Hour 8. Advanced Controls

The standard controls presented in the previous hour enable you to build many types of functional forms. However, to create truly robust and interactive applications, you've got to use the more advanced controls. As a Windows user , you've encountered many of these controls, such as the Tab control, which presents data on tabs, and the Tree View control, which displays hierarchical lists such as the one in Explorer. In this hour, you'll learn about these advanced controls and learn how to use them to make professional interfaces like those you're accustomed to seeing in commercial products.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

Creating timers
Creating tabbed dialog boxes
Storing pictures in an Image List
Building enhanced lists using the List View control
Creating hierarchical lists with the Tree View control

In many of the examples in this hour, I show you how to add items to collections at design time. Keep in mind that almost everything you can do at design time can also be accomplished with C# code at runtime.

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