Windows Forms and the .NET Framework
.NET is a new development framework that provides a fresh application programming interface to the services and APIs of classic Windows operating systems and brings together several disparate technologies that emerged from Microsoft during the late 1990s. These new technologies include COM+ component services, a commitment to XML and object-oriented design, and a clean interface to the Internet.
To lay the foundation for a full understanding of Windows Forms, this chapter begins with an introduction to the .NET platform and a focus on the .NET Framework.
Windows Forms and the .NET Framework
Getting Started
Visual Studio .NET
- Overview
- Start Page
- Projects and Solutions
- The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Building and Running
Events
Windows Forms
- Windows Forms
- Web Applications Versus Windows Applications
- The Forms Namespace
- Form Properties
- Forms Inheritance
- User Interface Design
Dialog Boxes
- Dialog Boxes
- Modal Versus Modeless
- Form Properties
- DialogResult
- Termination Buttons
- Apply Button
- CommonDialog Classes
Controls: The Base Class
Mouse Interaction
Text and Fonts
Drawing and GDI+
Labels and Buttons
Text Controls
Other Basic Controls
TreeView and ListView
List Controls
Date and Time Controls
Custom Controls
- Custom Controls
- Specializing an Existing Control
- Creating a User Control
- Creating Custom Controls from Scratch
Menus and Bars
ADO.NET
- ADO.NET
- Bug Database: A Windows Application
- The ADO.NET Object Model
- Getting Started with ADO.NET
- Managed Providers
- Binding Data
- Data Reader
- Creating a DataGrid
Updating ADO.NET
- Updating ADO.NET
- Updating with SQL
- Updating Data with Transactions
- Updating Data Using DataSets
- Multiuser Updates
- Command Builder
Exceptions and Debugging
- Exceptions and Debugging
- Bugs Versus Exceptions
- Exceptions
- Throwing and Catching Exceptions
- Bugs
- Debugging in Visual Studio .NET
- Assert Yourself
Configuration and Deployment
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