VB.NET Developer's Guide
Teaches Visual Basic programmers all about Microsoft s .NET platform, and how to develop applications using the new Visual Basic.NET.
TABLE OF CONTENTS VB.NET Developer's Guide
Adding Toolbars to Forms
A toolbar is another control that is often docked to an edge of a form. In the .NET Framework, toolbars display buttons that can appear as standard buttons, toggle-style buttons, or drop-down style buttons. Toolbar buttons can appear as raised or flat when the mouse pointer moves over a flat button, its appearance changes to three-dimensional. Toolbars can also display drop-down menus that activate commands. As is common throughout Windows, a button can display an image along with text. Table 7.18 describes the properties of the Toolbar control:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| (Bindings) | This collection holds all the bindings of properties of the toolbar to data sources. |
| (Name) | Indicates the name used in code to identify the toolbar. |
| AccessibleDescription | The description that will be reported to accessibility clients. |
| AccessibleName | The name that will be reported to accessibility clients. |
| AccessibleRole | The role that will be reported to accessibility clients. |
| AllowDrop | Determines if the toolbar will receive drag-and-drop notifications. |
| Anchor | The anchor of the toolbar. |
| Appearance | Controls the appearance of the toolbar. |
| AutoSize | Controls whether the toolbar will automatically size itself based on button size. |
| BackgroundImage | The background image used for the toolbar. |
| BorderStyle | Controls what type of border the toolbar will have. |
| Buttons | The collection of toolbar buttons that make up the toolbar. |
| ButtonSize | Suggests the size of buttons in the toolbar. Button sizes might still be different based on text, drop-downarrows, and others. |
| CausesValidation | Indicates whether the toolbar causes and raises... |
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