Whether you’re a new or experienced developer, get the focused information you need to streamline application development using Windows Forms and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Award-winning author Charles Petzold illuminates the essential concepts and techniques for exploiting Windows Forms capabilities - offering concise, eloquent instruction as always, along with ample code examples in C#.
Discover how to:
* Understand the architecture of Windows Forms programs
* Add familiar Windows controls to your application, such as buttons, scroll bars, and text boxes
* Create toolbars, menus, and status bars, complete with text and bitmap images
* Enhance existing controls, combine multiple controls, or create custom controls from scratch
* Exploit dynamic layout with FlowLayoutPanel
* Support absolute, proportional, or auto-sized columns and rows with TableLayoutPanel
* Develop data-bound controls
* Display tabular data with the new DataGridView control - without writing extensive code
* PLUS - Build and deploy two real-world Windows Forms applications from the bottom up
Creating applications
The control cornucopia
Panels
Custom controls
Cruisin the strip
Data binding
Real applications
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