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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
  • Tips & Tricks
  • 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
    * String
    * 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
  • Globalization
    * Cultures supported by xtd
    * Date time formats supported by xtd
    * Languages supported by xtd
    * Number formats supported by xtd
    * Internationalization
  • 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
  • Threading
    * Compare threading features with other libraries
  • 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

• See also