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WPF using Visual Basic training course (3 days)

WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation - is the basis for Visual Studio 2010, SilverLight … and your next application! WPF provides an alternative to traditional Windows Forms applications, offering better graphics, styles and themes, support for different media and better data-binding. Our aim is not to teach you every minute detail of WPF, but instead to get you started and give you the confidence to understand what WPF is about. A full courseware manual will be provided, covering more than we actually have time to fit in. You do not have to have a programming background for this course, but if you have used VB, VBA or VB6 before you will find it easier. Likewise, experience of HTML or XML is not necessary, but if you have done some website development some of the concepts will be more familiar. The course will use Visual Basic 2010 as its programming language, Visual Studio 2010 as a development environment and SQL Server as the underlying database.

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WPF using Visual Basic training - Course Contents

The contents of our WPF using Visual Basic course are as follows (any items marked with a * will be covered if time allows):

WPF Basics

Using Visual Studio
WPF compared to WinForms
Creating WPF projects

Drawing forms

Window properties
Writing XAML
Adding and formatting controls
Running an application

Attaching code to events

Creating event-handlers
Displaying messages
Commenting code
Using variables

Principles of layout

Types of flow control
Stack panels, dock panels, etc.
The control hierarchy

Grid and Canvas controls

2-dimensional grids
Grid versus Canvas
Associated properties

Line drawings

Rectangles, ellipses, etc.
Pens and brushes
Gradient brushes

Transformations

Types of transformation
Render vs layout transforms

Styles

Creating styles for controls
Named and unnamed styles
Style inheritance

Using resources

Creating resources for controls
Data type resources
Resource dictionaries

Event and property triggers

Property triggers in styles
Creating event triggers

Animations and storyboards

Types of storyboard
Running and pausing storyboards
Key frame animations

Menus and toolbars

Creating menus in WPF
Right mouse button menus
Laying out toolbars

Binding controls

Source and target properties
Examples of binding

Data binding

ADO.NET
Datasets and data adapters
Setting the data context
Customising listboxes

Datagrids

Datagrid columns
Formatting the parts of a datagrid
Handling datagrid events

Deploying applications

ClickOnce deployment
Installing applications

No formal pre-requisites are needed, but if you are completely new to programming and HTML you will find the course difficult. There will be a maximum of 6 people on each course, and each person will have their own computer.

WPF using Visual Basic training course (3 days)

WPF using Visual Basic training - Course Contents

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