1. Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005: An in-depth look at key features
Name: Mike Henderlight
Title: Program Manager

2. Agenda ToolStrip Controls Working with Data and the DataGridView
Creating Customized, Professional Applications
Working with Data and the DataGridView
Binding to business objects
BackgroundWorker
Making an application more responsive
TableLayoutPanel
Simplifying Localization
Configuration APIs
Storing Application and User State
Questions

3. Demo: Customizing ToolStrips
Extensibility Models
Custom “Renderers”
“Renderers” control the look and feel of the ToolStrip and ToolStrip Items
Custom Items (ToolStripItem derivation)
Extend ToolStrip item types
Full designer support for custom ToolStrip items
Control Hosting
Host Windows Forms Controls in ToolStrips

4. Demo: Data and the DataGridView
Flexible, Extensible, Performant
Bound, Unbound, Virtual, Mixed
Text, Image, Button, Link cells/columns
Cell-based not Column-based
Cell styles (Font, Color, Formatting)
Cell-level events
Mouse, Formatting, Validate, Error, Others...
BindingSource
Enables design time business object binding
New Binding Types
BindingList<T>: Generic IBindingList
INotifyPropertyChanged: Simplifies the implementation of property change notification

5. Demo: BackgroundWorker
Simplify creating responsive applications
Easier to perform long running tasks without “freezing” the UI
Simplify Thread use in Windows Forms applications

6. Demo: TableLayoutPanel
Layout Controls
TableLayoutPanel
Similar to HTML Table control
Address localization scenarios
Facilitate creation of resizable UI
Support data driven UI (e.g. labels from a DB)
FlowLayoutPanel
Child controls “flow” like default HTML layout mode

7. Demo: Client Configuration
Configuration APIs
Support reading/writing user state
Example: User’s last opened file
Support reading/writing application state
Example: Application specific data source connection string
Full designer support
Extensible provider model

8. Resources: Windows Forms
Smart Client on MSDN:
Windows Forms web site:
Beta 1 Samples:
Online Discussion Forums:
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2003
Benefits
Enables the development of document-centric solutions with managed code
Access to the .NET Framework (e.g. support for Web Services, ADO.NET, etc)
Advantages with regard to VBA
Professional developer tool : Visual Studio .NET 2003
Security model: .NET Code Access Security
Deployment model: No-touch deployment
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2005
Major focus on developer productivity
Integrated design-time experience
Support for managed controls
“View” controls
Managed Document Actions task pane
Schema-based programming model
New data caching capabilities
Data island accessible in a server environment
Improved deployment model
Online ClickOnce deployment model

9. Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
Summary
ClickOnce
Bring the ease and reliability of Web application deployment to client apps
Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
Easier to build professional looking applications
The designer simplifies application development
Download and Install Visual Studio 2005 Today
When you develop a client app, there are a lot of advantages. You get to take advantage of the cpu, video card and the hard rive. You shouldn’t have to make a decision about deployment. It shouldn’t be easier to deploy a web app than a client app.
So we made this a key goal and we’ve done a lot of work to make it as easy to deploy a client app as a web app. I’m going to show a demo of this.
We took a look to find where we had deficiencies in our control set. We added a few new controls and I’ll demo those also.
Also, we’ve made improvements in databinding. We’ve done a lot of work to make it easier to build data bound applications in the IDE. This will also be demos

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