[Vegter]

Hi

I'm currently writing a program to manage your incomes and expenses. It will be a fairly simple program (my first C# project) that simply uses a GUI and interfaces with a MS Access DB.

So the first order of business is the GUI. I would like to display a lot of labels with text boxes next to them (i.e. A label for "Food" and a text box that can be edited with say $100 in it). Of course you can have as many of these items as you like, so I would need to put them in some sort of scrollable pane.

I have absolutely no idea how to write a GUI in C#. I was pretty adept at doing so in Java, but then later on I simply starting using NetBeans. Can anyone give me a few pointers and maybe point me to a few websites with good solid information on it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Vegter

This post has been edited by Vegter: 20 January 2006 - 08:25 AM

[Amadeus]

Are you using an IDE? Such as Visual Studio? If not, you can do it other wise...here is a chapter of one of the best C# books around.

[sontek]

www.codeproject.com
www.windowsforms.net


Those 2 sites will help a lot! But GUI design is rather easy but when you start doing it and run into problems post it up and i'll be glad to give ya some tips!

[Vegter]

Thx for the replies.

Yes, I am using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Does that have an easy way to create a GUI? I'm very new to Visual Studio so I am having problems using the whole IDE...

Anyways, I'll try out those links and post here if I have any problems. Thanks again.

[Amadeus]

Using Visual Studio, you can actually just create and draw the forms, and insert controls where you want them in a Visual form. Check out a new Windows application from the C# module. When giving the paramters, ask for an Empty windows application, and it will give you a default form.

[sontek]

If you hit "F4" or right click and click "Properties" on any control you've dropped onto your form from the toolbox and you'll get a window with all the properties that are available to be changed for that control.


If you look at the screenshot i've included:

First icon: Shows all the properties in categorized view
Second Icon: Alphabetizes the properties (My prefered way)
Third Icon: Shows the properties
4th Icon(Lightning): Shows the events you can subscribe to for the control.

Hope that gets you started on using them!

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