Winforms: improving rendering performances with BackgroundImage and BackgroundImageLayout

Even after years you always have something to learn...this time I had a windows forms application with a lot of graphics in it: big and heavy background images, graphic buttons with transparent background, mixed bitmaps, Jpegs and PNGs...the whole th


Windows Forms: Closeable TabControl

Today I needed to modify the UI of an application built by my company to enable the support for a multi-tabbed document interface (like the standard Visual Studio interface); since there’s no default support for displaying a close button (or co...