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Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in VB 2005 View Larger Image | Mathew MacDonald
Apress, Paperback, Published August 2006, 1080 pages, ISBN 1590596943 | List Price: $49.99
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Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in VB 2005 is the VB
2005 version of the author’s best-selling and highly-reviewed Pro
.NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#. Renowned author Matthew
MacDonald shows you VB 2005 programmers how to design flexible, user-friendly
Windows interfaces. And you’ll learn the best practices and design tips
for coding these user interfaces.
Although this book is not a reference manual, it contains detailed discussions
about user interface elements that you will use on a regular basis. You will
learn to use .NET controls as well as to extend those .NET controls with your
own custom controls.
Table of Contents
Foreword xxv
About the Author xxvii
About the Technical Reviewer xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
Introduction xxxiii
PART 1 Windows Forms Fundamentals
CHAPTER 1 User Interface Architecture 3
CHAPTER 2 Control Basics 41
CHAPTER 3 Forms 71
CHAPTER 4 The Classic Controls 109
CHAPTER 5 Images and Resources 151
CHAPTER 6 Lists and Trees 173
CHAPTER 7 Drawing with GDI+ 209
CHAPTER 8 Data Binding 263
PART 2 Custom Controls
CHAPTER 9 Custom Control Basics 321
CHAPTER 10 User Controls 337
CHAPTER 11 Derived Controls 365
CHAPTER 12 Owner-Drawn Controls 389
CHAPTER 13 Design-Time Support for Custom Controls 425
PART 3 Modern Controls
CHAPTER 14 Tool, Menu, and Status Strips 477
CHAPTER 15 The DataGridView 519
CHAPTER 16 Sound and Video 577
CHAPTER 17 The WebBrowser 589
PART 4 Windows Forms Techniques
CHAPTER 18 Validation and Masked Editing 611
CHAPTER 19 Multiple and Single Document Interfaces 651
CHAPTER 20 Multithreading 689
CHAPTER 21 Dynamic Interfaces and Layout Engines 729
CHAPTER 22 Help Systems 777
PART 5 Advanced Custom Controls
CHAPTER 23 Skinned Forms and Animated Buttons 811
CHAPTER 24 Dynamic Drawing with a Design Surface 839
CHAPTER 25 Custom Extender Providers 871
CHAPTER 26 Advanced Design-Time Support 885
APPENDIX A Creating Usable Interfaces 927
APPENDIX B ClickOnce 943
INDEX 963
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion
for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such
as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio
.NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET,
including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls,
The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly
remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.
Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to
p2p@prosetech.com.
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