MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows® Forms Application Development

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By Matthew A. Stoecker, Steven J. Stein

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Released: February 2009

Pages: 816

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-505—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

Create the user interface, configuring controls at design or run time
Apply best practices for UI design
Access, query, bind, and display data
Enhance usability—MDIs, drag-and-drop, persistence, accessibility
Manage the print process
Use asynchronous methods to optimize UI responsiveness
Develop custom Windows Forms controls
Configure and deploy your application

Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD.

You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your kit includes:

15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13. Details inside.
Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
300+ practice and review questions.
Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Visual C#® on CD.
90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 Professional Edition.
Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

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The practice test materials are available as a download along with your ebook version of the kit, and will be located in your account. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Chapter 1 Windows Forms and the User Interface
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Adding and Configuring Windows Forms
3. Lesson 2: Managing Control Layout with Container Controls
4. Chapter Review
5. Suggested Practices
6. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 2 Configuring Controls and Creating the User Interface
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Configuring Controls in Windows Forms
3. Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Command and Text Display Controls
4. Lesson 3: Creating and Configuring Text Edit Controls
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 3 Advanced Windows Forms Controls
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating and Configuring List-Display Controls
3. Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Value-Setting, Date-Setting, and Image-Display Controls
4. Lesson 3: Configuring the WebBrowser Control and the NotifyIcon Component and Creating Access Keys
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 4 Tool Strips, Menus, and Events
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Configuring Tool Strips
3. Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Menus
4. Lesson 3: Using Events and Event Handlers
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 5 Configuring Connections and Connecting to Data
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating and Configuring Connection Objects
3. Lesson 2: Connecting to Data Using Connection Objects
4. Lesson 3: Working with Connection Pools
5. Lesson 4: Handling Connection Errors
6. Lesson 5: Enumerating the Available SQL Servers on a Network
7. Lesson 6: Securing Sensitive Connection String Data
8. Chapter Review
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 6 Working with Data in a Connected Environment
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating and Executing Command objects
3. Lesson 2: Working with Parameters in SQL Commands
4. Lesson 3: Saving and Retrieving BLOB Values in a Database
5. Lesson 4: Performing Bulk Copy Operations
6. Lesson 5: Performing Transactions by Using the Transaction Object
7. Lesson 6: Querying Data by Using LINQ
8. Chapter Review
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 7 Create, Add, Delete, and Edit Data in a Disconnected Environment
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating DataSet Objects
3. Lesson 2: Creating DataTable Objects
4. Lesson 3: Creating DataAdapter Objects
5. Lesson 4: Working with Data in DataTable Objects
6. Lesson 5: Working with XML in DataSet Objects
7. Lesson 6: Creating and Using DataView Objects
8. Chapter Review
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 8 Implementing Data-Bound Controls
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating a Data-Bound Form with the Data Sources Wizard
3. Lesson 2: Implementing Data-Bound Controls
4. Lesson 3: Working with the DataGridView
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 9 Working with XML
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Reading and Writing XML with the XmlReader and XmlWriter Classes
3. Lesson 2: Managing XML with the XML Document Object Model
4. Chapter Review
5. Suggested Practices
6. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 10 Printing in Windows Forms
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Managing the Print Process by Using Print Dialog Boxes
3. Lesson 2: Constructing Print Documents
4. Lesson 3: Creating a Customized PrintPreview Component
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 11 Advanced Topics in Windows Forms
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Implementing Drag-and-Drop Functionality
3. Lesson 2: Implementing Globalization and Localization for a Windows Forms Application
4. Lesson 3: Implementing MDI Forms
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 12 Enhancing Usability
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Implementing Accessibility
3. Lesson 2: Using User Assistance Controls and Components
4. Chapter Review
5. Suggested Practices
6. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 13 Asynchronous Programming Techniques
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Managing a Background Process with the BackgroundWorker Component
3. Lesson 2: Implementing Asynchronous Methods
4. Chapter Review
5. Suggested Practices
6. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 14 Creating Windows Forms Controls
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating Composite Controls
3. Lesson 2: Creating Custom Controls
4. Lesson 3: Creating Extended Controls and Dialog Boxes
5. Chapter Review
6. Suggested Practices
7. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 15 Deployment
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Deploying Applications with ClickOnce
3. Lesson 2: Creating Setup Projects for Deployment
4. Chapter Review
5. Suggested Practices
6. Take a Practice Test

Glossary
Appendix Answers
1. Chapter 1: Lesson Review Answers
2. Chapter 1: Case Scenario Answers
3. Chapter 2: Lesson Review Answers
4. Chapter 2: Case Scenario Answers
5. Chapter 3: Lesson Review Answers
6. Chapter 3: Case Scenario Answers
7. Chapter 4: Lesson Review Answers
8. Chapter 4: Case Scenario Answers
9. Chapter 5: Lesson Review Answers
10. Chapter 5: Case Scenario Answers
11. Chapter 6: Lesson Review Answers
12. Chapter 6: Case Scenario Answers
13. Chapter 7: Lesson Review Answers
14. Chapter 7: Case Scenario Answers
15. Chapter 8: Lesson Review Answers
16. Chapter 8: Case Scenario Answers
17. Chapter 9: Lesson Review Answers
18. Chapter 9: Case Scenario Answers
19. Chapter 10: Lesson Review Answers
20. Chapter 10: Case Scenario Answers
21. Chapter 11: Lesson Review Answers
22. Chapter 11: Case Scenario Answers
23. Chapter 12: Lesson Review Answers
24. Chapter 12: Case Scenario Answers
25. Chapter 13: Lesson Review Answers
26. Chapter 13: Case Scenario Answers
27. Chapter 14: Lesson Review Answers
28. Chapter 14: Case Scenario Answers
29. Chapter 15: Lesson Review Answers
30. Chapter 15: Case Scenario Answers
Appendix About the Authors
Appendix System Requirements
1. Hardware Requirements
2. Software Requirements
Appendix Additional Resources for Developers from Microsoft Press
1. Visual Basic
2. Visual C#
3. Web Development
4. Data Access
5. .NET Framework
6. Other Developer Topics
Appendix Get Certified—Visual Studio 2008

Title:

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows® Forms Application Development

By:

Matthew A. Stoecker, Steven J. Stein

Publisher:

Microsoft Press

Formats:

Print
Ebook
Safari Books Online

Print:

February 2009

Ebook:

January 2010

Pages:

816

Print ISBN:

978-0-7356-2637-9

| ISBN 10:

0-7356-2637-5

Ebook ISBN:

978-0-7356-3912-6

| ISBN 10:

0-7356-3912-4

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Table of Contents

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About the Author

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Chapter 1 Windows Forms and the User Interface

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Adding and Configuring Windows Forms

Lesson 2: Managing Control Layout with Container Controls

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 2 Configuring Controls and Creating the User Interface

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Configuring Controls in Windows Forms

Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Command and Text Display Controls

Lesson 3: Creating and Configuring Text Edit Controls

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 3 Advanced Windows Forms Controls

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating and Configuring List-Display Controls

Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Value-Setting, Date-Setting, and Image-Display Controls

Lesson 3: Configuring the WebBrowser Control and the NotifyIcon Component and Creating Access Keys

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 4 Tool Strips, Menus, and Events

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Configuring Tool Strips

Lesson 2: Creating and Configuring Menus

Lesson 3: Using Events and Event Handlers

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 5 Configuring Connections and Connecting to Data

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating and Configuring Connection Objects

Lesson 2: Connecting to Data Using Connection Objects

Lesson 3: Working with Connection Pools

Lesson 4: Handling Connection Errors

Lesson 5: Enumerating the Available SQL Servers on a Network

Lesson 6: Securing Sensitive Connection String Data

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 6 Working with Data in a Connected Environment

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating and Executing Command objects

Lesson 2: Working with Parameters in SQL Commands

Lesson 3: Saving and Retrieving BLOB Values in a Database

Lesson 4: Performing Bulk Copy Operations

Lesson 5: Performing Transactions by Using the Transaction Object

Lesson 6: Querying Data by Using LINQ

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 7 Create, Add, Delete, and Edit Data in a Disconnected Environment

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating DataSet Objects

Lesson 2: Creating DataTable Objects

Lesson 3: Creating DataAdapter Objects

Lesson 4: Working with Data in DataTable Objects

Lesson 5: Working with XML in DataSet Objects

Lesson 6: Creating and Using DataView Objects

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 8 Implementing Data-Bound Controls

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating a Data-Bound Form with the Data Sources Wizard

Lesson 2: Implementing Data-Bound Controls

Lesson 3: Working with the DataGridView

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 9 Working with XML

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Reading and Writing XML with the XmlReader and XmlWriter Classes

Lesson 2: Managing XML with the XML Document Object Model

Chapter Review

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 10 Printing in Windows Forms