Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Where Are We?

We've explored how to show forms, control their lifetime, size, and location, dictate their non-client adornments, manage main and context menus and child controls, make whole forms partially transparent and parts of forms completely transparent, arrange controls using anchoring, docking, splitting, and grouping, arrange MDI children in MDI parent forms, and package forms for reuse via visual inheritance. You might think that you know all there is to know about forms. However, you would be mistaken. Chapter 3 is all about using forms as dialogs.