December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 42m
English
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In Brief
Windows Forms (or WinForms) provide the ease of use and simplicity for GUI application development to .NET, traditionally available to Visual Basic developers only.
Windows Forms applications can be developed using any .NET-supported programming language; out-of-the-box languages include Visual Basic .NET, C#, Managed C++, and Visual J#.
Visual Studio .NET provides an integrated, common environment for visual design and development of Windows Forms applications for C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual J#, and Managed C++.
Windows Forms applications require zero installation; that means no registering of controls. A simple copy of the application executable and its associated control libraries is all that is required to install a Windows Forms ...