Developing Applications
DURATION
5 Days
LOCATION
Exeter or onsite at your premises.
PRE-REQUISITES
Before taking this course, students should have a working knowledge of writing code for the .NET Framework, equivalent to our Learning to Program in Visual C# course.
SUBJECT AREAS
(PLEASE NOTE, SUBJECT AREAS COVERED WILL DEPEND ON DELEGATES ABILITY AND TIME AVAILABLE)
Introduction to Windows Forms
- .NET Does Windows
- Adding Controls to a Form
- A Peek Behind the Scenes
- Adding Event Handling Code
- Adding a Menu to the Form
- Adding Non-Graphical Components
Taking Advantage of the Form Event Model
- How Visual C# Handles Events
- Exploring Form and Control Events
Common Windows Forms Controls
- Label, TextBox, and Button
- CheckBox and RadioButton
- ComboBox, ListBox, and CheckedListBox
- LinkLabel, NumericUpdown, PictureBox and ProgressBar
Exception Handling
- Perspectives on Exception Handling
- Getting Started with Exception Handling
- Catching Specific Exceptions
- Raising Errors
- Running Code Unconditionally
- Handling Unhandled Exceptions
- Creating Exception Classes
Working with Strings and Dates
- Basic .NET Data Types
- Working with Text: The String Class
- Working with Dates and Times
Accessing Data
- Overview of ADO.NET
- Executing Commands
- Working with Data
- Choosing an ADO.NET Provider
Introduction to LINQ
- Language Integrated Query
- LINQ Syntax
- LINQ SQL
- LINQ DataSets
- LINQ to XML
- Connecting to Data
Data Binding Techniques
- Creating a Data Source
- Creating Data-Bound Forms
- Data Binding Components and Controls
- Displaying Data from Related Tables
- Enforcing Referential Integrity
- Adding Search Capabilities to a Form
- Filtering by Values from a Lookup Table
- Validating Data
- Working with Local Data
Using the Data Controls
- Data Controls
- The BindingNavigator Control
- The BindingSource Component
- The DataGridView Control
- The ReportViewer Control
Introduction to WPF
- Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- Investigating XAML and the WPF Designer
- Introducing Content and Grid Controls
- Revisiting WPF
- Laying Out the Application
- Creating the MoviePlayer Control
- Creating a Data Source and Hook up Data Binding
- Adding a Data Converter and a Data Template
Handling Input/Output Tasks
- Introducing the System.IO Namespace Selecting Files
- Browsing for Folders
- Handling Path Information
- Working with Directories and Files
- Using Stream-Based Objects to Read and Write File Contents
Project Settings in Visual Studio
- The Project Designer
- Application Properties
- Compilation Properties
- Debugging Properties
- Project References
- Project Resources
- Project Settings
- Displaying Data from Lookup Tables
Debugging Your Applications
- Debugging Applications
- Setting Breakpoints and Stepping through Code
- Evaluating Variables and Objects
- Using the Edit and Continue Feature
- Debugging Code in Assemblies
- Testing Code with Unit Tests
Container Controls
- Introducing Container Controls
- Grouping Controls with the GroupBox Control
- Introducing the Panel Control
- Displaying Multiple Panels with the SplitContainer Control
- Laying out Panels with the TabControl Control
- Simple Layout Using the FlowLayoutPanel Control
- Advanced Layout Using the TableLayoutPanel Control
- Trace and Instrumenting Applications
Menus and Toolbars
- Introducing the Strips
- Working with the Strips
Complex Windows Forms Controls
- Introducing Complex Controls
- NotifyIcon Control
- WebBrowser Control
- MaskedTextBox Control
- RichTextBox Control
- TreeView and ListView Controls
- MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker Controls
Interoperability
- Interoperability Overview
- COM and the .NET Framework
- Calling COM Objects from .NET
- Using Platform Invoke
- Web Services
Deploying Applications Using ClickOnce
- ClickOnce Deployment
- Publishing and Application
- Setting Publish Options
- Updating a Deployed Application
- What Happens When You Publish an Application?
- Deploying Office 2007 Solutions
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