Developing and Implementing Windows®-Based Applications with Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Studio® .NET Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-316)

Using the Windows Forms Designer

Because the .NET Framework supports development across multiple languages, it provides a common development interface for the creation of objects such as a Windows form. As seen in Figure 1.2, the Windows Forms Designer displays a form in Design view.

Figure 1.2. The Windows Forms Designer showing the default creation of Form1.

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Creating a Blank Form

To create a new Windows form, first launch Visual Studio .NET and then perform the following steps:

1.	Click the New Project button in the Start page or select File, New, Project from the Visual Studio .NET menu.
2.	Select Visual C# Projects as ...