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I've seen stuff out there that embed lists and stuff onto your desktop and I was wondering how to do that in .net. Has anybody done that before?
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I don't quite know what you want to achieve. The XP desktop is just a folder.
Bob
Ashfield Consultants Ltd
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What's the best way to give a .NET app a GUI that is cross-platform for PC and Mac? Mono sounded like the easiest solution, but its Windows.Forms implementation turned out to not work well on OS X, so I'm back to square one.
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Not sure about OS X, but I think that the best solution is to use WPF in XBAP or Silverlight. When Silverlight 2 comes fully out, it may be more potential. In both cases you'll have a quite rich UI which is hosted on internet explorer or similar.
However, I'm not very familiar with OS X, so this is more intuition than knowledge.
Mika
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Your summary appears to be pretty accurate.
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Mika Wendelius wrote: WPF in XBAP or Silverlight
Moonlight is Mono's version of Silverlight.
AFAIK they currently don't plan to support the full WPF framework.
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Thanks, good info!
I also (sadly) believe that full WPF won't be included in Silverlight 2 and also not full .Net Framework. Mainly I miss datasets, but perhaps in next versions.
At some point I must put some effort on moonlight and get to know it. If you have knowledge of it, could you consider writing an article or two about differences between moonlight and silverlight? A quick search on CP found no articles concerning moonlight.
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Thanks for the info! I sounds like your suggestions might turn my desktop app into a browser app. Does anyone know what path would be taken for a desktop app? I'm willing to do some GUI recoding.
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I'll second that. It was the third WPF book I bought, and it's by far the best. The Nathan and Sells books aren't bad, but this one is streets ahead - so much so that I also bought the e-book version.
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Good answer. Right on the mark.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Hi
i created an application that take parent of other applications useing the SetParent() method, the problem is that the chiled application menu stop working when i open the child through the parent application.
can anyone help thanks.
Mohammad Al Hoss
Development To Me Is A Pleasure more than a Job
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Hi,
One small help..
need to change the scroll bar color in a panel (windows application, C#)
Any simple n small sample needed.(m a newbie... )
Thanks in advance
Newbie
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The scrollbar is styled based on the OS. To customize it you will have to manually paint the scrollbar yourself by creating a new control inheriting from Scrollbar.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Hi
I am trying to set up a year calendar, which initially seemed an easy thing to do using the monthcalendar in .net 2005. It is to display an employees absences for the year.
However, delving into it, it looks like there is no way of changing the back colour of a number of days within the year. On top of this, I would require different colours to represent different absence types.
I have looked around the net and have seen examples on codeproject, but nothing that allows the calendar to expand to a year (4x3 months) and to represent absence type by different background colours.
Does anyone have any idea how to do this or point me in teh right direction?
thanks
Dean
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You can write your own custom control.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my Blog
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I was under the impression that you can't derive from this control. I read it somewhere on msdn, that it cannot be overridden. I haven't got time to rewrite a calendar control from scratch!
your answer wasn't very helpful.
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Nope - you can inherit from the control. If you look at the documentation here[^] you will see that it clearly tells you that it can be inherited and that you would need to override the OnPrint method.
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 Genius - I take it that's repayment for Computer says no.
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Has anyone created or seen an extension of the existing splitter panel that supports an "unlimited" number of panels?
If now, any hints on how to do it would be appreciated!
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Daniel Jansson wrote: an "unlimited" number of panels?
What do you mean? Like 100 Rows and 100 columns? After a certain number of rows and columns it starts to sound like a job for something else like a grid or whatever, rather than a split panel control.
led mike
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More like either 100 rows or 100 columns, but not that amount, more like 5 rows or columns.
I want the user to be able to resize and show/hide the different rows / columns easily.
The tablelayoutpanel can't be resize by default right?
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