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For projects where I need some form of syntax highlighting, I tend to use the open source DigitalRune Text Editor Control which is a modified version of the text editor used in SharpDevelop. While it has a number of syntax definitions built in, the one it didn't have was for CSS formatting.After doi

Everybody who writes native Windows applications knows that the Windows Forms controls provided by Microsoft are a great time-saver for oft-used interface components such as text boxes and drop-down lists. But sometimes we need a reusable form control that does things Microsoft hasn't pre-built for us. Learn to extend existing Windows Forms controls with custom functions that will save you time.

All applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code. Microsoft has been building databinding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our databinding woes forever. We're still waiting for the perfect one. In the previous article you were exposed to programmatically controlling data binding mechanisms of WPF. Along with a programmatic interface, WPF also provides a declarative databining interface. This second article will introduce you to using the declarative data binding mechanisms contained in WPF.

When Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition appeared in 2002, developers were sometimes confused about whether to write code on a Tablet PC or if it were possible to develop Tablet PC applications on existing desktop computers.The solution turned out to be fairly straightforward, if less than intuitive. However, with the addition of Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs), multiple releases of the Tablet and Touch Technology API, and now the Windows Vista operating system, this question arises again: What do you need to do to set up your developer environment and create applications for these form factors?

Discover how easy it can be to build browser-friendly HTML from your datasources with WebGrid. Maintaining a datasource is plug and play with WebGrid. Set a few properties and WebGrid will generate a browser friendly data form, and handle all database interaction for insert, update, and datasource delete using safe parameterized queries generated by the grid. A user friendly system message is generated if user input is not valid.

Most applications will require some form of text input. By using the ITextInputPanel API you can optimize the pen text-input experience on Tablet PCs.If you have ever used a Tablet PC, you have most likely used Tablet PC Input Panel. Input Panel is the handwriting input tool that lies on top of your application so that you can insert handwritten text into any non-ink enabled Microsoft Windows control. Using Input Panel programmability is a great way to ensure that Input Panel provides the best possible pen input user experience in your application.

The goal of this pilot is to provide you with direct access to the most requested hotfixes that are produced for our developer tools. A hotfix is a single package that includes one or more files that is used to address a very specific customer problem with a product. You'll find a description and download links below for the most frequently requested hotfixes for the Visual Studio 2005 suite of products.

For example, Microsoft released the fix for annoying bug in VS 2005: "You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005. ("One or more errors encountered while loading the designer" error)".

This article reviews a custom WPF panel, named Panel3D, which hosts two-dimensional elements in three-dimensional space. You can supply an instance of Panel3D with objects to display, or you can use it as the items host of an ItemsControl. If you use Panel3D as the items host of a ListBox, the front-most item is automatically the selected item in the ListBox. Panel3D arranges its 3D models along a straight path, and provides animated movement of 3D models along that path. In addition, the panel implements a simple form of UI virtualization so that it runs quickly even if it contains hundreds of items..

As readers of this magazine, you are all experts at certain facets of software development, be it for the desktop, the web, SQL Server and now mobile platforms. Mobile programming was a fairly arcane development arena up until the recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Prior to WP7, you had to become intimately familiar with the myriad platforms and form factors available and write your programs to each of those phones. With the advent of WP7, Microsoft is now controlling the hardware capabilities of the phone making it much easier to develop for these platforms. You can now also leverage existing skills in Silverlight and XNA to write your apps. But the question always remains: how do I get started and what is the best way to write for the new WP7? In a previous article, Jan/Feb 2011, I showed you what to do to get started; now I want to show you the best way to apply what you have learned in that article. I will use Silverlight, the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, and Silverlight Unit testing to build a sample app.

This Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET Starter Kit is a complete Mobile PC and Tablet PC application. The starter kit contains a semi-transparent form for taking notes and keeps them synchronized through a Web Service. It also supports battery awareness and online and offline data, two key features of a great Mobile PC applications. The project comes ready to compile and run and it's easy to customize with only a little extra programming. Download it from here.

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