Chapter 6. Working with Windows Forms controls

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

As you learned in earlier chapters, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 controls are the graphical tools you use to build the user interface of a Visual Basic app. Controls are located in the IDE’s Toolbox, and you use controls to create objects on a page or a form. You customize them with property settings and event handlers. The controls that load into the Visual Studio Toolbox will depend on the type of application that you are creating.

If you open a new Windows desktop application project, ...

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