WinForms

Today's project by Adolfo Marinucci is one that you might of seen and not even known it. It's used in a number of places/app's and lets you create professional looking and interacting applications without you having to break open your piggy bank... Like Visual Studio's docking behavior? It's Window…

Today's "I can't think of a way to make it rhyme with Monday" project by Erdal Halici is frankly pretty awesome. Not only do we get a very cool way to design shapes for our app's, we get to do it in an awesome Visual Studio design experience AND we get the source to everything too. Oh…

Brian Peek let me know that his project MJPEG Decoder has hit a cool milestone in that it now supports both Windows Phone 8 and WinRT (x86 & ARM). So if you're looking to build an app that decodes MJPEG for a Surface RT or WP8 device, say an app that provides cool touch based security camera…

Today's project by Philip R. Braica (aka HoshiKata) is one that's a little unusual, both in what we usually highlight here and in of itself. I thought it kind of cool and neat, plus educational too... Visualizing Sound IntroductionI always wanted to do some basic sound processing and to be able to…

This week Garrett McGowan, a Senior PM from the Developer Division GDX team, provides background information on Windows Forms Localization and Localizability concepts, including the use of Auto Layout techniques. The video includes a live demo showing the concepts being used in practice,…

The second project in our Diagraming week is one that I've wanted to highlight for a while. Imagine you need a diagramming, or drawing board, component in your app, kind of like a mini-Visio. Yet you also want to extend it, add to it (i.e. you want the source). You want something that is vector…

Scott's in Norway this week. The speakers in the speaker room are preoccupied with death and now they're asking about the death (or not) of WinForms. Rocky says he wants to see more practical talks on WinForms and advanced techniques but that most conferences aren't interested in those kinds of…

This week, on Bytes by MSDN, meet the Vice-President of Technology for IdeaBlade Inc., Ward Bell. Ward introduces IdeaBlade’s main product, DevForce, which allows you to reach any user, anywhere, with their tools and infrastructure for building desktop, Silverlight, and Web applications for…