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CueProvider is a lightweight class that lets you set a cue banner (the grey prompt text that automatically disappears when you begin to type) in a TextBox control.

This article explains how to use the mouse and keyboard library that I have created. This library consists of two things: global mouse and keyboard hooks, and global mouse and keyboard simulators.

The global hooks contain a set of events that follow the .NET event model, so they should be very simple to use if you've done anything with events before.

The simulators will actually simulate mouse movements, clicks, keyboard presses, etc. This can be useful for macro recording (which is one of the sample projects), and of course, messing with your friends.

This article is about a Password Strength control, which can be used in password dialogs and login windows in Windows based .NET applications. If you want, you can use it as a progress bar control as well. This control can be shaped to different styles and can be extended, if needed.

Many beginners in the C# or VB.NET development category sometimes want to be able to apply themes or styles to their application. This rendering class allows you to easily customize the appearance of your C#/VB.NET applications. This was inspired by the Office2007Renderer, which enables you to apply a multitude of Office 2007 styles to an application. After I began using Office2007Renderer, I found that some of the drawing functions caused severe lag on my applications. So, I took it into my own hands to develop a new Office2007Renderer of my own. From there, it developed into a fully editable class.

A free library of controls and utility classes for use in WPF applications.

Microsoft Excel has a very useful auto-filter function. With this function enabled on a column, the user is able to select filters from a drop-down list, which when selected, are applied to the column. This article describes how to add similar filter functionality to the WPF ListView control.

Once I needed a simple, open source and robust FTP client to include in my project. To my surprise I was not able to find one in spite of many FTP clients that were published on various websites. So what appeared to be a problem? The problem was the quality: simply the published projects were all just demos. There was no quality FTP clients...

Useful control that reproduces most of PropertyGrid functionality in Compact Framework.

An article on numeric Up/Down control with some unique features useful for hardware control applications

This 'ToolStrip' extension automatically selects an image using the selected image size.