Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in April 2004

Handling mshtml Document Events without Mouse lockups
April 27, 2004 @ 11:48 pm

Find out how to work around problems with using mshtml and handling HTMLDocument events in .Net as the stock mechanism from the mshtml library causes Mouse events to get eaten.

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WinForm Toolbar Sizing issue workaround
April 22, 2004 @ 11:21 am

The Windows Form Toolbar is a real bear to work with and its visual behavior especially with XP display format has always given me problems. The biggest issue I've had is that the button resizes themselves to some unknown small size and I have not been able to resize it in the designer. Here's a workaround for this 'behavior'.

More on WinForms Blues
April 22, 2004 @ 8:59 am

More musings on WinForms' future

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WinForms Blues
April 20, 2004 @ 9:36 pm

What's wrong with WinForms and why I think Microsoft should look hard and close at providing top tier controls out of the box.

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.Net Web Services and passing objects (and Data)
April 18, 2004 @ 3:55 am

How do you deal with passing objects between Web Service clients and servers? Passing the data is easy, but efficiently utilizing the data received and synching it to business objects is not.

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Dell Laptop Battery Blues
April 16, 2004 @ 5:39 pm

Rant of the day about Laptop batteries expiring while they still have charge? That sucks...

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Passing Complex Objects and XML data to Web Services with MSOAP with Visual FoxPro
April 16, 2004 @ 2:49 am

Passing Complex Objects and DataSets to .Net from Visual FoxPro with the MSSOAP Toolkit is not totally obvious or automatic, but by using an XMLNodeList to represent a complex parameter at least we can provide the appropriate XML content to simulate the complex type.

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Returning a proper case string in .Net
April 14, 2004 @ 2:02 pm

Easy way to return a Proper Case string: Use the TextInfo class.

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Image Problems when Importing HTML into Microsoft Word via Automation
April 13, 2004 @ 12:30 pm

Some observations in creating Word Automation document from an HTML file and embedding the images into the Word document rather than leaving them as external links.

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.Net Reflection and Performance
April 11, 2004 @ 12:44 am

Reflection often gets a bad rap for being slow. True it's much slower than direct access, but it's important to look at performance in the proper perspective. For many operations Reflection and 'evaluative' access to properties, fields and methods provides flexibility that wouldn't otherwise be there and the speed hit you take, especially in non-iterative situations is only minmal.

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Travel No More
April 10, 2004 @ 3:53 pm

Back on the farm - travel time's over.