Features a series of short demonstrations highlighting some of the most obscure (yet very cool) controls available for Windows Forms applications.
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How to Add Audio - Part 1
This video shows how to use the SoundPlayer control to play wav audio files in your application.
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How to Add Audio - Part 2
This video shows how to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play wma and MP3 audio files in your application.
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Customizing the Button Control
This video shows how to take and customize the Button control including layout, hover effects, and events.
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How to use the Dialog Controls
This video shows how to interact with common Windows Dialog controls, including the File Open, Save, Page Setup, Print, Color Picker, and Font Dialog controls.
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How to use the FlowLayout Panel
This video shows how to use the FlowLayout panel to create dynamically resizing Windows UI.
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How to create a System Tray application using the NotifyIcon control
This video shows how easy it is to create applications that use the Windows system tray.
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How to call other applications using the Process control
This video shows how to use the Process control to automate running external applications like Notepad and Internet Explorer from within your code.
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How to use the SplitContainer control
This video shows how to use the SplitContainer control to create a multi-pane user interface.
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How to use the TableLayout control
This video shows how to use the TableLayout control which enables you to dynamically add rows to your controls at runtime.
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How to use the Timer control
This video shows how to use the Timer control which you can use to poll or monitor if an action has occurred in a given time interval.
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How to use the BackgroundWorker Control
Demonstrates how to use the BackgroundWorker Control to easily create a multi-threaded application.
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How to use the ListView Control Part 1: Basics
Demonstrates the basics of creating ListViewItems, changing the display mode, and adding columns for the Details view.
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How to use the ListView Control Part 2: Advanced
Demonstrates a few advanced concepts related to the ListView control and populating it with database data and syncing changes to ListViewItems back into the database.
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How to use the MenuStrip Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the menu strip including many of its unique properties and features.
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How to use the PictureBox Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the picture box control including many of its unique properties and features.
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How to use the RichTextBox Control
Demonstrates how to use the rich text box control to create a simple Microsoft Word-like application.
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How to use the StatusStrip Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the status strip including many of its unique properties and features.
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How to use the Tab Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the tab control including many of its unique properties and features.
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How to use the ToolStrip Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the tool strip including many of its unique properties and features.
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How to use the TreeView Control
Demonstrates how to create TreeNodes, set their parents and create children, navigating the relationships, and more.
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How to use the WebBrowser Control
Demonstrates the basic use of the Web Browser control, then dives into the advanced features of accessing html elements from your .NET code, handling events from html elements in your .NET code and calling your .NET code using script in the browser.