 Sep 2010   Views: 7,599   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Recently I’ve been working on a port of a WPF 3.5 application into a Silverlight 3 web application. I came across many of the limitation of Silverlight 3 relative to WPF 3.5.Fortunately, I’ve found numerous excellent solutions throughout the blogosphere. These have helped me so much I would like to
Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 2 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Sep 2010   Updated: 23 Sep 2010   Views: 5,066   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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I bring you the sequel for the post found here. These are just more Silverlight 3 missing features I’ve needed while porting a WPF 3.5 application to Silverlight. So, without further ado: Style Setter Doesn’t Support Bindings Description: in Silverlight 3, a style setter can’t set a value to a

Windows Phone 7/8

A ProgressBar With Text For Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 26 Jan 2011   Updated: 26 Jan 2011   Views: 10,200   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.34
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
A ProgressBar With Text For Windows Phone 7
Reading RSS items on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 3 Feb 2011   Updated: 3 Feb 2011   Views: 9,636   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.43
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
Following is a utility class I wrote to help me read RSS items asynchronously on a Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 application. I will present how it was written and then how to use it. At the end of this post you can find a sample application that contains all the code. How to read RSS? Add Help
Search Digg on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Feb 2011   Updated: 10 Feb 2011   Views: 3,623   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Following is another utility class I wrote to help me search Digg results asynchronously on a Windows Phone 7 application. I will present how it was written and then how to use it. At the end of this post you can find a sample application that contains all the code. How to Search Digg? Define D
Get Twitter Trends on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Feb 2011   Updated: 21 Feb 2011   Views: 4,332   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
In this post, I will show you how you can get the list of trends on Twitter.
Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 24 Feb 2011   Updated: 24 Feb 2011   Views: 4,832   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7
Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Mar 2011   Updated: 4 Mar 2011   Views: 4,806   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 4   Downloaded: 0
Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone
Ways to Load Applications Faster – A Windows Phone Recipe [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 Mar 2011   Updated: 25 Mar 2011   Views: 5,138   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Note: the following article was first published as part of the Windows Phone Recipe “Ways to Load Applications Faster” found here, which I wrote for Microsoft, together with Yochay Kiriaty. Purpose of This Document This document introduces the loading procedure for Windows Phone Silverlight applic
Shake Gestures Library – A Windows Phone Recipe [Technical Blog]
Posted: 3 Apr 2011   Updated: 3 Apr 2011   Views: 7,646   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices. It explains how to use the library, how the library works internally, and how you can configure the library’s parameters to adapt gesture detection to your needs.
Managing Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 May 2011   Updated: 2 May 2011   Views: 5,737   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Before we continue, I trust that you know exactly the meaning of tombstone state in a Windows Phone 7 application. If this is not the case, simply read Yochay’s great posts on the application execution model (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Every Windows Phone 7 application needs to manages tombstoning
Using Windows Phone As Windows 7 Accelerometer Sensor [Technical Blog]
Posted: 15 Aug 2011   Updated: 15 Aug 2011   Views: 9,911   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
I just had a cool idea! (actually I had it like 6 month ago, but bear with me). My idea involves mixing some of the features in Windows 7 with some of the features in Windows Phone 7, to create a glorious mix!   Windows 7 One of the new features in Windows 7 is the Sensor API which provides a

C#

No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Nov 2010   Updated: 23 Nov 2010   Views: 30,737   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 31   Popularity: 7.07
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Implementing a "stringof" operator using expression trees

.NET Framework

Step Into .NET Framework 4.0 Source Code [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Jul 2010   Updated: 12 Jul 2010   Views: 19,991   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.78
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How to configure your Visual Studio 2010 to step into the source code of .NET Framework 4.0.
Windows API Code Pack v1.1 Released! [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Sep 2010   Updated: 15 Sep 2010   Views: 13,998   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.17
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 16   Downloaded: 0
Windows API Code Pack v1.1
How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 May 2011   Updated: 13 Jun 2011   Views: 15,149   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.52
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Introduction The official answer is you can’t. Even with the In-Process Side by Side execution (SxS) feature, introduced in .NET 4. The SxS feature was intended to be used when COM is involved. For example, if you got an application that loads plugins, like outlook, and it loads 2 COM plugins, one

Cross Platform

Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution [Technical Blog]
Posted: 14 Mar 2011   Updated: 1 Apr 2011   Views: 4,438   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Following is another post by Yochay Kiriaty on a project I’ve done for Microsoft involving WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure. If you’re interested in more details, make sure you come to my presentation at the coming SDP 2011 conference (in two days!). [Cross-posted from http://wi

Libraries

C# Library for Grammar and Spell Checking [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Jun 2011   Updated: 10 Jun 2011   Views: 9,366   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
“After the Deadline” provides a web based API for both grammar and spell checking, free for non-commercial use!

Win32/64 SDK & OS

Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Mar 2010   Updated: 14 Mar 2010   Views: 16,049   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.82
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Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack.
Windows 7 Libraries C# Quick Reference [Technical Blog]
Posted: 15 Mar 2010   Updated: 16 Mar 2010   Views: 13,801   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.82
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Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Libraries features using Windows API Code Pack.
Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference [Technical Blog]
Posted: 20 Apr 2010   Updated: 22 Apr 2010   Views: 14,321   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 22   Popularity: 6.71
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 50   Downloaded: 0
BackgroundApplication Recovery and Restart (ARR) is a feature that allows you to prepare for the impossible (?) case where your application crash or waits forever (“Not Responding”)The feature lets you “register” for these cases in order to give you the opportunity to save the application data or do
Using Windows 7 Light Sensor in Your Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 29 Jun 2010   Updated: 17 Jul 2010   Views: 8,880   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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One of the new features we got with Windows 7 is the Windows Sensor and Location Platform. This platform enables us, developers, to access a variety of sensors with a standard API. No more rewrite-entire-device-layer-because-we-changed-vendors issues.
Fix Error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format [Technical Blog]
Posted: 16 Sep 2010   Updated: 13 Jun 2011   Views: 31,970   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.33
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Post on how to fix an error while trying to run the sample project ShellObjectWatcherSampleWPF from the latest version of Windows API Code Pack

Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF: Where to put value converters? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jan 2010   Updated: 31 Jan 2010   Views: 8,913   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.81
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The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?
WPF: How To Animate Visibility Property? [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Feb 2010   Updated: 7 Feb 2010   Views: 29,933   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.56
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In this post I’ll show you an easy way to add fade-in / fade-out effects to your user controls, when you change their Visibility property.Adding the animation is done with an attached property, so using the code will be extremely simple.
WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Apr 2010   Updated: 13 Apr 2010   Views: 7,726   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.40
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Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control. Sin
WPF Single Instance Application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 May 2010   Updated: 28 May 2010   Views: 25,290   Rating: 4.92/5    Votes: 33   Popularity: 7.46
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How to enforce that your WPF application has only one instance
WPF Inside Out: Dispatcher [Technical Blog]
Posted: 12 Aug 2010   Updated: 15 Sep 2010   Views: 14,099   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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In this post, we’ll see a few interesting things about WPF’s Dispatcher class.
Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 Dec 2010   Updated: 27 Dec 2010   Views: 4,275   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution
A Customizable WPF MessageBox [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 May 2011   Updated: 31 May 2011   Views: 22,788   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.95
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A Customizable WPF MessageBox

Collections

Order in Chaos: .NET Collections [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Oct 2010   Updated: 8 Oct 2010   Views: 12,966   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 6.02
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 28   Downloaded: 0
Review of the current available collection types in .NET Framework 4.0

Exception Handling

Order in Chaos: Handling unhandled exceptions in a WPF application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 8 Sep 2011   Updated: 8 Sep 2011   Views: 7,968   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
Order in Chaos: Handling unhandled exceptions in a WPF application

Macros and Add-ins

Live Writer Plug-in for Sharing Technical Post [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 Jul 2010   Updated: 17 Jul 2010   Views: 5,155   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Describes how to write a Plug-in for Windows Live Writer
Spelling and Grammar Checking Plugin for Windows Live Writer [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Jun 2011   Updated: 13 Jun 2011   Views: 6,900   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Spelling and Grammar Checking Plugin for Windows Live Writer

Code Generation

Speed up Visual Studio Builds [Technical Blog]
Posted: 17 May 2011   Updated: 17 May 2011   Views: 18,354   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.84
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This post discusses how you can decrease build time

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

Ribbon with C++, Post 6: Ribbon Dynamic Structure Capabilities [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Jul 2011   Updated: 22 Jul 2011   Views: 3,876   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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This is the 6th and last post about using Windows Ribbon Framework features in C++. You can find the previous parts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5. In this post we will dive into the ribbon's dynamic structure capabilities, i.e. we will learn about the different ways to change the s
WPF: Dictionary Value Converter [Technical Blog]
Posted: 10 Aug 2011   Updated: 10 Aug 2011   Views: 8,236   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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What’s the story? You want to convert an enum value to a bitmap image. That’s easy, here’s a solution Usually you would simply create a new value converter which has some custom code (e.g. a switch –case statement) to convert from the enum value to the relevant image. Is there a better solution
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 Arik Poznanski
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Arik Poznanski is a Senior Consultant and Instructor at Sela Technology Center. He completed two B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science, summa cum laude, from the Technion in Israel.
 
Arik has extensive knowledge and experience in many Microsoft technologies, including .NET with C#, WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, Interop, COM/ATL programming, C++ Win32 programming and reverse engineering (assembly, IL).


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