Windows Forms Programming In Visual Basic.NET

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Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET is the ultimate guide to using the MS .NET forms package. Readers will learn how to build applications that take full advantage of both the rich user interface features of the MS 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.

When writing this book, we had two target audiences in mind. We wanted to provide real-world WinForms coverage for both the programmer who has already programmed in .NET and for the programmer who hasn’t. Toward that end, we briefly introduce core .NET topics as they come up. However, the .NET Framework itself is a large area that this book doesn’t pretend to cover completely. Instead, when we think more information would be useful, we reference another work that provides the full details. In particular, we find that we’ve referenced Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, a great deal, making it a good companion to this book. In this same category, we also recommend Pragmatic ADO.NET, by Shawn Wildermuth, Advanced .NET Remoting, by Ingo Rammer, .NET Web Services, by Keith Ballinger, and Applied MS .NET Framework Programming, by Jeffrey Richter.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Hello, Windows Forms
Chapter 02 - Forms
Chapter 03 - Dialogs
Chapter 04 - Drawing Basics
Chapter 05 - Drawing Text
Chapter 06 - Advanced Drawing
Chapter 07 - Printing
Chapter 08 - Controls
Chapter 09 - Design-Time Integration
Chapter 10 - Resources
Chapter 11 - Applications and Settings
Chapter 12 - Data Sets and Designer Support
Chapter 13 - Data Binding and Data Grids
Chapter 14 - Multithreaded User Interfaces
Chapter 15 - Web Deployment
Appendix A - Moving from VB6
Appendix B - Delegates and Events
Appendix C - Serialization Basics
Appendix D - Standard WinForms Components and Controls