Cool Client Stuff
Raghavendra Prabhu
Windows Forms Markup
Check out Mike Harsh's post about Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML). The sample and article by...
Author: rprabhu Date: 03/08/2004
How to determine if visual styles are enabled?
[I thought I would write this piece as a response to Cory Smith's recent posts (here is the first...
Author: rprabhu Date: 02/15/2004
More on WinForms and Longhorn
I posted sometime back about WinForms and Longhorn/Avalon and what the migration path is going to...
Author: rprabhu Date: 02/05/2004
How does the designer decide what properties to persist on a given component?
Any component has a bunch of properties on it. For example, the WinForms Button control has...
Author: rprabhu Date: 02/03/2004
Fellow bloggers on the .Net Client Team
Brian Pepin, the Windows Forms Guru and the guy who knows the .Net designer architecture better than...
Author: rprabhu Date: 02/01/2004
DataGridView control in Whidbey
The latest article in the 'Wonders of Windows Forms' series on MSDN features the Whidbey...
Author: rprabhu Date: 02/01/2004
Windows Forms - MFC Interop: What's new in Whidbey?
In response to a comment on my previous post on this topic, I emailed some folks internally to find...
Author: rprabhu Date: 01/17/2004
On using Windows Forms controls as ActiveX controls
[Update: Reformatted and edited the quote below] Here is a great summary by Mark Boulter (Tech Lead...
Author: rprabhu Date: 01/15/2004
Which Framework version will my app use?
From an internal mailing list (answers posted by Suzanne): Q: App compiled on v1.0. When the app is...
Author: rprabhu Date: 01/14/2004
Windows Forms Performance
Here is a list of some resources you can use to improve performance of Windows Forms applications:...
Author: rprabhu Date: 01/12/2004
New Home!
The move is complete - from blogs.gotdotnet.com to blogs.msdn.com. Many thanks to the MSDN/GotDotNet...
Author: rprabhu Date: 01/11/2004
Happy 2004!
Back from a nice month long vacation - will get back to blogging soon. Not sure when the GotDotNet...
Author: rprabhu Date: 12/31/2003
PDC sessions available online!
View them here.
Author: rprabhu Date: 11/23/2003
Feature Preview: Client Settings
One of the new Whidbey features Joe Stegman talked about at the PDC was Client Settings. This...
Author: rprabhu Date: 11/21/2003
VisualStyles in Whidbey
Support for VisualStyles in Windows Forms has considerably improved in Whidbey. Here is a...
Author: rprabhu Date: 11/05/2003
Windows Forms and Longhorn
It appears many PDC attendees seem to have questions like: WinFX is wonderful and all that, but do...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/28/2003
Whidbey Roadmap
BenjaminM has posted a nice summary of BradA's Whidbey Roadmap presentation. I love these...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/27/2003
Finally!
With the first day of the PDC drawing to a close, there is a bunch of information being made...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/27/2003
Control and UserControl
If I want to write a custom control, what's the difference between inheriting from Control and...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/23/2003
Forms and Dispose
As I have mentioned before, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained from reading internal...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/23/2003
On Blogging
I just read an interesting piece on Internet News about blogging, in the context of...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/18/2003
OneNote
While installing the final release build of the new Office 2003 a couple of weeks back, I also...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/17/2003
Feedback on EnableVisualStyles
A Google search for EnableVisualStyles points out two things: Good news: A lot of people found the...
Author: rprabhu Date: 10/03/2003
Application.EnableVisualStyles
In Windows XP, the concept of Visual Styles was introduced to allow customization of the look and...
Author: rprabhu Date: 09/28/2003
Back!
Back to blogging after a break of about 3 weeks. Added some entries under BlogRoll. I have been...
Author: rprabhu Date: 09/10/2003
WinRes
WinRes is a .Net SDK tool that localization specialists can use to localize Forms. It hosts...
Author: rprabhu Date: 08/21/2003
Useful blogs
If you reading this, chances are you have looked at some of the other GotDotNet blogs. If...
Author: rprabhu Date: 08/20/2003
Blaster
Here is a website with information on how to protect yourself from the Blaster worm (and in general,...
Author: rprabhu Date: 08/19/2003
Me Too!
So I chanced upon the GotDotNet blogs sometime back and thought it would be cool to have one myself....
Author: rprabhu Date: 08/18/2003