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Desktop Programming
Win32	TDHAppBar - A Library to Convert a Windows.Forms.Form into an Application Desktop Toolbar 17 Dec 2007 Updated: 18 Dec 2007 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,124 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 2,350 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a class which may be used to convert any Windows.Forms.Form into a docked Application Desktop Toolbar. That is, by use of the AppBar.ApplicationDesktopToolbar class, one's Toolbar applet may be either floating or docked to an edge of the Desktop.
Windows Forms	TdhComboBox - An Inherited ComboBox With ReadOnly Property 17 Aug 2006 Updated: 12 Oct 2006 Rating: 3.11/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 3.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 105,337 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 687 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a subclassed ComboBox with ReadOnly functionality.
	TdhCursorFactory - A Class to Provide Animated and Color Cursors to DotNET Applications 26 Oct 2007 Updated: 1 Nov 2007 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,300 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 641 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a class to manage animated and color cursors and make them available for use in .NET applications. The cursors may derive from embedded resources, from standard cursors, or from files read from disk.
Multimedia
GDI+	TdhTabCtl - Firefox-like subclassed TabControl and TabPage 29 Jul 2008 Updated: 11 Aug 2008 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 100,370 Bookmarked: 87 Downloaded: 3,726 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes .NET subclassed TabControl and TabPage controls with Firefox-like tab buttons and other enhancements.
	TdhMarchingAnts - A .NET component to select (and draw) a rectangle on the client-area of an attached control and return the co-ordinates 7 Dec 2006 Updated: 8 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,370 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 579 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a .NET component to draw a "rubber-band rectangle" as determined by the user mouse activity (which is replaced by "marching ants" after the selection is complete) on the surface of an attached control and return the rectangle co-ordinates via an event.
Programming Languages
C#	TdhEditBox - A dynamically assignable and configurable pop-up text-entry box 17 Jul 2008 Updated: 17 Jul 2008 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 2.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,471 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 341 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a .NET component to provide a dynamically assignable and configurable pop-up text-entry box with optional Regular Expression validation of input.
	QedPrinter - Quick & Dirty Printer: Printing from C#, using WordPad as the print "engine" 11 Jul 2005 Updated: 11 Jul 2005 Rating: 3.26/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 2.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,031 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 1,623 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a class to quickly implement printing with C# (i.e. yet another .NET printing utility), using the ubiquous Windows program WordPad.exe as its print engine.
	Detecting the IDE from a User Control 7 Jul 2006 Updated: 29 Nov 2006 Rating: 2.11/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 2.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,350 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a method to detect the IDE and/or the debugger in the code-behind of a User Control.
	TdhSoundFactory - A class to provide sound effects to .NET applications 24 Oct 2007 Updated: 24 Oct 2007 Rating: 3.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,871 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 677 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a class to asynchronously play sound effects in .NET applications. The sounds may derive from embedded resources, from byte arrays, or from files read from disk.
Visual Basic	TabKeyIntercept - Intercept and process the Tab key in a Windows.Forms form 4 Sep 2008 Updated: 4 Sep 2008 Rating: 4.30/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,400 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 686 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a method to intercept the Tab key in a .NET application's form and thereby allow the use of the Tab key in a customized or application-specific meaning.