C# GUI Forms / Operator Overload / Interfaces

Question 1

What are menus and what do they look like?

Answer 1

Menus provide groups of related commands for Windows forms apps and organize commands without “cluttering” the GUI.

Question 2

How do you create menus?

Answer 2

To create a menu, open the toolbox and drag a menustrip control onto the form. To add menu items to the menu, click the type here textbox and type the menu item’s name.

Question 3

How do you make menu items have shortcut keys?

Answer 3

Set the ShortcutKeys property.

Question 4

How do you remove a menu item?

Answer 4

Select it with the mouse and press the delete key

Question 5

How do you group items by separator bars?

Answer 5

Right click and select Insert>Separator or by typing - for the text of a menu item.

Question 6

What types of menu items can you add?

Answer 6

Visual studio allows you to add TextBoxes and ComboBoxes as menu items. Before you enter text for a menu item, you are provided with a drop-down list.

Question 7

What is the convention for menu items that require the user to provide more information?

Answer 7

Question 8

What are the common menustrip and toolstrip properties and events?

Answer 8

Question 9

How would you show a message box in code?

Answer 9

Question 10

How code would look for checked menu item types look?

Answer 10

Question 11

What is the month calendar control?

Answer 11

The MonthCalendar control displays a monthly calendar on the form. Multiple dates can be selected by clicking dates on the calendar while holding down the shift key.

Question 12

What are the month calendar properties and events?

Answer 12

Question 13

What is the link label?

Answer 13

The link label control displays links to other resources, such as files or web pages.

Question 14

What are the common link pabel properties and default event?

Answer 14

Question 15

How would you use a link label to browse the C: drive?

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Question 16

How would you use a link label to load a url?

Answer 16

Question 17

How would you use a link label to open up an application installed on the computer?

Answer 17

Question 18

What is the listbox control?

Answer 18

The listbox control allows the user to view and select from multiple items in a list. The checked list box control extends a listbox by including checkboxes next to each item in the list.

Question 19

What are the common properties and default even for listboxes?

Answer 19

Question 20

What is a combobox?

Answer 20

The combobox control combines textbox features with a drop-down list.

Question 21

What is a treeview?

Answer 21

The treeview control displays nodes hierarchically in a tree. A parent node contains chil nodes, and the child nodes can be parents to other nodes. The two child nodes that have the same parent node are considered sibling nodes. The first parent node of a tree is the root node ( a treeview can have multiple roots)

Question 22

What are the treeview properties and devault event?

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Question 23

What are the common tree node properties and default Event?

Answer 23

Question 24

What is a listview?

Answer 24

The listview control is a more versatile thatn a listbox and can display items in different formats. ie. icons and details of items in columns

Question 25

how does program loading work?

Answer 25

This program loads quickly because it indexes only the files in the current directory. As a result a small delay may occur when a new directory is loaded.

Question 26

What is a tabcontrol?

Answer 26

The tabcontrol creates tabbed windows, such as those in visual studio.

Question 27

What is multiple document interface windows?

Answer 27

Many complex apps are multiple document interface (MDI) programs, which allow users to edit multiple documents at once. An MDI program’s main window is called the parent window, and each window inside the app is referred to as a child window. Figure 15.37 depicts a sample MDI app with two child windows. To create an MDI Form, create a new Form and set its IsMdiContainer property to true

Question 28

How do you create a multiple document interface?

Answer 28