15.1. Designing Interactive GUI Applications
In this section we will see some of the Windows Forms control properties that are used in designing interactive Windows GUI applications. Before writing our sample application, we will discuss some common properties of the Control class.
15.1.1. Understanding the Control Class
The Control class provides the basic functionality and serves as the base class for Windows forms and controls. Although this class has many properties and methods, we will concentrate on only a few of them.
The ForeColor and BackColor properties determine the foreground and background colors of controls, respectively. Both properties are of type Color, and they implement get and set property options.
The Font property represents ...
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