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Operating System

Create a Screen Saver Using C# – Part 2

by Dave on August 12, 2009

in Articles,Operating System,Windows Forms

In this article – part two of creating a screen saver in C#, we are going to pick up from where we left off in part one, which I suggest you read before continuing with this article if you haven’t already done so. So far (in part one) we have created a Settings class and [...]

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Create a Screen Saver Using C# – Part 1

by Dave on August 10, 2009

in Articles,Operating System,Windows Forms

In this two-part article series I am going to show you how to create a Windows screen saver using C#. A screen saver is not much more than a normal Windows Form with no border and some logic to display something on the form. For it to be a Windows screen saver the compiled application [...]

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Hibernate or Standby Windows Programmatically

by Dave on July 6, 2009

in Operating System

In this short article I am going to show you how to achieve hibernation or standby of Windows programmatically. The .NET 2.0 framework introduced the Application.SetSuspendState() method, which allows you to either hibernate or else standby your pc. This method accepts three parameters – the first parameter “state” is a PowerState enumeration value of either [...]

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