Windows Forms with C#.Net Training Course

Getting started with .Net

• What is .Net?
• Overview of the framework class libraries
• Understanding the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Compiling an application to an assembly
• A tour of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE

• Data Types
• Variables
• Constants
• Strings
• Statements
• Expressions

• Conditional branching statements
• Unconditional branching statements
• Loops

• Assignment
• Mathematical operators
• Increment & decrement
• Relational

• Creating strings
• Manipulating strings
• The StringBuilder class

• Setting a breakpoint
• Stepping through lines of code
• The debugging windows
• The call stack

• The throw statement
• The try, catch and finally statements
• How the call stack works
• Exception class methods and properties

• Creating models of systems
• Classes & objects
• Encapsulation, specialisation & polymorphism

• Defining classes
• Creating class constructors
• Static and instance members
• Destroying objects

• Overloading methods
• Encapsulating data with properties
• Returning multiple values

• Specialisation and generalisation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Abstract and sealed classes
• The root class: object
• Boxing and unboxing types

• Implementing and interface
• Implementing more than one interface
• Casting to an interface
• Extending and interface

• Using delegates
• Using events

• Type parameter for classes and methods
• Limit generic classes to hold only certain types of data
• Generic collections

• Why use windows forms?
• Structure of windows forms
• Windows forms class hierarchy
• Using windows forms
• Using controls
• New controls in visual studio 2005
• Click-once deployment

• Methods of authoring controls for windows forms
• Windows forms inheritance
• Creating the base form
• Creating the inherited form
• Creating custom controls

• List the benefits of ADO.NET
• Create applications by using ADO.NET
• List the main ADO.NET objects and their functions
• Use Visual Studio NET data designers and data binding
• Explain how XML integrates with ADO.NET

• Techniques for asynchronous programming
• Load a bitmap into a windows forms application asynchronously.
• Using multithreading to perform simultaneous operations
• Using the background worker component
• Synchronising data between threads