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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IDTWizard.Execute's ContextParams

Sample code that shows how to make sense of the IDTWizard.Execute's ContextParams argument when creating a Custom Wizard

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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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Flash Window

Sample code that shows how to alert the user to a particular Window by causing it to flash on its Title Bar and on the Taskbar

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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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Auto Complete Run-like Combo Box

Everybody that uses Windows is familiar with the functionality of the Start-->Run dialog that allows a user to enter the name of an application or document and quickly launch it.

This bit of code contains an extended combo box that implements all of the auto complete and memory capabilities of the Run dialog

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Excel C# Custom File Properties

Sample code that shows how to get and set Custom File Properties using C# in an Excel Spreadsheet

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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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Dynamic Code Generation and Execution

Sample code that shows how to dynamically create an assembly in memory, using code from a text box, and execute a method on it

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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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Saving User Settings Between Sessions

Sample code that shows how to save user settings, preferences and choices between application sessions

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Windows Service Interaction

Sample code that shows how to interact with a Windows Service; Stop, Start and Pause a Service

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Defult TextBox Context Menu

Sample code that shows how to implement the default functionality of the TextBox ContextMenu

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Embedding Resources into an Assembly

Sample code that shows how to embed resources such as XML Files and Images into a Resource file

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Desktop Images and XML

Sample code that shows how to capture a desktop Image and store images in a XML file

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