One of the subtle UI improvements we’ve seen over the past few windows versions, and on the web, is the cue banner, or text prompt. They are hardly groundbreaking — putting them in your app probably won’t win you awards, but they do serve to make your applications that much more polished and usable. Read more »

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I’ve been doing a lot of research with the Command pattern lately at work. Here’s what I found: You’re doing yourself a disservice – and your team – if you don’t play the hell outta this thing!
It’s a very powerful design for non-trivial Windows Forms clients. What’s non-trivial? Anything that uses a menu, toolbar or [...] Read more »

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