Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Hour 6. Building Forms: Advanced Techniques

A form is just a canvas, and although you can tailor a form by setting its properties, you'll need to add controls to it to make it functional. In the preceding hour, you learned how to add forms to a project, how to set basic form properties, and how to show and hide forms. In this hour, you'll learn all about adding controls to a form, including arranging and aligning controls to create an attractive and functional interface. You also learn how to create advanced multiple document interfaces (MDIs), as used in applications such as Photoshop. After you complete the material in this hour, you'll be ready to learn the details about the various controls available in Visual C# .NET.

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