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Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005:

An in-depth look at key featuresName: Joe Stegman

Title: Lead Program Manager

Session code

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 Agenda

• ToolStrip Controls – Creating Customized, Professional Applications

• Working with Data and the DataGridView – Binding to business objects

• BackgroundWorker – Making an application more responsive

• TableLayoutPanel – Simplifying Localization

• Configuration APIs – Storing Application and User State

• Questions

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Demo: Customizing ToolStrips

• Extensibility Models

 –  Custom “Renderers” 

• “Renderers” control the look and feel of theToolStrip and ToolStrip Items

 – Custom Items (ToolStripItem derivation)

• Extend ToolStrip item types

• Full designer support for custom ToolStrip

items

 – Control Hosting

• Host Windows Forms Controls in ToolStrips

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Demo: Data and the DataGridView

• DataGridView – Flexible, Extensible, Performant

• Bound, Unbound, Virtual, Mixed

• Text, Image, Button, Link cells/columns

• Cell-based not Column-based – Cell styles (Font, Color, Formatting)

 – Cell-level events

» Mouse, Formatting, Validate, Error, Others...

• BindingSource – Enables design time business object binding

• New Binding Types – BindingList<T>: Generic IBindingList

 – INotifyPropertyChanged: Simplifies the implementationof property change notification

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Demo: BackgroundWorker

• BackgroundWorker – Simplify creating responsive applications

• Easier to perform long running tasks without

“freezing” the UI 

 – Simplify Thread use in Windows Forms

applications

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Demo: TableLayoutPanel

• Layout Controls

 – TableLayoutPanel

• Similar to HTML Table control•  Address localization scenarios

• Facilitate creation of resizable UI

 – Support data driven UI (e.g. labels from a DB)

 – FlowLayoutPanel

• Child controls “flow” like default HTML layout mode 

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Demo: Client Configuration

• Configuration APIs – Support reading/writing user state

• Example: User’s last opened file 

 – Support reading/writing application state

• Example: Application specific data source

connection string

 – Full designer support

 – Extensible provider model

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Resources: Windows Forms

• Smart Client on MSDN: – http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient 

 – http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/understanding/windowsforms 

 – http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/wffaq/wf20.aspx • Windows Forms web site:

 – http://www.windowsforms.net 

• Beta 1 Samples: – http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=49#Whidbey

%20Beta%201 

• Online Discussion Forums: – http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=2 

 – http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/discussions/default.aspx 

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