This time I'll be adding a few more properties to the InkPanel, including a way to change the mode of the Ink and some support for changing colours. As an added bonus, I'll add support for separate highlighting including a way to separate the highlights from the ordinary ink.

I recently had the opportunity to watch The .NET Show's latest installment, all about programming for the Tablet PC on .NET. The ease with which they added Ink support to an application in the show inspired me to try it for myself. I started by checking the internet for samples (as you do :) ), and found the Tablet PC Developer website.

I've long since given up on using RichTextBox for a code editor, but while I was investigating its use I came across a number of ways to improve it's functionality. I'll present these here in a series of posts on the subject.. first up is how to speed up the control's updating, as well as adding one little extra formatting option.

Looks like it's the season for talking about exceptions. Brad Abrams discusses them at some length, and now Joel Spolsky does the same (and with almost the exact opposite opinion). I seem to be cursed with the ability to see both sides of this issue. On the one hand, I like being able to throw an exception whenever an impossible condition comes up in running code (you know, when that if-statement you put in "just in case" goes off completely unexpectedly). On the other hand, I hate having to deal...