Article which describes how to display ListView and TreeView controls using Visual Styles in Windows Vista or higher via the SetWindowTheme API.
Blog Articles and information on C# and .NET development topics
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Although these pages remain accessible, some content may not display correctly in future as the new blog evolves.
This article shows how to use the built in ownerdraw functionality of a standard Windows Forms ComboBox control to display a WYSIWYG font list.
A tip on using the AcceptVerbs attribute with MVC actions
Some of the project files created by Cyotek Sitemap Creator and WebCopy are fairly large and the load performance of such files is poor. The files are saved using a XmlWriter class which is nice and fast. When reading the files back however, currently the whole file is loaded into a XmlDocument and then XPath expressions are used to pull out the values. This article describes our effort at converting the load code to use a XmlReader instead.
As part of the refactoring I was doing to the load code for crawler projects I needed a way of verifying that new code was loading data correctly. As it would be extremely time consuming to manually compare the objects, I used Reflection to compare the different objects and their properties. This article briefly describes the process and provides a complete helper function you can use in your own projects.
An article showing how to create a trackback handler in C# for use with either ASP.NET webforms or MVC.
Fourth and final in a multi part series on creating an image viewer that can be scrolled and zoomed in C#. After part three added panning, we now add zoom support via the mouse wheel and clicking with the left or right buttons, along with some additional display properties.
Third in a multi part series on creating an image viewer that can be scrolled and zoomed in C#. After part two added scrolling support, we now extend this to support panning and keyboard scrolling.
Second in a multi part series on creating an image viewer that can be scrolled and zoomed in C#. After part one created the initial component with auto resize, we now add scrolling support.
First in a multi part series on creating an image viewer that can be scrolled and zoomed in C#.