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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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A.6. Designing Dialog Boxes

Within a graphical user interface program, dialog boxes tend to be the primary way to capture user input for use within the application itself. Unlike other GUI APIs you might have used previously, there Windows Forms has no Dialog base class. Rather, dialog boxes under Windows Forms are simply types that derive from the Form class.

In addition, many dialog boxes are intended to be nonsizable; therefore, you typically want to set the FormBorderStyle property to FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog. Also, dialog boxes typically set the MinimizeBox and MaximizeBox properties to false. In this way, the dialog box is configured to be a fixed constant. Finally, if you set the ShowInTaskbar property to false, you will prevent the ...

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