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Get the Most Out of Windows Forms Controls : Steve C. Orr

Thursday, August 28 2008

Developers love Web applications because they are easier to deploy than Windows applications. But developers love Windows applications because functionally rich user interfaces can be created rapidly. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the best of both worlds? In this article I’ll show you how you can have your cake and eat it too by supercharging your ASP.NET Web pages with Windows Forms controls. Why Use Windows Forms Controls? There are many examples of things that can be done easily with Windows Forms controls that would be difficult or impossible with Web controls alone. For example, there is no Web control that provides the rich functionality of the Windows Forms ComboBox control. So what’s to stop a developer from using the ComboBox control on their Web forms? Not much, as will be demonstrated shortly. The custom ComboBox control defined in this article can even fetch its own data from a Web service....

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Get the Most Out of Windows Forms Controls : Steve C. Orr
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Nested Master Pages : Richard Bean
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