Guides

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

• 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
  • Features
  • 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
    • 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
    • Events
    • 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

See also

• Getting started
• Documentation