I started programming before OWL existed (my first IDE was Turbo Pascal for CP/M on an Apple //e back in the early 80's). I went through Pascal (OWL), C++ (MFC), and then C# (WinForms, and currently WPF). I refuse to code for WinUI, simply because I have no desire to learn it. It took me a while to accept WPF (and I fought it HARD), but I find it easy to do (easier than WinForms in a lot of ways). I do all of my design work in the XAML editor (you can drag from the Toolbox pane to the XAML to get a new control on the page, and intellisense guides you when you start changing properties in the XAML, so it's not TOO bad). After two years away from desktop apps, I spent the last weekend doing a WPF version (proof of concept) of our web app from work, and the hardest part was making the app allow the user to adjust font size with Ctrl+ and Ctrl- like a web browser (we have to comply with Section 508 by allowing the font in an application to be increased by up to 200%). A few years ago, I wrote a custom message box library that allows the developer to specify text size and custom colors (among other features), and with a little tweaking, my message boxes use the increased font size. ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Huh? That's even momre confusing In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice, they never are.” If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind.

... "and remove". Total disaster. Breaks referential integrity. The only way to "remove" "codes" is to "expire" them with a start and end date. "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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Because we are experienced we must have seen all error messages, and can guess which one the OP is talking about.

a future possibly next project is an editor which will require text editing . i was not looking forward to this aspect of the project as transforming pixel positions to text will no doubt require various font dependencies which i barely understand . however i decided to challenge myself to implement an elegant and knowledgeable solution . further as the editor will also display non-displayable characters as Notepad++ does nicely yet more complications result . again i am challenging myself to find an elegant solution to this problem also . this is intended as an improvement of a prior project which handled only the simplest of fonts and characters .

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You don't need to change the zorder to put it "on top"; you just span the whole grid and then position it the way you want and add it to the (XAML) visual tree last. Or put a canvas behind it for abolute positioning. The button can be placed anywhere relative to the progress "widget" using the same priciples. As for "hit testable", you can "swallow" clicks anytime it simpifies things. (e.Handled = true or false). (If you can "close" the widget, it begs the question: how do you open it. Maybe the button should be on a top or side "command bar": an enable / disable toggle). "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

I've just seen you post, so sorry for the late reply. The answer is yes, you can. Blazor WASM (Web Assembly) enables you to do just that. I have written an article recently that demonstrates this with WPF, however WinForms can do the same. Here is the article: Blazing.Mvvm - Blazor WASM & Blazor Hybrid using the Community Toolkit[^] - ignore the fact that the article focuses on MVVM. The key thing for you, in the article, is not only proof of concept, but also how you can interact with the Blazor part from within your WinForms app and vice versa. IT is made possible by the BlazorWebView control. Microsoft have an article that shows you how to host Blazor within WinForms: Build a Windows Forms Blazor app | Microsoft Learn[^]. Be aware though, to do this, you need to work with .Net 7.0+, not .Net Framework. However, if you need to move from .Net Framework to .Net, then your app will receive an immediate performance boost due to improvements made to .Net - no legacy support. Graeme "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee

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It's a dependency, so I'd be inclined to inject the repo rather than the context. :) NB: Entity Framework supports asynchronous database queries, so it would be better to offer a FindAsync method on the repo, and get rid of the Task.Run call. public class ApplicationSecurity : IApplicationSecurity { private AppSecurityRepository _userRepo { get; } public ApplicationSecurity(AppSecurityRepository userRepo) { ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(nameof(userRepo)); \_userRepo = userRepo; } public async Task LoginAsync(CredentialsEntity credentials) { var user = await \_userRepo.FindAsync(x => x.UserName == credentials.UserName); if (user is null) return null; return Cryptography.VerifyHash(credentials.Password, user.Password, user.Hash) ? user : null; } } NB2: Why does your user entity have both a Password and a Hash property? I'd expect to see a "protected password" property, and possibly a "salt" property, depending on whether the salt is stored as a separate column or combined with the password hash. "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Excuse me for asking, but why would you still be using VS6? Seems to be a 20+ years old product and there have been innumerable versions after that. I seems to remember having used it long time ago but any memory has been lost in the darkness of time. I'm sure you must have a good reason and I'm asking only out of curiosity. Please don't misinterpret it as a critique or something. Mircea

Some businesses have invested a lot in building business applications that are strong support for their main business processes. It's not always easy to replace the solution which has been invested millions with some new technology even though it might be the new technology have some advantages. Actually, the idea of providing a possibility for developers who are already familiar with XAML (read WPF/Silverlight/UWP/WinUI) and don't have experience with HTML and CSS is good. As it is described in the introduction article XAML for Blazor, which is based on OpenSilver (www.opensilver.net - free opensource framework) is not intension to replace Blazor/Razor pages, but to provide a possibility for choice and XAML to go side by side with Razor.

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