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
“Reader Mode” – we’ve all used it, and whether we recognise it by name (or one of its many others, such as autoscroll, middle-click scroll, etc), we’ve come to expect it from the software we use the most – web browsers, text editors, e-mail clients and more. However, if you’ve been living under a rock… Continue reading
When it comes to displaying the progress of a long-running operation to the user, there are many options available to a GUI designer: Change the cursor to an hourglass Change the caption on the status bar Show an animated glyph on the window Show a dialog box A number of factors could affect which method… Continue reading
Describes how to use the buffered paint API (in uxtheme.dll, via PInvoke) to paint custom Windows Forms controls with fade animations. Provides a managed class to simplify the process of implementing fade animations in controls. Continue reading
Explains how to dynamically generate member-wise Equals() and GetHashCode() methods using reflection and expression trees. With this approach, you avoid having to implement the methods yourself and get superior performance to the reflection-only approach. Continue reading