Chapter 5. Creating Forms

In this chapter, we discuss forms, the basic element of a .NET Compact Framework GUI application, examining their unique characteristics and their role in providing the user interface.

What Are Forms?

.NET Compact Framework applications present information and receive input by displaying one or more forms to the user. These forms have a set of characteristics that make them unique among the object classes you encounter in .NET Compact Framework programming. These characteristics also make .NET Compact Framework forms somewhat different from desktop forms. What makes forms unique is that they:

  • Are derived, directly or indirectly, from System.Windows.Forms.Form

  • Support all inherited events

  • Are displayed full-screen on a Pocket ...

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