Windows Forms

Because so much of the infrastructure is provided by the base class, it is relatively easy to develop your own Windows Forms controls.

The ActiveX Control Importer converts type definitions in a COM type library for an ActiveX control into a Windows Forms control.

Application settings for Windows Forms make it easy to create, store, and maintain custom application and user preferences on the client.

Once you create a Windows Forms control, you can host it in an MFC application just as with an ActiveX control.

Describes how the design experience in the WPF Designer differs from that of the Windows Forms Designer.

The method to call when Windows Forms needs to check if the hosting environment is still sending messages.

To display Windows Forms or to display a control in a drop-down area from a property grid control in design mode.

Sufficient permissions to be able to create and run Windows Forms application projects on the computer where Visual Studio is installed.

Makes it possible for you to visually create your own Windows Forms control by combining existing controls.

Windows Forms has no equivalent of a command update mechanism.

Use this callback to tell Windows Forms if the hosting environment is still processing messages.

As you construct forms and controls for your Windows Forms application, there are many tasks you will perform repeatedly.

Windows Forms has no shell integration and does not respond to shell verbs.

As you design and modify the user interface of your Windows Forms applications, you will need to add, align, and position controls.

Windows Forms text boxes are used to get input from the user or to display text.

When it is added to a form, the FolderBrowserDialog component appears in the tray at the bottom of the Windows Forms Designer.

Note that you receive an error message from the Windows Forms Designer informing you that additional rows and columns cannot be created.

The following topics describe ClickOnce, a technology used for easily deploying Windows Forms applications to client computers.

This method is only called when the control is hosted in a Windows Forms application or as an ActiveX control.

The Windows Forms classes contained in the. NET Framework are designed to be used for GUI development.

The following links take you to Windows Forms community Web sites and forums that are hosted by the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).

User input into a Windows Forms can include potentially invalid, malformed, or malicious information.

However, ActiveX controls on Windows Forms cannot take advantage of these security enhancements.

You may notice unintended behavior if you do not apply this attribute to your Windows Forms application's Main method.

Provides reference information on the class, used for Windows Forms timers, and its members.

Callback methods resemble events in Windows Forms controls, but they are identified by an attribute in the XML of the UI element.

Using Internet Explorer to host the runtime enables you to embed managed components or Windows Forms controls in HTML documents.

HTML Help can be provided for components through the System. Windows. Forms. Help object.

Provides the security and threading support necessary for a Windows Forms control to act as a Microsoft ActiveX control.

This control will place an instance of the System. Windows. Forms. Timer class on your form.

This allows you to take advantage of the Windows Forms designer and run time to create rich form-based views.

Demonstrates how you can display database data in a worksheet, and how data access works the same way as it does in Windows Forms projects.

A user control is a collection of Windows Forms controls encapsulated into a common container.

Windows Forms support for this interface is only available through the BindingSource component.

Locate the file named "myApplication. Exe. Licenses" where myApplication is the name of your Windows Forms application.

The component will reside in the tray at the bottom of the Windows Forms Designer.

His company wanted to add an ASP. NET interface to the same database used by one of their Windows Forms applications.

Provides background information and samples to help users develop custom Windows Forms controls.

Windows Forms support for this interface is only available through the.

In the Windows Forms pane, click the View menu, and select Toolbox to see the collection of controls that may be used on the form.

The use of a Windows Forms control through a COM callable wrapper (CCW) is supported only in Internet Explorer.

This section provides background information and samples to help you develop Windows Forms controls.

In many cases, Windows Forms applications will be able to process all user input simply by handling these events.

Custom Controls are individual control elements on a form that derive from the System. Windows. Forms. Control class.

Specifies the appearance, text formatting, and behavior of a System. Windows. Forms. DataGrid control column.

The Windows Forms Class Viewer allows you to quickly look up information about a class or series of classes, based on a search pattern.

Windows Forms control to a Windows Form so the report can be viewed by users of the application.

Controls in Windows Forms are bound to a specific thread and are not thread safe.

This example creates and fills a Bitmap object and displays it in an existing Windows Forms PictureBox control.

Windows Forms uses permissions in its implementation of code access security to protect computer resources and sensitive information.

The Windows Forms Designer does not support dividing a designable type's definition into more than two partial implementations.

Component can be used to provide context-sensitive Help for controls on Windows Forms or specific controls.

The serializable format is specific to Windows Forms only and will not be recognized by applications created outside of Windows Forms.

The following code example assumes a Windows Forms application with a ReportViewer control and a button.

In a production environment, you store bitmap data as a resource, and your icons appear in the Windows Forms Designer.

This approach more accurately represents the behavior of a standard Windows Forms application.

For more information about grouping RadioButton controls, see Grouping Windows Forms RadioButton Controls to Function as a Set.

Visual Studio provides many dialog boxes to help design your Windows Forms applications.

Lists the dialog boxes provided by Visual Studio to help design your Windows Forms applications.

The actions pane is a Windows Forms control, as well as a container for other managed Windows Forms controls.

Windows Forms can take advantage of two types of data binding: simple binding and complex binding.

Use IDialogVisualizerService methods to display Windows forms, dialog boxes, and controls as part of your interface.

The timer events raised by this timer class are synchronous with respect to the rest of the code in your Windows Forms app.

You can add Windows Forms controls to your Word and Excel documents in the same manner that you add controls to Windows Forms.

Controls added to Windows Forms have properties and methods that are used to further specialize the user experience.

A similar approach can be used to invoke and launch any Windows Forms component from a WFC application.

Add Windows Forms controls that are bound to data to an actions pane control.

This timer is optimized for use in Windows Forms applications and must be used in a window.

Use the ToolStripControlHost class to host any other Windows Forms control in a ToolStrip.

Additionally, Windows Forms can act as the local user interface in a multi-tier distributed solution.

Windows Forms are a technology that do not yet provide the command-routing and document-view infrastructure found in MFC.

Accessing specific items in a Windows Forms combo box, list box, or checked list box is an essential task.

The ActiveX control properties take different values than the equivalent properties of a Windows Forms control.

The sample application sets the Interval property of the System. Windows. Forms. Timer class to 1000 milliseconds.

These. NET applications are often called Windows Forms applications, thick clients, or smart clients.

If you use multithreading in your Windows Forms applications, you must be careful to make calls to your controls in a thread-safe way.

If the MSDN Express Library is uninstalled, the Windows Forms Help documentation will not appear when viewing the. NET Framework Help.

You can transform an editable Windows Forms text box into a read-only control.

By "time consuming operation" I mean all those operations that, in a Windows Forms scenario, typically require a progress bar.

Control to create your own Windows Forms Designer that displays the designer-visible properties of the controls. Layout.

Informs the System. Windows. Forms. DataGrid that the user has begun editing the column.

How to protect a Windows Forms control so that it cannot be modified or deleted by the user, but can be accessed by your code.

Any Windows Forms control can be a child of the FlowLayoutPanel control, including other instances of FlowLayoutPanel.

Connecting to data sources over a network is a simple task with Windows Forms smart clients.

If you do not already have a reference to the System. Windows. Forms namespace in your component, add one.

It will sit in the tray at the bottom of the Windows Forms Designer.

The helper methods for adding the most common Windows Forms controls are provided to take care of this complexity for you.

A Windows Forms application specifies the position of a window on the screen in screen coordinates.

This package installs report viewer controls that you can use to add rich data reporting to Windows Forms and ASP. NET applications.

Methods to display Windows forms, dialogs, and controls as part of your interface.

Methods to display Windows forms, dialogs, and controls as part of your interface.

For more information about printing with Windows Forms, see the System. Drawing. Printing namespace overview.

Determining whether to add Windows Forms controls to your document, the actions pane or a Windows form depends on several factors.

There are several border styles to choose from when you are determining the appearance of your Windows Forms.

The visualizer you will create in this walkthrough displays the contents of a string using a Windows Forms message box.

Host items can be bound to data and are a container for controls such as host controls and Windows Forms controls.

Control enables you to add Web-style links to Windows Forms applications.

Document host item is a document that exposes events and acts as a container for host controls and Windows Forms controls.

Shows you how to add a report and a ReportViewer control to a Microsoft Windows Forms application and bind to a data table.

The name of the class from which the code object derives is used as an identifier (System. Windows. Forms. Form).

Describes interoperation between the WPF and Windows Forms technologies.

The Microsoft. Office. Tools. Word. Controls namespace contains a set of Windows Forms controls that can be used on a Document host item.

As you should already now, using Windows. Forms gets really ugly when you need to access the user interface from multiple threads.

Windows Forms controls cannot be programmatically added to protected documents.

Some Windows Forms controls will look the same on all operating systems; implementing EnableVisualStyles does not affect these controls.

The Control class is the base class for all controls used in a Windows Forms application.

Control allows you to add Web-style links to Windows Forms applications.

In any thread, the Windows. Forms. Control class should abstract me for any threading issue.

The following code example shows a simple application that illustrates how Windows Forms applications use controls and handle events.

Describes an editor for viewing and changing the list of nodes for a Windows Forms TreeView control.

Is an extensible class that implements the primary interfaces required for two-way Windows Forms data binding.

When you begin creating a user control, you are presented with a visible designer, upon which you can place standard Windows Forms controls.

They must be hosted by an application such as a Windows Forms project.

Provides links to Help pages about globalization of Windows Forms.

Otherwise, control of the application is returned to the Windows Forms message loop.

A complete Windows Forms code example contains a class derived from Form and a Main method.

Windows Forms includes a set of methods, events, and classes that implement drag-and-drop behavior.

Properties, which are relevant when the Windows Forms Designer generates a member variable for a component.

When you begin developing applications with a user interface, you can use either Windows Forms or Web Forms.

You cannot add Windows Forms controls to areas of a worksheet that are protected.

For more information about authoring custom controls, see Developing Custom Windows Forms Controls with the. NET Framework.

A Windows Forms application is built on classes from the System. Windows. Forms namespace.

This topic is designed to help you find code that demonstrates how to perform common programming tasks in Windows Forms applications.

It then fills the dataset in a Windows Forms application, using a predefined connection string and command.

The designers for Windows Forms and for Web Forms are containers for Windows Forms and for ASP. NET server controls.

If the Tag property is set through the Windows Forms designer, only text can be assigned.

Provides a collection of topics detailing the specific characteristics and usage of the Windows Forms controls.

Provides instructions for displaying text that flows from right to left on Windows Forms.

If this property is being set through the Windows Forms designer, only text can be assigned.

The Visual Studio project system provides considerable support for localizing Windows Forms applications.

Typically, you add Windows Forms controls to a user control, and then add the user control to the actions pane.

Gets the ApplicationContext object for the current thread of a Windows Forms application.

Forms applications use classes in the System. Windows. Forms namespace.

This redistributable package contains Windows Forms and ASP. NET Web server control versions of the Report Viewer.

This sample contains two projects: a Windows Forms client and a class library.

Windows Forms controls are not supported inside of a header or footer, or within a subdocument.

The code editor associated with the document in the designer is the same as the code editor you find behind Windows Forms.

Introduces the ReportViewer controls and compares the differences between the Web server control and Windows Forms control.

A composite control is a collection of Windows Forms controls encapsulated in a common container.

For a list of all the controls you can use on a form, see Controls to Use on Windows Forms.

The message loop provided by the COM client application is fundamentally different from the Windows Forms message loop.

A Windows Forms application specifies the position of points in a form or control using client coordinates.

Another way to debug a Windows Forms application is to start the application outside of Visual Studio and attach to it.

Gets or sets a value that specifies whether text rendering should be compatible with previous releases of Windows Forms.

And related namespaces contain the classes used in Windows Forms development.

Although Windows Forms have been optimized to host Windows Forms controls, you can still use ActiveX controls.

In Windows Forms, user input is sent to applications in the form of Windows messages.

The project system for Windows Forms applications can generate resource files for both the fallback and each desired additional UI culture.

Allows you to add Web-style links to Windows Forms applications.

This allows you to view the derived forms in the Windows Forms Designer.

This topic describes the types of key data that Windows Forms recognizes and provides an overview of how keyboard messages are routed.

When you run a Windows Forms application, it creates a new form, which then waits for events to be handled.

The following is an alphabetic list of helper methods that can be used to programmatically add Windows Forms controls to Excel documents.

See how the Windows Forms application was extended to the Pocket PC platform in this sample.

For more information about accessing application settings, see Application Settings for Windows Forms.

This sample is extended to launch a simple Windows Forms component on clicking a button or selecting a menu option.

VS Macros do not currently support Windows Forms.

The following table describes the improvements that have been made to Windows Forms controls in the. NET Compact Framework 3. 5.

In Windows Forms: A composite control that provides consistent behavior and user interface within or across applications.

In this step, you create a Windows Forms application project in which you will position instances of the clickcounter control on a form.

Specifies the Windows symbolic link format, which Windows Forms does not directly use.

The following code example shows the essential elements of a Windows Forms application.

Property of a Windows Forms control to anchor controls to the actions pane.

Discusses Tooltips as a way to make brief, specialized Help messages for individual controls on Windows Forms.

Use the System. Windows. Forms namespace for this example.

Discusses the advantages of smart-client applications and the main features of Windows Forms programming.

Lets users select a printer and choose which sections of the document to print from a Windows Forms application.

The following members have been added to Windows Forms classes within the. NET Framework.

The following code example collapses all rows in the System. Windows. Forms. DataGrid control.

For simple binding, Windows Forms supports binding to the public properties on the simple object.

Windows Forms Help contains complete code examples that you can compile and run with minimal setup.

All the Visual Studio languages can access the controls exposed by Windows Forms, ASP. NET server, and HTML server.

Can be used to provide individual Help for controls on Windows Forms.

However, registration of Windows Forms controls as ActiveX controls is not supported.

The Windows Forms RichTextBox control is used for displaying, entering, and manipulating text with formatting.

Describes the purpose of ClickOnce, and how it solves key problems in deploying Windows Forms applications to client computers.

The DataGridView control supports the standard Windows Forms data binding model, so it will bind to a variety of data sources.

Windows Forms controls use ambient properties so child controls can appear like their surrounding environment.

Windows Forms supports data binding control properties to public properties on the instance of an object using the Binding type.

The Windows Forms Designer provides a rapid development solution for creating Windows-based applications.

CT: We have a small example of a Windows Forms application (the Stoplight Simulator) that uses the container to inject services.

The following counters pertain to the System. Windows. Forms namespace.

Specifies the Windows culture format, which Windows Forms does not directly use.

The Project Designer property pages are located in the same middle pane used by the Windows Forms Designer and code editor.

Describes how to develop a simple Windows Forms application and how to download it to a smart device.

A representation of a Pocket PC device appears in the Windows Forms Designer.

Therefore, the default results they return might differ from those returned by Windows Forms and console applications.

The TextBoxState values are also used as an argument in the System. Windows. Forms. TextBoxRenderer. DrawTextBox method.

So, the best time to create the Windows Forms preview window is in the preview handler's constructor.

Specifically, at design time this property will be set by the Windows Forms designer to the value your monitor is currently using.

Most Windows Forms applications process keyboard input exclusively by handling the keyboard events.

Rename refactoring from the Property Grid of the Windows Forms Designer directly modifies your code.

It demonstrates how to intercept errors by handling the System. Windows. Forms. Binding. BindingComplete event of the Binding objects.

Provides detailed information about working with Windows Forms and console applications.

You can change the appearance of tabs in Windows Forms by using properties of the.

A custom control is a class that derives from System. Windows. Forms. Control that implements all aspects of a control.

In Windows Forms and Web Forms designers, this method is invoked when a user double-clicks a component.

On the All Windows Forms tab of the Toolbox, double-click Label to add a Label control to your form.

And its derived types are not Windows Forms controls, but some host Windows Forms controls.

You can only call this method before the first window is created by your Windows Forms application.

To program the StatusBar Control (Windows Forms) control to respond to user clicks, use a case statement within the PanelClick event.

After the Windows Forms DataGrid is connected to a database, you can monitor which cell the user clicked.

For more details on how user settings have been enabled in Windows Forms controls, see Chapter 5, "Constructing User Interfaces. "

This example needs to run in a Windows Forms application.

Within the Windows Forms Designer, you can view the forms within your project and their controls.

Contains classes that support design-time configuration and behavior for Windows Forms components.

Represents a Windows Forms checked list box that can be added to a Microsoft Office Word document.

Windows Forms are displayed on top of the document, often hiding the text and forcing user interaction.

Provides links to information about host items and adding Windows Forms controls and host controls to Word and Excel documents.

A smart tag anchor is a button that is displayed at the top-right edge of a component on the Windows Forms design surface.

You can display controls on the actions pane by adding Windows Forms controls to it.

Note that Visual Studio contains a number of different timers; in this case, use a Windows Forms Timer component.

For more information about application settings, see Application Settings for Windows Forms.

For this walkthrough, you need an actions pane control that contains data-bound Windows Forms controls.

Contains links to topics that describe more advanced concepts for creating Windows Forms applications.

Report Builder is a ClickOnce Windows Forms application deployed from the Report Server for centralized management.

Information about designing Windows Forms applications.

Provides examples of query notifications in Windows Forms applications and ASP. NET applications.

Applications - for help deciding between Windows Forms and Web Forms, see Choosing Between Windows Forms and Web Forms.

Describes the helper methods available for adding Windows Forms controls and host controls to Word and Excel documents.

If you split a worksheet window that contains Windows Forms controls, the controls might not behave similarly in both windows.

Provides a viewer for strongly typed resources, and demonstrates the use of resources in a Windows Forms application.

Obviously, if you create a console application project, it will not contain source code files for Windows Forms.

MFC Windows Forms integration works only in projects which link dynamically with MFC (projects in which AFXDLL is defined).

Changed pattern to properties of a Windows Forms user control.

Represents a Windows Forms button that can be added to a Microsoft Office Excel worksheet.

Microsoft offers extensive community support for Windows Forms developers.

Provides a synchronization context for the Windows Forms application model.

The following table lists Windows Forms controls and which event (Click or DoubleClick) is raised in response to the mouse action specified.

Designing an interface by using Windows Forms controls on an actions pane control.

Represents a Windows Forms Label that can be added to a Microsoft Office Excel worksheet.

Provides access to get and set option values for a Windows Forms designer.

Describes an editor for viewing and changing the list of columns for a Windows Forms ListView control.

If an existing control does not meet your needs, Windows Forms also supports creating your own custom controls using the UserControl class.

To assemble non-visual component classes in the same way that you assemble Windows Forms.

Double-click the item on the Windows Forms Designer for which you wish to create a handler.

Creates a Windows Forms control, a component that can be placed in a Windows Forms application.

Windows Forms and console applications use the default currency symbol specified on the operating system.

Provides information about working with Windows Forms and console applications.

Represents a Windows Forms button that can be added to a Microsoft Office Word document.

Visual Studio Tools for Office provides helper methods for the common Windows Forms controls.

Additionally, using ActiveX controls on Windows Forms requires writing to the registry.

You can delete most host controls in the same way you delete Windows Forms controls, by selecting the control and pressing the DELETE key.

The ReportViewer toolbar in the Windows Forms control includes commands for viewing a report in print layout and setting page sizes.

Composite controls can be placed on Windows Forms in the same manner as other controls.

Specifies the wave audio format, which Windows Forms does not directly use.

Provides step by step details on creating a custom control with attributes specific to working with Windows Forms data binding.

For more information, see Walkthrough: Debugging Custom Windows Forms Controls at Design Time.

Contains links to topics that describe basic concepts for creating Windows Forms applications.

It provides the infrastructure required for visual display in Windows Forms applications.