Date: Sep. 4, 2001
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/08/27/winforms.html
Source Author or Organization: Budi Kurniawan, O'Reilly .Net DevCenter

This tutorial shows VB programmers how the .NET Framework base type library, which can be used to quickly build a Windows application, provides a type that allows quick creation of a Windows form.

Creating a Windows form is a changed operation in Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), which is now a completely Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language.

The article begins with an introduction to the OOP concept of inheritance to bring developers with no OOP foundation up to speed. To demonstrate the power of and labor saved by inheritance, it then details the process of building a form by creating a new class that inherits from the System.WinForms.Form class.