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Teach Yourself .NET Windows Forms in 21 Days
.NET Windows Forms are a new programming paradigm introduced with Microsoft's .NET initiative. Windows Forms are very similar to Web Forms, which allow programmers to build complex Web application interfaces easily, sharing the same underlying framework and programming concepts. Windows Forms, however, are used for the Win32 platform, instead of the
Internet, and allow programmers to build traditional Windows desktop-based applications structured around .NET.
This book will cover all the major aspects of Windows Forms necessary to build professional, functional applications. This book follows the tried-and-tested 21 Days tutorial model to guide readers through Windows Forms. It features code examples and tips for programmers migrating from pre-Windows Forms Microsoft technologies.
The reader will be introduced to the many controls available for .NET Windows Forms and how to build them, learn how to create events and event handlers, explore ADO.NET and methods to retrieve data from dynamic data sources, and learn how to take advantage of the Internet and Internet Explorer from their .NET Windows Forms applications. As readers advance through the tutorials, they progress toward more advanced topics and projects by creating simple graphical applications and enhancing existing ones, learn how to integrate with other .NET applications, use Web services, build Windows services, build Windows forms controls, create multi-threaded applications, work with COM and COM+, configure and deploy .NET Windows Forms, and how to de-bug .NET Windows Forms.
Table of Contents:
Getting started
Building Windows forms applocations
Menus
Handling events
Dialog boxes
Using ADO.NET
Creating MDI applications
GDI+
Using ActiveX
Using web services
Creating multithreaded applications
Debugging your Windows forms
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