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Murach's Visual Basic 2008
Chapter 2 - How to design a Windows Forms application
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Chapter 2 shows you how to use Visual Studio 2008 to design a Windows form that displays the discount amount and final total for an invoice, based on user input and a fixed discount rate. It also tells you how to set the Visual Studio options so it's easier to create a new project.
Topics include:
How to set options and create a new project
How to design a form
How to name and save the files of a project


Murach's Visual Basic 2008
Chapter 3 - How to code and test a Windows Forms application
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Chapter 3 teaches you how to enter the Visual Basic code for the Windows form in chapter 2 so the interface works the way you want it to. And it gets you started with practical debugging techniques that you'll use all the time.
Topics include:
An introduction to coding
How to add code to a form
Four new coding features
Other skills for working with code
How to run, test, and debug a project


Sams - Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Kick Start
Chapter 3 - Building Windows Applications
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Topics include:
The Windows Forms Model
Handling Events in .NET
Coding Without Control Arrays
Configuring Your Form for Resizing
Programming Without Default Form Instances
Working with Multiple Forms in VB .NET


Sams - Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days
Chapter 3 - Writing Windows Forms Applications in Visual Studio .NET 2003
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Topics include:
Using forms and controls
How to handle events in Windows Forms
Adding controls to forms
Dynamically adding controls to Forms
Creating MDI applications with Windows Forms
Inheriting Windows Forms
Using common dialogs in Windows Forms


Sams - Teach Yourself More Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days
Chapter 3 - Creating Simple Forms in VB.NET
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Topics include:
Working with Toolbars
Adding Menus
Inheriting Forms


Apress - Data Entry and Validation with C# and VB .NET Windows Forms
Chapter 8 - Advanced Validation and Custom Data Validation Controls
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Topics include:
Regular Expressions in .NET
The Masked Edit Control
Rolling Your Own Masked Edit Control
Testing the Masked Edit Control
Extending Control Properties


Apress - Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET for Scientists and Engineers
Chapter 9 - Programming Your Own Spreadsheets
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Topics include:
The MSFlexGrid Control
Entering Text into MSFlexGrid Cells
Working with Excel Data
Getting Your Grids to Dynamically Respond