Question

I normally code with PHP, I am used to opening up my editor of choice and going away at it, coding classes,methods, etc. It is fairly easy as there is no GUI to worry about.

Last night I spent the whole night following a couple tutorials with C# in Visual Studio, it’s turning out to be harder then I thought it would be. Once thing that I am not use to is, all the tutorials have you add a form object like a text box or button, then have you double clikc it to get to the code part, you then enter some code for that method. Then back to the form and re-peat

This seems very hard as you are never really working on “just the code” so 1 question is, is it always like that or just because i’m new and following tutorials?

Another question, when I see source code online to do certain functions, say I see a class I would like to try using, how can I use that class in the existing form class created by VS, do you somehow import other classes or do you add them right to the form code you are working on?

I’m sure that didn’t make much sense but hopefully it does to someone, i’ll try wording it better if not.

I should add that this was with WPF, also I feel like you have to learn 2 languages, the C# which has very similar syntax to PHP so that doesn’t seem too difficult and the for GUI that’s like a whole diff language

Answer 1

You can download the classes you are interested into.
Then you go to the Solution Explorer panel and you add existing items.
This will COPY the files to your project.

In order to use those classes you need to declare that you wan to use them.
So, what you have to do is to say something like

using FooNamespace;

Then you are ready to use the classes.
The name space is declared right before any class. You can go edit it.

Now about the forms. Each form is a Class and it consists of three files

• ClassForm.cs
• ClassForm.designer.cs
• ClassForm.resx

You ONLY need the first one. Right click and view code. You can go there and use it.