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Building a Better ComboBox Some helpful tips to improve functionality by George Politis - MSDN Did you ever get a Swiss Army knife as a gift when you were a kid? For a while, the long blade might have been enough to amuse you. After all, you could use it to cut lots of different things. And it was cool just to have a knife. But with time, you probably started discovering all the other gadgets inside the utensil — the scissors, the corkscrew, heck, even the toothpick was kind of neat. A computer program can be very similar to a Swiss Army knife. You learn the basics, and you use them with a certain application or two. But if you "look inside," the program can be expanded — just like that knife. In this month's feature article, Intertech's George Politis "opens up" Windows Forms ComboBox and explains how you can improve its default functionality for a better user experience. To find out more, click here.

Welcome to The Software Developer Steve Close Hi. I’m Steve Close, Intertech Java instructor and this month’s editor. Welcome to the latest issue of The Software Developer. If you’re like many developers, you already know how to create and manipulate projects and class files within Visual Studio. And you’ve probably used VS ComboBox Items to collect data. But did you know you can also improve the default functionality of ComboBox for many of your applications? In this month’s feature article, George Politis discusses the steps you need to take for a better user experience with ComboBox. In Coder's Corner, Intertech’s Tom Barnaby explains why the .NET thread pool is perfect for “fire-and-forget” tasks. Tom also provides several examples to prove his point. And please check out our Best of the Web section where you’ll find links to articles on personal and professional development. In closing, I’d like to thank all of you who have provided suggestions for feature articles and tips on how we can make our newsletter better. We’d like to hear from you, too. All comments are greatly appreciated. Please keep the feedback coming. If you would like to unsubscribe, use the link provided at the bottom left corner of the newsletter.

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