Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Where Are We?

WinForms provides a great deal of functionality, as this chapter has shown. Not only does it give you the basics needed to build applications, forms, controls, resources, and dialogs, but it also provides advanced features such as anchoring, docking, splitting, user controls, print preview, data binding, and Web deployment, along with wizards to get you started and a Form Designer to let you visually develop your look and feel. And, where WinForms stops, the rest of the .NET Framework steps in to provide drawing, object serialization, threading, security, and tons of other bits of functionality in thousands of classes and components. One book can't cover all of those, but I'll show you what you need to know to write real WinForms ...