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In this tutorial, I will briefly explain how to add animation effects to a windows form in C#. In order to animate a window in C#, we will need to call a native method using PInvoke.   Create a new Windows Forms Project AnimateWindow Function According to the MSDN Library, "the animate window function enables you to produce special effects when showing or hiding windows". There are only four types of animation that you can use. They are: roll, slide, collapse/expand, and alpha-blended fade. In order to call the AnimateWindow function, as already stated, we need to use PInvoke. This is the PInvoke signature for the AnimateWindow function (the using System.Runtime.InteropServices ; declaration is required)   Add this to the top of the "Form1" class. [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern bool AnimateWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int time, AnimateWindowFlags flags); Notice the "AnimateWindowFlags" parameter. This is a user-defined t

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Microsoft Windows Update is intelligent service integrated with every Windows Operating System. Windows Update based on your Windows 7 activation status lets you to download updates, patches and automatically updates your Windows 7. If for some reason your Windows Update stops working or you are working on computer not connected to internet, then you may miss some important critical updates & patches. To help to update Windows 7 offline here is WSUS Offline Update utility. WSUS Offline Update lets you to easily download patches and updates for your Windows and Office without going through the whole procedure on Microsoft’s Windows Update website. You can also download Windows 7 updates on USB drive and carry with you to install on computers not connected to internet. Features of WSUS Offline Update 1. Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP (32-64bit) 2. Supports Office XP, Office 2003 & 2007 3. Create ISO option 4. Clean download directories 5. Copy Updates to USB WS