March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
32h 35m
English
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How This Book Is Structured
Part I of this book is a tutorial describing the fundamental concepts and classes in the Windows Forms API. It consists of the following 10 chapters:
- Chapter 1 , .NET and Windows Forms Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the .NET Framework (focusing on the parts that are relevant to Windows Forms developers) and the Windows Forms API.
- Chapter 2 , Controls
The Control class is at the heart of every Windows Forms application. Its role and usage are examined in detail in this chapter.
- Chapter 3 , Forms, Containers, and Applications
Forms are top-level windows, and almost all Windows Forms applications use Forms (hence the name). We examine Forms in their role as containers for controls. The chapter also discusses how form-based applications are constructed.
- Chapter 4 , Menus and Toolbars
Most nontrivial applications use menus and toolbars to present their functionality in a structured way. This chapter shows the relationship between menus, forms, and controls. It also describes the techniques for dynamically modifying menus in MDI applications.
- Chapter 5 , Building Controls
This chapter shows the techniques for building your own reusable user interface components. It describes both user controls (collections of other controls grouped into a reusable element) and custom controls, which give developers complete control over all aspects of the control’s appearance and behavior.
- Chapter 6 , Inheritance and Reuse
The .NET type system’s support ...
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