Customizing, Displaying, and Printing Windows Forms

This topic provides links to topics that show you how to perform tasks specific to Windows Forms, such as customizing the shape and color of a form, and displaying and printing forms.

In This Section

• How to: Change the Background Color of a Form
  Demonstrates how to programmatically change the background color of a Windows Form.

• How to: Create a Shaped Form
  Demonstrates how to change the shape of a form to an ellipse.

• How to: Get a Value from Another Form
  Demonstrates how to retrieve a value from a text box on a Windows Form and display it in a text box on another form.

• How to: Display One Form from Another
  Demonstrates how to display a second form in a Windows Form.

• How to: Print a Form
  Demonstrates how to print a copy of a Windows Form.

• How to: Print Preview a Form
  Demonstrates how to preview the print results before printing a copy of the current form.

Related Sections

• Designing a User Interface in Visual C#
  Explains how to use the Windows Forms Designer and Toolbox to create a user interface.

• Visual C# Express
  Provides an introduction to documentation that helps you use Express editions of Visual Studio.

• Using the Visual C# Express IDE
  Provides links to topics that explain how to use the integrated development environment (IDE).