You can use Dispatcher even in a WinForms app. If you are sure to be on a UI thread (e.g. in an button.Click handler), Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher gives you the UI thread dispatcher that you can later use to dispatch from background threads to the UI thread as usual.
Center your control in the designer and set its Anchor property to None.
The DataGridView has a Property called MultiSelect ( default True ). Set this to False.
Assuming you do not try to honor the user’s UI font choice (SystemFonts.IconTitleFont), and hard-code your forms for one font size only (e.g. Tahoma 8pt, Microsoft Sans Serif 8.25pt), you can set your form’s AutoScaleMode to ScaleMode.Dpi. This will scale the size of the form and most of it child controls by the factor CurrentDpiSetting … Read more
A quick fix for you would be: Label1.Text = f.Name + ” is done processing, now processing…”; Label1.Refresh(); You really want to avoid DoEvents, otherwise you’ll have problems if your user repeatedly presses buttons on your form.
Place each GroupBox in a Panel, Set Panel Dock Property to Top, Group Box Dock Property to Fill. Then set Padding on the panels.
I use the following extension method: using System.Runtime.InteropServices; namespace System.Windows.Forms { public static class Extensions { [DllImport( “user32.dll” )] private static extern int ShowWindow( IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg ); private const uint SW_RESTORE = 0x09; public static void Restore( this Form form ) { if (form.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) { ShowWindow(form.Handle, SW_RESTORE); } } } } … Read more
While in Designer mode, select Tab Order from the View menu then click on each control in the order you want. Then remember to turn off Tab Order when you’re finished, otherwise when you select a control to do something else you lose the work you’ve just done (I wish Tab Order would turn off … Read more
It is still available, you just need to add it back to the View menu. Tools + Customize, Commands tab, Menu bar = View. Select the menu item in Controls where you want to insert it, say the bottom one. Then Add Command, Category = View, Commands = Tab Order. Your memory of this command … Read more
It is possible with some servings of P/Invoke and the magic provided by Control.BeginInvoke(). Add a new class to your project and paste this code: using System; using System.Text; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class CenterWinDialog : IDisposable { private int mTries = 0; private Form mOwner; public CenterWinDialog(Form owner) { mOwner = owner; … Read more