Hour 8. Using Advanced Controls

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating timers

• Creating tabbed dialog boxes

• Storing pictures in an Image List control

• Building enhanced lists using the List View control

• Creating hierarchical lists with the Tree View control

The standard controls presented in Hour 7, "Working with Traditional Controls," enable you to build many types of functional forms. However, to create truly robust and interactive applications, you must 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.

By the Way

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