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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 link: Once your donation is received I will drop...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 10-11-2007
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 use and you are still able to distribute it with your...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 07-13-2007
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.UI.Page Private _alphaCharacters() As String = MyDefaults...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 07-12-2007
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 date has been specifyed, but after data binding a...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 09-12-2005
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 does VS feel like it has to expand all of the...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 09-01-2005
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 a ProgressBar embedded within a StatusBar.....

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 06-29-2005
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 your program the XP look 'n' feel, or in my case if...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 09-02-2004
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 and making use of code similar to the below you...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 08-03-2004
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 couple of clicks... Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft...

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 07-30-2004
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 build date for the currently executing assembly....

Posted to Kevin Gearing's Blog (Weblog) by dotNetFreak on 07-08-2004

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