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Chapter 18: Windows forms applications


Chapter 17<     > Chapter 19


Listings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Table of content:

Windows user interfaces
       Console applications vs. Windows applications
       Introduction to Windows messages
       Evolution of Windows applications development
       Introduction to the System.Windows.Forms namespace

Introduction to Windows Forms development
       Handling events
       Coding methods
       Windows Forms development without Visual Studio

Facilities to develop Windows Forms applications
       Introduction to modal/modeless dialogs
       Mouse and keyboard events
       The Paint event
       Asynchronous processing
       Some others featuress

Standard controls
       Hierarchy of Windows Forms 2 controls
       Overview of the new controls

Creating custom controls
       Using the custom control

Viewing and editing data
       Facilities provided by Visual Studio 2005
       The BindingSource control
       Harnessing a data source by using a BindingSource
       Using an object list as a data source

Windows Forms and localization

GDI+
       The System.Drawing.Graphics class
       The System.Drawing.Pen class
       The System.Drawing.Brush class
       Drawing text
       Handling images
       Optimized image processing
       Animation and double buffering



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