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Many of the above seem to be demo programs - quite a few even let you download source code.

You're right that companies don't usually advertise what software they use, but I would expect that...

I love programming with WPF but this morning my wife, who designs apps for mobile platforms, looked over my shoulder as said, "that's very nice but is anyone other than Microsoft actually using this...

In the Microsoft User Experience Interaction Guidelines for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
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This may seem like a dumb question, but I've been a software engineer for 20 years and all my software has either been for geeky, technical users, or for use in a corporate environment where other...

I didn't know you could - I'll look into that.

Today I wrote a alternative based on TableLayoutPanel and lots and lots of embedded label controls. It was easy and seems to work well but it...

I thought DataGridViews were designed for relational database binding. How adaptable are they to having data just poked in and removed programmatically?

Today I was experimenting using a...

I have a desktop C# app used in scheduling musicians at a music camp. It presents ensembles in a ListView - 1 row per ensemble, each player is a subitem.

I've been asked to make the players...

Because I don't own a copy of Vista.

Not long ago I wrote an app to use in scheduling and running some music events. Now a friend of mine wants to use it for an event that she's running.

She's a dear friend and I don't want to...

Thank you (to both posters)!

Yes, I normally to use a intricate set of naming conventions - this was just a typo.

I'm surprised that the compiler didn't catch this when the control was being...

What is the correct way to add an enumerated type to a custom control property so that the client can select a choice of enumerations in the control's Properties setting at Design Time?

I have a...

I fixed my problem just now by starting over from scratch. My original class was made from a Visual Studio Control Library project. My new one was made from a Visual Studio class library project,...

I've been making an eye-candy (cool, shiny, glossy) button class derived from System.Windows.Forms.Button. It's in a DLL that I've added to the Toolbox so any application can use it easily. It works...

This is getting even stranger - - I went back into the Visual Studio icon editor with my 32x32 icon and did a "new image type" and selected 16x16 256 colors. I drew a new 16x16 icon and saved it....

I feel like the biggest noob in the world asking this, but how do I add an icon to my desktop app in Visual Studio 2005?

Here's what I did:

In the Solution Explorer I did "Add Item" and added...

THANKS!! That worked!

The error message varies slightly with the string but if I use my PC login (xxxx is not the real password) in the string -

"Data Source= GEMINI\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=HWDB2;User...

I'm learning SQL and how to access it from C#.

This is all on the same machine running XP Pro and .Net 2.0 - I've created a database in SQL Server Express and can manipulate it just fine from...

I found where Microsoft documents a way to store user settings in .Net 2.0.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(vs.80).aspx

It looks good and easy but since posting my response,...

Most of the commercial applications I've looked at seem to use the Registry. (I have no idea what languages they're written in) For example, Microsoft IE stores the user's Home Page setting there,...

I write lots of little C# desktop utilities for myself and others. These are all full-blown apps with full UI's (menus, lots of controls, etc) .

Many of them allow the user to set various...

I'm setting up IIS 5.1 on XP Pro SP2. I have a virtual directory with a .HTM and 2 .ASPX files. IIS can see all 3 files from its explorer and it can display the the .HTM file in its browser with...

I think I found the problem. I went into Task Mangler and killed any process associated with IIS and the problem went away. Odd sort of error for that, though.

When I run aspnet_regiis.exe from C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 where it lives, I get an error "invalid arguments" REGARDLESS of what arguments I give it, e.g., -i, -lv, -r, etc. It...

I've discovered the cause of the problem - my PC is NTFS; my thumbdrive is FAT32 - apparently there is a known conversion bug causing time and date information to sometimes have errors converting...