Chapter 3

Building an Windows Forms

Application
 Introduction
• Windows forms application will provide
GUI facilities
• In Windows forms application we can work
with all controls like Text Box, Button,
Radio Button, List Box e.t.c
• Using Windows forms application we can
design very good , easy and user friendly
application
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Creating a windows forms application

• Click Microsoft Visual studio->click on

file-> click on new-> click on project-
>select windows form application->type
application name->choose the location to
save ->click on ok

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Microsoft Visual studio

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Select windows form application-

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type application name->choose the location to save -
>click on ok

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When you click OK, a new Windows Application
project will be created for you:

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In C# 2010, your screen will look like this

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Click View Code from the menu to see the
following window appear(double click form)

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Click View design from the menu to see the following
window appear

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 Microsoft Visual Studio(IDE)

This contains various component like

Solution Explorer
Tool Box
Sever Explorer
Properties windows
Output Windows etc

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 Common Terminologies
• Forms: are objects that represent windows or dialog boxes
that makes up part of an application user interface
• Controls: are graphical object such as button , textBox
,Label etc that can be placed on a form for different
purpose
• Object :is a general terms used to describe all forms and
controls that makes up an application
• Properties : are characteristics of a given object such as
size, color, caption etc
• Event: action recognized by a form or control
• Methods: action that an object can perform or that can be
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Form
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 Form
• Form is a container, which can holds all others controls with
in it.
• In C#.Net every form is treated as a class and is derived from
system.windows.forms.form class
• In C#.Net windows form we can place various controls like
Text Box , Button , List Box, Radio Button ,Cheek Box etc

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 Properties with Form
Properties :
 are characteristics of a given object such as
size, color, caption etc
Properties windows is used to set properties
of the object in your project

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 Properties with Form
Properties descriptions
BackColor Sets the form background color.
Text The text, which will appear at the title bar of the form.
Name This is the actual name of the form
MinimizeBox By default, this property is True and you can set it to False to
hide the Minimize button on the title bar
MaximizeBox By default, this property is True and you can set it to False to
hide the Maximize button on the title bar.
MinimumSize This specifies the minimum height and width of the window
you can minimize.
MaximumSize This specifies the maximum height and width of the window
you maximize
Font This property specify font type, style, size
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 Example 1
1. Change the title of a windows forms
 the title of a windows form is an important
aspects of application
 You can do this by just changing the form text
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 Example 2

2. Display and hiding the maximize, minimize

and close button of a windows form
You can remove these buttons by setting the
form control box to false

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