Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

14. Applications

Applications have special support in Windows forms. For starters, you can manage and tailor your application's lifetime, and, when the work flow is disrupted by an unhandled exception, you can choose from several methods of response. Then, there are several application models that you can employ, including Single Document Interface (SDI) and Multiple Document Interface (MDI) applications, each of which can support either multiple-instance or single-instance mode, the former the VS05 default and the latter requiring special consideration. All applications, however, can discover and use a wide variety of information about the system and environment they execute in.

This chapter focuses on these topics in depth, and starts by defining what an application actually is.