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

Summary

In this hour you learned how to present text to a user. You learned that the Label control is perfect for displaying static text (text the user can't enter) and that the text box is the control to use for displaying edited text. You can now create text boxes that contain many lines of text, and you know how to add scrollbars when the text is greater than what can be displayed in the control.

I don't think I've ever seen a window without at least one button on it. You've now learned how to add buttons to your forms and how to do some interesting things such as adding a picture to a button. For the most part, working with buttons is a simple matter of adding one to a form, settings its Name and Text properties, and adding some code to its ...