Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Working with Controls

Controls are the objects that you place on a form for users to interact with. If you've followed the examples in the previous hours, you've already added controls to a form. However, you'll be adding a lot of controls to forms, and it's important for you to understand all aspects of the process. Following the drill-down in this hour, the next two hours will teach you the ins and outs of the very cool controls provided by Visual C# .NET.

Adding Controls to a Form

All the controls that you can add to a form can be found in the toolbox. The toolbox appears as a docked window on the left side of the design environment by default. This location is useful when you're only occasionally adding controls to forms. However, when doing ...