What's new for 2009 Volume 2 in Windows Forms

Wondering what's new in the 2009 Volume 2 release of Windows Forms?  Watch this video to find out the latest and greatest including a bunch of grid enhancements and a few new controls!

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Featured Blog Articles

Windows Forms - WPF Interop

by Andrew Flick, February 2009

Using the interoperability capabilities of Windows Forms and WPF, you can run any Windows Forms control inside of a WPF application or and WPF control inside of a Windows Forms application. Using this strategy, you can take advantage of some of the more modern WPF scenarios while maintaining your existing Windows Forms investment. In this article, Hosting a WPF Control in a Windows Forms Application, you will learn how this is done.

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UI Thread Marshaling in the Model Layer

by Mike Heffernan

Have you ever had that challenge of processing or loading large amounts of data in Windows Forms control? Since these controls are not thread safe, you can't simply push the UI onto a secondary thread to achieve performance improvements. In this article, you'll learn how to correctly marshal data between worker threads and the user interface to do those lengthy calculations or asynchronously messaged events, allowing the UI to react to the user while these tasks are operating.

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