Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic® .NET

Chapter 8. Screen Design

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Base Control Classes

• Creating the Startup Screen for Your Application

• Creating Menus

• Subclassing Controls

• Data Binding

• Innovative Screen Design

• Tools

There's a place where I go every day. I spend most of my time there. I know it so well that I can reach for things without looking, and there they are. I feel so at home that I hate to leave it. It's the Screen Designer—the Visual FoxPro Screen Designer, that is.

I'm warming up to the Visual Basic .NET Screen Designer. It certainly has everything you could want, and in fact has more controls, more IDE features, and more ways of doing things than does Visual FoxPro. But somehow, Visual FoxPro is cozy. And you can do almost anything with Visual FoxPro that you can ...