Button Control

In my previous video I discussed how to create a Windows Forms application using Visual Studio 2010

Now in this application in all following applications I'm going to discuss Windows Forms controls one by one in how to use them in your Windows Forms applications

So let's start by creating a new project. So what I do is file, select new project

When you select new project, I'm going to call this application button control sample

What I'm going to do in this project, I'm going to show you how to use the button control

in your Windows Forms applications. So if you look at this, by default the form is actually centralized

So to create a button control in a Windows Forms application, you simply select the button

control in your toolbox and drag and drop to the form. When you drag and drop to the form, you will see the button control is added with default

properties where text says button one. Now if you do want to change the properties of this button control, there's a problem

properties window right here what you can do is now if you have worked with

Windows forms applications prior to this Visual Studio 2010 in dot net framework

4.0 there are several new features added new properties added new methods added

to these Windows forms control and all all these changes are really pretty cool. So in this purpose of this project is to show you how

to use a button control in some of the major properties. So first thing I do like to do

in my projects that I usually change the name of the button control. So I call it Click Me

button What you can do is there are different ways to view these properties you can sort them alphabetically or you can categorize them so if I

categorize them you will see they can be minimized and maximize based on their

category so as you can see from here accessibility appearance behavior data

design focus and layout so let's let's start with the layout In layout you can see anchor auto size docking

Say if you want to change docking to centralize this will fill the whole form

If you want to say, okay dock to top, it will only fill the top area

Same thing with bottom, same thing with left and right side. I would change to none

Right now I really do not want talking location tells you where the location of this button is on the form and then we have you can also restrict the

size of a button control by setting maximum size and minimum size of the button

control so that's layout now let's go to appearance in appearance you can see

there's a background to back color and background back color is basically

background color of the button so I change background color to say chocolate or

I like say this color orange now you can also change background color as a background image image if

you go to image what it will do is it will actually ask you to import images in

local resources so what I can really do is import any image from my image gallery

and let's say let's call some of these India pictures they look they look

pretty cool how about the Taz Mahal. That's pretty cool. All right so I did import Taj Mahal. This picture is

pretty big so you can't really see but as you can see as you know increase the

size of the control button control you will see the picture in there now you

can change the let change this to say center They have all other background image properties you can stretch them Let pick a actually different image

This is just too big. This is just too big. Let's pick this one. Okay

You can see this is my button control right here. And you can change text

Let's go one by one. So flat appearance is for... Then you have flat style, standard button style, it can pop up button, flat style

I do like flat style. And foreground color basically for the text

So you can say, give me maroon. And then I'm going to change the font

Font, you can either click on this. It will bring the font dialog box

you where you can select any font say Georgia bold size say 14 or you can also

expand this from here and where you can select anything you want to type by hand

as well italics say make it true so I'm going to actually I'm going to remove the

background image because you can't really see the effects right now so I go

there and okay now you can see the property changes to the button control you

can also align images align text you feel like okay you want to start your

text with top bottom you can do all that this at this feature is actually pretty

cool because I remember I was having hard time in previous version of Windows

forms setting the button at the top like this one and when the size actually

the height of the button was bigger than the actual text. So there are so many pretty cool properties have been added to these controls

And again, these properties are not just added to the button control

They have been added to all of the control in Windows forms

So, and then, you know, there are more properties here. These are general properties and data binding is there

Design is here But these were basically the major properties so let go back to our toolbox What I going to do actually here is I actually going to add a few more controls to the button control this form

So we can test our click event functionality. So button control, you usually use button control when you need something like, say you want to click something

and you want to take some action on that click. So let's quick add a text box control to this form

And on button click event, you can, okay, go back to your properties

You can right click and say properties. If you look at this lightning events, you will see all the events related to the

to this one control specifically you know so our goal basically the mouse click or

click on this if you double click on that what happens is default click event

handler is added to your code what I'm going to do here is on this click

a handler handler is I'm going to read from I'm going to display a message box

In message box I'm going to display the data whatever is from text box one

So whatever you enter that Xbox one when you click the button I'm going to display as a message box so F5 if you hit F5

It will build and run your project So this is how my form look like so I'm going to type something here

Hello button if you click the button you will see a message box saying hello button appears on the screen

So to summarize this, there has been a lot of new properties have been added to Windows

Forms Control and this was our simple demo for button control. Now I'm going to keep continuing this series and next I'm going to discuss the text box

and then other Windows Forms Control. Till then see you