Lecture #9 - Windows GUI Programming

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Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.

2. Friday Help Session:

   • This week's Help Session will be held in LSB 001 - the large auditorium where we held our grad orientation in August. Time is from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday September 30.
   • After this week the Help Sessions will revert to the 9:00am venue in CST 4-201.
3. Project #1, Project #2, Project #3, Project #4, Project #5, Project2HelpF15, CSharpAnalyzer
4. Submitting Projects

5. Where are we?

   Let's summarize where we have traveled so far:

   • Software Architecture and Operational Concept Documents

     We've discussed Software Architecture (pdf, ppt), the structure of OCDs e.g., Uses and Users, Partitions and their responsiblities and interactions, and Critical issues.

   • .Net functionalities

     Features of C# language hosted in the CLR:
     Delegate Demos
     Various ways of declaring and using delegates

     Lambdas and Lambda capture
     LambdaDemos
     Extension Methods
     lambdas and extension methods that support LINQ

     LINQ Presentation - pdf, LINQ Presentation - pptx
     LINQ Query Examples from presentation
     LINQ Queries on Collections
     LINQ Queries
     LINQ to XML
     Create XML with XDocument
     Older forms of XML processing
     LINQ Bindings
     LINQ to SQL Example

   • C# Programming

     Semantics of Parameter Passing
     C# Programming (pdf, ppt)

   What next?

   This lecture is an introduction to GUI-based windows programs. We will discuss creating Windows Applications using the windows API, WinForms, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). A lot of this we do by example.
6. Using Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
   Shows how to build and execute dynamic link libraries - make sure you study both the code and comments in this demonstration.
7. WinForms
   We will not discuss the examples on this page. It's here so that, should you find yourself needing to build WinForm applications, you have a place to find examples.

8. Windows GUI Programming - Background and Demos:

   Basic Windows Programming - Core Technologies
   Basic Windows Programming, ppt
   Basic Windows Demos
   

9. WPF Presentation

   Windows Presentation Foundation

10. WPF Tutorials:

    WPF - MSDN
    Getting Started with WPF - MSDN WPF Tutorial.net - a lot of simple demos that build cumulatively
    MVVM model takes advantage of WPF data binding
    WPF/MVVM Quick Start
    Youtube Video building a basic WPF project

11. Lecture Take-aways:

    The most important things we discussed are:

    • Windowing services provided by the Windows OS
    • Getting started with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)