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Quick Zip 5.1.9

QuickZip 5.1 allow you to perform powerful archive operations over a wide range of archive types using a familiar explorer like interface.

I have added the following improvements in Quick Zip 5.1.9 Quick Zip 5.1.9 continued »

DirectoryInfoEx 0.21

DirectoryInfoEx includes a range of classes to support operations in  normal and shell directory (like Desktop and Libraries in Win7), yet provide similar interface as System.IO.DirectoryInfo.

I have updated DirectoryInfoEx to 0.21, with the following changes. DirectoryInfoEx 0.21 continued »

Using DirectoryInfoEx to simplify ContextMenu construction

This article explain how to use ContextMenuHelperEx in DirectoryInfoEx to simplify ContextMenu construction under .Net 4.0 framework.

Introduction

DirectoryInfoEx included a class named ContextMenuHelperEx, which can create menu items using ShellAPI like InsertMenuItem() and SetMenuItemBitmap(), it’s originally designed for use in a Window Forms or WPF application. Using DirectoryInfoEx to simplify ContextMenu construction continued »

WPF Aero Titlebar 0.2

WPF Aero Titlebar is a WPF Control which emulate a  system title bar in Aero theme.  It support drag to move, resize, minimize, maximize, restore, close.  Because it’s actually a WPF Control, you can use up the space in title bar by placing another WPF control on it. WPF Aero Titlebar 0.2 continued »

WPF Aero Titlebar

Download – CustomTitlebar.zip – 250kb

Introduction

This article features a Title bar component in Aero theme.

Custom title bar is not something new, there are many implementations around, but most of them are trying to create a new theme instead of extend an existing one.

The major reason for developing this instead of using an existing one is that, you cannot place any WPF control on the title bar, so if you want to place a TabControl there (like Google Chome), you are out of luck. WPF Aero Titlebar continued »