Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET By Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thorsteinson, Dana L. Wyatt
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Chapter 7. Windows Forms
In this chapter, we learned how to implement a GUI using the Windows Forms classes of the .NET Framework. We began by using the .NET Framework SDK to create simple Windows applications from scratch. Controls can be instantiated , placed and sized on a form without the use of any special tools. The .NET event mechanism is used to handle user interaction such as button clicks.
Visual Studio .NET greatly simplifies Windows programming. The Forms Designer lets you drag controls from the Toolbox onto your forms, and you can set properties of the controls at design time. You can also easily add event handlers. Dialog boxes are a special kind of form, and you can pass information between a parent form and a dialog through the use of properties in the dialog. These forms can contain a number of different types of controls, and we examined several basic ones, such as buttons , textboxes and list boxes. Finally, we introduced a graphical version of the Acme Travel Agency case study.
