C# 0 The Complete Reference

WinSkel

 inherits 

Form

, an object of type 

WinSkel

 can be passed to 

Run( )

.

When the program is run, it creates the window shown in Figure 26-1. The window 

has the default size and is fully functional. It can be resized, moved, minimized, 

maximized, and closed. Thus, the basic features needed by nearly all windows were 

achieved by writing only a few lines of form-based code. In contrast, the same program 

written using the C language and directly calling the Windows API would have required 

approximately five times as many lines of code!

The preceding skeleton defines the outline that most form-based Windows applications 

will take. In general, to create a form, you create a class that inherits 

Form

. Initialize the 

form to meet your needs, create an object of your derived class, and then call