Recently, I needed (well, wanted) a CheckBox that was the same size as some large controls on a form. Not the deepest, most impactful thing I’ve ever done, but, in the interest of avoiding working on a different project, definitely …
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 …