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• Programming : .NET
• Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows

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For those of you who develop stand alone Windows applications for PCs and other devices, Microsoft's .NET Windows Forms provide a much better way to get it done. This new technology gives you more power and flexibility for a fraction of the effort compared to classic Win32 development, with a streamlined programming model that deals automatically with many tedious details that once plagued developers.

As with most things .NET, the only hitch is the learning curve. But that's where acclaimed author Jesse Liberty makes the difference with Programming .NET Windows Applications. With this tutorial, you will explore all aspects of using .NET Windows Forms class libraries and the associated programming tools in Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to build applications for the Windows 9x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP desktop platforms. Step-by-step, you'll learn ways to design applications that either function alone on a PC, or work in combination with your web-based application server to take advantage of the richer interface and higher level of security.

The book also explains how your new Windows applications can sidestep problems that used to arise from the use of DLLs (known collectively as "DLL hell"), and how .NET Windows Forms can be used as an alternative to ASP.NET and browser-based approaches for building web application clients.

Jesse Liberty definitely knows his stuff when it comes to the .NET platform. As the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# and Learning Visual Basic .NET, he's well-known for his clear and concise style that prompted one reviewer to say, "It's as if he knows exactly what questions I'm going to ask ahead of time." Jesse also co-authored Programming ASP.NET with contract programmer Dan Hurwitz, and now the two have teamed up again to bring you this comprehensive tutorial--without a doubt, the best source available for learning how to program with .NET Windows Forms.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Windows Forms and the .NET Framework
     The .NET Framework
     Windows Forms

2. Getting Started
     System Requirements
     Hello World

3. Visual Studio .NET
     Overview
     Start Page
     Projects and Solutions
     The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
     Building and Running

4. Events
     Publish and Subscribe
     Performance
     Some Examples

5. Windows Forms
     Web Applications Versus Windows Applications
     The Forms Namespace
     Form Properties
     Forms Inheritance
     User Interface Design

6. Dialog Boxes
     Modal Versus Modeless
     Form Properties
     DialogResult
     Termination Buttons
     Apply Button
     CommonDialog Classes

7. Controls: The Base Class
     Control Class

8. Mouse Interaction
     SystemInformation Properties
     Mouse Events

9. Text and Fonts
     Text
     Fonts

10. Drawing and GDI+
     The Drawing Namespace
     The Analog Clock Project

11. Labels and Buttons
     Label
     Button Classes

12. Text Controls
     Text
     Editable Text Controls: TextBoxBase
     RichTextBox

13. Other Basic Controls
     Containers
     Tabbed Pages
     PictureBox
     ScrollBar
     TrackBar
     Up-Down Controls
     ProgressBar

14. TreeView and ListView
     Class Hierarchy
     Splitter
     TreeView
     ListView

15. List Controls
     Class Hierarchy
     ListControls

16. Date and Time Controls
     Class Hierarchy
     Date and Time Values
     DateTimePicker
     MonthCalendar
     Timer Component

17. Custom Controls
     Specializing an Existing Control
     Creating a User Control
     Creating Custom Controls from Scratch

18. Menus and Bars
     Creating Your First Menu
     The MainMenu Object
     Toolbars
     Writing It by Hand
     Status Bars

19. 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

20. Updating ADO.NET
     Updating with SQL
     Updating Data with Transactions
     Updating Data Using DataSets
     Multiuser Updates
     Command Builder

21. Exceptions and Debugging
     Bugs Versus Exceptions
     Exceptions
     Throwing and Catching Exceptions
     Bugs
     Debugging in Visual Studio .NET
     Assert Yourself

22. Configuration and Deployment
     Class Hierarchy
     Configuration
     Assemblies
     Build Configurations
     Deployment

Appendix:. Characters and Keys

Index

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