Designing GUI Applications with Windows Forms
by Ronnie Yates, Erik Rubin
Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework Kick Start
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- Setting Up Your Development Environment
- Introducing the .NET Compact Framework
- Designing GUI Applications with Windows Forms
- Investigating Unsupported Controls in the .NET Compact Framework
- Investigating Unsupported System.Windows.Forms Functionality in the .NET Compact Framework
- Working with the Visual Studio .NET Form Designer
- Understanding the Different Windows Forms Target Platforms
- Working with the Form Control
- Programming the Button Control
- Using the TextBox Control
- Using the Label Control
- Working with RadioButton Controls
- Using the CheckBox Control
- Using the ComboBox Control
- Using the ListBox Control
- Using the NumericUpDown Control
- Using the DomainUpDown Control
- Programming the ProgressBar Control
- Using the StatusBar Control
- Using the TrackBar Control
- Using the ToolBar Control
- Adding Menus with the MainMenu Control
- Using a ContextMenu Control in an Application
- Using the Timer Control
- Using the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Controls
- Using the Panel Control
- Using the HScrollBar and VScrollBar Controls
- Using the ImageList Control
- Using the PictureBox Control
- Using the ListView Control
- Using the TabControl Control
- Using the TreeView Control
- Working with the DataGrid Control
- In Brief
- Using Threads and Timers in the .NET Compact Framework
- Threads, Timers, and Windows CE
- The Thread Class
- Understanding Thread Basics
- Coordinating Threads with the Mutex Class
- Blocking until a Thread Finishes
- Controlling Access to Data Objects with the Monitor Class
- Managing Multiple Threads with a Thread Pool
- Timers
- Updating Variables with the Interlocked Class
- In Brief
- Network Connectivity with the .NET Compact Framework
- Working with Sockets
- Socket Programming with the .NET Compact Framework
- Serializing Objects for Transmission through a Socket
- Using UDP Packets
- Multicasting with UDP Packets
- Communicating with Remote Servers through the HTTP Protocol
- Communicating with Remote Servers through the HTTPS Protocol
- Communicating through the Device IrDA Port
- In Brief
- ADO.NET on the .NET Compact Framework
- Introducing ADO.NET on the .NET Compact Framework
- Caching Data with the DataSet
- Understanding Constraints
- Setting Up Autoincremented Fields
- Modeling Relational Data with the DataSet
- Creating Bindable Views of Data with a DataView
- Binding Data to a Control
- Comparing the Compact DataSet with the Desktop DataSet
- In Brief
- Programming with Microsoft SQL Server CE
- Investigating the Features Supported by Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition
- Creating a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database
- Adding Structure to a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database
- Populating a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database
- Retrieving Data by Using SqlCeDataReader
- Filling a DataSet by Using the SqlCeDataAdapter
- Updating the Microsoft SQL Server CE Database by Using the SqlCeDataAdapter
- Generating SqlCommand Objects with the SqlCeCommandBuilder
- In Brief
- XML and the DataSet
- XML and the .NET Compact Framework DataSet
- Loading XML into a DataSet
- Saving a DataSet as XML
- Loading and Saving XML in a Sample Application
- Modeling Relational Data with XML Schemas
- Loading and Saving Schema Alone
- Writing a DataSet to XML without Schema Information
- Reading a DataSet from XML, Ignoring Schema Information
- Inferring Schema
- Using XML to Design a DataSet
- Saving and Loading DataSets as XML DiffGrams
- In Brief
- Using XML Web Services
- Manipulating XML with the XmlTextReader and the XmlTextWriter
- XML Architecture Overview
- Working with the XmlTextReader
- Loading XML Data into an XmlTextReader
- Using the XmlTextReader's Namespaces Property
- Understanding the Normalization Property
- Controlling White-Space Interpretation with the WhitespaceHandling Property
- Using the XmlResolver Property
- Reading XML Nodes
- Reading XML Attributes
- Understanding How to Perform Full-Content Reads
- Skipping over Nodes
- Closing the XmlTextReader
- Working with the XmlTextWriter
- Creating the XmlTextWriter
- Manipulating Namespace Support
- Formatting the XmlTextWriter's Output
- Writing an XML Declaration
- Writing XML Elements
- Writing XML Attributes
- Writing xml:space and xml:lang Attributes
- Writing Element and Attribute Content
- Converting .NET Compact Framework Data Types through XmlConvert
- Writing Raw XML Markup
- Writing Other Nodes
- Writing Processing Instructions
- Writing White-Space Characters
- In Brief
- Working with the XML Document Object Model
- Processing XML by Using the Document Object Model
- Differences from the Desktop .NET Framework
- Loading the XML DOM
- Navigating the XML DOM
- Accessing Text from Elements
- Accessing Markup from Nodes
- Accessing an Element's Attributes
- Accessing Other XmlNodes
- Searching an XML Document Node Tree
- Creating XmlNodes
- Creating XmlDeclarations
- Creating XmlElements
- Creating XmlAttributes
- Creating Other Node Types
- Inserting XmlNodes
- Using the AppendChild and PrependChild Methods
- Working with the InsertBefore and InsertAfter Methods
- Inserting XmlAttributes into an XmlDocument
- Replacing the XmlNodes within an XmlDocument
- Removing XmlNodes for an XmlDocument
- Removing XmlAttributes from their XmlElements
- Writing the XmlDocument
- In Brief
- Interacting with Native Code
- Understanding When to Call Native Code
- Calling Native Code: Quick Start
- Marshalling the Fundamental Data Types
- Marshalling Simple Structures
- Passing Nested Structures by Using Custom Marshalling Code
- Calling the Windows CE Operating System
- Accessing COM Components from the .NET Compact Framework
- In Brief
- Exploring .NET Reflection
- Cryptography
- Measuring the Performance of a .NET Compact Framework Application
- Deploying a .NET Application
Chapter 3. Designing GUI Applications with Windows Forms
IN THIS CHAPTER
The .NET Compact Framework provides a rich functionality for building graphical user interfaces for your application. However, this functionality is a subset of what the full .NET Framework supplies. Before we instigate the controls that the .NET Compact Framework supports, let's investigate what is missing.
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