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Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms & Custom Controls in VB 2005
Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in VB 2005 is the VB 2005 version of the author's best-selling and highly-reviewed Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#. Renowned author Matthew MacDonald shows you VB 2005 programmers how to design flexible, user-friendly Windows interfaces. And you'll learn the best practices and design
tips for coding these user interfaces.
Although this book is not a reference manual, it contains detailed discussions about user interface elements that you will use on a regular basis. You will learn to use .NET controls as well as to extend those .NET controls with your own custom controls.
PART 1 - Windows Forms Fundamentals
CHAPTER 1 User Interface Architecture
CHAPTER 2 Control Basics
CHAPTER 3 Forms
CHAPTER 4 The Classic Controls
CHAPTER 5 Images and Resources
CHAPTER 6 Lists and Trees
CHAPTER 7 Drawing with GDI+
CHAPTER 8 Data Binding
PART 2 - Custom Controls
CHAPTER 9 Custom Control Basics
CHAPTER 10 User Controls
CHAPTER 11 Derived Controls
CHAPTER 12 Owner-Drawn Controls
CHAPTER 13 Design-Time Support for Custom Controls
PART 3 - Modern Controls
CHAPTER 14 Tool, Menu, and Status Strips
CHAPTER 15 The DataGridView
CHAPTER 16 Sound and Video
CHAPTER 17 The WebBrowser
PART 4 - Windows Forms Techniques
CHAPTER 18 Validation and Masked Editing
CHAPTER 19 Multiple and Single Document Interfaces
CHAPTER 20 Multithreading
CHAPTER 21 Dynamic Interfaces and Layout Engines
CHAPTER 22 Help Systems
PART 5 - Advanced Custom Controls
CHAPTER 23 Skinned Forms and Animated Buttons
CHAPTER 24 Dynamic Drawing with a Design Surface
CHAPTER 25 Custom Extender Providers
CHAPTER 26 Advanced Design-Time Support
APPENDIX A Creating Usable Interfaces
APPENDIX B ClickOnce
INDEX
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