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ControlsThe Controls Short Film Festival features different ways to maximize the use of controls in your application from using the Checked List Box and tab control to extending your own controls. Two thumbs up! Problems playing videos? |
Checked List Box
Learn how the CheckedListBox, a new control in Visual Studio .NET, provides a convenient and flexible user interface determining user preferences from a list of similar items.
| Create a Control
This video shows you how easy it is to create your own Windows Forms control. Instead of extending an existing control, you’ll see how to create a new custom Address control.
| Extend a Control
Inheritance is a key feature of Visual Basic .NET. With inheritance, it is easy to modify the behavior of existing controls. This video shows you how easy it is to extend a Windows Forms control using inheritance.
| Link Label
The LinkLabel control is a new addition to Visual Basic .NET, and in this video, you’ll learn how you can use it to add hyperlinking to your application.
| Notify Icon
Visual Basic .NET provides a new feature that makes it easy to place an icon in the system tray
| Tab Control
The design time experience of the Tab control has been greatly improved for Visual Basic .NET. Simply click on a tab at design time and add controls on that surface.
| Tab Order Editor
Visual Studio .NET offers a new tab order editor that makes changing the tab order of controls a snap. This video illustrates setting the tab order graphically on a Windows Form using the Tab Order Editor.
| Tree View
Learn how the TreeView control has been improved and its programming model simplified, allowing you to easily read and manipulate hierarchical data structures.
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| Context Menu
Visual Studio .NET provides a new ContextMenu control that simplifies the task of creating context-sensitive menus for controls. You’ll learn how easy it is to create a ContextMenu in the Visual Design and assign it to a Control.
| Error Provider
In this video, you’ll learn how the simple-to-use ErrorProvider class and Windows Forms validation events allow you to easily create a visual and textual indication of an invalid data entry.
| Help Provider
In this video, you'll learn how easy it is to use the HelpProvider control to integrate help in your application, whether that help is in a compiled Microsoft HTML Help file or a simple popup window.
| Splitters
In this video, you’ll learn how the Splitter control allows you to create complex layouts in which you can resize internal panels of your application. This allows you to easily create Windows Explorer style layouts.
| ToolTip
Learn how the ToolTip control allows you to easily associate help text with a control.
| Tray For Non Visible Controls
See how you can put non-visual control on a Windows Form in the component tray.
| Validation Controls
The demonstration uses a Web Form to create a data entry form that validates input data using ASP.NET Validation Controls. You'll also see how to display validation errors using the Validation Summary control.
| Tabbed Windows
See how the tabbed windows in Visual Studio .NET make it much easier to switch between documents and navigate better.
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Video Problems?
If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the WMP9 codecs (or WMP9 itself, although that is not a requirement). If you are experiencing clipping or problems resizing the videos then you may wish to try the following steps;
- In Windows Media Player, click Options on the Tools menu.
- On the Performance tab, click Advanced.
- Clear the Use video mixing renderer check boxes in the Video Acceleration and DVD Video sections.
- Click OK, and then click OK.
- Your system may need to be rebooted in order for changes to take effect.
More information on this video issue can be found in this KB article.
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