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With this tutorial, you will explore all aspects of using .NET Windows Forms class libraries and the associated programming tools in Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to build applications for the Windows 9x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP desktop platforms. Step-by-step, you'll learn ways to design applications that either function alone on a PC, or work in combination with your web-based application server to take advantage of the richer interface and higher level of security.

•	Table of Contents
•	Index
•	Reviews
•	Examples
•	Reader Reviews
•	Errata
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Programming .NET Windows Applications
By Dan Hurwitz, Jesse Liberty
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: October 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00321-8
Pages	: 1246
				Copyright
		Preface
			About This Book
			How the Book Is Organized
			Who This Book Is for
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Version Support
			Support: A Note From Jesse Liberty
			We'd Like to Hear from You
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Windows Forms and the .NET Framework
			Section 1.1.  The .NET Framework
			Section 1.2.  Windows Forms
		Chapter 2.  Getting Started
			Section 2.1.  System Requirements
			Section 2.2.  Hello World
		Chapter 3.  Visual Studio .NET
			Section 3.1.  Overview
			Section 3.2.  Start Page
			Section 3.3.  Projects and Solutions
			Section 3.4.  The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
			Section 3.5.  Building and Running
		Chapter 4.  Events
			Section 4.1.  Publish and Subscribe
			Section 4.2.  Performance
			Section 4.3.  Some Examples
		Chapter 5.  Windows Forms
			Section 5.1.  Web Applications Versus Windows Applications
			Section 5.2.  The Forms Namespace
			Section 5.3.  Form Properties
			Section 5.4.  Forms Inheritance
			Section 5.5.  User Interface Design
		Chapter 6.  Dialog Boxes
			Section 6.1.  Modal Versus Modeless
			Section 6.2.  Form Properties
			Section 6.3.  DialogResult
			Section 6.4.  Termination Buttons
			Section 6.5.  Apply Button
			Section 6.6.  CommonDialog Classes
		Chapter 7.  Controls: The Base Class
			Section 7.1.  Control Class
		Chapter 8.  Mouse Interaction
			Section 8.1.  SystemInformation Properties
			Section 8.2.  Mouse Events
		Chapter 9.  Text and Fonts
			Section 9.1.  Text
			Section 9.2.  Fonts
		Chapter 10.  Drawing and GDI+
			Section 10.1.  The Drawing Namespace
			Section 10.2.  The Analog Clock Project
		Chapter 11.  Labels and Buttons
			Section 11.1.  Label
			Section 11.2.  Button Classes
		Chapter 12.  Text Controls
			Section 12.1.  Text
			Section 12.2.  Editable Text Controls: TextBoxBase
			Section 12.3.  RichTextBox
		Chapter 13.  Other Basic Controls
			Section 13.1.  Containers
			Section 13.2.  Tabbed Pages
			Section 13.3.  PictureBox
			Section 13.4.  ScrollBar
			Section 13.5.  TrackBar
			Section 13.6.  Up-Down Controls
			Section 13.7.  ProgressBar
		Chapter 14.  TreeView and ListView
			Section 14.1.  Class Hierarchy
			Section 14.2.  Splitter
			Section 14.3.  TreeView
			Section 14.4.  ListView
		Chapter 15.  List Controls
			Section 15.1.  Class Hierarchy
			Section 15.2.  ListControls
		Chapter 16.  Date and Time Controls
			Section 16.1.  Class Hierarchy
			Section 16.2.  Date and Time Values
			Section 16.3.  DateTimePicker
			Section 16.4.  MonthCalendar
			Section 16.5.  Timer Component
		Chapter 17.  Custom Controls
			Section 17.1.  Specializing an Existing Control
			Section 17.2.  Creating a User Control
			Section 17.3.  Creating Custom Controls from Scratch
		Chapter 18.  Menus and Bars
			Section 18.1.  Creating Your First Menu
			Section 18.2.  The MainMenu Object
			Section 18.3.  Toolbars
			Section 18.4.  Writing It by Hand
			Section 18.5.  Status Bars
		Chapter 19.  ADO.NET
			Section 19.1.  Bug Database: A Windows Application
			Section 19.2.  The ADO.NET Object Model
			Section 19.3.  Getting Started with ADO.NET
			Section 19.4.  Managed Providers
			Section 19.5.  Binding Data
			Section 19.6.  Data Reader
			Section 19.7.  Creating a DataGrid
		Chapter 20.  Updating ADO.NET
			Section 20.1.  Updating with SQL
			Section 20.2.  Updating Data with Transactions
			Section 20.3.  Updating Data Using DataSets
			Section 20.4.  Multiuser Updates
			Section 20.5.  Command Builder
		Chapter 21.  Exceptions and Debugging
			Section 21.1.  Bugs Versus Exceptions
			Section 21.2.  Exceptions
			Section 21.3.  Throwing and Catching Exceptions
			Section 21.4.  Bugs
			Section 21.5.  Debugging in Visual Studio .NET
			Section 21.6.  Assert Yourself
		Chapter 22.  Configuration and Deployment
			Section 22.1.  Class Hierarchy
			Section 22.2.  Configuration
			Section 22.3.  Assemblies
			Section 22.4.  Build Configurations
			Section 22.5.  Deployment
		Appendix A.  Characters and Keys
		Colophon
		Index