Category: Windows Forms

Once again I spent a few hours trying out different things, so I would like to share with you an approach that works for me. As always, it is so simple once you know how to do it, but more practical than my words will certainly be these few lines of code: First we need …

It is simple, all you need to do is add a single registry key, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537076/visual-studio-winform-designer-shows-design-errors-as-text-rather-than-html . It happens with both IE8 and IE9. If you don’t feel like editing it, you can use my registry export: 👻 The page moved away and left no forwarding address.

Once again it turned out that less is sometimes more and that for what I needed, just a few commands are enough. Specifically, you need to follow these rules: Always draw in the Paint event of the PictureBox control, because that is the only place where you have a graphics context that actually works Do …

The comments are in English, and they are perfectly clear: C#//These attributes do not need to be here, it works just as well without them [System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission(System.Security.Permissions.SecurityAction.LinkDemand, Flags = System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermissionFlag.UnmanagedCode)] protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { base.OnPaint(e); // Get handle to device context. IntPtr hdc = e.Graphics.GetHdc(); // Create new graphics object using handle to device …

It is very simple: both controls are very similar, but the key difference is in how the user works with them – with ToolStripSplitButton you can either click the button itself, which runs whatever action you assign to it, or click the little arrow, which opens the menu. With ToolStripDropDownButton, on the other hand, clicking …

If you dock only to the sides where the edges are, the controls will always stay docked to them and will not change size. If you set up colliding docking (to parallel sides), the controls will overlap. If you set everything up so that the controls that are not at the edges stretch, only they …