- •brief contents
- •about this book
- •The Windows Forms namespace
- •Part 1: Hello Windows Forms
- •Part 2: Basic Windows Forms
- •Part 3: Advanced Windows Forms
- •Who should read this book?
- •Conventions
- •Action
- •Result
- •Source code downloads
- •Author online
- •acknowledgments
- •about .NET
- •Casting the .NET
- •Windows Forms overview
- •about the cover illustration
- •Hello Windows Forms
- •1.1 Programming in C#
- •1.1.1 Namespaces and classes
- •1.1.2 Constructors and methods
- •1.1.3 C# types
- •1.1.4 The entry point
- •1.1.5 The Application class
- •1.1.6 Program execution
- •1.2 Adding controls
- •1.2.1 Shortcuts and fully qualified names
- •1.2.2 Fields and properties
- •1.2.3 The Controls property
- •1.3 Loading files
- •1.3.1 Events
- •1.3.2 The OpenFileDialog class
- •1.3.3 Bitmap images
- •1.4 Resizing forms
- •1.4.1 Desktop layout properties
- •1.4.2 The Anchor property
- •1.4.3 The Dock property
- •1.5 Recap
- •2.1 Programming with Visual Studio .NET
- •2.1.1 Creating a project
- •Action
- •Result
- •2.1.2 Executing a program
- •Action
- •Result
- •2.1.3 Viewing the source code
- •View the code generated by Visual Studio .NET
- •Action
- •Result
- •2.2 Adding controls
- •2.2.1 The AssemblyInfo file
- •Action
- •Results
- •2.2.2 Renaming a form
- •Action
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- •2.2.3 The Toolbox window
- •Action
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- •2.3 Loading files
- •2.3.1 Event handlers in Visual Studio .NET
- •Action
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- •2.3.2 Exception handling
- •Action
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- •Results and Comments
- •2.4 Resizing forms
- •2.4.1 Assign the Anchor property
- •Action
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- •2.4.2 Assign the MinimumSize property
- •Action
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- •2.5 Recap
- •Basic Windows Forms
- •Menus
- •Action
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- •3.3 Click events
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- •3.5 Context menus
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •3.6 Recap
- •Status bars
- •4.1 The Control class
- •4.2 The StatusBar class
- •Action
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- •4.3.1 Adding panels to a status bar
- •Action
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- •4.5 Recap
- •Reusable libraries
- •5.1 C# classes and interfaces
- •5.2 Class libraries
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- •5.3 Interfaces revisited
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- •5.4 Robustness issues
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- •Common file dialogs
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- •6.3 Paint events
- •Action
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- •6.4 Context menus revisited
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- •6.5 Files and paths
- •Action
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- •6.6 Save file dialogs
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- •6.7 Open file dialogs
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- •6.8 Recap
- •Drawing and scrolling
- •7.1 Form class hierarchy
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- •7.4 Panels
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- •Dialog boxes
- •8.1 Message boxes
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •8.1.4 Creating A YesNoCancel dialog
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- •8.2 The Form.Close method
- •8.2.1 The relationship between Close and Dispose
- •Action
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- •8.3 Modal dialog boxes
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- •8.3.2 Preserving caption values
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- •Basic controls
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- •9.1.2 Creating a derived form
- •Action
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- •9.2 Labels and text boxes
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- •9.3.6 Adding AlbumEditDlg to our main form
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- •9.4 Recap
- •List controls
- •10.1 List boxes
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •10.2 Multiselection list boxes
- •10.2.1 Enabling multiple selection
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- •10.3 Combo boxes
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •10.4 Combo box edits
- •Action
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- •10.5 Owner-drawn lists
- •Action
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- •More controls
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- •11.2 Tab pages
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- •11.3.1 Dates and times
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- •11.5 Recap
- •A .NET assortment
- •12.1 Keyboard events
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •12.2 Mouse events
- •Action
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- •12.3 Image buttons
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- •12.4 Icons
- •Action
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- •12.5 Recap
- •Toolbars and tips
- •13.1 Toolbars
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- •13.4.2 Creating tool tips
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- •Advanced Windows Forms
- •List views
- •14.2 The ListView class
- •Action
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- •14.2.3 Populating a ListView
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- •14.3 ListView columns
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- •14.6 Recap
- •Tree views
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •15.3 Dynamic tree nodes
- •Action
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- •15.4 Node selection
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- •15.5 Fun with tree views
- •Action
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- •Multiple document interfaces
- •Action
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- •16.3 Merged menus
- •Action
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- •16.4 MDI children
- •Action
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- •16.5 MDI child window management
- •Action
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- •Action
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- •16.6 Recap
- •Data binding
- •17.1 Data grids
- •Action
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- •17.2 Data grid customization
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- •Odds and ends .NET
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- •18.2 Timers
- •Action
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- •18.3 Drag and drop
- •Action
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- •18.4 ActiveX controls
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- •18.5 Recap
- •C# primer
- •A.1 C# programs
- •A.1.1 Assemblies
- •A.1.2 Namespaces
- •A.2 Types
- •A.2.1 Classes
- •A.2.2 Structures
- •A.2.3 Interfaces
- •A.2.4 Enumerations
- •A.2.5 Delegates
- •A.3 Language elements
- •A.3.1 Built-in types
- •A.3.2 Operators
- •A.3.3 Keywords
- •A.4 Special features
- •A.4.1 Exceptions
- •A.4.2 Arrays
- •A.4.3 Main
- •A.4.4 Boxing
- •A.4.5 Documentation
- •.NET namespaces
- •B.1 System.Collections
- •B.2 System.ComponentModel
- •B.3 System.Data
- •B.4 System.Drawing
- •B.5 System.Globalization
- •B.6 System.IO
- •B.7 System.Net
- •B.8 System.Reflection
- •B.9 System.Resources
- •B.10 System.Security
- •B.11 System.Threading
- •B.12 System.Web
- •B.13 System.Windows.Forms
- •B.14 System.XML
- •Visual index
- •C.1 Objects
- •C.2 Marshal by reference objects
- •C.3 Components
- •C.4 Common dialogs
- •C.7 Event data
- •C.8 Enumerations
- •For more information
- •bibliography
- •Symbols
- •Index
SET THE VERSION NUMBER FOR THE MYPHOTOS PROJECT (continued)
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In your applications, you can set the build and revision numbers explicitly, or have
.NET generate them automatically. We will change the version number repeatedly throughout this book as a way to indicate which section of the book corresponds to the current application. You can change or not change the version number as you wish. On the book’s web site, these version numbers are used to identify the file associated with a specific section.
In your own applications, a version number identifies a specific instance of a product that your customers or friends are using. This is useful for documentation and support reasons, and for indicating to your customers when new features and functionality are added to a product. Note that it is common practice to include the version number in a dialog box, often called an About box, that is available from a top-level Help menu in an application.
Of course, the class Form1 is not the most descriptive name, so let’s rename this class next.
2.2.2Renaming a form
One other change before we add some controls to our form. Visual Studio created the class Form1 in our project. Let’s rename this file and associated class to MainForm.
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