Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference

SUMMARY

The WPF Designer allows you to build windows for use in WPF applications. It lets you add controls to the window, and to resize, move, and align the controls. Together with the Properties window, it lets you view and modify control properties, and create event handlers to interact with the controls.

This chapter introduced the WPF Designer and explained how you can take advantage of its features. Other chapters provide much more of the detail that is necessary for building windows. Chapter 10, “Selecting WPF Controls,” and Chapter 11, “Using WPF Controls,” provide more information about the kinds of controls you can use with the WPF Designer. Chapter 12, “WPF Windows,” says more about WPF windows and pages.

The Windows Forms Designer and the WPF Designer let you add controls to forms and windows, respectively, but almost no program consists solely of controls. Most programs also include code behind the scenes to take action when different events occur, such as the user pressing a button. Chapter 5, “Visual Basic Code Editor,” describes the code editor that you can use to edit the code that sits behind Windows Forms and WPF control events. Later chapters explain the Visual Basic language that you use within the code editor.