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Overview

This course provides delegates with the skills required to build Microsoft Windows forms applications by using the Microsoft .NET framework.

Leads to examination

• 70–306 – Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Prerequisites

Delegates should have an understanding of Visual Basic .NET/C# programming and experience building applications.

The following prerequisites are recommended for this course:

• Have attended Course MS2559 - Introduction to Visual Basic .NET Programming or have equivalent knowledge

Delegates will learn how to

• Create and populate Windows forms
• Organise controls on Windows forms
• Add code to form and control event procedures in a Windows forms application
• Use .NET and COM components in a Windows forms application
• Call Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from a Windows Forms application
• Migrate Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET
• Create multithreaded Windows Forms applications
• Debug a Windows Forms application
• Incorporate accessibility features in a Windows forms application
• Localise a Windows Forms application
• Create help files in a Windows Forms application
• Implement code-access and role-based security in a Windows Forms application
• Create Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) applications
• Bind Windows applications to various data sources using Microsoft ADO.NET
• Create menus in a Windows Forms application
• Use dialogs in Windows forms applications
• Create and use user controls in a Windows forms application
• Create licenses for controls
• Consume Web services with Windows forms applications
• Validate user input in a Windows forms application
• Print documents in a Windows Forms application
• Create and format reports using crystal reports
• Deploy a Windows Forms application
• Add deployment flexibility to applications by using shared assemblies

Outline

INTRODUCING WINDOWS FORMS:

Creating a Form; Adding Controls to a Form; Creating an Inherited Form; Organizing Controls on a Form; Creating MDI applications

WORKING WITH CONTROLS:

Creating an Event Handler for a Control; Using Windows Forms Controls; Using Dialogs; Validating User Input; Creating Controls at Runtime; Creating Menus

BUILDING CONTROLS:

Options for Creating Controls; Adding Functionality to Controls; Adding Design-Time support for Controls; Licensing a Control

USING DATA IN WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS:

Adding ADO.NET Objects to a Windows Forms Application; Accessing and Modifying Data by Using DataSets; Binding Data to Controls; Using the DataGrid Control; Overview of XML Web Services; Creating a Simple XML Web Services Client

INTEROPERATING WITH COM OBJECTS:

Using .NET and COM Components in a Windows Forms Application; Calling Win32 APIs from Windows Forms Applications

REPORTING AND PRINTING IN WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS:

Creating Reports Using Crystal Reports; Printing From a Windows Forms Application; Using the Print Preview, Page Setup, and Print Dialogs; Constructing Print Document Content Using GDI+

ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING:

The .NET Asynchronous Programming Model; The Asynchronous Programming Model Design Pattern; How to Make Asynchronous Calls to Methods

ENHANCING THE USABILITY OF APPLICATIONS:

Adding Accessibility Features; Adding Help to an Application; Localizing an Application

DEPLOYING WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS:

.NET Assemblies; Deploying Windows Forms Applications

SECURING WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS:

Security in the .NET Framework; Using Code Access Security; Using Role-Based Security

Recommended follow on course

• MS2597 Planning and Deploying Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

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