C# GUI Programming
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Does anyone have any tutorials on C# GUI programming? I've searched on here and the net, and found one about how to use the form designer, but none about how to program it. Thanks.
Kenny,
If you're doing your development with C#, I recommend using WPF, which is part of the .NET 3.0 framework, rather than WinForms, which is part of the .NET 1.0+ framework.
The documentation which comes with the .NET 3.0 Framework (The Vista Platform SDK) has some great tutorials and examples. The learning curve for using WPF is very short.
Cheers!
If you're doing your development with C#, I recommend using WPF, which is part of the .NET 3.0 framework, rather than WinForms, which is part of the .NET 1.0+ framework.
The documentation which comes with the .NET 3.0 Framework (The Vista Platform SDK) has some great tutorials and examples. The learning curve for using WPF is very short.
Cheers!
Quote:Original post by LogicalErrorDo they even work with the VS 2005 Express Editions yet? I can only see the CTP available for download.
yet the tools for wpf are in it's infancy to say the least...
I'm not sure how WinForms are .NET 1.x based, especially as .NET 2.0 introduced a plethora of new and updated controls.
Looking up each individual control on MSDN will come with instructions on how to work with them; how do you mean "Program" them? On the base level you need to handle their events, and attaching events is easily done via the property panel (switch to the events view, double click on an event name and add your code).
Are you talking about winform controls? If so, I think what you want is under design-time support. This allows you to add support for the form designer and the property editor. This is done using attributes and special designer classes. You can see that a bunch of designer classes exist in the .net framework. They usually are under a sub-namespace called design (e.g. System.Windows.Forms.Design, or System.Drawing.Design) Design time support exists mostly under the namespace System.ComponentModel, so take a look under there. I've done a bit on this so I might be able to help a bit more if you have more specific questions.
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