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My recommendation is to skim through the table of contents for the Class Library[^] to see what classes there are. I've seen many times where people are looking for something or end up writing something over when there was a class already for it. You wouldn't necessarily have to read about all the classes (at least the ones in which you're interested or the name is not self-explanitory enough) but just see what there is.

Also being familiar with the major abstract classes like System.Windows.Forms.Control is important. They define much of the functionality of their derivatives and understanding how they work is important. I also recommend that when you get more familiar with classes you see how they work under the covers using ildasm.exe from the .NET Framework SDK or a decompilers like .NET Reflector[^].

It's really just a case of getting to know the classes for such a large class library. Guessing also helps. If you're looking for an open file dialog, type "OpenFileDialog" (case not important) in the index of your Visual Studio Combined Help collection in the Visual Studio program group in yoru start menu. The local index is much easier to search than MSDN since there it's a keyword search, while and index like the combined collection (or the quarterly MSDN Library if you subscribe) is designed to help you be more efficient. When you get used to the class naming conventions of the .NET base class library (BCL) it gets easier to guess what a useful class name is. Type it in the index and read about it.

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