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26/02/2014 by Nitesh

How to Add Custom Checkbox Column to DataGridView in Windows Forms

Friends, In this post we will see how we can add a custom Checkbox column to an existing DataGridView in windows forms. Generally, when you assign a data source to the DataGridView and the data source contains a “bit” column or “bool” column, DataGridView automatically converts it into a Checkbox column. However, at times we…

10/01/2014 by Nitesh

How to Move a Windows Form By Dragging

Friends, Today, I was working on a Desktop application where I was required to drag a form by Mouse left click as we do in normal drag and drop operations. the only difference in this scenario was I needed to drag the entire form and the form was not supposed to be dropped anywhere else….

10/01/2014 by Nitesh

How to Get Width & Height of Desktop in WinForms

Friends, In certain scenarios we need to know the screen resolution our desktop application will be running on. To get this information, Microsoft provides us with a very handy class namely SystemInformation that can be found in System.Windows.Forms namespace. Using this class, we can almost every information about the current system environment, the application is…

09/01/2014 by Nitesh

How to Dock/Display Windows Form on Top of all Applications on Desktop

Friends, Most of us have seen and used TeamViewer. When TeamViewer starts, it displays a small window at the right bottom of the Desktop that remains on top of all the applications that we open on our computer. The TeamViewer icon looks something similar to the image shown below. You can achieve this feature in…

16/12/2013 by Nitesh

How to Setup your PC to start using Xamarin

Friends, Mobile Market has grown at a rapid speed in past few years and with the advent of big players like Apple, Google and Microsoft with their different OS, we have been hooked to use smartphones more than PC these days. As the use of smartphones has increased, so has increased the use of apps…