Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox
The IDE offers some fantastic tools for building a graphical user interface (GUI) for your applications. Most GUIs consist of one or more forms (Windows) with various elements on the forms, such as text boxes and list boxes. The toolbox is used to place controls onto a form. The default toolbox you see when you first open or create a Visual C# .NET project is shown in Figure 2.14. 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 ...
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