It has been a while since I’ve done a programming post, so I thought I would do something silly (actually related to a real-life project, but taken to extremes). Sometimes you want to have a dialog that isn’t a rectangle. …
Weird Shaped Dialogs with No Title Bar in WinForms Read more »
I know everyone has been dying for me to do another programming post, so voila – you’re welcome! I was working on a program for scheduling Zoom webinars and meetings (more on that in another post) and even though the …
It’s been a while since I’ve done a programming post, but something came up the other day that I thought might be useful. In one of my current projects, I needed to determine the number of words in a string. …
For the last several years, there has been a major trend in desktop and web applications — to remove all of the bright colors, switch to single-color icons, and provide a “clean” modern-looking app. I will not give any specific …
I don’t know how widespread a problem this is, but I frequently log on to domains directly or via VPN for clients, and end up with the company’s corporate warning message on my machine on startup. Bad enough to get …
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It is very common with threaded applications to need to share data between threads, often in the form of dictionaries, lists, stacks, etc. However, the standard containers (generic or otherwise) in .NET are not thread-safe—if you just, say, reference a …
Thread-safe generic collections, containers and dictionaries in .NET Read more »
The CD Drive on my mother’s laptop was somewhat tricky to open (the button was a bit fiddly) so I threw together a utility so that she could double-click a shortcut from the desktop to pop open the drive. I …
In a previous post, I demonstrated a convenient way to make a wait cursor show up during “reasonably” long operations (up to a few seconds). For anything longer than that, though, a wait cursor won’t cut it — for one …
Handling long operations with cancel and progress in C# with async Read more »
I actually did a post around this topic a while ago on another site that is now defunct, but I figured it is still useful, and I have a few additional details to add. Back in the C++/MFC days, there …
With the recent release of C# 6.0, I thought it would be good to provide a brief explanation of the new features of the language. I’ve done them as individual posts: Null-conditional operators Auto-property initializers using static Expression bodies on …