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Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox

The toolbox is used to place controls, such as the common text box and list box, onto a form. The default toolbox you see when you first run C# is shown in Figure 2.13. The buttons labeled Data, Components, Windows Forms, and so on are actually tabs, although they don't look like standard tabs. Clicking any of these tabs causes a related set of controls to appear. The default tab is the Windows Forms tab, and it contains many great controls you can place on Windows forms (the forms used to build Windows applications, in contrast to Web applications). All the controls that appear by default on the tabs are included with C#, and these controls are discussed in detail in Hour 7, “Working with Traditional ...