Windows Form Controls

A DateTimePicker control allows you to select a date and time.

The TableLayoutPanel control is a container of other control where child controls are added within a table structure. Control can be added to a cell of the table.

NumericUpDown are basically counters that the user can input a number within the specified range. With the Help of NumericUpDown Control we can enter numeric values, with advanced features like up-down buttons and accelerating auto-repeat.

MenuStrip provides a menu system for a form.

Label control is used to display Text on the Form. Main property of the label control is the text property which is used to set the text in the label.

The FlowLayoutPanel dynamically repositions the controls it contains. The FlowLayoutPanel also supports Scroll when the AutoScroll property is set to True.

ComboBox is a combination of a TextBox and a ListBox.

ToolTip is used to display some text when the mouse is move over a control. This control is helpful in providing quick information when the user moves the pointer over an associated control.

ToolStrip is a container for ToolStripItem elements. Each individual element on the ToolStrip is a ToolStripItem that manages the layout and event model for the type it contains. .

The TextBox control accepts input from the user. It can also be used to display text. By default we can enter up to 2048 characters in a TextBox but if the Multiline property is set to True we can enter up to 32KB of text.

The TabControl is a container control that allows you to display multiple tab on a single form and it allowed switching between the tabs.

A SplitContainer has two panels. The first panel is represented by Panel1 and second panel is represented by Panel2. These panels can have their own properties and events.

RichTextBox allows formatting the text. It also provides facility to save the text in file and restore from file.

Progress Bar Control is used to display the progress of a task.

PictureBox control is used to display image. The images displayed can be any format like Bitmap, JPEG, and GIF, PNG or any other image format files. The PictureBox control is based on the Control class.

A OpenFileDialog control is used to select a file. OpenFileDialog provide files to the user and retrieves the user's file selection back to the program

A PrintDialog control is used to open the Windows Print Dialog. The PrintDocument component allows users to send an output to a printer. With the help of PrintPreviewDialog You can preview a document.

ErrorProvider allows us to set an error message for any control on the form when the input is not valid. the control.

The Checkbox control is used to display a check box. The Checkbox control gives us an option to select, say, yes/no or true/false.

WebBrowser Control Enables to navigate Web pages inside your form. Navigate method of WebBrowser Control - Loads the document into the WebBrowser control.

The TreeView control is used to display a hierarchy of nodes. You can expand and collapse these nodes by clicking them.

The Timer control allows you to set a time interval to execute an event after some interval continuously. It is useful when you want to execute certain applications after a certain interval.

StatusStrip control is a powerful StatusBar control. StatusStrip provides ProgressBar, DropdownButton, SplitButton, and Label features, you can add a progress bar, a drop down button, a SplitButton, or a label control to the StatusStrip itself.

The MonthCalendar control allows you to select date.