Archive for the 'Tips & Tricks' Category

How to tell when a WebBrowser has fully loaded, the final answer

Quite often I see in forums people asking how to tell when a hosted WebBrowser control has finished loading. What follows are any of a half a dozen solutions, but often they are either out dated or just don’t work. After fighting with this one again in a project of mine, I have decided to [...]

Debugging more efficiently

This is one of those gems that I read about quite a while ago but never used. Especially when working with multiple threads this technique is almost indispensable. How I ever made it before I don’t know. If you’ve ever debugged your app (and I hope you have), there are few things more irritating than [...]

Making Lookout work with Outlook 2007

This article is service 2 purposes: To provide a solution to those wanting to use the Outlook add-in Lookout in Outlook 2007. To introduce the companion to this site, a far overdue task. For most, if you’re reading this article, you’ve been a long-time user of Lookout, an indexing / search add-in for Outlook that [...]

Add a contact to Windows Mobile in C#

I have not posted much lately for one main reason: I like posting complete applications, or at least complete libraries. As it would have it, I do not have the time, energy, or creativity to post complete projects on a basis regular enough to warrant a site devoted to. As such, I am going to [...]

Dock property demystified

Many times while designing the layout for a Form, I will use Panels docked to various positions, with controls docked fill inside them. On occasion, for reasons previously unknown to me, the Panels would just not dock the way I wanted them to. Things usually go off without a hitch when the entire layout is [...]