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Wanted to let two forms work together. One form would be the input form and the main form would consume this data. I managed to succeed with the help of a few of my friends here at daniweb., who helped me setup a static form. Just posted a bit of …

I wanted to draw a 5 pointed star in C# and here is how I finally did it. I leave it as an exercise (some hints are given in the code) to work out how I did this. It was fun to do (but a bit hard, my trig is …

When you want to draw something on a form you need a Graphics object. But a Graphics constructor isn’t public and if that is not enough the Graphics class is also sealed! This means you can’t create a Graphics object via the new keyword nor can you derive from the …

This is not about a DataGridView or something else, it is just about drawing a simple grid in a form window. Googled a bit but found not much of my liking. A Grid as a BitMap in a PictureBox? Come on! Must have been some of those GUI guys I …

I mostly use Console or Forms applications in VS for my projects. Did anyone among you ever use an Empty Project when starting a new one? Well, it is as clean as you can get with Visual Studio! The world is at your feet! I use it mainly to test …

Ever wanted to know how to implement running lights? well here is your chance to find out. Open a new Forms application enlarge the Form a bit and drop a Panel and a Timer on it. Add the class ChasingLights to the solution, see code. Implement a form Load, panel …

I needed a very simple multi-line label control for a project I was working on, It had very simple requirements. It needed to draw text in any font, in any color, on multiple lines with vertical and horizontal alignment control. So I hacked up this little class. Just as easy …