VB.NET: Syntax Highlighting in a RichTextBox control
This last weekend I expirimented a little bit with extending the functionality of the RichTextBox control. Below you'll find an example of a small class that enherits from the RichTextBox control and...
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Add System Menu Items to a Form using Windows API
This is something I used to have a code snippet for in VB6, but I haven't needed to do this in a while so I never wrote up an example in .NET. So, here's the simple code necessary to add some custom...
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Add System Menu Items to WPF Window using Win32 API
A couple weeks ago, I blog how to "Add System Menu Items to a Form using Windows API". Being that WPF has it's differences from Windows Forms, I began to wonder how simple or difficult this would be to...
View ArticleC#: Flash Window in Taskbar via Win32 FlashWindowEx
The Windows API (Win32) has the FlashWindowEx method within the User32 library; this method allows you (the developer) to Flash a Window, signifying to the user that some major event occurred within...
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.NET Framework: Communicate through NAT Router via UPnP (Universal Plug and...
I've been working on an application recently that needs to be able to communicate through a router/firewall using TCP. I've read/heard a bit of information about NAT Routers and UPnP; the technoligies...
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C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in...
A few months ago I posted some code that I originally wrote back in about 2004… Well, I was looking through some more of my prototypes that I’ve written and I came across the following example of how...
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