Managing Control Layout
My version of what constitutes a visually pleasing interface is likely to be very different from yours, and a lot different than Alan Cooper's. In About Face and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Cooper writes at length about interface design and departs from the kind of interfaces that are part of his legacy as the original VB implementer. However, whether you are creating a vanilla Windows application or something that radically departs from the basic Windows metaphor, you will more than likely need to spend some time on symmetry and components.
If you are building an application that has the basic Windows look and feel, you can work with Windows Forms controls or Web Forms controls (refer to Chapter 19, “ASP.NET Web ...
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