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Microsoft has announced retail pricing for Windows 7 that includes an option to preorder the operating system at a substantial discount.  From today through July 11, U.S. consumers can preorder an upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 Home premium for $49 or Windows 7 Professional for $99.  However, XP customers must do Related posts: Determine Windows Version and Edition with C# Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: RC Microsoft to Share .NET Framework Code

Microsoft has just released the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1): Release Candidate (RC). The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems.  The Windows

This article explains how to use C# to determine the name, edition, service pack, version and bits of the host operating system. For example, the results on my PC would be: Operation System Information —————————- Name = Windows Vista Edition = Home Premium Service Pack = Service Pack 1 Version = 6.0.6001.65536 Bits = 64 Code You can download the code here. Sample Program Here is a

When showing a form that contains a TextBox, it’s common courtesy to focus the TextBox so that the user can begin typing immediately. To focus a TextBox when a Windows Form first loads, simply set the TabIndex for the TextBox to zero (or the lowest TabIndex for any Control on the Form). When a Form is displayed,

Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET framework for Linux, Windows, MacOS and other operating systems.  Mono v2.0 was just released and represents a major milestone in the Mono project. Read more >>

It’s not a trivial exercise to validate a file path on a Windows PC.  There are a few special cases depending on the file system and operating subsystem ( source ): (more…) ShareThis

It’s easy to display an RTF file — that was embedded as a resource in a C# program — in a Windows Form RichTextControl. (more…) ShareThis