Posted on December 14th
Yet another control development topic... this time I'm building a 'star rating' control, similar to what you find in Windows Media Player's UI... […]
Posted on December 13th
I received another interesting, and common, question today about using Enter instead of (or in addition to) the Tab key to move the focus between fields on a form. Well, that isn't too hard to accomplish, but it can get tricky once you consider all the different situations... […]
Posted on December 13th
Just posted recently, there is a opening at MSDN for a "Software Development Engineering Lead". This is within the same group that I have just joined and it looks like a great job for the right person. Here is a brief snippet from the full job description....
Come leverage state-of-the-art techno […]
Posted on December 9th
The same programmer who ask for an example of rotated text is back with another interesting request; how to partially fill a circle from the bottom up... […]
Posted on December 9th
Customizing the data grid (in Windows Forms) was always one of the most popular topics on the C# or VB developer centers, so I'm sure a lot of people will be interested in this article. It is in C#, so far, but if you'd like to see it in VB I'd suggest you email the writer (email at the bottom of […]
Posted on December 5th
He was talking about the generic bad guys in the new Prince of Persia game, but this line crosses into Halo, and it is so true... […]
Posted on December 2nd
A customer emailed me today (via the VB FAQ blog) with a question; "how can I output text at different angles, to write the cardinal points around a compass for example..." so I decided to fire up a quick sample […]