Building a Simple Application

Visual Studio 2005 comes with a comprehensive set of controls that you can use in your projects. For the most part, you’ll be able to build all of your applications using just these controls.

Take a look at how you can use some of these controls to put together a basic application. In these following exercises, you build a basic Windows application that lets the user enter text into a form. The application will count the number of words and letters in the block of text that they enter.

Chapter 6.2.1: Building the Form

Chapter 6.2.2: Counting Characters

Chapter 6.2.3: Counting Words

Chapter 6.2.4: Creating the Show Me! Button Code