Desktop: WinForms

As most of you may already know, .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released. Personally, I think WPF is great. I can't wait to see the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and VS 2005 extensions for .NET 3.0. You can download it, check it, and admire its potential. Once the admiration starts fading away, you may ask yourself "now what?". You may start writing applications from scratch, you may start migrating existing WinForms applications, or you may decide to wait for the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio Orcas. You may even decide to wait till Windows...

I have to admit that I get scared each time I read terms like "loosely coupled", "enterprise", "architectural framework" and so on at one place.Even so, my colleagues and I had to suppress our fear and test our WinForms controls with the the Composite UI Application Block framework (you can find more info about it here).I was pleasantly surprised that everything went very smoothly and well. The CAB framework does exactly what it claims - it provides an easy way for building complex UIs based on separate blocks / "smart parts". I recommend it to everyone who embraces the Smart...

There's a well known quote (I think by Mark Twain) saying:The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. I can paraphrase and say something like this:The "hottest" summer releases (in case you haven't missed MSDN Magazine this June) we've made so far will happen this winter. Ok, it's still fall but here in Sofia the first snow and the low temperatures made me feel like it's winter. Now r.a.d.controls for WinForms Q3 is finally live. Thanks to all who have sent us their feedback. We made some fixes, added a few more examples and new controls - ListBox, ShapedForm and SplitButton. Each...