How to create a WinForms MDI application? - part 2

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

This is the second post in the series. In the first one I wrote an overview of the sample application. In two words it will be three layer application which will serve a car service. I also present database scheme and Data Access Layer (DAL) of the sample application. The database consists of two tables [...]

How to create a WinForms MDI application? - part 1

Monday, July 21st, 2008

This is the first post of several posts which will describe my idea of building a non-complex application based on WinForms MDI model. This application will consist of three layers Data Access Layer, Business Logic Layer and UI Layer which is the end application. I’ll use latest Microsoft technologies to develop it .Net 3.5, LINQ, [...]

Binding list of custom objects to WinForms’ DataGridView. Sorting and Searching.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

There is a lot of information in the Internet connected with this problem. Last week me and my friend Martin ran into it. Somebody will say “Come on guys it is quite simple!”. May be looking through most of the samples in Internet like this from MSDN it seems to be simple. But what about [...]

Create custom UI appearance for WinForms CustomButton - part 4

Friday, July 11th, 2008

(All posts in this series: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Source Code)

In this fourth part I’d like to present a custom button control. As all other controls described it has some customizable and different look but this one has an additional simple functionality - it has checked/unchecked state. [...]

Create custom UI appearance for WinForms RadioButton - part 3

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

(All posts in this series: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Source Code)

It is my third post of WinForms controls with custom UI appearance. Here I’ll provide a custom radio button. For its implementation I’ll use CustomCheckBoxUIAppearance from my old post. As with CustomCheckBox (see my old post) it will [...]

Create custom UI appearance for WinForms CheckBox - part 2

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

(All posts in this series: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Source Code)

In part 1 I described to classes that we need in order to be able to develop WinForms controls customizable from Visual Studio’s (VS) designer. Here in this post I’ll provide an implementation of custom CheckBox control. [...]