Chapter Programming with Windows Forms Department of Software Engineering Faculty of Information Technology Natural Sciences University Agenda Introduction Windows Forms How to handle events in Windows Forms Adding controls to forms (design-time) Dynamically adding controls to Forms (runtime) Using Complex Controls Creating GUI Components Working with Menu Creating MDI applications with Windows Forms Deploying Windows Forms Applications What is Windows Forms (a.k.a WinForms)? Windows Forms is part of the NET framework core classes in System.Windows.Forms namespace design-time support in various namespaces Windows Forms provides classes for building UIs e.g custom forms, common controls, standard dialogs Visual Studio NET provides tools for using Windows Forms templates for common starting places, and a visual designer Windows Forms Application Structure A Windows Forms application has three pieces the application itself forms in the application controls on the form Application mainForm MyForm Label label1 “Hell…” button1 Button “OK” System.Windows.Forms.Application The Application class represents the application itself no instances (all properties and methods are static) processes UI events delivered by Windows Run, DoEvents provides access to application environment ExecutablePath, StartupPath CommonAppDataPath, UserAppDataPath CommonAppDataRegistry, UserAppDataRegistry class MyApp { public static void Main() { MyForm form = new MyForm(); System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(form); } } Deploying Windows Forms Applications (cont) Creating a Windows Installer Package Setup project properties File Installation Management Registry Settings Management File Types Management User Interface Management Custom Actions Management Launch Condition Management References www.msdn.microsoft.com MS Press Microsoft Visual C Sharp Dot NET Step By Step Version.2003 - l-mcs301-200311-25 Sams Teach Yourself Visual.Studio.Dot.Net.2003.In.21Days - lstdn02-2003-7-11.rar FTP: 172.29.22.45 Username: sv Password: sv Directory: dotNET ... Microsoft Visual C Sharp Dot NET Step By Step Version.20 03 - l-mcs301-20 031 1-25 Sams Teach Yourself Visual.Studio.Dot.Net.20 03. In.21Days - lstdn02-20 03- 7-11.rar FTP: 172.29.22.45 Username: sv Password: