Software Design Using C++
Introduction to Windows Forms Applications
Visual Studio .NET allows you to create what is called a Windows Forms Application. This can be
a quick way to produce a Windows application with a graphical user interface. Elsewhere in these
web pages we have mostly been using console applications, which have a simple text mode interface.
The Windows Forms Applications can be more interesting and also more friendly to use, but we will
have to expend a little more effort to set them up. In this section we only look at a Windows
Forms App for which we don't have to write any code at all!
Another way to create a Windows application with a graphical user interface is to
use the Visual C++ AppWizard. Windows forms apps are a newer
and somewhat easier way to do this type of thing.
All of the examples in this section and the two related sections were created and tested
with Visual Studio .NET 2003. They should also work in Visual Studio .NET 2005 and 2008.
Example
- Example
Displays a calendar and an image.
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