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