Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Structured; Assumptions This Book Makes; What's on the CD; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Introduction to Windows Forms; Chapter 1: .NET and Windows Forms Overview; 1.1 Windows Development and .NET; 1.2 The Common Language Runtime; 1.3 .NET Programming Languages; 1.4 Components; 1.

5 The .NET Type System; 1.6 The .NET Framework Class Library; Chapter 2: Controls; 2.1 Windows Forms and the Control Class; 2.2 Using Standard Control Features; 2.3 Built-in Controls; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3: Forms, Containers, and Applications; 3.

1 Application Structure; 3.2 The Form Class; 3.3 Containment; 3.4 Layout; 3.5 Localization; 3.6 Extender Providers; 3.7 Summary; Chapter 4: Menus and Toolbars; 4.1 Menus; 4.

2 Toolbars; 4.3 Unified Event Handling; 4.4 Office-Style Menus and Toolbars; 4.5 Summary; Chapter 5: Building Controls; 5.1 Composite Controls; 5.2 Custom Controls; 5.3 Designing for Developers; 5.4 Summary; Chapter 6: Inheritance and Reuse; 6.

1 When to Inherit; 6.2 Inheriting from Forms and User Controls; 6.3 Inheriting from Other Controls; 6.4 Pitfalls of Inheritance; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7: Redrawing and GDI+; 7.1 Drawing and Controls; 7.2 GDI+; 7.3 Summary; Chapter 8: Property Grids; 8.

1 Displaying Simple Objects; 8.2 Type Conversion; 8.3 Custom Type Editors; 8.4 Summary; Chapter 9: Controls and the IDE; 9.1 Design Time Versus Runtime; 9.2 Custom Component Designers; 9.3 Extender Providers; 9.4 Summary; Chapter 10: Data Binding; 10.

1 Data Sources and Bindings; 10.2 Simple and Complex Binding; 10.3 DataTable, DataSet, and Friends; 10.4 The DataGrid Control; 10.5 The DataView Class; 10.6 Summary;API Quick Reference; Chapter 11: How to Use This Quick Reference; 11.1 Finding a Quick-Reference Entry; 11.2 Reading a Quick-Reference Entry; Chapter 12: Converting from C# to VB Syntax; 12.

1 General Considerations; 12.2 Classes; 12.3 Structures; 12.4 Interfaces; 12.5 Class, Structure, and Interface Members; 12.6 Delegates; 12.7 Enumerations; Chapter 13: The System.ComponentModel Namespace; Chapter 14: The System.

Drawing Namespace; Chapter 15: The System.Drawing.Drawing2D Namespace; Chapter 16: The System.Drawing.Imaging Namespace; Chapter 17: The System.Drawing.Printing Namespace; Chapter 18: The System.Drawing.

Text Namespace; Chapter 19: The System.Windows.Forms Namespace; Chapter 20: The System.Windows.Forms.Design Namespace;Appendixes; Namespaces and Assemblies; Type, Method, Property, Event, and Field Index;Colophon;.