• Exploring form properties and behaviours
  Managing startup and multiple form applications
   

Creating Menus

• Standard Menus
• Pop-up Menus

• Place controls into forms
• Working with common controls
• Overview standard controls
• Loading controls dynamically
• Using ActiveX Controls

• Event Concepts
• Event Management in VB.NET
• Event Management in C#

Inheritance and Forms

• Benefits of Form Inheritance
• Creating the Base Form
• Creating the Inherited Form

Printing

• The printing process
• Using PrintDocument
• Print Dialogs

Creating Windows Controls

• Creating composite controls
• Hosting controls in Windows forms
• Creating extended controls
• Adding Design-time attributes
• Licensing Control

Using the System Drawing Namespace

• Implementing Graphical Methods

• What is ADO.NET?
  • ADO.NET Concepts
  • ADO.NET vs ADO
• Managing Connections
• Creating Commands
• Using Data Readers
• Working With DataSets
  • DataSets and DataTables
  • Data Adapters
  • Populating DataSets
  • Using Relations
  • Making data modifications
  • Using the CommandBuilder
• Advanced ADO.NET Operations
  • Connection Pooling
  • Transactions
  • Using Stored Procedures
  • Typed Datasets
• Handling Data Errors

• DataViews
• Binding with Windows Controls
• DataGrid Control

Miscellaneous topics

• Creating the report
• Using the Crystal Report Viewer

Using Trace

• Trace Concepts
• Using the Listeners Collection

• Creating Components in .NET
• Calling .NET Components

Using Other Services

• Calling COM components
• Using Platform Invoke
• Calling Web Services

Assemblies

• Assembly concepts
• Strong-named assemblies

Implementing User Help Systems

• Using Help and Error Icons
• The helper provider control

• Using the Asynchronous Design Model
• Example: Calling a Web Service asynchronously
• Threading in Windows Apps

Validation

• Validation Concepts
• Using Validation Events

Configuration

• Role of Configurations
• Typical Configuration Settings

• Component Deployment
  • Using Setup Projects
  • Network and Web-based Deployments

Security

• Authentication Types
• Implementing Authorisation

Globalisation

• Globalising Applications
• Localising Resources