After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Build MDI applications.
- Customize Windows Forms and controls.
- Create customized print components.
- Perform drag-and-drop operations and implement Clipboard support.
- Perform asynchronous tasks in Windows Forms by using multithreaded
techniques.
- Enhance the presentation of Windows Forms applications
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Have attended or studied Workshop 2546A, Core Windows Forms
Technologies with Visual Studio 2005 or possess equivalent knowledge
and skills.
- Be able to manage a solution environment using the Visual Studio
2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and tools.
- Be able to program an application using a Microsoft .NET Framework
2.0 compliant language, including the use of delegates and events.
- Understand advanced concepts including serialization, reflection,
application domains, and multithreading.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Building MDI Applications
This unit explains how to create multiple-document interface (MDI)
applications that enable one parent window to host multiple documents.
It demonstrates how to create MDI parent and child forms and how
to determine the active MDI child and work with information on it.
It also explains how to implement menu merging in an MDI application
to make the menu on the parent form relevant to the active child
form.
Lessons
- Windows Forms Layout Options.
- What Are MDI Applications?Lab 1: Building MDI Applications
- Exercise 1. Creating MDI Parent and Child Forms.
- Exercise 2. Displaying and Comparing Information on MDI Child
Forms.
- Exercise 3. Implementing Menu Merging in MDI Applications.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Compare the different layout styles for Microsoft Windows Forms
applications.
- Explain the key concepts and processes involved in implementing
an MDI application.
- Create MDI parent and child forms.
- Display and compare information on MDI child forms.
- Implement menu merging in an MDI application.
Unit 2: Customizing Windows Forms and Controls
This unit explains how to develop custom Microsoft Windows Forms
and controls. Students will learn how to develop user controls,
use GDI+ operations, and create new controls that inherit from the
Control class. In addition, it demonstrates how to create a nonrectangular
Windows Form and how to add features such as attributes and Toolbox
bitmaps to controls.
Lessons
- What Are the Methods of Authoring Controls for Windows Forms?
- Ways to Draw a User Interface by Using GDI+.
- Creating a Nonrectangular Windows Form.
- Lab 2: Customizing Windows Forms and Controls
- Exercise 1. Creating a Control that Inherits from an Existing
Control.
- Exercise 2. Creating a Nonrectangular Windows Form.
- Exercise 3. Creating a Custom User Control.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the methods of authoring controls for Windows Forms.
- Draw a user interface by using GDI+.
- Create a control that inherits from an existing control.
- Create a nonrectangular Windows Form.
- Create a custom user control.
Unit 3: Creating Customized Print Components
This unit explains how to print content from a Microsoft Windows
Forms application by using the printing features of GDI+. Students
will learn how to keep track of multiple pages when printing and
render page content correctly.
Lessons
- Printing Features that Are Supported by .NET Framework 2.0.
- Drawing Print Document Content by Using GDI+
- Lab 3: Creating Customized Print Components
- Exercise 1. Printing a Report by Using GDI+
- Exercise 2. Creating a Customized Print Preview Dialog Box (if
time permits)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the printing features that are supported by .NET Framework
2.0.
- Explain how to use GDI+ to draw print document content.
- Print content by using GDI+.
- Describe best practices for creating custom print components
Unit 4: Performing Drag-and-Drop Operations and Implementing Clipboard
Support
This unit introduces the properties, methods, and events that can
be used to implement drag-and-drop functionality in a Microsoft
Windows Forms application. Students will learn how to start and
finish drag-and-drop operations and, specifically, how to implement
drag-and-drop operations with a TreeView control. In addition, this
unit demonstrates how to use the Clipboard to store and retrieve
data.
Lessons
- Drag-and-Drop Operations in Windows Forms Applications.
- Adding Clipboard Support in Windows Forms Applications
- Lab 4: Performing Drag-and-Drop Operations and Implementing
Clipboard Support
- Exercise 1. Implementing Drag-and-Drop Functionality in a Windows
Forms Application
- Exercise 2. Adding Clipboard Support to an Application
- Exercise 3. Performing Drag-and-Drop Operations by Using TextBox
and PictureBox Controls (if time permits)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the phases of a drag-and-drop operation.
- Describe the methods that you can use to provide Clipboard support
- Implement drag-and-drop functionality in a Windows Forms application
-
Add Clipboard support to an application
Unit 5: Performing Asynchronous Tasks by Using Multithreaded Techniques
This unit demonstrates how to create Microsoft Windows Forms applications
that can run tasks in the background. It explains how to make use
of the asynchronous methods and other features of components that
support the Asynchronous Pattern for Components. Students will also
learn how to use the classes in the System.Threading namespace to
run one or more tasks in the background by using multiple threads
in an application.
Lessons
- Asynchronous Programming in Windows Forms Applications.
- Creating Thread-Safe Applications.
- Lab 5: Performing Asynchronous Tasks by Using Multithreaded
Techniques
- Exercise 1. Loading a Bitmap Asynchronously
- Exercise 2. Performing Calculations by Using Multithreading
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the concepts and processes that are involved in performing
asynchronous programming.
- Load a bitmap into a Windows Forms application asynchronously.
- Perform multiple simultaneous calculations on a form by using
multithreading
Unit 6: Enhancing the Presentation of Windows Forms Applications
This unit describes several of the features that can be used when
creating professional-looking applications. Students will learn
how to build a Windows Form that has the appearance of Microsoft
Office Outlook and how to configure a customized master/detail DataGridView
control. In addition, this unit explains how to incorporate the
PropertyGrid component and application settings features that enable
users to edit and save their preferences.
Lessons
- Enhancing Application User Interfaces.
- Customizing the DataGridView Control.
- Application Settings and the PropertyGrid Control
- Lab 6: Enhancing the Presentation of Windows Forms Applications
- Exercise 1. Programming the DataGridView Control.
- Exercise 2. Viewing and Persisting Application Settings by Using
the PropertyGrid Control.
- Exercise 3. Implementing a User Interface in the Style of Outlook
by Using RAD Features.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe several key features involved in enhancing an application
user interface.
- Describe how to customize the DataGridView control.
- Explain the concepts of Windows Forms application settings and
the PropertyGrid control.
- Program the DataGridView control.
- View and persist application settings by using the PropertyGrid
control.
- Implement a user interface in the style of Outlook by using
rapid application development (RAD) features.
Inclusive to the overall costs of this Microsoft training course
is equipment, training material, lunch and refreshments.
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