Chapter 3.2. User Interface Components

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IN THIS CHAPTER

Dialogs
Creating Dialogs
Using Controls

In this chapter, we will be showing you a good selection of the standard controls available, how to place and use them, how to add handlers for some of the more useful events, and how to create an application with some nice user interface features.

Windows Forms has a lot of standard user interface components that can be used in your applications. As you might expect, many of them are far more advanced through evolution than their Win32 counterparts. There are dialogs, list boxes, tree controls, panels, labels, toolbars , and many more. There is a large selection of common dialog controls including file selection, color picker, font style, and print dialogs. After a menu format, the dialog box is probably the most widely employed user interface item. Let's examine them more closely now.

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