.NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks -- Visual Studio Magazine

.NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks

Ken Getz''s Smart Client Live! session demonstrates several techniques you can use when building Windows applications.

By Ken Getz
10/01/2005

Ken Getz's Smart Client Live! session demonstrates several techniques you can use when building Windows applications, including creating owner-drawn controls, binding controls to just about anything, exposing protected information with inheritance, using Windows XP theming, modifying the DataGrid control, handling thread synchronization with Windows forms, and creating your own property grid.

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