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This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable UserControl which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .Net 2.0 library.

Discussion of securing text in an application. The example project contains a SecureString wrapper to make working with SecureString easier, and a textbox that directly manipulates a SecureString.

A component that will find similar words in a lexicon as the user is writing on to make it easy to complete for the user. To use in Win32 graphical or Console applications.

Using multiple Ajax lookup textbox controls for as-you-type data suggestions

How to build a SlickRun clone in one hour. SlickRun - and so is MagicWords - is an improved command line utility that can launch application, open files or urls by typing a "magic word". You can see it as a enhanced version of the Windows "Run..." TextBox. For keyboard lovers, this tool is a very good alternative to desktop shortcuts and menus, and become quickly a must have.

Auto-Completion is a very interesting feature that was primarily made popular by Google. I have already written a couple of articles that explain how to implement this feature. In this article, I will implement the auto-completion feature using ASP.NET 2.0 client callbacks.

When building enterprise web applications, we often need to let the user select one item from a large list of records. For instance, on an order entry form, the user must be able to select the customer from a large list of customers. For performance reasons, it would be insane to just load a DropDownList with 50000 items. The other alternative would be to open another form where the user would be able to search and select the desired customer. I've used this approach before, but the users usually found it very annoying and were constantly demanding a better solution..

An ASP.NET control that allows users to enter only numbers