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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.
How to prevent automatic screen lock in WP7
February 11, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net Silverlight Windows Phone
If you are developing some travel applications or fitness applications, you may want to disable automatic screen locking feature of Windows Phone. You can disable this using UserIdleDetectionMode property of PhoneApplicationService.Current class.
Building a language translation bot using Skype and C#
February 05, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net .Net 4.0 CodeProject Windows Forms
In Google talk, there was some bot service available which will help to translate from one language to another. You can implement similar service using Skype with the help of Skype4COM.dll. In this implementation for language translation, the Bing soap API is used.
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