Windows Forms Programming In Visual Basic .Net

By Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland

Publisher : Addison Wesley
Pub Date : October 24, 2003
ISBN : 0-321-12519-3
Pages : 736


"If you are just beginning to use WinForms, or even if you are already an experienced hand, you will find this book an antidote for confusion and a friendly companion on the road to writing modern applications."
—Alan Cooper, Father of Visual Basic

Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET is the ultimate guide to using the Microsoft .NET forms package. Readers will learn how to build applications that take full advantage of both the rich user interface features of the Microsoft Windows operating system and the deployment features traditionally associated with HTML-based applications.

Authors Chris Sells and Justin Gehtland draw upon their WinForms research and programming experience to go beyond the Windows Forms documentation to give you a clear picture of exactly how Visual Basic .NET programmers can use WinForms. Readers will gain an understanding of the rationale behind aspects of WinForms design and learn how to avoid or solve common problems. Throughout the book, detailed illustrations of WinForms user interface features and working code samples demonstrate best practices. All code has been tested with Visual Studio .NET 1.1 and is available at www.sellsbrothers.com, where readers will also find updates to the book.

This book focuses on the topics developers need to know in order to build real-world applications, including:
* Form layout
* Multiple top-level and non-rectangular windows
* Classes outside the System.Windows.Forms namespace, including System.Drawing and System.Security
* Custom drawing
* Hosting and building controls
* Design-time integration of controls and components
* Data binding
* Multithreaded user interfaces
* Deploying WinForms controls and applications over the Web
* Moving from Visual Basic 6

Well-written and easy to navigate, Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET is the tutorial for Windows programmers who are serious about mastering Windows Forms.

Copyright
Praise Page for Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft .NET Development Series
Titles in the Series
Figures
Tables
Foreword by Alan Cooper
Foreword by Ted Pattison
Preface
Who Should Read This Book?
Contact
Acknowledgments
Color Section
Chapter 1. Hello, Windows Forms
WinForms from Scratch
Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET
Arranging Controls
Controls
Application Settings
Resources
Dialogs
Drawing and Printing
Data Binding
Multithreaded User Interfaces
Deployment
Moving from VB6
Where Are We?
Chapter 2. Forms
Showing Forms
Form Lifetime
Form Size and Location
Form Adornments
Form Transparency
Form Menus
Child Controls
Layout
Multiple Document Interface
Visual Inheritance
Where Are We?
Chapter 3. Dialogs
Standard Dialogs
Styles
Data Exchange
Data Validation
Help
Where Are We?
Chapter 4. Drawing Basics
Drawing to the Screen
Colors
Brushes
Pens
Shapes
Paths
Images
Where Are We?
Chapter 5. Drawing Text
Fonts
Strings
Where Are We?
Chapter 6. Advanced Drawing
Page Units
Transforms
Regions
Optimized Drawing
Where Are We?
Chapter 7. Printing
Print Documents
Print Controllers
Basic Print Events
Margins
Page Settings
Printer Settings
Where Are We?
Chapter 8. Controls
Standard Controls
Custom Controls
User Controls
Drag and Drop
Where Are We?
Chapter 9. Design-Time Integration
Components
Design-Time Integration Basics
Extender Property Providers
Type Converters
UI Type Editors
Custom Designers
Where Are We?
Chapter 10. Resources
Resource Basics
Resource Localization
Where Are We?
Chapter 11. Applications and Settings
Applications
Environment
Settings
Where Are We?
Chapter 12. Data Sets and Designer Support
Data Sets
Designer Support
Typed Data Sets
Where Are We?
Chapter 13. Data Binding and Data Grids
Data Binding
Data Grids
Custom Data Sources
Where Are We?
Chapter 14. Multithreaded User Interfaces
Long-Running Operations
Asynchronous Web Services
Where Are We?
Chapter 15. Web Deployment
Hosting Controls in Internet Explorer
Code Access Security
No-Touch Deployment
Partially Trusted Assembly Considerations
Increasing Permissions
Authenticode
Where Are We?
Appendix A. Moving from VB6
A Few Words about Visual Basic 6.0
VB6 versus WinForms
Where Are We?
Appendix B. Delegates and Events
Delegates
Events
Happiness in the Universe
Appendix C. Serialization Basics
Streams
Formatters
ISerializable
Data Versioning
Appendix D. Standard WinForms Components and Controls
Components and Controls Defined
Standard Components
Standard Controls
Bibliography

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