This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the skills required to build Microsoft Windows Forms applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework.This course is a part of the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET curriculum and is intended to provide Visual Basic programmers with the skills required to create Windows Forms applications by using the .NET Framework. The course will cover the major topics for Windows client application programming on the .NET Framework. These topics include: Windows Forms, GDI+, simple data access, interoperating with unmanaged code, threading and asynchronous programming issues, simple remoting, Web access, XML Web services consumption, debugging, security, and deployment issues for desktop applications.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for the intermediate programmer who is responsible for designing and building Windows-based applications with the .NET Framework. It is designed for developers who have Visual Basic development skills.
Students are required to have the following skills:
Experience with a .NET language such as Visual Basic .NET
Experience developing basic applications with MFC and/or Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
Typically, these individuals perform the following key activities:
Help create functional specifications.
Design and develop user interfaces.
Create and test prototypes.
Write Windows Forms applications.
Pre-requisites:
The course assumes that students have the following skills:
Understanding of Visual Basic programming
Experience building applications
The following prerequisites are recommended for this course:
This module introduces Windows forms and controls in the .NET Framework. Students will learn how to create and populate base forms and inherited forms by using the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Framework. They will also learn how to add controls to a form and how to create Multiple Document Interface (MDI) applications.
Lessons
Creating a Form
Adding Controls to a Form
Creating an Inherited Form
Organizing Controls on a Form
Creating MDI Applications
Lab : Creating Windows Forms
Creating a New Windows Form
Inheriting a New Form from an Existing Windows Form
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create a form and add controls to it.
Create an inherited form by using Visual Inheritance.
This module explains how to create event procedures (handlers) in your application that will run in response to user actions. Students will learn how to add programming logic to the event procedures of a control, how to use the Windows Forms intrinsic controls, dialog boxes, and menus, and how to validate the data entered by users of your application.
Module 3: Building Controls
This module explains how to extend the functionality of an existing Windows control, combine multiple existing controls into a composite control, and build a new custom control. Students will also learn how to add design-time licensing support to a control.
Module 4: Using Data in Windows Forms Applications
This module explains how to bind Windows forms to various data sources by using ADO .NET. Students will learn about binding Windows forms to data from sources such as databases and XML files. Students will get an overview of the XML Web services programming model and learn how to create applications that use XML Web services. The module also provides an overview of how to persist data to and read data from files and isolated storage.
Module 5: Interoperating with Managed Objects
This module explains how to use .NET and COM components in a Windows Forms application. Students will also learn how to call Win32 APIs in their Windows Forms application.
Module 6: Printing and Reporting in Windows Forms Applications
This module explores how to implement printing in a Windows Forms application and how to create reports in a Windows Forms application by using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET.
Module 7: Asynchronous Programming
This module explains how to use the techniques of asynchronous programming and multithreading to avoid blocking the user interface of an application.
Module 8: Enhancing the Usability of Applications
This module covers how to use the accessibility, Help, and localization features available in the .NET Framework.
Module 9: Deploying Windows Forms Applications
This module explains assemblies and how to use strong-named assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in the .NET Framework. Students will also learn how to configure and deploy .NET-based applications.
Module 10: Securing Windows Forms Applications
This module explains the .NET Framework security model. Students will learn how to use .NET Framework security features in Windows Forms applications.
