A.9. Summary
This chapter examined the process of building traditional desktop applications using the Windows Forms and GDI+ APIs, which have been part of the .NET Framework since version 1.0. At minimum, a Windows Forms application consists of a type-extending Form and a Main() method that interacts with the Application type.
When you want to populate your forms with UI elements (e.g., menu systems and GUI input controls), you do so by inserting new objects into the inherited Controls collection. This chapter also showed you how to capture mouse, keyboard, and rendering events. Along the way, you learned about the Graphics type and many ways to generate graphical data at runtime.
As mentioned in this chapter's overview, the Windows Forms API ...
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