http://dot-net-tips.com Covering the trickiest parts of programming WPF and C#. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:06:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, so I'm a geek and a programmer by profession.  Now I have a few interests out of the office and one of them is video, I've been fascinated with everything video for a long time now and so I took it upon myself to start playing around with .NET ... http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/09/24/development-resources-for-avi-in-net/ This is a very simple tip that I figured I should post.  Its a common thing to want to launch a web browser from your application when a user clicks on a link, or presses a button.  The simplest way to perform this is to use the following line of ... http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/06/14/launching-browser-from-windows-application/ As many programmers have come across, sometimes you want to prevent your app being launched more than once. This is a desirable function for many reasons. This can be used when you're app relies on writing or reading from files, and to prevent locking of files and possible ... http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/06/12/preventing-multiple-instances-of-the-same-application/ I've been developing now for the last few months my first WPF application.  During this development I've searched for lots of information on how to implement WPF and some of the quirks and workarounds needed to make my app function.  My goal is to post some useful links as well as ... http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/06/12/useful-wpf-articles/ This nice tip allows the addition of a drop shadow to any form you want. The drop shadow is a nice effect that comes standard with Windows XP and Vista. It just gives the form a little mode depth and a nicer more modern look. As you can ... http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/02/13/adding-a-drop-shadow-to-a-windows-form/ Welcome to my new .NET tips and tricks site, my focus of this site is to provide a wealth of information in relation to .NET development, deployment and use as well as some of the more trickier side of the .NET world. http://dot-net-tips.com/2007/02/13/new-site/