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

Using Classes

Many classes included in the Framework class library (FCL) can be used within your application. Many of these classes provide methods, properties, and events that are used to perform specific tasks in your application.

The Application Class

An Application class provides properties that the code can use to obtain information about the current application (see Table 1.1), as well as provide methods to start and close an application, and to process windows messages (see Table 1.2).

Table 1.1. Important Static Properties of the Application Class

Property	Description
CompanyName	Company name associated with the application
CurrentCulture	Culture information for the current thread
CurrentInputLanguage	Input language for the current thread
ExecutablePath ...