Creating Windows-Based Applications

You can create traditional Microsoft Windows-based applications and client/server applications by utilizing the designers in Visual Studio 2005. This topic contains links to topics that describe the different types of Windows applications that you can create with Visual Studio.

In This Section

• Overview of Windows-based Applications
  Discusses the particulars of Windows-based application creation with Visual Studio 2005.

• Choosing Between Windows Forms and Web Forms
  Discusses considerations for choosing between the two forms packages.

• Windows Forms
  Provides links to topics about the technologies and tools for creating Windows-based applications.

• Windows Presentation Foundation in Visual Studio
  Provides links to topics about support for WPF in Visual Studio 2005.

• Client Application Services
  Provides links to topics about how to create Windows-based applications that use the login, roles, and profile services included in the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions.

Related Sections

• Code for Windows Forms Applications
  Gives links to topics that demonstrate how to perform common programming tasks in Windows Forms applications.

• Windows Forms Controls
  Provides links to topics about the controls designed specifically to work with Windows Forms.