.NET Windows Forms for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Helping People Use Windows Software Applications"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

.NET Windows Forms is a single technology to help you build Windows applications. These applications may be run on single computers or, which will be increasingly common in the future, web-based applications. .NET Windows Forms will allow developers to build and deploy applications that customers can use on an one time or occasional as needed basis online, without paying full price for software.

.NET Windows Forms does use Microsoft's .NET initiative, so you have full use of the .NET Framework class library.

You must first of all acquire the .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) which can download free from Microsoft's web site. Since it's only 100 mg, on a 56K modem it will take only about 6 hours. All MS developers are going to need that, for it or anything else.

This gives you access to the class library, which is a hierarchy of namespaces and is very big. The root namespace is System.

Then you will need an editor to create these applications. For simple applications it could be Wordpad. For serious work, you'll want Microsoft's new Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Visual Studio .NET.

C# is the preferred language to use for .NET Windows Forms but you could also use VB.NET

.NET Windows Forms are not really anything different to most users. If you have ever entered information into a form on a web site you know about them. You can order a book from Amazon, subscribe to an ezine or ask for a mortgage quote.

With .NET Windows Forms you will learn to work with namespaces which group related classes together.

Also, encapsulation, where you use objects to build a class that does something useful.

With .NET Windows Forms, assemblies consolidate multiple files and namespaces into a single location.

Next: Pthreads

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