Recent Windows Forms Documentation Updates

Since Visual Studio 2005 was released, we've received a fair amount of feedback on the documentation. We have been able to clarify and update many help topics in response to this feedback, so please keep it coming! You can provide feedback from links directly on the topics, through Microsoft Connect, or through this blog.  

To view updated documentation within the integrated Visual Studio help viewer, make sure that your Help options are set to load online content. You can do this through the Tools menu in Visual Studio by selecting Options, then navigating to the Environment | Help | Online section of the Options dialog box.

You can also view updated topics on MSDN2 at the URLs below. Each MSDN2 topic indicates which version of the product that topic is for. To ensure you are looking at the latest version of the topic, you will want to select the versions for .NET Framework 3.0 or Visual Studio Codename Orcas.

The following list shows conceptual topics that we've updated in the past several months. We've also updated reference topics as indicated on the Windows Forms Reference Updates page.

Title	Link
Accessing Unexposed Members on the Managed HTML Document Object Model	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171716(vs.90).aspx
Code for Windows Forms Applications	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xxwd7aah.aspx
Creating a New Windows Form	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229599.aspx
Data Binding and Windows Forms	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c8aebh9k.aspx
Extending Design-Time Support	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/37899azc(vs.90).aspx
How to: Add and Remove Nodes with the Windows Forms TreeView Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/70w4awc4(vs.90).aspx
How to: Bind a Windows Forms Control to a Type	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cw8f1c66(vs.90).aspx
How to: Determine Checked Items in the Windows Forms CheckedListBox Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e954th47(vs.90).aspx
How to: Develop a Simple Windows Forms Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/649xahhe(vs.90).aspx
How to: Disable URL Activation of ClickOnce Applications Using the Designer	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404230.aspx
How to: Display Option Buttons in a MenuStrip (Windows Forms)	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404318(vs.90).aspx
How to: Display Print Preview in Windows Forms Applications	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/274tyhz7(vs.90).aspx
How to: Enable Windows XP Visual Styles	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5d1acks5(vs.90).aspx
How to: Give Your Control a Transparent Background	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wk5b13s4(vs.90).aspx
How to: Make a Startup Windows Form Invisible	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/754w18dd(vs.90).aspx
How to: Move Through a DataSet with the Windows Forms BindingNavigator Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s4b01sz7(vs.90).aspx
How to: Play a Sound Embedded in a Resource from a Windows Form	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3w5b27z4(vs.90).aspx
How to: Provide a Toolbox Bitmap for a Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4wk1wc0a(vs.90).aspx
How to: Select an Item in the Windows Forms ListView Control	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/y4x56c0b.aspx
How to: Simulate Mouse and Keyboard Events in Code	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms171548.aspx
MenuStrip Control (Windows Forms)	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171649.aspx
PrintDocument Component Overview (Windows Forms)	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/679kbhe3(vs.90).aspx
Server and Client Configuration Issues in ClickOnce Deployments	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228998.aspx
Troubleshooting Control and Component Authoring	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wz0k6226(vs.90).aspx
Troubleshooting Design-Time Development	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171843(vs.90).aspx
Walkthrough: Authoring a Composite Control with Visual Basic	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c316f119(vs.90).aspx
Walkthrough: Automatically Populating the Toolbox with Custom Components	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fw694kde(vs.90).aspx
Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Forms Control That Takes Advantage of Visual Studio Design-Time Features	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/35ea88wb(vs.90).aspx
Walkthrough: Retrieving Dialog Box Information Collectively Using Objects	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cakx2hdw(vs.90).aspx
Walkthrough: Running an Operation in the Background	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233672(vs.90).aspx
Windows Forms Designer Error Messages	https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233640(vs.90).aspx

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/winformsue/pages/windows-forms-reference-updates.aspx

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2007
  The "shipping software 101" class at Microsoft clearly talks about how we are not doing shipping the

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2007
  Can we have some further documentation/examples on real world scenarios - how about using Northwind to show adding/deleting/inserting data that uses the errorproviders and shows you how to get around the many many pitfalls we find along the way such as why when your using typed datasets with table adapters and your calling the select do you need to worry about the nullable parameters for the insert stored procedure when your not even caring at this time about that. Also how to abandon forms and not have the error provider fire - some real world samples that go beyond 2-3 lines in the examples that are frankly not much use.

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2007
  If you are reading this blog post, it’s likely you saw Karl’s post highlighting some of the recent updates