Guides

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The xtd guides provide an explanation on how to use the important features of the xtd Framework.

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• xtd documentation

• Get started

  • Hello World

  • Get started tutorials

  • Follow by looking at examples of xtd

  • How to install

    • Read download, install and uninstall

    • How to check xtd version

• Overview

  • Introduction to xtd

  • About xtd

  • Libraries

    • Architecture

    • Hierarchy

  • Releases, patches, and support

  • Tutorials

    • Writing console application

    • Writing GUI application

    • Writing test application

    • Some useful git commands

    • More tutorials

• What's new in xtd

• Tools

  • Overview

• xtd.core

  • Entry point

    • main and startup_

  • Types overview

    • Preprocessor symbols

    • Native types, boxing and unboxing

    • enum, enum class and enum struct

    • ustring

    • Dates, times, and time zones

    • Delegates

    • Events

    • Type conversion

      • Overview

      • Type conversion tables

  • Collections

    • Overview

  • Interfaces

  • Literal operators

  • Delegates and lambdas

  • Event

    • Overview

    • Raise and consume events

    • Observer Design Pattern

  • Exceptions

    • Overview

    • system_exception class and properties

    • How-tos

      • Use the try-catch block to catch exceptions

      • Use specific exceptions in a catch block

      • Explicitly throw exceptions

      • Create user-defined exceptions

    • Best practices

  • Format number, dates other types

    • Overview

    • Standard numeric format strings

    • Custom numeric format strings

    • Standard date and time format strings

    • Custom date and time format strings

    • Standard time_span format strings

    • Custom time_span format strings

    • Enumeration format strings

    • Composite formating

    • How-tos

      • Pad a number with leading zeros

      • Extract the day of the week from a date

      • Use custom numric format providers

      • Round-trip date and time values

      • Display milliseconds in date and time values

  • Parse (convert) strings

    • Overview

    • Parse numeric strings

    • Parse date and time strings

    • Parse other strings

  • Common I/O tasks

    • Common I/O tasks​

    • How-tos

      • Copy Directories

      • Enumerate Directories and Files

      • Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File

      • Open and Append to a Log File

      • Write Text to a File

      • Read Text from a File

  • console class

  • Networking

    • Network programming

    • Network availability

    • IPv6 overview

    • Sockets

      • Sockets support

      • Use sockets to send and receive data over TCP

      • Use tcp_client_and_tcp_listener

  • Internationalization

  • Resources

  • Settings

• xtd.drawing

  • Overview

  • Points, sizes and rectangles

  • Colors

  • Brushes

  • Pens

  • Fonts

  • Images, bitmaps and icons

  • Drawing

    • Region

    • Graphics

    • Graphics path

    • Matrix

• xtd.forms

  • Overview

    • Overview

    • Application

    • Dialogs

    • Forms

    • Menus and toolbars

    • Containers

    • Controls

    • Components

    • Controls management

    • Control appearance

    • Control events

    • Size and location properties

    • Ambient properties

  • Forms

    • Event handlers

    • Automatic scalling

    • Common tasks

      • Add a form

      • Resize a form

      • Position a form

  • Controls

    • Overview

    • Layout options

    • Labels

    • custom_controls

    • custom painting and drawing

    • Apply accessibility information

    • Common tasks

      • Add a control to a form

      • Create access key shortcuts

      • Set the text displayed by a control

      • Set the tab order of a control

      • Dock and anchor controls

      • Set the image displayed by a control

      • Add or remove event handlers

      • Make thread-safe calls

  • User input - keyboard

    • Overview

    • Use keyboard events

    • Validate input

    • Common tasks

      • Change the pressed key

      • Determine wich modifier key is pressed

      • Handle input at the form level

      • Simulate keyboard events

  • User input - mouse

    • Overview

    • Use mouse events

    • Drag-and-drop functionality

    • Common tasks

      • Distinguish between clicks and double-clicks

      • Control and modify the mouse pointer

      • Simulate mouse events

  • Printing

    • Overview

    • Common tasks

      • Print a text document

      • Print a form

      • Use print preview

  • Data binding

    • Overview

    • Design great data sources

    • Work with a data grid

    • Common tasks

      • Create a control binding

      • Synchronize multiple controls

  • Style sheets

    • Overview

    • Reference

    • Box model

    • Common tasks

      • Add style sheets to a control

• xtd.tunit

  • Overview

    • Overview

    • Running test

    • Extending test

• xtd.cmake

  • Overview

    • Overview

    • Files

  • Commands

    • Generic

    • Target properties

    • Assembly informations

    • Build options

    • Install

    • Packages

    • Project

    • Common tasks

      • Create a project

      • Add resources

      • Add settings

      • Add assembly informations

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See also

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• Getting started

• Documentation

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