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- <h4>Welcome to the Win Forms QuickStart Tutorial</h4>
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- The Win Forms QuickStart is a series of Win Forms samples and supporting commentary
- designed to quickly acquaint you with the programming model, architecture, and power of the
- Win Forms framework. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short,
- easy-to-understand illustrations of many of the features of Win Forms.
- By the time you have completed the QuickStart tutorial you will be able to build fully functioning
- Win Forms applications.
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- <p><span class="caption">What Level of Expertise Is Assumed in the
- QuickStart?</span> <br>The Win Forms QuickStart assumes that you are
- familiar with object oriented programming techniques. It also assumes
- that you are familiar with concepts such as Windows, Controls, Menus and
- so on. You should have experience building applications using Microsoft
- Windows(TM) or a similar Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming
- system. If you have experience building applications using the Windows
- Win32 API, MFC or the Visual Basic forms package then you will quickly get
- to grips with Win Forms.</p>
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- <p><span class="caption">Working with the QuickStart Samples</span>
- <br>The QuickStart samples are best experienced in the presented sequence.
- Each section assumes that you are familiar with concepts presented in earlier sections.
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- <table class=mydd border=0 cellpadding=5>
- <tr>
- <td valign=top><strong>Getting Started</strong></td>
- <td>
- This section explains the Win Forms programming model and the basics of creating a Win Forms
- application - how to use controls, how to respond to events, how to add menus and so on.
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign=top><strong>Building Applications</strong></td>
- <td>
- This sections introduces more advanced Win Forms topics such as databinding, how to write controls, printing,
- and so on.
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign=top><strong>Control Reference</strong></td>
- <td>
- This section contains samples for each of the controls that ship with Win Forms. Each sample
- illustrates how to use that control.
- </td>
- </tr>
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- <tr>
- <td valign=top><strong>How Do I...?</strong></td>
- <td>
- The "How To" section contains more Win Forms samples illustrating error handling,
- multi-threading issues and so on.
- </td>
- </tr>
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- <tr>
- <td valign=top><strong>Related Documentation</strong></td>
- <td>
- This section lists the Win Forms topics in the NGWS SDK documentation.
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
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