Programming Microsoft Windows Forms

Whether you're a new or experienced developer, get the focused information you need to streamline application development using Windows Forms and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Award-winning author Charles Petzold illuminates the essential concepts and techniques for exploiting Windows Forms capabilities-offering concise, eloquent instruction as always, along with ample code examples in C#. Discover how to: * Understand the architecture of Windows Forms programs * Add familiar Windows controls to your application, such as buttons, scroll bars, and text boxes * Create toolbars, menus, and status bars, complete with text and bitmap images * Enhance existing controls, combine multiple controls, or create custom controls from scratch * Exploit dynamic layout with FlowLayoutPanel * Support absolute, proportional, or auto-sized columns and rows with TableLayoutPanel * Develop data-bound controls * Display tabular data with the new DataGridView control-without writing extensive code * PLUS-Build and deploy two real-world Windows Forms applications from the bottom up