Components Purposes

Components’ Purposes

By default, the Toolbox provides several tabs that group related components together. With such a large number of components at your fingertips, having categorized tabs sometimes makes finding a particular tool easier. Each tab also contains a Pointer tool.

The following table lists the tools in various Toolbox tabs. You can use this table to help decide which tool to use for a particular purpose.

Common Controls
Button	CheckBox	CheckedListBox	ComboBox
DateTimePicker	Label	LinkLabel	ListBox
ListView	MaskedTextBox	MonthCalendar	NotifyIcon
NumericUpDown	PictureBox	ProgressBar	RadioButton
RichTextBox	TextBox	ToolTip	TreeView
WebBrowser
Containers
FlowLayoutPanel	GroupBox	Panel	SplitContainer
TabControl	TableLayoutPanel
Menus and Toolbars
ContextMenuStrip	MenuStrip	StatusStrip	ToolStrip
ToolStripContainer
Data
DataSet	DataGridView	BindingSource	BindingNavigator
ReportViewer
Components
BackgroundWorker	DirectoryEntry	DirectorySearcher	ErrorProvider
EventLog	FileSystemWatcher	HelpProvider	ImageList
MessageQueue	PerformanceCounter	Process	SerialPort
ServiceController	Timer
Printing
PageSetupDialog	PrintDialog	PrintDocument	PrintPreviewControl
PrintPreviewDialog
Dialog Boxes
ColorDialog	FolderBrowserDialog	FontDialog	OpenFileDialog
SaveFileDialog
Crystal Reports
CrystalReportViewer	ReportDocument

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One other section, General, is initially empty.

The following sections describe the tools shown in Figure G-1. Except for the generic pointer tool, all tools are presented in alphabetical order.