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How To Use The Visual State Manager(VSM) In Silverlight 2

Ged Mead — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article walks you through the steps involved in using The Visual State Manager in Silverlight 2.

Most articles seem to use the button as the demonstration element - probably because that makes things very easy. But as soon as you move away from the small core set of elements such as button that have States preset for you, you will find that you need a slightly different approach.

In this article, I will cover both situations.

Customizing VS2008 default project templates

Kevin Gallagher — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps needed to alter the VB.NET Windows forms application project template in VS2008. Once you feel comfortable with this simple modification you can do the same for other project templates.

Objects and the ListBox

Larry Blake — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I introduce some Object-Oriented Programming concepts while creating a Custom Object. I then fill a ListBox with the Custom Objects, and demonstrate some interesting features of the ListBox.

VB Migration Partner VB6 to .NET Conversion Tool

Jugoslav Arsovski — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I recently had a requirement to convert a VB6 project to VB 2008. Although this initially caused me a lot of problems, I was fortunate to discover an outstanding product for converting VB6 projects to VB.NET which helped me get over some difficult hurdles.

CodeSMART 2009 For .NET

Ged Mead — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

CodeSMART 2009 for .NET is a developer tool that saves you time, helps you write better code and generally become more productive.

Ged Mead reviews this latest version from AxTools.

Extension Methods

Roger McCook — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Extension methods are available starting with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0, which were released in 2007 with version 3.5 of the .NET platform.

Windows Presentation Foundation: Flow Documents (Part 2)

Ged Mead — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In Part 1, you saw how easy it is to populate a WPF RichTextBox with a XAML FlowDocument. If you've ever previously struggled with trying to force a RichTextBox to accept an image - and place it exactly where you want it - in Windows Forms, then you'll welcome this new tool.

However, for legacy reasons you might want to populate the RichTextBox with content that has been saved in RTF format. In this part we will look at how that can be achieved.

Local Type Inference

Roger McCook — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Type inference refers to the ability of a programming language to automatically deduce a variable’s type. The feature was added to C# and Visual Basic to support anonymous types and the relaxed programming style required by Linq.

Auto-implemented Class Properties

Roger McCook — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Auto-implemented properties is not a difficult subject, only a simple concept that can make your programs easier to code and read.

WinForms and WPF Interop - The Best of Both Worlds

Ged Mead — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Whenever I see a question along the lines of "How can I include an image alongside each item in a list of items or use more than one font, or varying background colors?" I usually find myself muttering "WPF!". This is a lot more sociable and positive than many of the things I mutter as I sit here each day, but finally I've realised that I need to do something about it.

The result is this article, which works through the steps needed to harness the rich UI features of WPF to the more familiar paradigm of Windows Forms.

The example used will show you how easy it can be to use a WPF control in a Windows Forms application and you can use this article as the stepping stone to creating your own. The ListBox layout shown below will be created in WPF and ported over to be used in a Windows Forms application.