Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Reviewing the Forms Namespace

This section offers an overview of some of the members of the System.Windows.Forms namespace—as opposed to those in the System.Web namespace, commonly referred to as WebForms—that you will use frequently to design Windows applications.

Note

Visual Basic .NET allows you to write an Imports statement that includes the class name. For example, Imports System.Windows.Forms.Form is valid in Visual Basic .NET, but you can't use the class, Form, in C# (C Sharp).

A discussion of all the members of the System.Windows.Forms namespace and their respective elements would require a book of its own. Hence, we will limit our discussion to a sampling of the classes and other elements of the Forms namespace. For a complete reference, ...