Downloading Webpage Data into an Application

This article looks at how we can enable our website visitors to download data from our webpages to view or manipulate it in their favorite applications. In particular, we are going to look at how we can export individual tables and complete pages to Excel and how we can generate PDF versions of our webpages on the fly.

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PocketNerd Framework

The PocketNerd Framework provides additional classes and functionality that can be added to your applications

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PocketNerd WizardEngine

The PocketNerd Wizard Engine (Pwiz Engine) provides a powerful, simple, and consistent way to create Windows Forms based Wizards that can be launched as a modal or non-modal dialog from within your own Application, as a standalone executable that runs in its own process and as a Custom Wizard from within the Visual Studio.NET IDE.

This article describes how the Pwiz Engine works and how to create such Wizards.

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C# Custom Wizards

This is the final article in the series that looks at how more programming power can be introduced into our VS.NET Wizards by creating a C# Custom Wizard

Article 1: VS.NET Wizard Overview
Article 2: Custom HTML Wizards
Article 3: C# Custom Wizards


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VS.NET PropertyGrid

This article takes a look at the PropertyGrid Control in a Windows Forms application before moving on to using the VS.NET 2002/3/5 Properties Window from a hosted .NET UserControl

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System Tray Application Wizard

This C# Wizard can be used to quickly create a new Windows Application that interacts with a System Tray icon

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.NET - COM Object Wizard

This C# Wizard creates a new .NET project and class that implements several best practices in exposing a COM object to a Win32 application. This is particularly useful for Excel and other Office .NET development activities

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Integrate your Spell Checker

A lot of enterprises deploy Microsoft Office. Why not make the most of it and use the Spell Checker in your applications

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PocketProd and Reflector

This article shows how easy it is to add support tools to specific context menus in VS.NET. The article describes the process for adding Lutz Roeder's.NET Reflector to the assembly References items, but also acts as a general example for adding external tools to VS.NET using PocketProd.

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Custom HTML Wizards

This article builds on the previous VS.NET Wizard Overview to show you how to create and deploy custom HTML Wizards. In particular, the article describes creating a C#-COM Class that can be used to perform Excel Integration.

Even if you are not interested in the Wizards, the COM Wizard installer may prove useful so why not download and install it!

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VS.NET Wizard Overview

Wizards are probably one of the most widely used tools within the Visual Studio.NET IDE. This article goes into detail to explain how VS.NET wizards work as a pre-cursor to future articles that look at how to create custom Wizards and extend the Wizard Framework.

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Windows Service Remoting

This article is similar to the Remoting Publisher-Subscriber article below however if focuses on hosting remote objects in a Windows Service. This is quite an in depth look at Remoting from solution structure to remote delegates.

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PocketProd Tools

This article describes the tools that are provided by PocketProd, what tools are available and how to use them.

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PocketNerd Productivity Tool

The PocketNerd Productivity Tool is an add-in for Visual Studio.NET that enables developers to quickly and easily customize the IDE to include their code and applications.

The tool is aimed at increasing developer productivity by allowing developers to work how they want to.

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Remoting Publisher-Subscriber (Observer) Pattern

The Publisher-Subscriber or Observer pattern is a notification pattern that enables all subscribers to receive notifications from a single publisher when - for example - the publisher’s data is changed.

This implementation uses Remoting to distribute asynchronous notifications between subscribers in different applications on different machines.

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