Increase performance of a databound DataGridView

by Mikael Henriksson 27. January 2009 18:59
This was a hard nut to crack. I was just about to pull out my railgun and frag that stupid control for good. Though as soon as I got my hands on the railgun I got tele-fragged by the creators. After 2 days of searching on the internet I actually found something useful on MSDN. Over at http... [More]

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Using the registry in .NET

by Mikael Henriksson 27. January 2009 18:59
Today I learned something new and I kind of like it so I thought I'd share my expertise! :) We have four instances of the same application running on the same machine but all with different configurations (all are executed from thin clients via RDP). Now that's nothing new, nothing strange it's jus... [More]

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C# | Windows Forms

Making good use of the Entity Framework in a Windows Forms application…

by Mikael Henriksson 27. January 2009 18:59
I have been abusing the Entity Framework lately so I thought I’d share some of what I have learned. First of all I must say there are quite a few things that need improvement. It is good that you can generate a model straight from the database and work towards your generated classes BUT! That&... [More]

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Entity Framework | Windows Forms

How do I make sure only one instance of an application is running

by mikael 13. June 2008 14:59
I have tried various ways to solve this quite simple problem. I tried with something called Mutex.Name and it made the application I am working on really slow at startup which for me is not an option. So I looked around for a better solution. I also wanted to make sure only one instance of “calc” (c... [More]

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