September 2008 - Posts
Pat Tormey shows how to use the new graphic controls built into Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Get the control for the Visual Studio Express Editions (and for older version of Visual Studio) by downloading the Visual Basic PowerPack 3.0.
Author: Pat Tormey
Todd Miranda shows how to dynamically create and execute a storyboard at runtime.
What's a storyboard? A storyboard is a type of container timeline that provides targeting information for the timelines it contains. A storyboard can contain any type of timeline, including other container timelines and animations. Storyboard objects enable you to combine timelines that affect a variety of objects and properties into a single timeline tree, making it easy to organize and control complex timing behaviors. Read more...
Author: Todd Miranda
Pat Tormey shows how to localize Windows Forms applications using the methods and properties of the CultureInfo class. He covers a number of common localization challenges, including how to format numbers, dates, and currencies.
Author: Pat Tormey
A progress bar is a standard user interface control used to indicate the progress of tasks that take time to complete. If other events block (or take time to release) an application's UI thread, the progress bar cannot be updated, thereby defeating its intended use. In this video, Todd Miranda shows how to update the UI from a separate thread.
Author: Todd Miranda