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How to use a DarkUI (dark user interface) in Winforms C#

Learn how to implement a Dark User Interface using the DarkUI collection of controls for Winforms.DarkUI is an attempt to create a simple, extensible control library which emulates the look and feel of popular tabbed document interfaces such as Visual Studio, Photoshop, WebStorm, and XCode. Originally just a collection of bug fixes and enhancements built on top of WinForms, it has now evolved in..

How to create barcode images from a string with different formats with C# using the barcodelib library in WinForms

Learn how to create different formats of Barcodes with the barcodelib library in C#If you are working with C# and you need to generate one dimensional barcodes, you may know that there are not a lot of open source Barcode Rendering libraries, that's why the barcodelib is one of the most known libraries to achieve this goal in C#, this library created by Brad Barnhill has been released under the ..

How to run any executable inside the System32 directory of Windows with C# in WinForms

Learn why applications inside the system32 directory cannot be started easily from your WinForms c# based application and how to start them properly.In windows, for some x64 based systems you will face sometimes a weird behaviour when you try to run some executable from your application that is located in the (C:\Windows\system32) directory of Windows, for example with dfrgui.exe, an application..

How to render a XML file/string into a TreeView component in Winforms with C#

Learn how to render a XML file/string into a TreeView widget in your Winforms application.Looking for a way to render an entire XML document into a expandable TreeView of Winforms? You surely don't want to loop over every node and write a lot of "if's" according to the type and data that the node contains, don't you? Instead, we want to share with you an interesting approach of how to render aut..

How to retrieve the amount of memory used within your own C# WinForms Application

Learn how to obain the value of used memory inside your own C# WinForms application.The performance of an application guarantees that it will be used without inconvenients on most of the end user computer. You will need to monitor the current memory usage of your application constantly on every important application that could be memory intensive. This will allow you to modify the code of your a..

How to define a monitor as the primary display in Windows 10 using C#

Learn how to dynamically set a specific monitor as the primary display in Windows 10 using C# in WinForms.Recently I acquired a new monitor of 240hz, that funnily should be used only for playing competitive games. The bad situation with this is that I'm constantly coding and working with images and the color quality of the monitor is awful (for games, the smoothness is great but for office stuff..

How to manipulate and use JSON with C# and WinForms

Learn how to manipulate JSON using JSON.NET library.Many people use JSON rather than XML in the web for many reasons :JSON requires less tags than XML – XML items must be wrapped in open and close tags whereas JSON you just name the tag once.JSON is better at helping procedural decisions in your JavaScript based on objects and their values (or methods).JSON is easier to read than XML (at less fo..