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VB Day 7

This document discusses various Windows application controls available in .NET, including their properties, methods, and events. It covers common controls like Form, TextBox, Button, RadioButton, PictureBox, OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, CheckBox, and ComboBox. It provides details on how each control is used to build user interfaces and interact with users.

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VB Day 7

This document discusses various Windows application controls available in .NET, including their properties, methods, and events. It covers common controls like Form, TextBox, Button, RadioButton, PictureBox, OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, CheckBox, and ComboBox. It provides details on how each control is used to build user interfaces and interact with users.

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Windows Applications

 To achieve .net provides a base class


library called as
system.windows.Forms.dll
 Control: It is a user interface element
which is used for providing interaction
between the user and the application.
This control is also a class.
Control [class]

Properties Methods Events

 Property : it is used to set or get the values


from a private or protected members of the
control.
 Methods: these are predefined instructions
which are supported by the control.
 Events: these are actions which are allowed
on a control.

Note: in order to provide the definitions for


the events,event handlers are used
Form
 Form :- It acts like a canvas or a parent
control which maintains all other controls
required for user interaction.
 Properties:
1] Accept Button – Gets or sets the button
on the form that is pressed when the user
uses the Enter key.
2] Cancel Button – Indicates the button
control that is pressed when the user
presses the ESC key.
 3] Opacity – Background is visible.
 4] StartUpPosition – The location where
Common Properties for all
the controls
 Name  used to provide an unique
identity for the controls.
 Text  to set or get the value from the
controls.
 Anchor  used to specify the resize
property.
 Dock  used to specify the fill mode
 TextBox: t is used to accept a single line,multiline or
password character input.
 Properties for TextBox
 Charactercasing used to specify the input case.
 Maxlength  to restrict the size of the input.
 Multiline  if set to true then input can be accepted in
multiple lines.
 Password char  used to accept the input as a
password character.
 ScrollBars  used to set the scrollbars for the textbox
control.

Button : used to generate the action.


 Radio Button Control it is used to select
one item among the collection of list
items.
 Note: when ever a control is placed
within another control then they share a
relationship
Form which is called an
containment
Containment

Button

roperty : Checked  returns true if the radio button select


lse returns false.
 Group control  It is used to logically group the
controls together.
 Picture Box Control  It is used to project the images on
to the form.

 Property  Image  accepts image object which has to


be projected on the form.]
 Methods  Image.RotateFlip  it is used to rotate the
contents of the image I.e Pixel Values.
RotateFlip(RotateAngleFlipDirection)

90 X
180 Y
270 XY
none none
 Image.FromFile  It is used to define an image object
based on the fie passed by the user.
 Image.Save used to save the contents present in the
picture box control as an image.
 Refresh  it is used to refresh the picture box control
with the new pixel information
 OpenFileDialog Control  It is used to project
the Dialog box to select a file which is already
existing.
 SaveFileDialog Control  It is used to specify a
file name which is not existing in order to save
the contents with the specified file name.
 Note: if the user specifies a file name which is

existing then the system will prompt the user


to replace the existing file.
 Properties for OpenFileDialog control and
SaveFileDialog controls are same.They are as
follows 
 Filter  It is used to filter the files while

displayng the file names in the dialog box


based on the specified file extensions.
 FileName  It is used to get the name of the

file provided or selected in the dialog box


control.
 CheckBox Control used as a decision making
control or it can be used to select more then one
item from the collection
 Property Checked  returns true if the item is
selected else returns false
 Combo Box Control it is used to search an
item from a collection of list items.
 Properties
 Items  maintains the collection of list items.
 SelectedItem  returns the selected item from the
items collection.
{ note  you don’t have SelectedItem.Value /
SelectedItem.Text in C# as in asp.net}
 SelectedIndex returns the index no of the selected
item
 Combo Box is of 3 types 

 Simple combo
 Dropdown combo
 It is an editable control and the search
will take place if the combo box is
expanded.
 Dropdown list
 It is an non editable control which allows
to select an existing item from the list
control if the combo box is been
expanded.

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