The Last Word
In this chapter you've traveled from the basics of Windows forms-creating them, displaying them, and handling their interactions, to advanced techniques using shaped forms and visual inheritance. In many respects, these new developments hint at two of the themes I take up in the rest of the book. Shaped forms give just a taste of what you encounter in 13, which dive headfirst into GDI+. Visual inheritance provides a preview into some of the custom control designs you explore with control inheritance throughout this book. Both techniques represent the step from ordinary user interface programming to the more advanced techniques of a UI guru.