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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 8. More Windows Controls

In this chapter, we'll continue our discussion of the basic Windows controls with the controls that implement the common dialog boxes and the RichTextBox control.

The .NET Framework provides a set of controls for displaying common dialog boxes, such as the Open or Color dialog boxes. Each of these controls encapsulates a large amount of functionality that would take a lot of code to duplicate. The common dialog controls are fundamental components because they enable you to design user interfaces with the look and feel of a Windows application.

Besides the common dialog boxes, we'll also explore the RichTextBox control, which is an advanced version of the TextBox control. The RichTextBox control provides all the functionality ...

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