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The ideal way to set the default size for your custom controls is to override the readonly DefaultSize property of the Control class and not set it in your derived control’s constructor. The said method is queried once the control is properly instantiated...

I have read Frans Bouma’s SOA article and this struck me most: An application is hereby defined as a set of code, objects, components, services, layers or tiers that exist within a trust boundary. They trust each other, and have no need to replicate business...

I am one of those command line junkie since I grew with MS-DOS 6.20 and Windows 3.1. I even had those experience with batch programming back then. Sahil Malik had enumerated a number of commands he usually use in his post, and the new things I wasn’t...

I’ve seen an officemate of mine this morning browsing the history log of a code sheet (VSS) to know when was a particular line added and who did it. What striked me was the way he opened each entry of the history database from oldest to the latest. I...

In relation to my previous post on Anchoring bugs, here is a follow up. Most developer uses visual inheritance in their projects They have usually have their baseform with a number of controls in it. Some of the said controls, you want them to be readonly...

Create a form with anchored controls. (Not just the default Top | Left) Resize the form Hit Undo (Ctrl-Z), voila! The Undo feature at design time is handled by the Windows Forms Designer and the said functionality is one of the complex implementations...

Some/All of the buttons (Show All, Design View, Code View, Refresh) in the Solution Explorer Window is not visible. I just temporarily click an object outside the current project then click back to the said object. A component with design view (control...

Have you experienced the following using MS Word? your pages are not breaking as you like your printer is adding a blank page at the end of your document an automatic number insists on being bold even though you have applied bold formatting to only a...