Tag clouds are a mechanism for showing a list of topics/categories along with their relative frequencies of occurrence. This can useful for finding content on blogs, news sites, discussion boards, information systems and more. They can be textual or graphical, although the latter gives much greater flexibility and is the focus of this article. Much… Continue reading

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

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

I recently attempted to transform a boring, alphabetical list of tags into a more visually-appealing (and more informational) tag cloud. No doubt you’ve seen tag clouds on blogs and other websites (there’s even one on here!) but for the uninformed: A tag cloud is a form of ‘weighted list’ where reusable tags (keywords, categories, etc)… Continue reading