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Modern Form + Font Awesome

Icons, WinForm, C # - VB.NET
by RJ Code Advance / 25 comments

Hello everyone, today I bring you a new tutorial on user interface design, modern and
multicolored, both in the button, text and icons, with the option to keep the button
highlighted and show the title and icon when the secondary form is open . In addition to
implementing all the functionalities of resizing, dragging the form, maximizing, restoring,
minimizing and closing the form. You may be wondering how it is possible to change the
color of the icons. Well this is thanks to FONT AWESOMEIn general summary, this tool allows
you to create icons based on vectors to CSS from a text font format, I'm sure many of you
have used it when creating web pages or applications, where it is really easy to place icons
with a color and custom size. There are other web fonts, however they are all for inclusion in
web pages and style sheets only. Then one day it occurred to me why not integrate into
desktop applications, after all they are only web sources and we can convert to image

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format, but others had already thought about it, I found a library in the NUGET packages,
under the name of FONTAWESOME.SHARP , developed by mkoertgen and ThomasMentzel.
Well, this package is very interesting, with all the required options, and I liked the ease of
adding icons with custom colors and sizes in our desktop applications.

All this in C # language and Visual Basic .NET with Windows Form.

MainMenu.cs / vb

C# VB

public partial class FormMainMenu: Form

{
// Fields
private IconButton currentBtn;
private Panel leftBorderBtn;
private Form currentChildForm;

//Builder
public FormMainMenu ()
{
InitializeComponent () ;
leftBorderBtn = new Panel () ;
leftBorderBtn. Size = new Size ( 7 , 60 ) ;
panelMenu. Controls . Add ( leftBorderBtn ) ;
// Form
this . Text = string. Empty ;
this . ControlBox = false ;
this . DoubleBuffered = true ;
this . MaximizedBounds = Screen. FromHandle ( this . Handle ) . Worki
}
// Structs
private struct RGBColors
{
public static Color color1 = Color. FromArgb ( 172 , 126 , 241 ) ;
public static Color color2 = Color. FromArgb ( 249 , 118 , 176 ) ;
public static Color color3 = Color. FromArgb ( 253 , 138 , 114 ) ;
public static Color color4 = Color. FromArgb ( 95 , 77 , 221 ) ;
public static Color color5 = Color. FromArgb ( 249 , 88 , 155 ) ;
public static Color color6 = Color. FromArgb ( 24 , 161 , 251 ) ;

// Methods
private void ActivateButton ( object senderBtn, Color color )
{
if ( senderBtn! = null )
{
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DisableButton () ;
// Button
currentBtn = ( IconButton ) senderBtn;
currentBtn. BackColor = Color. FromArgb ( 37 , 36 , 81 ) ;
currentBtn. ForeColor = color;
currentBtn. TextAlign = ContentAlignment. MiddleCenter ;
currentBtn. IconColor = color;
currentBtn. TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation. TextBeforeImag
currentBtn. ImageAlign = ContentAlignment. MiddleRight ;
// Left border button
leftBorderBtn. BackColor = color;
leftBorderBtn. Location = new Point ( 0 , currentBtn. Location .
leftBorderBtn. Visible = true ;
leftBorderBtn. BringToFront () ;
// Current Child Form Icon
iconCurrentChildForm. IconChar = currentBtn. IconChar ;
iconCurrentChildForm. IconColor = color;
}
}

private void DisableButton ()

{
if ( currentBtn! = null )
{
currentBtn. BackColor = Color. FromArgb ( 31 , 30 , 68 ) ;
currentBtn. ForeColor = Color. Gainsboro ;
currentBtn. TextAlign = ContentAlignment. MiddleLeft ;
currentBtn. IconColor = Color. Gainsboro ;
currentBtn. TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation. ImageBeforeTex
currentBtn. ImageAlign = ContentAlignment. MiddleLeft ;
}
}

private void OpenChildForm ( Form childForm )

{
// open only form
if ( currentChildForm! = null )
{
currentChildForm. Close () ;
}
currentChildForm = childForm;
// End
childForm. TopLevel = false ;
childForm. FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle. None ;
childForm. Dock = DockStyle. Fill ;
panelDesktop. Controls . Add ( childForm ) ;
panelDesktop. Tag = childForm;
childForm. BringToFront () ;
childForm. Show () ;
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lblTitleChildForm. Text = childForm. Text ;

}

private void Reset ()

{
DisableButton () ;
leftBorderBtn. Visible = false ;
iconCurrentChildForm. IconChar = IconChar. Home ;
iconCurrentChildForm. IconColor = Color. MediumPurple ;
lblTitleChildForm. Text = "Home" ;
}

// Events
// Reset
private void btnHome_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
if ( currentChildForm! = null )
{
currentChildForm. Close () ;
}
Reset () ;
}
// Menu Button_Clicks
private void btnDashboard_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
ActivateButton ( sender, rgbColors. Color1 ) ;
OpenChildForm ( new FormDashboard ()) ;
}

private void btnOrder_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
ActivateButton ( sender, rgbColors. Color2 ) ;
OpenChildForm ( new FormOrders ()) ;
}

private void btnProduct_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
ActivateButton ( sender, rgbColors. Color3 ) ;
OpenChildForm ( new FormProducts ()) ;
}

private void btnCustomer_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
ActivateButton ( sender, RGBColors. Color4 ) ;
OpenChildForm ( new FormCustomers ()) ;
}

private void btnMarketing_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
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ActivateButton ( sender, RGBColors. Color5 ) ;

OpenChildForm ( new FormMarketing ()) ;
}

private void btnSetting_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
ActivateButton ( sender, RGBColors. Color6 ) ;
OpenChildForm ( new FormSetting ()) ;
}

// Drag Form
[ DllImport ( "user32.DLL" , EntryPoint = "ReleaseCapture" )]
private extern static void ReleaseCapture () ;

[ DllImport ( "user32.DLL" , EntryPoint = "SendMessage" )]

private extern static void SendMessage ( System. IntPtr hWnd, int wMsg, i

private void panelTitleBar_MouseDown ( object sender, MouseEventArgs e )

{
ReleaseCapture () ;
SendMessage ( this . Handle , 0x112 , 0xf012 , 0 ) ;
}

// Close-Maximize-Minimize
private void btnExit_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
Application. Exit () ;
}

private void btnMaximize_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
if ( WindowState == FormWindowState. Normal )
WindowState = FormWindowState. Maximized ;
else
WindowState = FormWindowState. Normal ;
}

private void btnMinimize_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )

{
WindowState = FormWindowState. Minimized ;
}

// Remove transparent border in maximized state

private void FormMainMenu_Resize ( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
if ( WindowState == FormWindowState. Maximized )
FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle. None ;
else
FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle. Sizable ;
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25 comments on "Modern Form + Font

Awesome Icons, WinForm, C # - VB.NET"

REYNALDO HERNANDEZ
January 13, 2020 at 3:12 pm

Hello good morning, first of all thank you for your videos since they are of great help and
contribution to the vb community, well I would like to propose that you create a project
where we can send messages by WhatsApp from our vb application, since this is from fashion
today and it is very important to have something like this integrated into our projects, Thank
you.

Answer

REYNALDO HERNANDEZ
January 13, 2020 at 3:38 pm

I saw an example in this forum:

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_whatsapp_whatsappapi-t419188.0.html

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January 24, 2020 at 2:17 pm

Awesome post! Keep up the great work!

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RICARDO MESA
on April 2, 2020 at 5:49 pm

Hello, thanks for your tutorial videos, they are the best I have seen on the internet (My
Personal Criterion), I need that if you can do a tutorial how to open pdf documents in a form,
but be careful that it is already in the form resources, example that when I click on a label
for example to open the pdf document in the form, thank you very much in advance… ..

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FREEPORNPICS
on April 5, 2020 at 2:09 pm

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EDSON MONTEIRO
April 26, 2020 at 7:50 pm

Awesome post! Thank you.

What software did you use to read the texts?

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钻网
April 30, 2020 at 1:58 am

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May 6, 2020 at 2:27 am

学习 啦 ， 很久 没 浏览 过 了！

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FREDD
May 21, 2020 at 11:12 am

Hello,

Thanks for this tutorial, Someone has project files for this? In VB.Net

And would like to make a request for a job to make and finish my ACARS Project.

With this UI Forms Thanks

Regards Fred

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PORNLIST
on June 15, 2020 at 11:56 pm

This is a good blog, happy every day

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GABRIEL M.
June 22, 2020 at 4:50 am

Hi RJ. I congratulate you for the tutorial, I am starting in programming and you really explain
it very easily. But I have a problem when I click any of the buttons.

System.NullReferenceException

HResult = 0x80004003

Message = Object reference not set as an instance of an object.

Source = Commissions

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Stack Tracking:

at Commissions.frmMenuPrincipal.ActivateButton (Object senderBtn, Color customColor) in

frmMenuPrincipal.vb: line 34

——> this is line 34 (leftBorderBtn.BackColor = customColor)

Thanks for the help.

Answer

GABRIEL M.
June 22, 2020 at 4:20 pm

Thanks. Problem solved. A typo of mine.

PORN PICS
June 25, 2020 at 12:27 am

Looks good! I like this!

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