We get a lot of requests asking for the very latest code for the SDF since tons of exciting stuff has been added (and many issues resolved) since our v1.2 release last year specifically from users starting to work with the VS2005 betas and community previews and would like to use the SDF with these […]
Author: Peter Foot
Microsoft Windows Development MVP
Using these techniques it’s possible to extend existing controls and add attributes to improve their designer experience. To illustrate this I’ve taken the example of the ComboBoxEx control. This extends the ComboBox control by overriding runtime behaviour to overcome a data binding issue, and adds BeginUpdate and EndUpdate methods to improve performance when filling the […]
How the designer interprets your components is from a mixture of reflection to actually see what properties you expose, but also attributes which allow you to override this behaviour. The first attributes which are required for any component to appear in the toolbox are:- #if DESIGN[ToolboxItemFilter(“NETCF”,ToolboxItemFilterType.Require),ToolboxItemFilter(“System.CF.Windows.Forms”, ToolboxItemFilterType.Custom)]#endif This ensures that the component only appears on […]
Introduction When developing desktop .NET forms projects the toolbox contains a number of components you can drag across to your form and setup via the designer. A component in this case is any class which inherits from System.ComponentModel.Component. Visual Studio generates the appropriate code for you, in just the same way as forms controls except […]
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Alternative View of Express Products
Thanks Bill for this excellent link – an alternative view of the Visual Studio Express products target audiences. Check it out (but don’t take too seriously!):- http://www.atrevido.net/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=fc395650-88e9-4f9a-82cc-3f1ceebdfc3f
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Determine Current GSM Network
This VB.NET code will work on Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone devices and return details of the current GSM operator (though it probably works on CDMA also). It relies on Alex Feinman’s excellent TAPI wrapper whish you can download here. Using the library we create a line object which we pass the handle of (line.hline) […]
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MEDC Worldwide Dates Announced
The latest information on the MEDC2005 front is a list of dates and venues for the worldwide MEDC events which will follow the main MEDC conference in May. So far the following events have been announced:- Korea (TBA) – 19th-20th May Germany (Berlin) – 6th June France (Paris) – 8th June UK (Microsoft Campus) – […]
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FolderBrowserDialog for Windows CE
To follow up from a recent enquiry on the newsgroup, neither .NETCF v1.0 or v2.0 include the FolderBrowserDialog component. The main reason for this is that this functionality is not implemented in all flavours of Windows CE, for example Windows Mobile (Pocket PC / Smartphone) doesn’t include support for this dialog. If your device does […]
The built in applications in Pocket PC follow a familiar model with a DocumentList screen listing files of that type, and then an “editor” screen for working with an individual document. If you launch a specific document programmatically it will open direct to that document, but when you close the app will continue to run […]
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Bluetooth Remote Control
Mike Hall posted a link on his blog to a channel9 interview with Anil Dhawan from the Windows Mobile team discussing Bluetooth programming, which I recommend you check out. Anil gave a demo of a native code application to remote control PowerPoint on a desktop PC. This inspired me to put some finishing touches to a […]
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