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Visual C# courseware
Here is a list of all of our Visual C# manual chapters (you can download the ones marked):
| Chapter | Sections | Subsections |
|---|---|---|
| Windows Forms Applications (4 pages) | WinForms and WPF Compared | A Typical WinForms Application ; The Same Application in WPF ; How WPF Forms are Stored ; Differences between WinForms and WPF |
| Coding WinForms and WPF Forms | ||
| Visual Studio Basics (10 pages) | Setting the Default Start-up Page | |
| Creating Appropriate Settings | ||
| Creating Projects | Choices of Programming Languages for Projects ; Creating New Folders for Projects | |
| Saving and Closing Files and Projects | Closing One Window ; Closing All or Nearly All Windows ; Moving Between Windows ; Saving and Closing a Project | |
| Auto-hidden, Docked and Floating Windows | Auto-Hidden Windows ; Docked Windows ; Floating Windows | |
| The Three Most Useful Windows | Solution Explorer ; Properties Window ; The Toolbox ; Displaying the Main Windows | |
|
Drawing Forms
(14 pages)
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Creating a New Form | |
| Setting Useful Form Properties | ||
| Controls and the Toolbox | Definition of Controls ; Using the Toolbox | |
| Adding Controls to a Form | ||
| Naming Controls | Modified Hungarian Notation ; A List of Three-Letter Prefixes | |
| Selecting Controls | Selecting a Single Control ; Selecting Several Controls ; Selecting All Controls ; The Dominant Control ; Changing the Dominant Control | |
| Formatting Controls and Forms | Resizing Controls ; Changing how Controls Look ; Moving Controls ; Changing Alignment (within Controls) ; Changing Control Alignment Relative to the Form ; Aligning Controls against Each Other ; Making Controls the Same Size ; Spacing Controls Equally | |
| Navigating in a Form | Accelerator Keys ; Tab Order ; Default Buttons | |
| Tooltips | ||
| Copying and Editing Forms (2 pages) | Copying Forms | |
| How Visual Studio Creates Forms | ||
| Running Applications (4 pages) | Setting the Default Project/Form | |
| Building a Project | Manually Building a Project or Projects ; Dealing with Build Errors | |
| Running and Stopping an Application | Running an Application ; Stopping an Application | |
| Form events (8 pages) | Events | Event Terminology |
| Attaching Code to a Control or Form | Attaching Code to a Control’s Default Event ; Creating a New Event-Handler for an Event ; Handling an Event with an Existing Routine | |
| Switching Between Form Design and Code View | Using the Keyboard ; Using Solution Explorer | |
| Those Strange Event Arguments | Renaming an Event Subroutine ; Every Event Passes Two Arguments ; Argument 1 – The Object that Called the Event ; Argument 2 – The Event Arguments | |
| Running Code on Form Load | ||
| Coding in C# (10 pages) | Using AutoCompletion | Methods and Properties |
| THIS and ENVIRONMENT | Using THIS to Make Typing Easier ; Using ENVIRONMENT to Get Information | |
| Commenting and Uncommenting Code | Commenting Out Code | |
| Laying Out Your Code | Statements Spanning Multiple Lines ; Indentation of Code ; Using Code Regions | |
| Find and Replace | ||
| Handling Syntax Errors | Viewing Syntax Errors ; Using the Error List Window ; Showing Line Numbers ; What the Yellow and Green Lines Mean | |
| Displaying Messages | The Parts of a Message Box you can Customise | |
| Code Snippets | Using Code Snippets | |
| Variables and Data Types (14 pages) | Why Use Variables? | |
| Declaring Variables | Declaring Variables ; Using Modified Hungarian Notation ; Default Values for Variables ; Problems with Declaring Variables within Clauses | |
| Setting Values in Variables | Declaring Integer Variables and Adding/Subtracting ; Accumulating Text in String Variables | |
| Variable Data Types | Mapping C# Data Types to the CLR Runtime ; A Lazy Person’s Data Types ; Logical Values ; Integers ; Decimal (Floating Point) Numbers ; Strings and Text ; Dates and Times ; Objects | |
| Converting Variables | Conversion Using Convert.To ; ToString() – Special Case for String Conversions ; Casting Data Types | |
| Variable Scope | ||
| Notes on Working with Specific Data Types | Working with Strings ; Escape Characters ; Splitting Strings ; Formatting Dates ; Working with Numbers – Possible Operations | |
| Testing Data Types | ||
| Enumerations and Constants (4 pages) | Enumerations | What are Enumerations, and Why Use Them? ; Declaring Enumerations ; Giving Enumerations Data Type and Values ; Other Examples of Enumerations |
| Constants | ||
| Using Resources | Using a Resource | |
| Conditions and Loops (6 pages) | Conditions | Using IF for Conditions ; Using the More Elegant SWITCH statement |
| Looping in C# | Looping Over a Collection/Array ; Looping a Given Number of Times ; Looping While a Condition is True | |
| Breaking Out of Loops | ||
| Arrays (4 pages) | Overview of Arrays | Setting Array Values |
| Listing Array Elements | ||
| Basing ComboBoxes or ListBoxes on Arrays | Sorting Arrays | |
| Splitting strings into arrays | ||
| Simple Form Controls (8 pages) | Types of Text Box | Multiple Line Text Boxes ; Formatted Text Boxes ; Masked Text Boxes ; NumericUpDown Controls |
| Entering Dates | DateTimePicker Controls ; MonthCalendar Controls | |
| WebBrowser Controls | ||
| Using GroupBoxes and Panels | Using Panels ; Using GroupBoxes ; Container Tab Order | |
| Properties (4 pages) | Designing Properties | Three Types of Property |
| Creating Properties | Read-Only Property (Product Name) ; Write-Only Property (Results) ; Read-Write Property (Quantity) | |
| Using Properties | ||
| Lists (6 pages) | Overview | Example of List Code |
| Basic List Commands | Creating a List ; Adding Items to a List ; Counting the Items in a List ; Displaying All of the Items in a List (FOR EACH) ; Removing Items from a List | |
| Finding Particular Items in a List | The Various Find Methods ; Lambda Expression Syntax for Find Methods ; Getting a Subset of a List – Method 1: Using FindAll ; Getting a Subset of a List – Method 2: Using GetRange | |
| Working with Strings | Joining List Items Together ; Splitting Text into a List | |
| Modular Programming (4 pages) | What is Modular Code? | A Coding Example |
| Passing Arguments | What is an Argument? ; Types of Argument ; Examples of Each Type of Argument | |
| Optional Arguments | An Alternative Method: Using Different Signatures | |
| Functions (2 pages) | Procedures versus Functions | Specifying a Function ; Code for Functions |
| Incorporating Functions in Programs | ||
| Validation of Forms (6 pages) | Overview of Validation | Controls to Use to Avoid Validation |
| Validating Controls and Forms | Validation Events ; Configuring your Cancel Button ; A Typical Validation Routine | |
| Error Providers | Adding Error Providers ; Setting and Cancelling ErrorProviders in Code | |
| Validation the Hard Way | ||
| Creating menus (8 pages) | Anatomy of a Menu | |
| Creating a Menu | Adding a MenuStrip Control to your Form ; Creating Menu Items ; Adding Separators to Menus ; Naming your Menus ; Assigning Macros to Menus | |
| Short-Cut Keys | Assigning Shortcut Keys to Menus ; Adding Additional Shortcut Keys | |
| Checking and Enabling Menus | ||
| Context (Short-Cut) Menus | Working Out Which Context Menus You Need ; Creating a Context Menu ; Assigning Context Menus to Controls ; Coding Context Menus | |
| Toolbars and Status Bars (6 pages) | Toolbars – What You Should Know | |
| Creating Toolbars | Creating and Naming a Toolbar ; Positioning the Toolbar below the Menu ; Initialising the Tools on your Toolbar ; Adding your own Tools | |
| Assigning Code to Toolbars | ||
| Status Bars | Creating Status Bars ; Adding a Status Label to the Status Bar | |
| Adding a Progress Bar to your Status Bar | ||
| Coding menus and toolbars (8 pages) | About this Chapter | Our Example – Googlewhacking ; Sharing Code between Menus, Toolbars, Keys and Context Menus |
| Enabling/Disabling Our Tools and Menus | Properties to Determine if Actions are Possible ; A Routine to Conditionally Enable/Disable Menus and Toolbars ; Running our Enabling/Disabling Code | |
| Getting the Actions to Work | Creating the Action Routines ; Assigning the Actions to the Toolbar ; Assigning Actions to the Menu | |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | ||
| Working with files and folders (10 pages) | The Different File and Folder Dialog Boxes | |
| Adding File or Folder Dialog Boxes to a Form | Adding Dialog Box Controls Graphically ; Creating and Displaying Dialog Boxes Programmatically | |
| Parts of a File Dialog Box | ||
| Customising a File Dialog Box | File Filters ; File Extensions ; Allowing Read-Only Files ; Selecting Multiple Files ; Setting and Restoring the Initial Directory ; Checking if Files/Folders Exist ; Checking How to Proceed if Files Exist | |
| Browsing for a Folder | ||
| Reading and Writing Files | Our Example ; Referencing the System.IO Namespace ; Writing Out a Mortgage Application Line ; Reading in the Mortgage Application File | |
| Debugging and Error Handling (12 pages) | Catching Errors | Syntax of the Try / Catch Statement ; Our Example for Validating Numbers ; Catching Specific Errors |
| Reacting to Errors | ||
| Debugging | Setting (and Unsetting) a Breakpoint ; Starting to Debug ; Changing the Next Executable Line ; Stepping Through Code ; Viewing Variables ; Stopping Debugging | |
| The Immediate and Output Windows | Displaying the Windows ; Requesting Current Program Information ; Changing Variable Values while Debugging ; Writing to the Immediate or Output Window ; Useful Debug Commands ; Controlling which Window Debug Goes To | |
| Other Debugging Tools | Conditional Breakpoints ; Watching Variables ; The Call Stack | |
| Linking to Databases (4 pages) | Choosing a Database Application | |
| Our Example | ||
| Data Sources, TableAdapters and DataSets | DataSets ; DataSources ; How TableAdapters Work ; Standard Methods for TableAdapters | |
| Data Sources (4 pages) | Creating DataSources | Starting the Data Source Wizard ; Creating a Connection to the Database ; Choosing Tables and Views |
| Viewing and Editing Data Sources and Datasets | The Data Sources Window ; Editing Datasets | |
| ComboBoxes and ListBoxes (4 pages) | ComboBoxes and ListBoxes | The Difference between ComboBoxes and ListBoxes ; Creating ComboBoxes or ListBoxes |
| Data Bound ComboBoxes and ListBoxes | Display and Value Members ; Making a Combo Box Data Bound | |
| Sorting a ComboBox or ListBox | Starting to Configure the TableAdapter ; Changing the Sort Order of the Query | |
| DataGridViews (10 pages) | Introduction to DataGridViews | Creating a DataGridView the Easy Way |
| Creating a DataGridView Manually | ||
| Adding, Editing and Deleting Columns | ||
| Formatting and Using Styles | How Default Styles Work ; Setting an Overall Default Style ; Formatting Alternating Rows a Different Colour ; Setting a Column and Row Heading Style ; Setting Styles for a Specific Column ; Formatting Numbers or Dates | |
| Changing DataGridView Size | Making a DataGridView Stretchy ; Making the Last Column of Variable Width ; What Happens when you AutoSize Columns/Rows | |
| Sorting DataGridViews | ||
| Disabling Inserting and Deleting | ||
| Making DataGridViews Editable (4 pages) | Writing Changes to a Database | |
| Checking your TableAdapter has Update Statements | Configuring the TableAdapter ; Method 1 – Generate your SQL Update Statements ; Method 2 – Ensure the Statements are Created | |
| Writing Changes to your Database | Why Doesn’t My Update Method Work? | |
| Reacting to DataGridView Events (10 pages) | Overview of DataGridView Events | Useful Standard Event Properties |
| Typical Event-Driven Tasks | Using an Enumeration to Number Columns ; Conditional Formatting ; Setting Default Values for New Records ; Asking for Confirmation when Deleting Rows | |
| Validating Data Entered | Validating Row by Row ; Handling Errors by Individual Cell ; Checking Whole Rows ; Showing Error Icons ; Checking Parsing has Worked | |
| The Order of Validation Events | ||
| Advanced DataGridView topics (14 pages) | The Ultimate C# Application | |
| Adding Buttons to a DataGridView | Creating your Button ; Setting Properties for the Button ; Coding your Button | |
| Adding a Bound Combobox | Adding the New Dropdown Column ; Linking the New Column to a Table | |
| Getting the DataGridView to Filter | Creating the Filter ComboBox ; Hiding the DataGridView Initially ; Adding a Filter to the DataGridView ; The TableAdapter Query Configuration Wizard ; Filtering the DataGridView when the ComboBox Changes | |
| Creating a Single Client Editing Form | Creating a Single Record Form ; The BindingNavigator Control ; Attaching Code to the DataGridView Control ; Attaching Code to Load the Single Record Form ; Saving a Record in the Single Record Form | |
| Deploying Applications (2 pages) | Publishing Applications | |
| Installing a Published Application |
Notes:
- Since Wise Owl print courseware double-sided to save trees, the number of physical pages in each chapter is roughly half of the number of sides quoted.
- Downloads are provided as examples only, and should not be used or distributed in any way or form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl.
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