Archive for November, 2007

Copy calendar entries from PST to server in Outlook

It’s been a while since my last posting, and I according to my site stats, my 4 readers must be getting impatient for new material. Recently I got an HTC 8525 PocketPC. Now, I use personal folders in Outlook, so all of my calendar appointments are in there and not on the Exchange server. Being [...]

A self contained Thread Safe .NET TextBox Control

In many projects I am finding that I am quickly growing tired of writing delegates to keep various controls thread safe in multi-threaded environments. I have not yet determined whether it is best to create separate utility classes to handle all of the non-thread safe functionality, or to extend the control itself to be thread [...]

Use Google Bookmarks in your .NET application!

Yes you read that correctly. I have had this class laying around for a while and finally decided to finish it up, write an article about it, and make it publicly available. I did a LOT of searching and turned up absolutely nothing in the way of implementing Google Bookmarks, so I give you a [...]

C# Mailslot Control

Remember Mailslots? I do! I do! Gohd, I do..
Back in the day I used Mailslots to create a very simple LAN chat program in Delphi. Now I have re-created that functionality for use in .NET. Here I have a fully working Mailslot control written in C#.
This is one of those technologies that seriously [...]

Capture URL of images dropped from IE to your form / control

In a recent project I found the need to be able to drop an image from Internet Explorer onto my form and capture the URL of the image. If you have tried using any of the text formats to get the drop data then you know this does not work. At best you will get [...]