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Articles by Leif Simon Goodwin (Articles: 11, Tip/Tricks: 3)

Articles: 11, Tip/Tricks: 3

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Windows Forms	A C# 3D Surface Plot Control 19 Feb 2021 Updated: 19 Feb 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,961 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 2,844 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A 3D surface plot control in C#
WPF	A Custom WPF Slider Button 24 Apr 2019 Updated: 24 Apr 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,326 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 2,212 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes a simple slider button using dependency properties and a template.
	A C# System Tray Application using WPF Forms 17 Mar 2017 Updated: 17 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,421 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 5,452 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a basic system tray app in C# and WPF
	WPF DataGrid with SharedSizeGroup Columns Property 30 Jan 2017 Updated: 31 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,845 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 395 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents an attached behaviour for the WPF DataGrid control which allows multiple columns to share the same width, and columns to shrink to fit their content.
	A WPF Rotary Control 3 May 2019 Updated: 23 Aug 2019 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 8.09 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,119 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 3,088 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a highly configurable rotary dial control.
	A WPF Tab Header Control with Scroll Buttons, Moveable Tab Items and a Close Button in Each Tab 30 Apr 2020 Updated: 30 Apr 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,576 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 538 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF tab header control using two button controls and a modified listbox with list items arranged horizontally
	A Custom WPF Carousel Control 9 May 2019 Updated: 21 Nov 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,142 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 3,239 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a simple WPF Carousel Control
	Using the PetaPoco ORM to Manage SQLServer, SQLIte, MySQL and ProgreSQL Databases 10 Dec 2020 Updated: 10 Dec 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,675 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 340 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple WPF app that shows how to use PetaPoco library to manage an SQL database
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C#	Passing Strings Between Managed and Unmanaged Code 7 Jul 2017 Updated: 7 Jul 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 7.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 82,158 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 1,140 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to pass strings between managed and unmanaged code
C++	C++ Template Classes to Make COM Marshalling Simple 14 Nov 2016 Updated: 24 Nov 2016 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,431 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have created two C++ template classes which allow a COM interface to be marshalled between threads with no fuss and no pain
XML	A WPF Docking Windows Management Library 21 Jun 2020 Updated: 21 Jun 2020 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,714 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 2,507 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF docking window manager library

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WPF	WPF Resource Dictionary Basics [Tip/Trick] 14 Sep 2017 Updated: 14 Sep 2017 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,634 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 819 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I present a short introduction to resource dictionaries with examples.
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C#	How to Detect When Your USB Device Has Been Plugged In [Tip/Trick] 10 May 2017 Updated: 10 May 2017 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,066 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This short article shows how to automatically detect when a given USB device is plugged in.
	How to Generate Element Names for an Enumeration [Tip/Trick] 25 Sep 2017 Updated: 2 Oct 2017 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,481 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I present a simple method to convert the elements in an enumeration into strings. This tip is suitable for enumerations whose elements are of the form RedAndBlack, which readily converts to "Red And Black".

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Leif Simon Goodwin

United Kingdom

C#/WPF/C++ Windows developer