Your First Visual C# Project

• Starting Visual Studio 2005
• Creating a new project
• Designing the interface
• Writing the code behind an interface
• Running the program

Working with and Customizing the IDE

• Using Visual Studio Start Page
• Use and customize the IDE
• Working with toolbars
• Adding controls and setting their properties
• Managing projects
• Getting Help

Objects and Collections

• Understanding objects
• Object properties
• Object methods
• Building simple object project
• Understanding collections
• Using object browser

Events

• Understanding event-driven programming
• Building a simple event project

Form Basics

• Changing the form name and appearance
• Showing and hiding forms

Form: Advanced Techniques

• Working with controls
• Creating topmost non-modal window
• Creating transparent form
• Creating scrollable form
• Creating MDI form

Traditional Controls

• Static text using Label control
• Entering text using TextBox control
• Creating Buttons
• Using CheckBox controls
• Using Option Buttons
• Using Lists
• Using drop-down Lists and Combo Boxes

Advanced Controls

• Using Timers
• Using Tabbed Dialog Boxes
• Using Image Lists
• Using ListView
• Using TreeView

Menus and Toolbars

• Building menus
• Using the ToolBar controls
• Creating a status bar

Methods

• Defining and writing methods
• Calling and exiting methods
• Static methods

Data Types

• Understanding data types
• Defining and using constants
• Declaring and referencing variables
• Working with arrays
• Understanding scope
• Naming convention

Arithmetic and String Manipulation

• Arithmetic operators and precedence rules
• Logical operators
• Manipulating strings
• Working with dates and times

Decisions and Conditional Statements

• Making a decision using the IF statement
• Using the Switch statement

Looping

• Looping using the For statement
• Looping using While and Do…While statements

Debugging Code

• Adding comments to the code
• Types of errors
• Using debugging tools
• Writing error handlers using Try…Catch statement

Designing Custom Classes

Creating custom classes

Instantiating classes

Interacting with Users

• Displaying messages
• Creating custom Dialog Boxes
• Interacting with the keyboard
• Using common mouse events

Working with Files

• Using Open File and Save File dialog boxes
• Manipulating files with the File object
• Manipulating directories with the Directory object

Accessing a Database

• Introducing ADO.NET
• Manipulating data

Simple Application