Paul Laudeman

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• Registration-Free COM with the DsoFramer Control

  New in .NET 2.0 for Windows Forms applications is a deployment feature known as “Registration-Free COM.” This allows you to use and deploy certain COM components such as ActiveX controls to client computers without registering the component... Posted May 25 2006, 09:11 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Workspace for DsoFramer Enhancments created

  Victor Feintuch and I have created a new DsoFramer Enahcments Workspace over on GotDotNet for enhancements to Microsoft's DsoFramer control. Victor has already made some enhancements by fixing an event bug for events generated by hosted Office applications... Posted May 18 2005, 06:12 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Windows Forms Quick Tip: Use your Tag property!

  A question I frequently come across is how to add some type of context information to UI controls in a Windows Forms project. For instance, you might have a textbox where you want to revert to the original value if a user decides to cancel edits, you... Posted May 13 2005, 04:26 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Windows Forms - Basic events in the Lifecycle of Forms and Controls

  Windows Forms event lifecycle for Forms and Controls explained. Posted Apr 17 2005, 06:19 PM by paul.laudeman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Windows Forms Tip: Ensure only one instance of your application is running at a time

  In some scenarios, you may wish to ensure that a user can run only one instance of your application at a time. Besides ensuring that only a single instance of your application is running, you may also want to bring the instance already running to the... Posted Jul 17 2004, 09:15 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• New Smart Client Developer Center on MSDN

  Microsoft has created a new Smart Client Developer Center ( RSS ) on MSDN ( via Chris Sells ). It's a long time coming, but very welcome! Be sure to check it out to get the latest news on smart client technologies, as well as prescriptive architectural... Posted May 29 2004, 06:30 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Ever wonder about Components, Services, Sites, and Containers?

  I have and now my eyes have been opened to a lot of new possibilities. Hop over to Urban Potato's blog for more information. Nice! Posted Apr 19 2004, 04:46 PM by paul.laudeman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Harness the power of unit testing with your Windows Forms applications

  From TheServerSide.NET : Luke Maxon has released a first version of a Windows.Forms unit testing framework, available on SourceForge. Both scripted (as in, code-by-hand) and recorded (track your interaction with the form) tests are supported, leaving... Posted Apr 14 2004, 04:35 PM by paul.laudeman with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms

• Programmatically invoking the Validating event on Windows Forms controls

  As a follow up to my previous post about enhancing the validation controls within Windows Forms, there might be times when you would like to manually invoke the “Validating” event of a control. For example, you might want to have a routine... Posted Apr 12 2004, 07:46 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Overview of new features and changes for Windows Forms in VS.NET 2005

  Kent Sharkey , .NET Evangelist, points out a couple of new resources on MSDN about the upcoming new features and changes to Windows Forms in VS.NET 2005 in the vs2005news blog: Technology Preview Windows Forms Technology Preview March 2004 VS.NET 2005... Posted Apr 11 2004, 12:40 PM by paul.laudeman with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms

• Learn to enhance the built-in Windows Forms validation controls

  New MSDN arcticle: Extending Windows Forms with a Custom Validation Component Library Summary: Data validation is a key step in ensuring clean data capture and subsequent processing and reporting. This installment explores the programmatic validation... Posted Apr 11 2004, 11:33 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• Looking for guidance in visually designing your Windows Applications?

  Microsoft has for some time now offered the Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers book online at MSDN . Although now a bit dated and out of print, this book is still a good reference guide to how to build polished looking applications... Posted Apr 11 2004, 08:05 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms

• MS Seeking Input on Smart Client Architecture Guide

  The Patterns and Pratices team at Microsoft has released a pre-alpha release of a new guide to building smart client applications called the Smart Client Architcture Guide . While the guide is incomplete in total content at this point, it does offer quite... Posted Apr 11 2004, 07:08 AM by paul.laudeman with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms

• Managing Long Running Processes in Windows Forms Apps

  Frequently, we developers need to manage long running processes from within our Windows Forms applications. If you are not already familiar with using delegates and asynchronous calls to manage these units of work, MSDN Magazine has a couple of articles... Posted Apr 10 2004, 05:16 PM by paul.laudeman with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms

• Updated - Buidling Disconnected Applications

  I've added a few more links to my Buildling Disconnected Applications Resources page for the new IssueVision sample application (not the same as TaskVision) and to the new Smart Client Offline Application Block. This should be a good starting place to... Posted Apr 06 2004, 06:26 AM by paul.laudeman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms