Creating Windows Forms Applications

To create traditional Windows-based applications and client/server applications, you design forms by assigning characteristics to them and adding controls. You can create new forms or inherit from existing forms.

In This Section

• Introduction to Windows Forms
  Discusses the particulars of creating Windows-based applications with Visual Studio .NET.
• Creating Windows Forms
  Links to the various things you can do with Windows Forms.
• Windows Forms Security
  Provides an overview of the Windows Forms security implementation.
• Event Handling in Windows Forms
  Describes how to respond to events generated at run time.
• Windows Forms Inheritance
  Describes how inheritance works in relation to a form.
• Dialog Boxes in Windows Forms
  Describes how to interact with the user through dialog boxes.
• Windows Forms Data Architecture
  Describes how to access data and bind data to controls.
• Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) Applications
  Describes how to create an application that has multiple forms.
• Menus and Context Menus
  Discusses how to create menus and shortcut menus.
• Windows Forms Print Support
  Discusses how to add printing capability to your application.
• Drag-and-Drop Operations and Clipboard Support
  Describes how to support the copying of data.
• Windows Forms Controls
  Provides links to topics about the controls designed specifically to work with Windows Forms.
• Developing Windows Forms Controls
  Discusses how to create your own user controls.