| Unit 1: Creating a Simple Windows Forms Application
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| This unit introduces the fundamental skills required to create a simple Windows Forms application. It explains how to configure form properties and how to add controls to a form. It also deals with events and explains how to create event handlers at design time and run time.
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| - Components of a Windows Forms User Interface
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| - Event Handling in a Windows Forms Application
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| Lab 1: Creating a Simple Windows Forms Application
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| - Exercise 1. Adding and Configuring Windows Forms and Controls
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| - Exercise 2. Creating Event Handlers and Monitoring Events
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| - Exercise 3. Adding Controls and Handlers at Run Time
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| - Exercise 4. Adding a Form Keyboard Handler (if time permits)
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Describe the various components of a Windows Forms application.
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| - Explain how to handle events in a Windows Forms application.
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| - Add and configure Windows Forms and controls.
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| - Create event handlers and monitor events.
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| - Add controls and handlers to a form at run time.
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| - Apply best practices when designing forms.
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| Unit 2: Configuring Standard Controls
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| This unit introduces many of the controls from the Visual Studio Toolbox. It teaches how to add and configure these controls and explains how to group them into different categories by function.
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| - Windows Forms Controls by Function
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| Lab 2: Configuring Standard Controls
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| - Exercise 1. Creating the EmployeeViewer Form
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| - Exercise 2. Creating the ReportGenerator Form
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| - Exercise 3. Creating the ReportGeneratorHelp Form
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Explain the functions of the major categories of Windows Forms controls.
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| - Create a form to select and view images by using the SplitContainer, TreeView, PictureBox, ToolStrip, and other controls.
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| - Create a form to specify report criteria by using the TableLayoutPanel, ListView, MonthCalendar, ComboBox, and other controls.
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| - Create a form to view a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Help file by using a WebBrowser control.
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| Unit 3: Building Menus
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| This unit introduces the MenuStrip control and the ContextMenuStrip component. It explains how to create and configure form menus and context menus in an application. It also deals with the ToolStripItems that can be added to the container of a MenuStrip or ContextMenuStrip.
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| - Menus in Windows Forms
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| Lab 3: Building Menus
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| - Exercise 1. Creating and Configuring a MenuStrip Control
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| - Exercise 2. Creating and Configuring a ContextMenuStrip Component
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| - Exercise 3. Hiding and Disabling a ToolStripMenuItem
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| - Exercise 4. Creating and Configuring a ToolStripComboBox (if time permits)
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Explain the structure of a menu in a Windows Forms application.
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| - Create and configure a MenuStrip control.
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| - Create and configure a ContextMenuStrip component.
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| - Hide and disable a ToolStripMenuItem.
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| - Apply best practices for menu design and development.
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| Unit 4: Displaying and Editing Data by Using Data-Bound Controls
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| This unit introduces the controls that can be used to display data from a data source. It shows how to use Visual Studio 2005 to create data sources and add data-bound controls to a form. It also demonstrates how to use the DataGridView control to display and update data retrieved by using a data source.
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| Lessons
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| - Binding Data to a Control
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| - DataGridView Control
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| Lab 4: Displaying and Editing Data by Using Data-Bound Controls
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| - Exercise 1. Adding a Data Source to a Project
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| - Exercise 2. Binding Data to a Control
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| - Exercise 3. Creating a Bound Form by Using the BindingSource and BindingNavigator Components
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| - Exercise 4. Displaying Data by Using the DataGridView Control
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| - Exercise 5. Binding to Data at Run Time (if time permits)
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Explain simple and complex data binding.
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| - Describe the scenarios in which the DataGridView control is used.
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| - Add a data source to a project.
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| - Bind data to a control at run time.
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| - Use the BindingSource component and BindingNavigator control to create a data-bound Windows Form.
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| - Use the DataGridView control to display and update tabular data from a data source.
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| Unit 5: Providing User Assistance and Enhancing Usability
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| This unit introduces many of the controls and techniques that can be used to create an application that is flexible and intuitive and that provides timely feedback to the user. It shows how to add and configure the available user assistance controls to provide ToolTips, Help, and information about errors. It also describes the accessibility features of Windows Forms and explains how to implement globalization and localization in an application.
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| - Providing User Assistance
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| - Implementing Accessibility Features
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| - Implementing Globalization and Localization
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| Lab 5: Providing User Assistance and Enhancing Usability
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| - Exercise 1. Adding and Configuring User Assistance Controls
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| - Exercise 2. Implementing Accessibility Features
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| - Exercise 3. Implementing Globalization and Localization
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| - Exercise 4. Running a Procedure at Set Intervals (if time permits)
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| - Exercise 5. Displaying Data Source Errors (if time permits)
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Describe the components that can be used to provide user assistance.
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| - Add and configure user assistance controls on a Windows Form.
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| - Explain the accessibility features available to implement in a Windows Forms application.
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| - Implement accessibility features within a Windows Forms application.
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| - Explain the high-level processes involved in globalization and localization in a Windows Forms application.
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| - Implement globalization and localization in a Windows Form.
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| Unit 6: Creating Consistent Applications by Using Dialog Boxes and Forms Inheritance
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| This unit introduces the built-in dialog boxes that can be used to prompt users when they are performing common tasks and to provide users with a familiar interface. It explains how to add and configure dialog boxes that enable users to open and save files and to set font and color properties. This unit also explains how to create and use a custom dialog box. In addition, this unit explains the concept of forms inheritance and describes how to create a consistent interface for Windows Forms applications.
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| Lessons
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| - Dialog Boxes in a Windows Forms Application
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| - Windows Forms Inheritance
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| Lab 6: Creating Consistent Applications by Using Dialog Boxes and Forms Inheritance
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| - Exercise 1. Adding and Configuring Dialog Box Components
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| - Exercise 2. Creating a Custom Dialog Box
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| - Exercise 3. Implementing Windows Forms Inheritance
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| - Exercise 4. Modifying an Existing Form to Inherit from a Base Form (if time permits)
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| After completing this unit, students will be able to:
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| - Describe the various standard preconfigured dialog boxes available to a Windows Forms application.
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| - Explain the concept of Windows Forms inheritance and the reasons for using inherita |
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