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title: Enhance apps
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "Windows Forms, enhancing"
  - "Windows Forms, adding features"
ms.assetid: 733d1219-d6ad-4256-a55b-9eccf47f5a06
---
# Enhancing Windows Forms Applications
Windows Forms contains many features that you can use to enhance your Windows-based applications to meet the specific needs of your users. The following topics describe these features and how to use them.  
  
## In This Section  
 [Graphics and Drawing in Windows Forms](graphics-and-drawing-in-windows-forms.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to use the graphics interface in Windows Forms.  
  
 [Application Settings for Windows Forms](application-settings-for-windows-forms.md).  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to use the **Application Settings** feature.  
  
 [Windows Forms Print Support](windows-forms-print-support.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to print files from Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Drag-and-Drop Operations and Clipboard Support](drag-and-drop-operations-and-clipboard-support.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to use the drag-and-drop feature and the Clipboard in Windows Forms.  
  
 [Networking in Windows Forms Applications](networking-in-windows-forms-applications.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to use networking in Windows Forms.  
  
 [Globalizing Windows Forms applications](globalizing-windows-forms.md)  
 Contains links to topics that show how to globalize Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Windows Forms and Unmanaged Applications](windows-forms-and-unmanaged-applications.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to access COM components from Windows Form applications.  
  
 [System Information and Windows Forms](system-information-and-windows-forms.md)  
 Describes how to use system information in Windows Forms.  
  
 [Power Management in Windows Forms](power-management-in-windows-forms.md)  
 Describes how to manage power use in Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Windows Forms Visual Inheritance](windows-forms-visual-inheritance.md)  
 Describes how to inherit from a base form.  
  
 [Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) Applications](multiple-document-interface-mdi-applications.md)  
 Describes how to create multiple-document interface (MDI) applications.  
  
 [Integrating User Help in Windows Forms](integrating-user-help-in-windows-forms.md)  
 Describes how to integrate user help in your applications.  
  
 [Windows Forms Accessibility](windows-forms-accessibility.md)  
 Describes how to make your applications available to a wide variety of users.  
  
 [Using WPF Controls](using-wpf-controls.md)  
 Describes how to use WPF controls in your Windows Forms-based applications.  
  
## Related Sections  
 [Help Systems in Windows Forms Applications](help-systems-in-windows-forms-applications.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe and show how to provide user help in Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Getting Started with Windows Forms](../getting-started-with-windows-forms.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe how to use the basic features of Windows Forms.