Tag Archives: VB.Net

How to associate a File Type to your application

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Recently I was working with an Open source project which helps to manage SQLCE databases. Yesterday I thought of implementing a feature like associating the SDF files to my application, so that I can double click on any SDF file … Continue reading →

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Custom Places in FileDialog box

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

If you ever tried to Open a File from Visual Studio, you may notice something like Projects Folder in the Open File Dialog. We can also implement the same functionality in our applications by using CustomPlaces collection property of FileDialog … Continue reading →

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Application development using Gtk# in .Net

Posted on October 17, 2009 by

When I started my software development career, I got introduced to some cool tools for GUI application development in Linux. I was using Glade and the library was Gtk. Then later I become a MS fan and started working on … Continue reading →

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Color Picker Dropdown using C#

Posted on October 15, 2009 by

While playing around one of hobby project, I found there is a nice color picker dropdown available in WordPad, for setting the font color. I was using Windows Color Dialog. So I thought of implementing a WordPad like color picker. … Continue reading →

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How to check remote file exists using C#

Posted on October 14, 2009 by

Sometime you require to display remote images in the Web Pages, like Ads, Banner etc, it may be from different domain or a different application. This code will help you to check the existence of a Remote file using C#. … Continue reading →

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