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K-MUG - Global Azure Bootcamp – 27 April 2013 - Infopark - Kochi

April 19, 2013 by Anuraj

Miscellaneous User Group Activities

The Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) will be organizing a Global Azure Boot camp on 27th April 2013 at Info park Campus in Kochi.

How to get all controls from a form at runtime in C#

March 26, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 Miscellaneous Windows Forms

Here is a code snippet which helps you to enumerate all the controls in a form. This snippet can be used for any control, to find the child controls.

Using SynchronizationContext in Windows Forms

March 22, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 CodeProject Windows Forms

While we try to access user interface elements from a different thread, other than the thread(normally main thread), which created the user interface elements. .NET 2.0 brings us SynchronizationContext which allows us to execute a section of code in the UI context (the thread that created the UI). Also, it allows us to specify if the background thread will block waiting for the UI thread (using Send) or will not block (using Post). SynchronizationContext class can be used in Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.Net etc. For Windows forms, you can get the UI context from the WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext.Current property. For WPF, the implementation is DispatcherSynchronizationContext class.

How to move a window or form without titlebar

March 14, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net Win 32 API Windows Forms

In my current project I had to implement move for a Form, which doesn’t have a title bar or FormBorderStyle property set to None. Instead of title bar I was using a Panel with background Image. Here is the code snippet.

Using Microsoft Ink Picture control

March 06, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 CodeProject Windows Forms

The InkPicture control provides the ability to place an image in an application and enable users to add ink on top of it. It is intended for scenarios in which ink is not recognized as text but is instead stored as ink. InkPicture control extends the default picturebox control. This post is about working with InkPicture control.

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