Chapter 3. Windows Applications
.NET 1.0 introduced a whole new toolkit for writing Windows
applications. This toolkitcalled Windows
Formsquickly won the hearts of developers with its
rich features for creating self-sizing windows, customized controls,
and dynamic graphics. But for all its strengths, the Windows Forms
toolkit left out a few features that many VB 6 developers had come to
expect, including a masked edit control and a way to display HTML web
pages. The Windows Forms toolkit also lacked some of the frills found
in modern Windows applications, like Office XP-style toolbars and
menus with thumbnail images. As you'll see in this
chapter, .NET 2.0 includes all of these elements and more.