Introduction to Windows Forms

• .NET does Windows
• Adding controls to a form
• A peek behind the scenes
• Adding event handling code
• Adding a menu to the form
• Adding non-graphical components

Taking Advantage of the Form Event Model

• How Visual Basic handles events
• Exploring form and control events

Common Windows Forms Controls

• Label, TextBox, and Button
• CheckBox and RadioButton
• ComboBox, ListBox, and CheckedListBox
• LinkLabel, NumericUpdown, PictureBox, ProgressBar

Exception Handling

• Perspectives on exception handling
• Getting started with exception handling
• Catching specific exceptions
• Raising errors
• Running code unconditionally
• Handling unhandled exceptions
• Creating exception classes

Working with Strings and Dates

• Basic .NET data types
• Working with text: The String Class
• Working with dates and times

Accessing Data

• Overview of ADO.NET
• Connecting to data
• Executing commands
• Working with data
• Choosing an ADO.NET provider

Introduction to LINQ

• LINQ syntax
• LINQ SQL
• LINQ DataSets
• LINQ to XML

Data Binding Techniques

• Data binding basics
• Creating a data source
• Creating data-bound forms
• Data binding components and controls
• Displaying data from related tables
• Enforcing referential integrity
• Displaying data from lookup tables
• Adding search capabilities to a form
• Filtering by values from a lookup table
• Data validation
• Working with local data

Using the Data Controls

• Data controls
• The BindingNavigator control
• The BindingSource component
• The DataGridView control
• The ReportViewer control

Introduction to WPF

• Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Investigating XAML and the WPF Designer
• Introducing content and grid controls

Revisiting WPF

• Laying out the application
• Creating the MoviePlayer control
• Creating a data source and hook up data binding
• Adding a data converter and a data template

Handling Input/Output Tasks

• Introducing the System.IO namespace
• Selecting files
• Browsing for folders
• Handling path information
• Working with directories and files
• Using stream-based objects to read and write file contents

Project Settings in Visual Studio

• The Project Designer
• Application properties
• Compilation properties
• Debugging properties
• Project references
• Project resources
• Project settings

Debugging Your Applications

• Debugging applications
• Setting breakpoints and stepping through code
• Debugging code in assemblies
• Evaluating variables and objects
• Edit and continue
• Tracing applications
• Unit testing

Menus and Toolbars

• Introducing the ToolStrips
• Working with the ToolStrips

Container Controls

• Introducing container controls
• Grouping controls with the GroupBox control
• Introducing the panel control
• Displaying multiple panels with the
• SplitContainer control
• Laying out panels with the TabControl control
• Simple layout using the FlowLayoutPanel control
• Advanced layout using the TableLayoutPanel control

Complex Windows Forms Controls

• Introducing complex controls
• NotifyIcon control
• WebBrowser control
• MaskedTextBox control
• RichTextBox control
• TreeView and ListView controls
• MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker controls

Working with My Namespace

• The My Namespace
• My.Application
• My.Computer
• My.User
• My.Forms
• My.Resources
• My.Settings
• My.WebServices