Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2012 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Hour 8. Using Advanced Controls

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Creating timers

• Creating tabbed dialog boxes

• Storing pictures in an Image List control

• Building enhanced lists using the List View control

• Creating hierarchical lists using the Tree View control

The standard controls presented in Hour 7, “Working with Traditional Controls,” enable you to build many types of functional forms. However, to create truly robust and interactive applications, you must use the more advanced controls. As a Windows user, you’ve encountered many of these controls, such as the Tab control, which presents data on tabs, and the Tree View control, which displays hierarchical lists such as the one in Explorer. In this hour, you’ll learn about these advanced ...