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

Summary

Visual C# .NET includes a number of controls that go beyond the standard functionality of the traditional controls discussed in Hour 7. In this hour, I discussed the most commonly used advanced controls. You learned how to use the Timer control to trigger events at predetermined intervals. You also learned how to use the Tab control to create the tabbed dialog boxes with which you're so familiar.

Also in this hour, you learned how to add pictures to an Image List control so that other controls can use them. The Image List makes it easy to share pictures among many controls, making it a very useful tool. Finally, you learned the basics of the List View and Tree View controls—two controls you can use to build high-end interfaces that present ...