Lecture #13 - 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. Projects:

   Project #2, Project #3, Project #4, Project2HelpF2018, Project3HelpF2018 Project4HelpF2018, CsMessagePassingComm classes, CsMessagePassingComm activities Instructor's Solution for Project #2

   Help for Message-Passing Communication

   Blog: message-passing communication, This blog entry and Communication Channel diagram show a very good way to build communication infrastructure. C++ Comm with File Transfer, C++ Comm class diagram, docx
   This is a quite complete implementation of a message-passing channel using C++. It's here to show you how to do important operations without building the WCF channel for you. Simple prototype for Message-Passing Communication - CommPrototype
   Demonstrates passing messages and getting replies for two clients and one server. Illustrates server returning replies to the concurrent client that sent the message. Does not implement file transfer (see next example). Prototype WCF Message-Passing Communication channel - CsMessagePassingComm, Class Diagram, Activity Diagram,
   Implements asynchronous message passing and file transfer using the WCF Framework. This is very close to what you will need for Project #4. Prototype WPF GUI for Pluggable Repository
   This is a WPF GUI demo, developed to test ideas for a Pluggable Repository I built for CSE681-OnLine. We will look at this when we get to WPF. Remote Pluggable Repository
   This is a quite complete Pluggable Repository with versioning, checkin and checkout, browsing, and file synchronization. It's linked here because it uses the CsMessagePassingComm channel.
3. Submitting Projects

4. 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:
     Demo Command Line and File Handling
     .Net Containers
     Passing Method Parameters, Parameter Passing Diagram
     conversions Demo
     Type Testing and Coercions Demo

     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
   • Using Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
     Shows how to build and execute dynamic link libraries.

   • 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.

5. System Structure:

   System Structure Blog
   Program Structure Presentation, pptx

6. WinForms

   WinForm Examples
   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.

7. Windows GUI Programming - Background and Demos:

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

8. WPF Presentation

   Windows Presentation Foundation, pptx Wikipedia - WPF

9. WPF Tutorials:

   WPF Tutorial.Net - excellent reference
   WPF - MSDN
   Getting Started with WPF - MSDN
   MVVM model takes advantage of WPF data binding
   WPF/MVVM Quick Start
   Youtube Video building a basic WPF project