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Introduction to Windows Forms
.NET Does Windows | Adding Controls to a Form | A Peek behind the Scenes | Adding
Event Handling Code | Adding a Menu to the Form | Adding Non-Graphical Components
Taking Advantage of the Form Event Model
How C# Handles Events
| Exploring
Form and Control Events
Common Windows Forms Controls
Label, TextBox, and Button | CheckBox and RadioButton | ComboBox, ListBox, and
CheckedListBox | LinkLabel, NumericUpdown, PictureBox and ProgressBar
Exception Handling
Perspectives on Exception Handling | Getting Started with Exception Handling |
Catching Specific Exceptions | Raising Errors |
Running Code Unconditionally | Handling Unhandled Exceptions | Creating Exception
Classes
Working with Strings and Dates
Basic .NET Data Types | Working with Text: The String Class | Working with Dates
and Times
Accessing Data
Overview of ADO.NET | Connecting to Data | Executing Commands | Working with
Data | Choosing an ADO.NET Provider
Data Binding Techniques
Data Binding Basics | Creating a Data Source | Creating Data-Bound Forms | Data
Binding Components and Controls |
Displaying Data from Related Tables | Displaying Data from Lookup Tables | Adding
Search Capabilities to a Form | Filtering by Values from a Lookup Table | Data
Validation | Working with Local Data
Using the Data Controls
Data Controls | The BindingNavigator Control | The BindingSource Component |
The DataGridView Control | The ReportViewer Control
Handling Input/Output Tasks
Introducing the System.IO Namespace | Selecting Files | Browsing for Folders |
Handling Path Information | Working with Directories and Files | Using Stream-Based
Objects to Read and Write File Contents
Project Settings in Visual Studio 2005
The Project Designer | Application Properties | Compilation Properties | Debugging
Properties | Project References | Project Resources | Project Settings
Debugging Your Applications
Debugging Applications | Setting Breakpoints and Stepping through Code | Debugging
Code in Assemblies | Evaluating Variables and Objects | Edit and Continue | Tracing
Applications
Container
Controls
Introducing
Container Controls | Grouping Controls with the GroupBox
Control | Introducing the Panel Control | • Displaying Multiple
Panels with the SplitContainer Control | Laying out Panels
with the TabControl Control | • Simple Layout Using the FlowLayoutPanel
Control | Advanced Layout Using the TableLayoutPanel Control
Menus and Toolbars
Introducing the ToolStrips | Working with the ToolStrips
Creating MDI Applications
MDI Applications | MDI Parent and Child Forms | Managing Open Windows | Managing
Menus | Working with Open Forms
Complex Windows Forms Controls
Introducing Complex Controls | NotifyIcon Control | WebBrowser Control | MaskedTextBox
Control | RichTextBox Control | TreeView and ListView Controls | MonthCalendar
and DateTimePicker Controls
Creating Custom Controls
Control Creation in Windows Forms | Inheriting from an Existing Control | Drawing
Your Own Custom Controls | Creating Composite Controls
Working with Toolbox Components
Introducing Components | Timer Component | BackgroundWorker Component | FileSystemWatcher
Component | PerformanceCounter Component | Process Component | ServiceController
Component | EventLog Component
Interoperability
COM and .NET | Calling COM Objects from .NET | Calling .NET Assemblies from COM |
Using Platform Invoke | Web Services
Deploying
Applications Using Click-Once
ClickOnce
Deployment | Publishing an Application | Setting
Publish Options | Updating a Deployed Application |
What Happens When You Publish an Application? | What
Happens When You Publish an Update to an Application?
| ClickOnce and Security | Using the Deployment
API to Manage Updates
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