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• How to Donate

  A few people have asked me recently how they actually donate for FormShield and I must admit it isn't exactly obvious. There is a PayPal button on the main FormShield article, but it is a bit buried! So, for anyone who would like to donate, here is the... Posted Oct 11 2007, 02:08 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows Forms .NET

• FormShield and Donationware

  One question I'm bound to be asked is why have I made FormShield v2.0 donationware rather than commercial and why haven't I continued to offer it for free. Well, starting at the end first - FormShield is still totally free for personal and commercial... Posted Jul 13 2007, 01:52 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows Forms .NET

• Shared Variables - Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object

  Can someone please explain why this throws an exception? What's even stranger, is that in one class where I do something similar to this four times, three work fine, but the other one throws an exception... Partial Class Strangeness Inherits System.Web... Posted Jul 12 2007, 10:56 AM by dotNetFreak with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows Forms .NET

• DateTimePicker Problems

  I've just stumbled across a couple of great problems with the default WinForms DateTimePicker control: Within an application I'm building I need to be able to represent a NullDate. Previously I've always used Date.MinValue to indicate whether or not a... Posted Sep 12 2005, 12:34 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms .NET

• My 3 Pet Peeves with Visual Studio 2003

  I know there are probably a lot more I could come up with, but these are my top 3 that I really hope Microsoft have fixed/resolved in Visual Studio 2005. 1. Why oh why when you open a solution with multiple projects, including a handful of setup projects... Posted Sep 01 2005, 09:54 AM by dotNetFreak with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows Forms .NET

• New Control - StatusBarEx - Extends the Base StatusBar Control

  At the moment I'm in the process of re-writing an existing application, and throughout this application there are various workarounds I've employed to get around the limitations of the standard Windows Forms controls. One of these limitations is not having... Posted Jun 29 2005, 04:25 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms .NET, Controls

• System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException

  Argh! Just when my application was starting to look really good I come across the dreaded "System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException". For those of you who don't know, this tends to happen if you make use of Application.EnableVisualStyles() to give... Posted Sep 02 2004, 03:59 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Forms .NET

• Displaying a List of Referenced Assemblies

  Yet another post on ideas for 'About' windows... Having a list of assemblies displayed that your application references can be helpful in determining problems with your application due to version inconsistencies etc. By adding a listview to your window... Posted Aug 03 2004, 01:35 PM by dotNetFreak with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms .NET

• Executing the System Information Program

  Following up on my last post, it can also be helpful to have the ability to launch the Microsoft System Information program from within your application, so should any users have difficulty they're able to provide you with various information within a... Posted Jul 30 2004, 04:41 PM by dotNetFreak with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Forms .NET

• Determining the Build Date of an Assembly

  Sometimes it can be quite handy to display the build date of an assembly in an 'About' window or similar. After reading a couple of threads on how it can be calculated from the build and revision numbers, below is a very simple function to produce the... Posted Jul 08 2004, 01:49 PM by dotNetFreak with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows Forms .NET