Index

M

marquis selection

about, 230

illustrated, 236

within PictureBox, 230-238

Mask property, 475-479

Masked Edit control, 462-472

about, 462

customizing, 472-473

getting from Visual Studio 6.0, 462-463

illustrated, 463

masking characters available, 464-465

testing customized, 491-494

validation errors in .NET, 465-472

Masked Edit control, 491-494. See also CustomMask project; MaskedEdit project

checking Format property, 492-493

Masked Edit control in Toolbox, 463, 491-492

repairing code to trigger ValidateErrorEventHandler, 493-494

test form for, 492

MaskedEdit project, 467-472

adding controls and properties for, 467

events in, 468-470

form, 467

.NET rendition of control test for, 470-471

out of order events in, 471-472

MDI (multiple-document interface) applications, 140-152. See also SDI

C# code for, 143-147

context menu in, 152-153

converting SDI to, 141

defined, 140-141

Golf project as, 643, 644, 645

setting up MDIapp project, 141-142

VB code for MDI application, 148-151

MDIapp project

setting up, 141-142

VB code for, 148-151

memory

modifying Dispose method to clear, 342-343

reading and writing binary file to, 384-386

Menu control, 36

MenuItem, testing delegate call by, 134-135

menus. See also context menus

assigning hot keys on, 83-85

code for PowerUser menu delegate, 94

context menu in MDI applications, 152

displaying context, 248-249

help for .NET, 153

invoking pop-up menus with object, 249-256

MessageBox dialog box, 405-406

methods

QuickTreeTester project, 631-632

specific to multithreading, 612-613

static, 89

validation methods using regular expressions, 457-460

modality of error dialog box, 405-406

MonthCalendar control, 35

mouse-based data entry, 215-238. See also MouseTrap project

conditions required for drag-and-drop operations, 281-282

detecting changed cells and cells clicked by user, 368-371

events for, 216

intercepting keystrokes for form controls, 222-228

linking DataSource property of ListBox to internal array, 219-222

mouse event handlers for drag-and- drop operations, 277-281

MouseTrap project, 216-229

tabbing through controls, 27

MouseDown delegate, 235

MouseEvent Handlers screen, 229

MouseEventsArgs class, 216

MouseMove delegate, 235

MouseTrap project, 216-229

actions done by, 218

adding flags from ListBox in

PictureBox, 228-229

all flags displayed in PictureBox, 229

class local variables in, 232

code for rectangle converter class, 231

creating Paint delegate for, 232-233

linking DataSource property of ListBox to internal array, 219-221

marking and deleting flags in PictureBox, 236-238

marquis selection, 230, 236

setting local class structure holding flag and its name, 218-219

MouseUp delegate, 235

Movie Rental Program screen

running program for, 286-287

setting up, 265

MovieList class

C# code for, 269-272

functionality of, 268-269

VB code for, 272-274

MovieList objects, 286

MovieList project, 264-291

classes added to, 266-267

code for ListViewSorter class, 287-290

constructor initialization code, 283-286

creating Movie object, 267-268

functionality of MovieList class, 268-269

items demonstrated in, 264-265

main movie form code, 276-291

opening text file and declaring delimiter constant, 274-275

overriding ToString() method, 275-276

setting up Movie Rental Program screen, 265

sort order arrays in, 290-291

MSComm control, 375

MSComm project, 375-378

MsgBox command (VB), 406

multiform SDI. See SDISample project

MultiLine TextBox controls

AcceptsReturn property, 20, 21

Enter key in, 20

multithreading, 612-640. See also QuickTree project; QuickTreeTester project

allowing external client use of TreeView control, 616-619

cautions about, 612

functions of QuickTree multithreading project, 613

methods specific to, 612-613

overview, 640

synchronizing conflicts with worker threads, 639-640

testing multithreaded control, 637-639

worker thread code for QuickTree project, 623-625