Windows and .NET Programming (HTML Format)

 Lecture Notes for the CS130 Windows and . NET Programming Course at San Jose State University. 
These will show you are to get started with programming user applications in the Microsoft .NET framework (dotNET), along with some C# programming constructs. 

Windows and . Net Programming Lecture Notes:

1. How Windows Works Event-driven programming; applications, windows, and messages. What messages are and how they are created and "sent". The main message loop; the application message queue. Processing messages. WinMain.  The SDK (or the Win32 API) versus MFC versus .NET--three ways of writing Windows programs.. 
2. Introduction to Visual Studio.   Your first Windows program. . 
3. Introduction to Windows Graphics. The Paint event; the Graphics class; rectangles, clipping, the invalid rectangle. FillRectangle, DrawRectangle, DrawEllipse.  
4. The Mouse. Responding to mouse clicks; hit-testing; responding to double-clicks.. 
5. Intermediate Graphics. Colors, lines and polygons, GraphicsPath and Region classes..  
6. Introduction to menus. Creating a menu with Visual Studio, and writing handlers for the menu items.  
7. Dragging. Mouse capture; the Capture property; updating on MouseMove. Use of child windows for dragging. Conversion of coordinates from one window to another.  
8. Introduction to printing and arcs, pies, and area fills. 
9. Controls. Purposes and uses of pushbuttons, edit boxes, static text boxes, list boxes, combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, spin controls, sliders.
10. Push buttons. Using the form editor; handling the Click event; using the Anchor, Font, TextAlign, Image, ForeColor, and BackColor properties. 
11. Modal Dialogs Definition of a modal dialog; creating a new form to serve as a dialog; setting the properties of the form correctly; adding controls; setting the properties of the controls correctly; bringing up a dialog by initializing a dialog object, calling its ShowDialog method, checking the return value, and if it is DialogResult.OK, then retrieving the data and storing the data in application member variables. Data validation is not covered in this lecture. 
12. Radio Buttons and List Boxes.. Creating, initializing, and responding to radio buttons. Creating and initializing a list box; adding strings to a list box; getting the current selection; deleting an item. Exchanging data between the form and a list box. Use of the C# ListArray class and the foreachconstruct of C#. 
13. Data validation. The Validating event and the ErrorProvider class. 
14. Fonts. Typeface, size, and style; character sets, glyphs, Ascii, Unicode; raster, stroke, and TrueType fonts; kerning; character and cell height, internal leading and external leading.. 
15. More on Text and Fonts in .NET. Using font styles such as bold and italic; using different coordinate systems to specify fonts; ScaleTransform; calculating the size and placement of text. 
16. Toolbars and status bars. 
17. Introduction to the Windows Common Dialogs.  The ColorDialog, and introduction to the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog. 
18. Common File Dialogs.. Details of the SaveFileDialog and OpenFileDialog classes. Disabling Save untilSave As is used; filename extensions; filter strings; specifying the initial directory; overwriting files; opening non-existent files; opening network files; checking file permissions; error handling. 
19. Responding to the keyboard. Key codes and character codes; keyboard layouts; KeyUp, KeyDown, andKeyPress events. The Keys enumeration. Detecting the Alt, Shift, and Ctrl keys. Using arrow, tab, and function keys. The Sudoku example program. 
20. Owner-draw menus and context menus. We will cover this material in lab instead of in lecture, since Monday is the Veteran's Day holiday.   
21. Overview of The .NET Framework. Common Language Runtime (CLR), Framework Class Library (FCL), XML, SOAP. The C # programming language. Building a Windows Forms Application.
22. Web Services. What is a web service? Web Services Definition Language (WSDL).Writing a program that uses a web service. Here's a list of some currently available web services. 
23. Building .NET Components. A component is style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">an object that is reusable and can interact with other objects. How to build a .NET control component.. In class we'll build a different control than in the lecture notes--namely a TicTacToecontrol that displays a TicTacToe game. We'll use this control in a later lecture. 
24. Introduction to double-buffering in .NET. Using the Bitmap class for double-buffering. Doing computations during idle time by handling the Application.Idle event. Example: computing and drawing the Mandelbrot set. Here's the example project in zipped form. 
25. Animation in .NET. Use of double-buffering together with a timer to achieve animation. Preventing default processing of EraseBackground to eliminate flicker. Example: the Balls program displays bouncing colored balls. If you intend to try to follow along in class on your laptop, download the fileBall.cs. 
26. Network programming in .NET. Sockets. Making a connection. Server and client sockets. TheTcpListener and TcpClient classes in .NET. Asynchronous programming. class="style1">Notes revised Dec. 5, 2007, removing some unnecessary (unused) code in the example. The unused code would be needed to send data, but in this first example, we are only receiving data. 
27. Network programming in .NET continued.