WinForms is the informal term given to the graphical application programming interface (API) included as a part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, providing access to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the existing Windows API in managed code.
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Passing Variables Over User Controls [on hold]
I am creating a program that uses 2 Usercontrols and 1 Form. Usercontrol 1 carries variables over to Usercontrol 2.
UserControl1:
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Winforms tools for selection of items using ComboBox - binding datasource
This is mi UserControl containing ComboBox and few buttons for selecting and manipulating collection of items which implement simple interface IHasHeader (just ...
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Update/Insert/Delete on a particular database table
I'm updating a solution that I wrote a while ago. I've got a WinForm that does Update/Insert/Delete on a particular database table.
I've got all of the database access code in the form. Is this bad ...
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Car generation algorithm
I have an algorithm which generates some cars (quote unquote) and displays them using Graphics. I would like to know if my code is using Random correctly, and if it has any memory leaks. Or if there ...
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“How are you spending your time on the computer?” Part 2
In my previous question I got some pretty good suggestions which really improved the overall performance of the controls, but I decided to extend the application and add some more features :
You can ...
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“How are you spending your time on the computer?”
I've made a Windows Forms application to track all of the processes running on my machine and it also saves the time an application is "active", an active application is the one that is on focus ...
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Looping through the values of two ComboBoxes by pressing a button
I have a C# application where I have implemented the MVP pattern. On one of my forms I have two ComboBoxes with values through which I loop with a button press. The first ComboBox contains different ...
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Creating multiple threads to process items in a listview
The goal is to pick items from a listview, do some web related task with the information and then update the UI with the returned information from the web request.
The problem is with having multiple ...
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Memory test in windows forms
I've made a memory test game in windows forms, where you need to find and match 2 cards with the same images.
It has 3 difficulties :
Easy - 4 different pairs of cards, no time limit, no mistakes ...
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Creating points in specific size [closed]
The method is in a new class and i use it from form1:
In the top of the new class:
public int numberOfPoints = 100;
The class Init method:
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Clicking game in windows forms
I've made a simple clicking game where you spam a button in order to get coins which you can use to buy upgrades to get even more coins.
I've only 2 classes one that is responsible for the game logic ...
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Tic Tac Toe implemented in WinForms using Model-Viewer-Presenter Pattern
I had to build a 2-player Tic Tac Toe app in C# w/ WinForms for a pre-interview screen. I got past that stage successfully and the app works flawlessly, but I would like to get some feedback.
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2D Collision Detection
I wrote this a while ago but wanted to see if I went about it the right way and if my brain is working correctly. I was thinking about these two projects the other day and I recently released the ...
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Project Euler problem solver in windows forms
I've programmed a few Project Euler problem but they are all separated in different solutions so I decided to group them all together in a nice Windows forms application. Here's how it looks like :
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Presenter creating Views in c# MVP
I have a c# WinForms application in which I have tried to implement the Model View Presenter pattern with Passive View. I create new Views in the Presenter of my 'home screen'. I was wondering if this ...
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Restoring data from database to list with SQLite
I have a Winforms project in which I have a screen which loads a questionnaire. It restores answers the user has previously entered by restoring the saved results from the database to a single list (...
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Passive View implementation in c# MVP
I have a c# WinForms application in which I have tried to implement the Model View Presenter pattern with Passive View. The View derives from a parent IView which propagates the public members and ...
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MVP Winforms Implementation
Is it MVP pattern? If I want to add control to the view where they should be
declared in the model or in the presenter?
Model:
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Display a list of editable properties
I'm trying to create a grid of settings for the user to edit. I'm using a PropertyGrid at the moment, but I'm open to alternative solutions.
My two big issues are ...
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C# OOP Pong game in WinForms
I want to learn C# and have started off with making simple Pong game. I would like to ask you whether the approach I took is correct, as in it is readable and fits the conventions/standards. Maybe ...
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Extension methods to save and load form size, position, and state
I wrote these extension methods to provide a generic/re-usable method for saving a form's size, position, and window state. What I would primarily like to know is if there is a better way to handle ...
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Checking a Model's function's return value and setting values to a View member
I have a WinForms project that uses the Passive View MVP pattern. In the Presenter of one of my Views I have a function that gets questions and from its Model. But I want to make sure these ...
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Handling a user control that needs to be put on my form in WinForms project using MVP pattern
in my application i have a form 'DetailScreenView' which implements 'IDetailScreenView'. It is connected to 'DetailScreenPresenter' by the Passive View MVP pattern. I also have a '...
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Handling an openFileDialog in the View of my MVP WinForms project
I have a WinForms project in which I am trying to implement the Passive View MVP pattern (meaning no business logic in my Views). Each form is a concrete View with an IView interface to which a ...
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Dynamically adding controls to a form in a WinForms project
I have created this function in my DetailsScreen.cs, but I have no idea if this is the correct file to put this kind of code in, or if coding it this way is the correct approach. I know that it works ...
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TabPage version of SelectedIndexChanged
I order to speed up opening of a file (which contents are displayed in a series of tabs), I made it so that tab content is generated only when the user first clicks on the tab. If user never opens the ...
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Localized Enum in C# 6
I had to jump through some hoops to get a localized enum working. I went through dozens of SO articles that never actually answered the relevant conundrum with a working solution. So I made my own:
I ...
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Custom animated image control
I have written the following control which allows loading a gif from embedded resource, file, or raw Image. It allows for more granular control over the direction ...
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Alternate checked between buttons
I'm trying to alternate if a button is checked. I've come up with this, which works but its feels unnecessary to write 70 lines of code for such a simple task.
How would I go about to shorten this up,...
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Little copy tool
I made a little copy tool, but my progress bar seems to be too slow. I would also be very interested in any tips and improvements or code smells.
MainForm (code ...
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DataTable extension methods and proper disposing of unneeded resources
I've build two extension methods, that allows me to show DataTable inside window.
Below is my code:
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C# Winforms MVP (avoiding circular dependencies)
I asked the following question on stackoverflow and as a result came up with the following code to avoid circular event logic when using winforms.
There are two occasions where my model can be ...
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Avoiding code duplication for reading in similar values for each derived class
I am designing a program that handles many types of grooves TKY, VSingle under GrooveType.
Each of this groove is paired with ...
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Setting a textbox value to zero if null
Is this the correct way to set value of textbox to zero when it's null? Is there any way I can improve the calculation that I am doing?
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Refactoring Calculations through a series of textboxes
Alright guys, I know this isn't the proper way of problem solving, But I need some guidance here. Since I am just starting in programming, the code is not really readable.
The Winforms program (...
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Generating buttons efficiently
I've written a Minesweeper program, but my code for generating the buttons is taking much longer than I'd like. Here is the GUI code:
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Handling keyboard shortcuts in C# software
Edit: I have added the revised code in an answer to this question.
Currently, I handle the keyboard shortcuts of my applications in a single huge method that looks like this:
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Converting string to control
I have an up-down numeric control on my form (attEdgeUpDown), which has value 0-8. I have eight checkboxes (attEdgeBox1 to ...
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Divide decimal by range of fractions, and then convert the fraction that is closest to a whole number to a mixed fraction
My program will divide the decimal (\$30.0575\$) by a range of fractions (\$\frac{1}{1}, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{4}, \dots, \frac{1}{48})\$ leaving me with list of improper fractions that look like this:...
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Use of Async/Await for EventHandlers
I have a MVC WinForms application. I am using Dependency Injection with Ninject as the IoC container.
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Guitar Hero III Bot
I made a Guitar Hero III bot for PC. I was able to beat the song "Through the Fire and Flames" on Expert with the bot which can you see here.
If you watched the video, you can see that the bot misses ...
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Reactive Properties for easy property binding
This is my attempt to write a data-bindable, platform independent property that doesn't require any literal strings. The basic idea is to basically have the same functionality as IObservable, but with ...
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PDF conversion and time stamp tool
This is the latest edition of my PDF tool, previously mentioned here, here, here, and inspired by my first attempt at a MVP here.
Major differences from previous editions:
It uses the MVP pattern (...
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Model-View-Presenter Winforms app
This is my first attempt at a Model-View-Presenter pattern Winforms application. The model is a class that stores a bunch of primitives, and the view is a ...
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PDF script tool to convert documents to PDF and add fields and scripts
This is an update from here. This tool is a Windows Form application that can add fields and scripts to PDF files, as well as convert Microsoft Office Word documents to PDF.
The usage is as follows:
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PDF Script Tool - adds JavaScripts to PDF files
This is a Windows Forms application that adds JavaScripts to PDF files. It supports multiple files at the same time. Right now, the only supported script is a "time-stamp on print" script, but any ...
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Active Directory Query Application - Take 2
This is an update to my previous post about my Active Directory Query Application. I have made multiple modifications, and I request some feedback.
Summary: This program queries an active directory ...
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User editable properties with varying number of arguments
Recently I used this pattern to create a list of properties, each property having a varying number of arguments.
The properties list can be made at compile time, it does not need to change at ...
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Active Directory Query Application
This application is designed to query an active directory, and at the moment, performs only two tasks:
Save a list of all users to a file.
Save a list of all groups that all users are in to a file.
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Improving GUI update call from a worker thread in winforms
I have a winforms app and I've been using the following approach to update controls on the main form from worker threads:
GamepadManager class has:
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