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Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls

The preceding two hours described how to work with forms in considerable detail. Forms are the foundation of a user interface, but are pretty much useless all by themselves. To create a functional interface, you'll need to use controls. Controls are the various widgets and doodads on a form with which a user interacts. Dozens of different types of controls exist, from the simple Label control used to display static text to the rather complicated Tree View control used to present trees of data like that found in Explorer. In this hour, I'll introduce you to the most common (and most simple) controls, which I call traditional controls. In the next hour, you'll learn about the more advanced controls ...