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 Restricting a user’s input choices to a specific range of numeric
values can be done with a NumericUpDown control.
 A user can type numeric values into this control or click up and
down arrows.
 Figure 14.35 describes common NumericUpDown properties and an
event.

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 Figure 14.36 demonstrates a NumericUpDown control in a GUI app
that calculates interest rate.
 For the NumericUpDown control, we set the Minimum to 1 and the
Maximum to 10.
 We set the NumericUpDown’s ReadOnly property to true to indicate
that the user cannot type a number into the control.

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 The LinkLabel control displays links to other resources, such as
files or web pages (Fig. 15.12).

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 When clicked, the LinkLabel generates a LinkClicked event
(Fig. 15.13).
 Class LinkLabel is derived from class Label and therefore inherits
all of class Label’s functionality.

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 Class LinkLabelTestForm (Fig. 15.14) uses three LinkLabels.
 Method Start of class Process allows you to execute other
programs, or load documents or web sites from an app.

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 The TabControl creates tabbed windows, such as those in Visual
Studio (Fig. 15.32)

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 TabControls contain TabPage objects, which are similar to Panels.
 First add controls to the TabPage objects, then add the TabPages to
the TabControl.
▪ myTabPage.Controls.Add(myControl);
▪ myTabControl.TabPages.Add(myTabPage);
 We can use method AddRange to add an array of TabPages or
controls to a TabControl or TabPage.

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 Add TabControls visually by dragging and dropping them onto a
Form in Design mode.
 To add TabPages in Design mode, click the top of the TabControl,
open its smart tasks menu and select Add Tab (Fig. 15.34).
 To select a TabPage, click the control area underneath the tabs.
 Common properties and a common event of TabControls are
described in Fig. 15.35.

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 Class UsingTabsForm (Fig. 15.36) uses a TabControl to display
various options relating to the text on a label (Color, Size and
Message).

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 Menus provide groups of related commands for Windows Forms
apps (Fig. 15.1).
 Menus organize commands without “cluttering” the GUI.

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 To create a menu, open the Toolbox and drag a MenuStrip control
onto the Form.
 To add menu items to the menu, click the Type Here TextBox
(Fig. 15.2) and type the menu item’s name.

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 After you press the Enter key, the menu item is added.
 More Type Here TextBoxes allow you to add more items (Fig. 15.3).

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 Menus can have Alt key shortcuts which are accessed by pressing Alt
and the underlined letter.
 To make the File menu item have a key shortcut, type &File.
 The letter F is underlined to indicate that it’s a shortcut.

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 Menu items can have shortcut keys as well (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, F1, F2,
letter keys, and so on).
 To add other shortcut keys, set the ShortcutKeys property
(Fig. 15.4).

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 You can remove a menu item by selecting it with the mouse and
pressing the Delete key.
 Menu items can be grouped by separator bars, which are inserted by
right clicking and selecting Insert > Separator or by typing “-” for
the text of a menu item.

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 Visual Studio allows you to add TextBoxes and ComboBoxes as
menu items.
 Before you enter text for a menu item, you are provided with a drop-
down list.
▪ Clicking the down arrow allows you to select the type of item to add
(Fig. 15.5).

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 Class MenuTestForm (Fig. 15.7) creates a simple menu on a Form.

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