Nice advanced Forms with graphics

[David Hubball]

Hi

Can anyone give some advice on how to create nice professional looking
User Interfaces (with nice looking buttons to click etc).

I'm quite new to c# and read from a Microsoft Website on the
subject :-
The System.Drawing namespace provides access to GDI+ basic graphics
functionality. More advanced functionality is provided in the
System.Drawing.Drawing2D, System.Drawing.Imaging, and
System.Drawing.Text namespaces.

If using these namespaces is the best and quickest way please could
someone advise a tutorial to do, or a a book on the subject if that is
what it takes to build a nice looking form.

Thanks
David

 

[not_a_commie]

Using System.Drawing is the hardest possible way to create a nice
looking UI that I can think of (next to calling the GDI functions in
WinAPI of course). The WPF API is much easier for making a nice
looking UI.

 

[David Hubball]

Using System.Drawing is the hardest possible way to create a nice
looking UI that I can think of (next to calling the GDI functions in
WinAPI of course). The WPF API is much easier for making a nice
looking UI.

Hi

Does that mean I will have to download and learn about Microsoft
Silverlight?

Also I'm not try to do a form for the web yet so is Silverlight still
the best application to use.

thanks for all you help
cheers
David

 

[David Hubball]

Hi


No, Silverlight describes the UI in a way that is really similar to WPF but
runs inside a browser. WPF is what is intended for Windows Application and
is part of .NET 3.0 or later...

See the WPF documentation at :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754130.aspx

How do I download WPF please - can't seem to find the a link on the
Microsoft website
thanks
David

 

[Peter Duniho]

How do I download WPF please - can't seem to find the a link on the
Microsoft website

It's part of .NET, from 3.0 on.

 

[David Hubball]

I've got VS 2008 Express - should it be installed on this?

 

[Patrice]

I've got VS 2008 Express - should it be installed on this?

Should work. Is this Visual C# Express or Visual Basic Express edition ?
(http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/default.aspx)

For now, and as you asked about Silverlight, my guess is that you are using
Visual Web Developer Express which is to create web sites and not Windows
apps...

 

[David Hubball]

I've using C# VS Express - I don't suppose anyone knows of any good
basic tutorials so that I can easily make some nice buttons and a nice
shaded backgroup with a text box.

cheers
David