Beginning Visual C#supAND#174;/sup 2005

In this chapter, you visited some of the controls most commonly used for creating Windows applications, and you saw how they can be used to create simple, yet powerful, user interfaces. The chapter covered the properties and events of these controls, provided examples of their use, and explained how to add event handlers for the particular events of a control.

In this chapter, you learned how to:

• Use the Label and LinkedLabel controls to display information to users.

• Use the Button control and the corresponding Click event to allow the user to tell the application that they want some action to run.

• Use the TextBox and RichTextBox controls to allow the user to enter text either as plain or formatted text.

• Distinguish between the CheckBox and the RaidioButton and how to use them. You also learned how to group the two with the GroupBox control and how that affected the behavior of the controls.

• Use the CheckedListBox to provide lists from which the user can select items by clicking a check box. You also learned how to use the more common ListBox control to provide a list similar to that of the CheckedListBox control, but without the check boxes.

• Use the ListView and ImageList controls to provide a list that the users are able to view in a number of different ways.

• And finally you learned how to use the TabControl to group controls on different pages on the same form that the user is able to select at will.

In the next chapter, you look at some of the more complex controls and features of creating Windows Forms applications.