This series demonstrates the basics of creating Windows-based applications using .NET, including many of the newest features of Windows Forms.

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Videos in this series:

1. Walkthrough: Creating an MDI WinForms App

   Multiple Document Interface applications allow you to open multiple windows in the same workspace. This video demonstrates how to create an MDI form, how to open child forms, how to use the Menu Designer, how to use the OpenFileDialog control, and how to open text files using the System.IO.StreamReader to create an application that opens multiple text files.

2. Walkthrough: Using the Data Form Wizard

   It is easy to create administration applications that simply perform CRUD operations on a data source using the Data Form Wizard in VB.NET WinForms. Thie video demonstrates how the DataFormWizard works and the different settings you can choose to change how the Wizard operates.

3. Using an ActiveX Control in a WinForms Application
4. Docking and Anchoring

   Docking and anchoring allow you to develop apps that respond to form resizing appropriately. This video shows how easy it is to make your form resize intelligently.

5. Understanding DataBindings Under the Hood

   Explains and demonstrates how DataBinding works behind the scenes in Windows Forms applications, including a discussion of the DataBindings collection, Binding object, CurrencyManager and PropertyManager (BindingManagerBase) objects, BindingContext and more.

6. Visual Inheritance

   Visual Inheritance allows you to create a template of a windows form that can contain controls and code that other applications can derive from to create inherited forms. This video shows how to use this powerful technique.

7. Using the ErrorProvider Control

   Demonstrates how to use the WinForms ErrorProvider control by using its SetError property. Examples in both C# and VB.NET.

8. DropDown in WinForms DataGrid

   DropDown in WinForms DataGrid

9. Loading an MDI Child in WinForms

   Loading an MDI Child in WinForms

10. Drag and Drop in WinForms

    Drag and Drop in WinForms

11. Understanding DataBinder.Eval and Container.DataItem

    Understanding DataBinder.Eval and Container.DataItem

12. WinForms ErrorProvider Control

    WinForms ErrorProvider Control

13. WinForms HelpProvider Control

    WinForms HelpProvider Control

14. WinForms ListView Control

    WinForms ListView Control

15. WinForms TabControl Control

    WinForms TabControl Control

16. .NET 2003 Non-Rectangular WinForms

    .NET 2003 Non-Rectangular WinForms