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
  • Hour 8. Advanced Controls
    • Creating Timers
    • Creating Tabbed Dialog Boxes
    • Storing Pictures in an Image List
    • Building Enhanced Lists Using the List View
    • Creating Hierarchical Lists with the Tree View
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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 8. Advanced Controls

The standard controls presented in the previous hour enable you to build many types of functional forms. However, to create truly robust and interactive applications, you've got to use the more advanced controls. As a Windows user, you've encountered many of these controls, such as the Tab control, which presents data on tabs, and the Tree View control, which displays hierarchical lists such as the one in Explorer. In this hour, you'll learn about these advanced controls and learn how to use them to make professional interfaces like those you're accustomed to seeing in commercial products.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• Creating timers
• Creating tabbed dialog boxes
• Storing pictures in an Image List
• Building enhanced lists using the List View control
• Creating hierarchical lists with the Tree View control

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