Windows Forms

How to paint a Gradient Background for your Forms

by Dave on September 9, 2009

in Windows Forms

Have you ever felt that your Windows applications look a little boring and are missing that touch of visual style and creativity? I assume you have, so I’m going to show you how you can paint a gradient background for your Windows Forms. It might not sound like much but this goes a long way [...]

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Create a Worker Thread for your Windows Form in C#

by Dave on September 4, 2009

in Threads and Delegates, Windows Forms

When performing a relatively heavy operation on your Windows Form, what often happens is that your application’s UI will freeze until the heavy operation completes. This is usually unacceptable because your application’s end user will think it crashed and probably try to close it. To solve this problem you need to run your heavy operation [...]

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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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Add a Notify Icon to the System Tray with C#

by Dave on August 7, 2009

in Windows Forms

Back in the late 90′s before the invention of the .NET Framework, there was no “easy” way to add an icon to the system tray of Windows. Developers who preferred to use Microsoft technologies were either developing with C++, Visual Basic, or maybe even FoxPro, and none of these technologies provided an easy way to [...]

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