Chapter 8. Screen Design

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IN THIS CHAPTER

  • The Base Control Classes

  • Creating the Startup Screen for Your Application

  • Creating Menus

  • Subclassing Controls

  • Data Binding

  • Innovative Screen Design

  • Tools

There's a place where I go every day. I spend most of my time there. I know it so well that I can reach for things without looking, and there they are. I feel so at home that I hate to leave it. It's the Screen Designer ”the Visual FoxPro Screen Designer, that is.

I'm warming up to the Visual Basic .NET Screen Designer. It certainly has everything you could want, and in fact has more controls, more IDE features, and more ways of doing things than does Visual FoxPro. But somehow, Visual FoxPro is cozy. And you can do almost anything with Visual FoxPro that you can with Visual Basic .NET.

In this chapter, we'll compare features more specifically . Screen controls, IDE features, toolbars , and toolboxes lend themselves to comparison at a micro level, unlike big topics like data handling, where the story is that everything is different.

I'm going to start with the basic controls and menus, then move up to the design of control classes and screen classes, and then to data binding. Finally, I'll touch on how you can go beyond basics to create really innovative form designs.

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Visual Fox Pro to Visual Basic.NET
Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET
ISBN: 0672326493
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 130
Authors: Les Pinter

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