This is just a quick update to announce another update to my Drop-Down Controls project. By request (and because I always enjoy a challenge), i’ve added custom DataGridView column types for the ComboTreeBox and GroupedComboBox controls. This means that you can now use these controls from within a DataGridView, taking advantage of the automatic support for… Continue reading
In an earlier article, I developed a set of managed wrapper classes for the Text Object Model (TOM); the API that underpins the RichEdit/RichTextBox control and provides an object model that is document-centric (rather than selection-centric, like the controls themselves). With it, you can efficiently manipulate rich text and, using the managed classes, do so… Continue reading
This article is also available as a video, courtesy of Webucator. Click here to jump to the video section below. For many data types, sorting is a logical, deterministic operation that works by comparing elements and determining whether they are less-than, greater-than or equal-to each other. For example, with a list of integers, we can… Continue reading
You may remember quite an old post of mine about the shortcomings of ExtractAssociatedIcon() which, surprisingly, still gets a fair number of hits. In light of some of the feedback i’ve received since the original post, i’ve decided to update the code to include the following fixes and improvements: Both methods in IconTools now use SHGetFileInfo As… Continue reading
Thank you! At the time of writing, my ComboTreeBox control is the most popular item on this blog. I never could have imagined that a simple Windows Forms control would attract so much attention on the web! All I can say to those who have read my article and downloaded my code is, “Thank you!”… Continue reading