How to programmatically iterate datagrid rows? *

Question I'm suddenly back to WinForms, after years of web development, and am having trouble with something that should be simple. I ...

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How do I make event callbacks into my win forms thread safe? *

Question When you subscribe to an event on an object from within a form, you are essentially handing over control of your callback method to...

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Should I provide accessor methods / Getter Setters for public/protected components on a form? *

Question If I have .Net Form with a component/object such as a textbox that I need to access from a parent or other form I obviously need to...

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Print a Winform/visual element *

Question All the articles I've found via google are either obsolete or contradict one another. What's the easiest way to print a ...

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How to make a button appear as if it is pressed? *

Question Using VS2008, C#, .Net 2 and Winforms how can I make a regular Button look "pressed"? Imagine this button is an on/off s...

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Possible to "spin off" several GUI threads? (Not halting the system at Application.Run) *

Question My Goal I would like to have a main processing thread (non GUI), and be able to spin off GUIs in their own background threads ...

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How should I translate from screen space coordinates to image space coordinates in a WinForms PictureBox? *

Question I have an application that displays an image inside of a Windows Forms PictureBox control. The SizeMode of the control is set to...

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Global Exception Handling for winforms control *

Question When working on ASP.NET 1.1 projects I always used the Global.asax to catch all errors. I'm looking for a similar way to catch ...

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Displaying Flash content in a C# WinForms application *

Question What is the best way to display Flash content in a C# WinForms application? I would like to create a user control (similar to the...

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WinForms ComboBox data binding gotcha *

Question Ok, I'm a web developer, but I find myself dabbling in windows forms projects every now and then. One thing that confounds me t...

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When setting a form's opacity should I use a decimal or double? *

Question I want to use a track-bar to change a form's opacity. This is my code: decimal trans = trackBar1.Value / 5000; this.Opaci...

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