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I ran into an odd "bug" today in some production software. There was a datetimepicker control that had its "format" propery set to Custom, and its CustomFormat property set to MM/yyyy. The purpose of the datetimepicker was to enter the expiration date for a credit card processing...
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If you do any WinForms programming then chances are you have used comboboxes, and perhaps at one point or another, you disabled one of those comboboxes because you did not want the user to be able to make a selection. This works fine, however I actually was getting some complaints from users of some...
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So yesterday I talked about making a translucent button in WinForms using VB.NET. If you have not read that yet, then you should probably do so before digging into part 2, where we expand part 1 to cover more controls. Today lets look at making a translucent TabPage control. Here is our end result: So...
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Windows Forms controls in .NET do a lot more for us than they did in previous versions of VB. One of the best things about getting all the OO features .NET brought us, is the ability to extend controls through inheritance or some other means. Some controls directly support custom drawing of their visuals...