Welcome to Windows Forms Tips and Tricks

Windows Forms is the managed wrapper for Win32 objects. .Net user interface systems have been based on the principles first seen in the earlier versions of Windows. Although the windows handles and event systems were hidden behind Control objects and delegates, the essential functioning was always managed by the underlying unmanaged system.

Windows Forms simplified the development of applications, provided an advanced, object oriented method for managing the screen regions and introduced the use of delegates instead of unweildy case switch statements for event handling.

This FAQ style list of articles contains many useful examples of both common and esoteric use cases. Enjoy!