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  • Testing the WinForms UI

    Yesterday I was engaged by a Test-Driven Development hardliner; a letter of the law type guy. He was very adamant that the .NET Framework and Visual Studio were grossly lacking because there is no way to test the UI, and Test-Driven Development requires a test to be written before any development can...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 02-05-2008

  • Designing Windows Forms with Abstract Inheritance

    I got sick of Notepad a couple weeks ago, and set about to build a Notepad-like application with a couple sorely missing features like reload prompting, multiple undo levels, tabs, line numbers, more robust find and replace, recent files list, opacity, etc. It's a cool little project, titled DevNotepad...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-05-2008

  • WinForms: Tab Order

    So you've created a great winforms app with loads of controls, you fire it up, start tabbing through fields, and the cursor is jumping all over the place. What a pain. Now you have to go back through each and every control and set the tab order manually in the Properties window. Sound familiar? In...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-10-2007

  • Taming the Visual Studio WinForms Designer

    Here's a new Visual Studio tip I picked up recently. I have built my share on WinForms apps, and most of them had extraneous labels to denote input fields or other areas of the form. I don't use them, their just placeholders for text. It used to be that when I was working on the code side ( F7...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-09-2007

  • Editable ComboBox

    A colleague ran into an issue awhile back trying to edit data in a DataGrid. He had a ComboBox, and wanted to be able to edit the text to a value not bound to it. The answer is really simple, but not well documented. The first step is to create a class that derives from DataGridViewComboBoxCell. This...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-05-2007
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