More About Controls

It's impossible to do a walkthrough of each control, but you now know the basic user interface controls and how to use them. Visual Studio .NET has many amazing new controls that you can use to make your user forms better than ever. Table 3.7 lists the remaining controls in the Toolbox that we didn't touch on today. Most of the controls share common properties with each other, and most are very self-explanatory. If you add a control to a form and aren't sure how to use it, remember to press the Ctrl+F1 key combination to get the dynamic Help for the control.

Table 3.7. Controls Available in Windows Forms
Control NameDescription
RichTextBoxEnables text to be displayed with formatting in plain text or rich text format (RTF).

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