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Assignments

• Submitting Homework Online. When you are asked for a username and password, use your solix username and the password that I sent you.
• Extra Credit 1
• Extra Credit 2
• Homework 1
• Demo Video
• Extra Credit 3
• Demo Video
• Homework 2
• Demo Video
• Extra Credit 4
• Demo Video
• Homework 3
• Demo Video
• Extra Credit 5
• Demo Video
• Homework 4
• Demo Video
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General Course Info

• Syllabus
  • Section 01
• Moodle site for course
• Piazza Forum I have not enrolled any students in the Piazza forum. I like the forum and will support it over the semester. Please enroll.
• Class Notes
  • Information
  • The password for the slides is windows.
  • List of lectures
• Mind Map. Right-click the link and select Save Link As. You will need to download FreeMind in order to read this file: download.
  • Graphic for Chapter 1 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 2 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 3 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 4 Mind Map
• Exam Information will be posted here prior to exams.
  • Exam 1
  • Date: Wednesday 10/9.
  • Exam 1 Topics
  • Lectures for Exam 1: 8/20 - 9/14.
  • Exam 2
  • Date: Wednesday 11/6.
  • Exam 2 Topics
  • Lectures for Exam 2: 9/25 - 10/21. The lectures for 10/02 and 10/04 are out of order at the bottom of the list of lectures.
  • Final Exam
  • The final is comprehensive. It will contain all the information on the first two exams, plus this information.
  • Date: Wednesday 12/11, 12:00 - 2:00 pm.
  • Additional Final Exam Topics
  • Lectures for Exam 2: 8/20 - 12/02.
• Book Info
  • Source Code from the book.
• Mailing List
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  Section 01: Mailing List

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Additional pages from lectures

• Chapter 1 Videos
  • running c# programs from the command line
  • creating a project in Visual Studio
  • SuspendLayout
• Chapter 2 Videos
  • Owned Forms
  • Notify Icon
  • Form Location
  • Opacity and Region
  • MDI Example
  • Layout and Menus
• Chapter 3 Videos
  • Dialogs - Common Dialogs and Validation
  • Dialogs - Help
• CausesValidation CausesProblems
• .NET Serialization
• Inherited Menus
• Handling Arrow Keys
• Toggled Keys
• Drag and Drop
• Scrolling Panel

Modified Examples from Class

• Chapter 1 Zip
• MySecondApp Zip from Chapter 1
• Exploring Suspend Layout from Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 Zip
• Keyed Collection Example
• Chapter 3 Zip
• CausesValidation from Chapter 3
• C# Examples of casting, testing a type and virtual functions
• All Examples from Chapter 5. Make Ch05_All the start up project. You will get a lot of warnings about bad references: build the project, open the References for Ch05_All and click on each reference that has a warning. All the warnings should disappear.
• Chapter 6 Drawing Text
• MouseOver Example. This was not covered in class, but it is an example of how to pass a mouse over event in a label of a user control to the user control itself.
• Chapter 7 Advanced Drawing. You will also need this application to run Chapter 7: HelpLibrary
• Double Buffer from Chapter 7
• Optimized Painting Example
• Transformations Example
• Serialization
• Simple Data Binding example from class
• Data Sources Example
• Chapter 8 Printing
• Data Binding from Chapter 16
• Process Keys
• Application from Chapter 14
• Single Instance from Chapter 14
• Multi-SDI Application from Chapter 14
• Long-Running Application from Chapter 18
• Background Worker from Chapter 18. Includes do work, report progress, work completed, generating and catching an error.
• Background Worker from Chapter 18, with cancellation.
• Background Worker from Chapter 18. Includes passing state and close on exit.
• Help Library Some of the examples use a help library. Be sure not to modify the structure of the zip, since the reference to the help DB is a relative link.
• Utils4226 A utility class for converting between scales.
• MVC Example

FAQ, Frequently Asked Questions

• MVC
  • MVC Explanation
  • GUI Architectures
  • Passive View
  • MVC Example ZIP file
• What is an assembly?
• What are the access modifiers in C#?
• What do the Build Action options mean?
• Why do I have to use the STAThread attribute for my main method in my app? Also STAThread no longer needed. It is mandatory to give [STAThread] for the main method in ver 1.0 of the .Net Framework. This is no longer mandatory for .Net Framework 1.1.
• How is a base class member called?
• Virtual Method Overriding and Hiding.
• Boxing a value-type to a reference-type.
• Unboxing a reference-type to a value-type.
• What is the ref modifier on a parameter?
• Observer Pattern is the pattern that delegates and events follow.
• Differences between struct and class
• Summary of System.ValueType
• Why is there an @ at the start of a string?
  The advantage of @-quoting is that escape sequences are not processed, which makes it easy to write, for example, a fully qualified file name:
  @"c:\Docs\Source\a.txt" rather than "c:\\Docs\\Source\\a.txt"
• What does the boolean variable in ResumeLayout control?
• Calculating the Winding Number of a Graph
• FillMode Enumeration
• Why does the last opened modal dialog remain in the OwnedForms list?
  • Memory Leak
  • Modal Dispose
• Replacing try/catch with using for IDisposable objects.
• Problem with Visual Inheritance: Be sure that the name of the namespace is different from the name of the class.
• How is the origin of a brush determined?
• How can the origin of a hatch brush be changed?
• What is Enum?
• Is it string or String?
• Why are my icons causing an error?
• How can variables be embedded in a string?
• How can debugging statements be written?
• What is the difference between GDI and GDI+?
• Type Conversions, Operators and Object Types
• Disposing Forms
• Disposing Components
• Accessing Serial Ports
• Garbage Collection
  • Garbage Collection in .NET
  • MSDN Garbage Collection Reference
• IDisposable Pattern
• Dispose Method
• Testing for Toggled Keys in .NET
• Writing an Unmanaged DLL
• Virtual Address Space
• Scope of Allocated Memory
• File Mapping
• Memory Protection
• MemberWise Cloning
• Copying, Cloning and Marshalling
• Semaphore Example

MSDN

• MSDN
• Northwind Data Source
  Download Northwind
• Data Binding to a NumericUpDown Control
• Filter in File Dialog
• TextReader
• Variable length parameter list
• Keyed Collection
• Selecting a Collection Class
• System Information
• Screen
• AddString to Path
• Mutex Constructor

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