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Tricking out your applications

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:39 AM

My newest article has been posted on MSDN. It's about making your Windows forms look better using techniques not directly available through the Visual Studio properties and wizards. Ever wondered how to make your application start without the main form appearing? How about making an application single-instance? Adding a system tray notification icon? What about those funky-shaped forms (like in music player apps)?

All of this is covered in the new article. Check it out at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/inthebox/trickedoutapp/default.aspx

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# re: Tricking out your applications

Hello Arian,

Thank you for this very informing article. I am rather new at coding in .NET/C#...
I tried out the "trick" where you use Mutex to prevent more instances of one application. It works very nicely in a little test application I tried. Then I added it to my current .NET project, only to find that here it only works when I build the project in "Debug" mode. When I build the project in "Release" mode, it does not work.
Do you know what may be causing my problem ?
I am using Visual Studio 2005.

Thank you in advance

Michael
2/12/2006 9:02 AM | Michael Pedersen

# re: Tricking out your applications

You are absolutely right. I posted what you found on a new entry.

Thanks! 2/13/2006 10:24 PM | Arian

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