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

“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