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Windows Forms 2.0 Programming
By Chris Sells, Michael Weinhardt
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: May 16, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-3212-6796-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-26796-2
Pages: 1296

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Microsoft .NET Development Series
		About the Authors
		Foreword
		Preface
		Chapter 1.  Hello, Windows Forms
			Windows Forms from Scratch
			Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET
			Arranging Controls
			Controls
			Application Settings
			Resources
			Dialogs
			Drawing
			Printing
			Data Binding
			Multithreaded User Interfaces
			Deployment
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 2.  Forms
			Showing Forms
			Form Lifetime
			Form Notification
			Form Size and Location
			Form Adornments
			Form Transparency
			Form and Context Menus
			Tool Strips
			Status Strips
			Multiple Document Interface Applications
			Visual Inheritance
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 3.  Dialogs
			Standard Dialogs
			Form Styles
			Data Exchange
			Data Validation
			Implementing Help
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 4.  Layout
			Fixed Layout
			Dynamic Layout
			Layout Controls
			Layout Optimization
			Custom Layout
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 5.  Drawing Basics
			Drawing to the Screen
			Colors
			Brushes
			Pens
			Shapes
			Paths
			Images
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 6.  Drawing Text
			Fonts
			Strings
			The TextRenderer
			A Tale of Two Technologies
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 7.  Advanced Drawing
			Page Units
			Transforms
			Regions
			Optimized Drawing
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 8.  Printing
			Print Documents
			Print Controllers
			Basic Print Events
			Margins
			Page Settings
			Printer Settings
			Useful Printing Techniques
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 9.  Components
			Components Defined
			Using Components
			Creating Custom Components
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 10.  Controls
			Controls Defined
			Using Controls
			Themed Controls
			Owner-Drawn Controls
			Extending Existing Controls
			Custom Controls
			User Controls
			Hosting COM Controls
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 11.  Design-Time Integration: The Properties Window
			Design-Time Components
			Hosts, Containers, and Sites
			Debugging Design-Time Functionality
			The DesignMode Property
			Attributes
			Code Serialization
			Batch Initialization
			Extender Property Providers
			Type Converters
			UI Type Editors
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 12.  Design-Time Integration: Designers and Smart Tags
			Designers
			Smart Tags
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 13.  Resources
			Resource Basics
			Strongly Typed Resources
			Application Internationalization
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 14.  Applications
			Applications
			Single-Instance Applications
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 15.  Settings
			The Application Environment
			Application, User, and Roaming-User Settings
			Strongly Typed Settings
			Using Strongly Typed Settings
			Designer Settings
			Alternative Storage for Settings
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 16.  Data Binding Basics
			The Land before Data Binding
			Simple Data Binding and Item Data Sources
			Simple Binding and List Data Sources
			Complex Binding and List Data Sources
			IBindingList
			BindingList<T>
			The BindingSource Component
			Design-Time Data Sources
			Binding UI Elements in the Designer
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 17.  Applied Data Binding
			Drag-and-Drop Data Binding
			Fundamentals of Data-Bound UIs
			Data Views
			Real-World Data-Bound UIs
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 18.  Multithreaded User Interfaces
			Long-Running Operations
			Asynchronous Web Services
			Where Are We?
		Chapter 19.  ClickOnce Deployment
			A Day in the Life of ClickOnce Deployment
			ClickOnce Configuration
			ClickOnce Security
			Managing Permissions
			Considerations for Partially Trusted Assemblies
			Processing Command Line Arguments
			Where Are We?
		Appendix A.  What's New in Windows Forms 2.0
			A Few Words About Windows Forms
			Windows Forms 2.0 Enhancements
			Windows Forms 2.0: The Improvements
		Appendix B.  Moving from MFC
			A Few Words About MFC
			MFC Versus Windows Forms
			MFC and Windows Forms Interop
			Windows Forms as a Better MFC
		Appendix C.  Delegates and Events
			Delegates
			Events
			Anonymous Delegates
			Happiness in the Universe
		Appendix D.  Component and Control Survey
			Components
			Controls
		Appendix E.  Drag and Drop
			Enabling Drag and Drop
			Adding Support for Multiple Drag-and-Drop Effects
			Customizing Drag and Drop
			Drag and Drop of Multiple Data Items
			File Drag and Drop
		Appendix F.  Document Management
			The FileDocument Component
			Shell Integration
			The MruMenuManager Component
			Opening Files Dragged and Dropped from the Shell
		Bibliography
		Color Insert
		Index