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Diff Doc compares files of all types of document formats - MS Word/PowerPoint/Excel, PDF,RTF, Text, XML, HTML, XML, Wordperfect and more.

[Via Jon Galloway's Blog]

The Person class includes a HairColor property that stores a Color object. Because a Color cannot be automatically serialized/deserialized using the .NET System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer class, the Color object is saved to the XML file as an HTML string, and converted back into a Color when the XML file is loaded.

sing System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

//To support binary serialization you need to 

// add the "[Serializable]" attribute

[Serializable]

public class Person

{

    private Color _HairColor = Color.Empty;

    // Initializes a new instance of the Person class.

    // (required for serialization)

    public Person()

    {

    }

    // Set serialization to ignore this property

        // because the 'HairColorHtml' property

        // is used instead to serialize

        // the 'HairColor' Color as an HTML string.

    [XmlIgnoreAttribute()]

    public Color HairColor

    {

        get

        {

            return _HairColor;

        }

        set

        {

            _HairColor = value;

        }

    }

    // Serializes the 'HairColor' Color to XML.

    [XmlElement("HairColor")]

    public string HairColorHtml

    {

        get 

        { 

            return

                ColorTranslator.ToHtml(_HairColor);

        }

        set 

        { 

            _HairColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml( value );

        }

    }

}

The Windows Forms team has posted .NET 2.0 versions of their UI clone apps, including:

 Quicken Look and Feel - Mike Harsh   
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Quicken

Outlook 2003 Look and Feel - Joe Stegman   
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook 2003. 

File Explorer Look and Feel - Joe Stegman   
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Windows File Explorer 

Microsoft Money Look and Feel - Joe Stegman   
This is a UI front end that has the look and feel of Microsoft Money 

Internet Explorer Look and Feel - Joe Stegman   
This is a Windows Forms app that looks like Internet Explorer 6 and uses the new WebBrowser control. 

[Via Chris Sells]

The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild.

[Via Paul Welter's Weblog]