Thinking about Code

One unfortunate side effect of working on a Windows Forms project is that the WinForm designer occasionally loses one or more of your controls.   This seems to happen only to C# developers.  It appears that this is a well known issue and it is completely maddening when it happens.  There you are,  carefully crafting you [...]

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I like how Visual Studio.NET and the .NET framework make it easy to create custom user controls.  The IDE support is first rate which makes building and testing controls a snap. George Politis shows how to create a much improved combobox. Self Sizing dropdown window Smart placement of dropdown window (near window edge) Building a [...]

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