dotnet listbox
I have decided to write my own combobox control by using a custom listbox that will appear in a popup window. The thing that i was trying to achieve was to have it in such a way so that the popup window doesn't steal the focus from the main form. Apparently however, the dotnet framework has a system that sets the focus whenever you click on a windows forms control. So, the only way to do it is to override the WndProc method and go from there. I think i will do a whole dotnet library of custom controls and components based on this idea.

vs express
today i discussed with my japanese friend about the new design time of Visual Studio 2005. A lot of gimmicks and cool stuff, but honestly nothing that we couldn't do in the old one either. Anyway, my friends wants to make a skinnable windows forms application so what i suggested was to create a user control or a custom control and make a transparent form, borderless and place the control on it. Then you can freely do the custom drawing on the control. He was looking for a free component library to do this but I think it's easier to just do it from scratch....

visual studion 2005
life gets better everyday. Today I downloaded the new version of Visual Studio, code name Whidbey or how people call it Visual Studio 2005. Yes, 2005, as not it is in beta test only. And, obviously enough it has a lot of problems. Yesterday I was working on a new component and the IDE just froze... wouldn't work at all. Also, when you create user controls or custom controls I notice a lot of problems in the IDE. I finally had to reinstall everything including the dotnet framework. Too bad I didn't have the idea to install virtual pc first...

long time
Hey, long time no see. My C# programming skills are getting better, I think. I started to work on 3 different projects yesterday and I finished them all :-) One was a custom control, a listbox with all kinds of cool gimmiks. However, I do have a problem with visual studio properly recognizing some components attached to the control when at design time. I will work more and hope to get this fixed. I downloaded the dotnet framework 2.0 but the download broke in the middle :-( Will try again tomorrow...

nice day....
Today is a really good day. I wish I had a new custom control to play with but I don't so therefore i just opened visual studio and started to randomly code a bunch of stuff. Nothing good came up in the end except a small component, but I feel pretty good. :-)

Dilema
There was this dog on the street today and i felt really bad. It had a custom control hanging over it and I couldn't understand why? Maybe because he was using dotnet? No idea... this is a crazy world. I wish I had visual studio now to play...

good book...
I bought this cool book today: .Net Custom Controls and Designers. Loved it!

ListBox control
I am really not happy with the listbox control in Visual Studio, the default one so I want to create my own custom control based on the ListControl. It's not so easy, but I defined all the list items as component so they can be selected in the custom designed... cool...

Visual Studio
Visual Studio is the coolest thing ever. I love the docking windows and the help is just great.

DotNet is fantastic
I just love using Microsoft DotNet. The best part is creating your own custom control and components. I created a data component that helps me work with Oracle.