Windows Forms Programming in C#

Figure 1.1: WinForms Projects

Figure 1.2: The WinForms Designer

Figure 1.3: The Property Browser

Figure 1.4: List of Events

Figure 1.5: Nicely Laid-Out Form at Ideal Size

Figure 1.6: Nicely Laid-Out Form Resized

Figure 1.7: Setting the Anchor Property

Figure 1.8: Anchoring Text Boxes Top, Left, Right and Buttons Bottom, Right

Figure 1.9: Setting the Dock Property

Figure 1.10: Docking and Splitting

Figure 1.11: Adding a New Project to an Existing Solution

Figure 1.12: A User Control Shown in the Designer

Figure 1.13: Hosting a User Control

Figure 1.14: Dynamic Properties for MainForm

Figure 1.15: A Dialog Box (See Plate 1)

Figure 1.16: ErrorProvider Providing an Error (See Plate 2)

Figure 1.17: Custom Drawing (See Plate 3)

Figure 1.18: A Database Connection in Server Explorer

Figure 1.19: A DataGrid Bound to a Data Set

Figure 2.1: Owner-Owned Relationship

Figure 2.2: A Child ListBox Control Clipped to the Client Area of Its Parent Form

Figure 2.3: The DesktopLocation, Location, ClientSize, and Size Properties (See Plate 4)

Figure 2.4: Opacity (See Plate 5)

Figure 2.5: Form Shown in Front of Notepad with TransparencyKey Set to BackColor

Figure 2.6: TransparencyKey Combined with FormBorderStyle.None

Figure 2.7: The VS.NET Menu Designer

Figure 2.8: Context Menu Designer

Figure 2.9: Z-Order and Tab Order

Figure 2.10: Unthemed Buttons in Windows XP

Figure 2.11: Themed Buttons in Windows XP

Figure 2.12: WinForms FlatStyles

Figure 2.13: Customize Toolbox Dialog

Figure 2.14: COM Component Added to the Toolbox

Figure 2.15: A Sample Form at Normal Size Fonts

Figure 2.16: Increasing the Form's Font Size at Normal Size Fonts

Figure 2.17: The Sample Form at Large Size Fonts

Figure 2.18: All Controls Anchored Top, Left

Figure 2.19: Setting the Anchor Property in the Property Browser

Figure 2.20: Anchoring Settings before Widening

Figure 2.21: Anchoring Settings after Widening

Figure 2.22: A Docking Example

Figure 2.23: Setting the Dock Property in the Property Browser

Figure 2.24: Two Status Bars Docked to the Bottom Edge

Figure 2.25: TextBox Whose DockStyle.Fill Has Higher Docking Priority than StatusBar

Figure 2.26: An Example of Splitting (with Pointer Indicating a Potential Drag)

Figure 2.27: Horizontal Splitting

Figure 2.28: Grouping, Docking, and Anchoring

Figure 2.29: A TabControl with Two TabPage Controls

Figure 2.30: Custom Layout Example

Figure 2.31: Sample MDI Form

Figure 2.32: An MDI Child Management Menu

Figure 2.33: MDI Parent File Menu with No MDI Children

Figure 2.34: MDI Parent File Menu with an MDI Child

Figure 2.35: The Parent and Child Menus in the Designer

Figure 2.36: Mixing Docking and MDI

Figure 2.37: Base Class Used in Visual Inheritance

Figure 2.38: EditorForm Derived from BaseForm

Figure 2.39: The Inheritance Picker Dialog

Figure 3.1: Typical Main Window Form Settings

Figure 3.2: Typical Modal Form Settings

Figure 3.3: Typical Modal Form Settings

Figure 3.4: A Sample Form Used as a Dialog (See Plate 6)

Figure 3.5: Sample Use of the ErrorProvider Component

Figure 3.6: Using Tooltips

Figure 3.7: Combining the ToolTip Component with the ErrorProvider Component

Figure 3.8: Using HelpProvider to Implement the Help Button

Figure 3.9: Showing the loanAmount Subtopic

Figure 4.1: Ellipse Form before Resizing

Figure 4.2: Ellipse Form after Resizing

Figure 4.3: Sample Brushes (Plate 6)

Figure 4.4: Various TextureBrush WrapMode Values (See Plate 7)

Figure 4.5: Available Hatch Brush Styles Shown with Black Foreground and White Background

Figure 4.6: Normal, Triangle, and Bell Linear Gradient Brushes (See Plate 8)

Figure 4.7: Four Sample Uses of the PathGradientBrush Class (See Plate 9)

Figure 4.8: A PathGradientBrush with One Red Surrounding Point and Two Blue Ones (See Plate 10)

Figure 4.9: Examples from the LineCap Enumeration

Figure 4.10: Examples Using the DashStyle Enumeration

Figure 4.11: A Single Rectangle Drawn with a Pen Using a Compound Array

Figure 4.12: Pen Alignment Options (See Plate 11)

Figure 4.13: Sample PenJoin Values

Figure 4.14: Creating a Pen from a LinearGradientBrush

Figure 4.15: The Basic Shapes (See Plate 12)

Figure 4.16: Curves Drawn with Various Values of Tension

Figure 4.17: Three Bezier Curves Drawn Using the Same Set of Points in Different Orders

Figure 4.18: The Effect of Changing the SmoothingMode from AntiAlias to None

Figure 4.19: A Rounded Rectangle Composed of Arc Figures in a GraphicsPath Object (See Plate 13)

Figure 4.20: Starting a New Figure in a Path Without Closing the Current Figure (See Plate 14)

Figure 4.21: Figures That Overlap Completely Act Subtractively

Figure 4.22: Overlapping Figures and the Alternate FillMode (See Plate 15)

Figure 4.23: Scaling an Image Versus Clipping an Image

Figure 4.24: A Form That Pans an Image in Four Directions

Figure 4.25: An Example of Skewing an Image

Figure 4.26: The Rotating and Flipping Types from the RotateFlipType Enumeration (See Plate 16)

Figure 4.27: An Example of Mapping Color.Lime to Color.White (See Plate 17)

Figure 4.28: Using Color.Transparent in a Color Map (See Plate 18)

Figure 4.29: Sample Animation, First Frame

Figure 4.30: Sample Animation, Middle Frame

Figure 4.31: Sample Animation, Last Frame

Figure 4.32: Example of Drawing to an Image

Figure 4.33: Icon Properties from the SystemIcons Class as Shown under Windows XP

Figure 4.34: System Cursors from the Cursors Class

Figure 5.1: Automatic Word-Wrap Performed by DrawString Compared with Manual Word-Wrap Using Font.GetHeight (See Plate 19)

Figure 5.2: The Parts of a Font Family's Height

Figure 5.3: The Effect of the LineLimit StringFormatFlags Value

Figure 5.4: Examples of the StringTrimming Enumeration

Figure 5.5: StringDigitSubstitute Values as Applied to Thailand Thai

Figure 5.6: Examples of the TextRenderingHint Enumeration

Figure 5.7: Using a GraphicsPath Object to Simulate an Outline-Only Font

Figure 6.1: Manually Drawing in Inches

Figure 6.2: Scaling Font Height Independently of Font Width

Figure 6.3: Line from (0, 0) to (250, 0) Rotated by Degrees 0 “90

Figure 6.4: Line from (25, 25) to (275, 25) Rotated by Degrees 0 “90

Figure 6.5: Line from (25, 25) to (275, 25) Rotated by Degrees 0 “90 at (25, 25)

Figure 6.6: Rectangle(0, 0, 125, 125) Drawn at Two Origins

Figure 6.7: Drawing a Constant-Size Rectangle at Various Shearing Values

Figure 6.8: Path Flattening, Widening, and Warping

Figure 6.9: Rectangle Clipped to an Ellipse Region

Figure 6.10: Region Combination Operations

Figure 7.1: The Printing Dialog shown by the PrintControllerWithStatusDialog

Figure 7.2: The PreviewPrintController in use by the PrintPreviewControl

Figure 7.3: The PrintPreviewControl Hosted in a Custom Form

Figure 7.4: Previewing Multiple Pages at Once in PrintPreviewControl

Figure 7.5: The PrintPreviewDialog Component

Figure 7.6: Printing Multiple Pages

Figure 7.7: PageBounds Versus MarginBounds

Figure 7.8: PageSetupDialog Component with Default Page Settings

Figure 7.9: The PrintDialog Component

Figure 8.1: Custom Type Shown in a ListBox Control

Figure 8.2: Multicolumn ListView

Figure 8.3: A Parent Node and a Child Node in a TreeView Control

Figure 8.4: A DataGrid Showing a Collection of Custom Types

Figure 8.5: Container Controls in Action

Figure 8.6: A TreeView Using an ImageList

Figure 8.7: Owner-Drawn List Box

Figure 8.8: An Owner-Drawn List Box Using Variable Height

Figure 8.9: An Owner-Drawn Status Bar Panel Using ControlPaint

Figure 8.10: Customizing the Toolbox

Figure 8.11: Custom Controls Added to the Toolbox in VS.NET

Figure 8.12: The EllipseLabel Custom Control Hosted on a Form

Figure 8.13: Setting the Font Property on the EllipseLabel Control

Figure 8.14: Setting the Font Property on the Hosting Form

Figure 8.15: A Contained Control Overriding the Value of the Ambient Font Property

Figure 8.16: A Custom Property in the Property Browser

Figure 8.17: A Custom Event Shown in the Property Browser

Figure 8.18: DisplayRectangle Versus ClientRectangle (See Plate 20)

Figure 8.19: FileTextBox with a File That Does Not Exist (See Plate 21)

Figure 8.20: FileTextBox with a File Name That Does Exist (See Plate 22)

Figure 8.21: A Sample User Control in Action

Figure 8.22: A New User Control

Figure 8.23: The FileBrowseTextBox User Control in the Designer

Figure 8.24: Cryptic Drag-and-Drop Error Message

Figure 8.25: A Drag-and-Drop Operation Showing the None Effect

Figure 8.26: Drop Target Indicating the Copy Effect

Figure 8.27: Completed Drag-and-Drop Copy Operation

Figure 8.28: Dragging without Ctrl, Causing a Move

Figure 8.29: Dragging with Ctrl, Causing a Copy

Figure 8.30: After a Drag-and-Drop Move Operation

Figure 9.1: Locations of Components and Controls Hosted on a Form

Figure 9.2: The Timer Component Firing Every 100 Milliseconds

Figure 9.3: A New Component Design Surface

Figure 9.4: A Component Design Surface Hosting a Timer Component

Figure 9.5: Design-Time Architecture

Figure 9.6: Snazzy Clock Control

Figure 9.7: Design-Time Control Debugging

Figure 9.8: Default Toolbox Icon

Figure 9.9: New and Improved Toolbox Icon

Figure 9.10: Visual Studio.NET with a Clock Control Chosen

Figure 9.11: Alarm Property with CategoryAttribute and DescriptionAttribute Applied

Figure 9.12: Resetting a Property to Its Default Value

Figure 9.13: Default Property Highlighted in the Property Browser

Figure 9.14: Invalid Value Entered into the Property Browser

Figure 9.15: Form with Multiple Time Zones

Figure 9.16: One Provider Control for Each Client Control

Figure 9.17: One Provider Control for All Client Controls, Accessed with Code

Figure 9.18: One Provider Control for All Client Controls, Accessed with a Property Set

Figure 9.19: Extended Property in Action

Figure 9.20: The Property Browser and Design-Time Conversion

Figure 9.21: Enumeration Type Displayed in the Property Browser via EnumConverter

Figure 9.22: Complex Properties in the Property Browser

Figure 9.23: HandConverter in Action (See Plate 23)

Figure 9.24: Expanded Property Value

Figure 9.25: HandConverter Derived from ExpandableObjectConverter

Figure 9.26: Relationship between Root and Nested Properties and Design-Time Property Instance

Figure 9.27: Color Property Drop-Down UI Editor

Figure 9.28: Custom View Drop-Down UI Editor

Figure 9.29: The DigitalTimeFormat Property

Figure 9.30: Custom DigitalTimeFormat Modal UI Editor

Figure 9.31: Accessing a Modal UITypeEditor

Figure 9.32: Splitter Dashed Border When BorderStyle Is None

Figure 9.33: Splitter with BorderStyle.Fixed3D

Figure 9.34: Border Displayed from ClockControlDesigner

Figure 9.35: ShowBorder Property Value Serialized to the Host Form's Resource File

Figure 9.36: ShowBorder Option in the Property Browser

Figure 9.37: ShowBorder Option in the Property Browser and the Context Menu

Figure 10.1: Setting a File's Build Action to Embedded Resource

Figure 10.2: ildasm Showing an Embedded Manifest Resource

Figure 10.3: A VS.NET Project's Default Namespace

Figure 10.4: The Azul.jpg Resource File in the foo\bar Project Subfolder

Figure 10.5: How VS.NET Composes the Name of a Resource in a Project Subfolder

Figure 10.6: A Summary of Manifest Resource Naming and Name Resolution

Figure 10.7: Adding a .resx File to a Project

Figure 10.8: A Simple .resx File in the Data View of the Designer

Figure 10.9: An Embedded .resources File

Figure 10.10: Logical View of the Way ResourceManager Uses ResourceReader

Figure 10.11: Resource Naming and ResourceManager

Figure 10.12: A Component's .resx File

Figure 10.13: Localized Currencies and Dates

Figure 10.14: Choosing a Culture in the Property Browser

Figure 10.15: One Form with Localization Information for Several Cultures

Figure 10.16: Localizing a Form Using winres .exe

Figure 10.17: ildasm Showing a Culture-Specific Resource Satellite Assembly

Figure 10.18: The Resource Manager's Resource Resolution Algorithm

Figure 11.1: Default .NET Unhandled-Exception Dialog Box

Figure 11.2: Default WinForms Unhandled-Exception Dialog Box

Figure 11.3: Custom Unhandled-Exception Dialog

Figure 11.4: A Sample Multi- SDI Application

Figure 11.5: Assembly Properties Shown in the Shell

Figure 11.6: Dynamic Properties in the Property Browser

Figure 11.7: Dynamic Properties Dialog

Figure 11.8: Opacity Marked as a Dynamic Property

Figure 11.9: The Registry Editor

Figure 11.10: Using the Registry for User Settings

Figure 11.11: Using the Store Admin Tool to List Stores and Streams

Figure 12.1: .NET Data Architecture

Figure 12.2: Showing Retrieved Data

Figure 12.3: A Sample Relation between the Customers Table and the Orders Table

Figure 12.4: Showing the Results of GetChildRows Using a Relation

Figure 12.5: Data Toolbox

Figure 12.6: Data Link Properties Dialog

Figure 12.7: Command Properties

Figure 12.8: Query Builder

Figure 12.9: An Empty Typed Data Set

Figure 12.10: Server Explorer

Figure 12.11: Typed Data Set with New Tables

Figure 12.12: XML Schema Toolbox

Figure 12.13: Edit Key Dialog

Figure 12.14: Edit Relation Dialog

Figure 12.15: Typed Data Set with a New Relation

Figure 12.16: Adding a New Column to Be Used as an Expression Column

Figure 12.17: Adding a Typed Data Set to a Form

Figure 13.1: Complex Data Binding

Figure 13.2: Result of Complex Data Binding

Figure 13.3: Simple Data Binding

Figure 13.4: Simple Data Binding

Figure 13.5: Simple Data Binding to an Item Data Source

Figure 13.6: Simple Binding to a String Object

Figure 13.7: Simple Binding to the Length Property of a String Object

Figure 13.8: Binding the Text and Font Properties of a TextBox Control

Figure 13.9: Simple Data Binding to a List Data Source

Figure 13.10: Simple Data Binding to a Property of a List Data Source

Figure 13.11: Simple Binding to a Data Set

Figure 13.12: Adding a Data Binding in the Property Browser

Figure 13.13: A Currency Manager Maintaining a Position into a List Data Source

Figure 13.14: A Property Manager Managers Only a Single Item

Figure 13.15: Managing Currency

Figure 13.16: Two Controls Bound to the Same Data Source

Figure 13.17: Two Controls Bound to the Same Data Source Sharing the Same Currency Manager

Figure 13.18: Losing Focus Does Not Trigger an End to the Edit

Figure 13.19: Don't Use the dataset.table + Column Technique to Specify the Data Source

Figure 13.20: Use the Dataset + table.column Technique to Specify a Data Source

Figure 13.21: Using Data Binding to Populate a List Control

Figure 13.22: Binding to a Sort View

Figure 13.23: Binding to a Filtered View

Figure 13.24: Master-Detail Relations

Figure 13.25: Composing a Data Member from a Relation in the Property Browser

Figure 13.26: Binding to a DataGrid

Figure 13.27: Showing 3-D Data in a Data Grid

Figure 13.28: Showing Relations

Figure 13.29: Drilling Through Relations

Figure 13.30: DataGridTableStyle Collection Editor

Figure 13.31: DataGridColumnStyle Collection Editor with Added Columns

Figure 13.32: A Stylish Data Grid

Figure 13.33: The Data Grid Auto Format Dialog (See Plate 24)

Figure 13.34: An Example of What WinForms Provides for Data Programmers (See Plate 25)

Figure 13.35: Binding to a Custom Item Data Source

Figure 13.36: Binding to a Custom Item Data Source without a Conversion to String

Figure 13.37: Binding to a Custom Item Data Source with a Conversion to String

Figure 13.38: Binding to a Custom List Data Source without a String Conversion

Figure 13.39: Binding to a Custom List Data Source with a String Conversion

Figure 13.40: Binding Properties as Data Members

Figure 13.41: Showing the Top Level of an Object Hierarchy in a Data Grid

Figure 13.42: Showing the Second Level of an Object Hierarchy in a Data Grid

Figure 14.1: Digits of Pi Application

Figure 14.2: Calculating Pi to 1,000 Digits

Figure 14.3: No Paint for You!

Figure 14.4: Na ve Multithreading

Figure 14.5: Safe Multithreading

Figure 14.6: Letting the User Cancel a Long-Running Operation

Figure 14.7: The Result of a Canceled Call to the Pi Web Service

Figure 15.1: A WinForms Control Hosted in IE

Figure 15.2: The Sample Control Shown in the Designer

Figure 15.3: Default Internet Permission Set

Figure 15.4: The Game of Wahoo!

Figure 15.5: Debugging an NTD Application Using ieexec.exe

Figure 15.6: Adjusting .NET Security

Figure 15.7: Using the Internet Control Panel to Add Trusted Sites

Figure 15.8: Trusting All Assemblies Having the Same Public Key

Figure 15.9: How Much an Assembly Is Trusted

Figure 15.10: Setup Project Custom Actions

Figure 15.11: Choosing a Folder for a Custom Action

Figure 15.12: Choosing the Primary Output of Your Class Library Project to Act as a Custom Action

Figure 15.13: NET 1.1 NTD Security Settings

Figure A.1: A Sample Document-Based Genghis Application

Figure D.1: Components Versus Controls

Figure D.2: A Sample Usage of the ColorDialog Component

Figure D.3: A Sample Usage of the FontDialog Component

Figure D.4: A Sample Usage of the OpenFileDialog Component

Figure D.5: A Sample Usage of the SaveFileDialog Component

Figure D.6: A Sample Usage of the FolderBrowserDialog Component

Figure D.7: A Sample Usage of the NotifyIcon Component (See Plate 26)

Figure D.8: Image Collection Editor

Figure D.9: A Sample Usage of the ContextMenu Component

Figure D.10: A Sample Usage of the ErrorProvider Component

Figure D.11: A Sample Usage of the HelpProvider Component

Figure D.12: A Sample Usage of the ToolTip Component

Figure D.13: A Label Control in Action

Figure D.14: A LinkLabel Control in Action

Figure D.15: A TextBox Control in Action

Figure D.16: A Button Control in Action

Figure D.17: A CheckBox Control in Action

Figure D.18: A RadioButton Control in Action

Figure D.19: A PictureBox Control in Action

Figure D.20: A ListBox Control in Action

Figure D.21: A CheckedListBox Control in Action

Figure D.22: A ComboBox Control in Action

Figure D.23: A ListView Control in Action

Figure D.24: A TreeView Control in Action

Figure D.25: A DataGrid Control in Action

Figure D.26: A MonthCalendar Control in Action

Figure D.27: A DateTimePicker Control in Action

Figure D.28: A DateTimePicker with ShowUpDown Enabled

Figure D.29: An HScrollBar Control in Action

Figure D.30: A VScrollBar Control in Action

Figure D.31: A DomainUpDown Control in Action

Figure D.32: A NumericUpDown Control in Action

Figure D.33: A TrackBar Control in Action

Figure D.34: A ProgressBar Control in Action

Figure D.35: A RichTextBox Control in Action

Figure D.36: A PrintPreviewControl Control in Action

Figure D.37: A Splitter Control in Action

Figure D.38: A ToolBar Control in Action

Figure D.39: A StatusBar Control in Action

Figure D.40: A Panel Control in Action

Figure D.41: A GroupBox Control in Action

Figure D.42: A TabControl Control in Action