Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

By James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • Audience and Organization
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Onward and Upward!
  • Part I. The Visual Studio Environment
  • Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour
  • Hour 2. Navigating C#
  • Hour 3. Understanding Objects and Collections
  • Hour 4. Understanding Events
  • Part II. Building a User Interface
  • Hour 5. Building FormsPart I
  • Hour 6. Building FormsPart II
  • Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls
    • Displaying Static Text with the Label Control
    • Allowing Users to Enter Text Using a Text Box
    • Creating Buttons
    • Creating Containers and Groups of Option Buttons
    • Displaying a List with the List Box
    • Creating Drop-Down Lists Using the Combo Box
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 8. Advanced Controls
  • Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms
  • Hour 10. Drawing and Printing
  • Part III. Making Things HappenProgramming!
  • Hour 11. Creating and Calling Methods
  • Hour 12. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
  • Hour 13. Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments
  • Hour 14. Making Decisions in C# Code
  • Hour 15. Looping for Efficiency
  • Hour 16. Debugging Your Code
  • Hour 17. Designing Objects Using Classes
  • Hour 18. Interacting with Users
  • Part IV. Working with Data
  • Hour 19. Performing File Operations
  • Hour 20. Controlling Other Applications Using Automation
  • Hour 21. Working with a Database
  • Part V. Deploying Solutions and Beyond
  • Hour 22. Deploying a Solution
  • Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
  • Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View
  • Appendix A. Answers to Quizzes/Exercises

Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls

The previous two hours described in considerable detail how to work with forms. Forms are the foundation of a user interface but are rather useless by themselves. To create a usable interface, you'll need to use controls. Controls are the various widgets and doodads on a form with which a user interacts. Dozens of different types of controls exist, from the simple Label control used to display static text to the rather complicated Tree View control used to present trees of data like that found in Explorer. In this hour, I'll introduce you to the most common (and most simple) controls, which I call traditional controls. In the next hour, you'll learn about the more advanced controls that you can use to create professional-looking applications.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• Displaying static text with the Label control
• Allowing users to enter text using a text box
• Creating password fields
• Working with buttons
• Using panels, group boxes, check boxes, and option buttons
• Displaying lists with list boxes and combo boxes

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