Visual C Sharp

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Visual C Sharp

• Dr John Allwork
• Room E334
• 0161 247 1655
• j.b.allwork_at_mmu.ac.uk
• www.det.mmu.ac.uk/staff/allwork
• 24 weeks - 1 hour lecture, 2 hour lab

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Visual C Sharp

• Assignments
• 2 assignments, 2 tests
• Assignment 1 30, 2 40
• Tests 1 - 10, 2 - 20
• Dates to be confirmed.
• Assignment 1 Hand-in date 1 Dec
• Test 1 Tuesday 8 Dec
• Test 2 Tuesday 16 March
• Assignment 2 Hand-in date 20 April

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Visual C Sharp

• Books
• Mine!
• C 2008 and .NET programming for Engineers
• www.elektor.com 29
• 5 in the library if you dont want to give me any
  royalties !
• Lecture notes available too you will have to
  print off

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• Other books
• Sams Teach Yourself C Language in 21 Days
• C How to Program Deitel
• Search Google books for limited preview
• Also more notes, videos and weekly tasks
• - on my web site.
• And use MS forums, MS library

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Visual C Sharp Introduction - 5

• Introduction, Lectures IDE
• GUI Controls Properties and events
• Dialogs and forms
• UML design
• C language basics
• C language arrays and strings
• C language -program flow
• OOP Methods
• OOP Classes
• File handling

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Visual C Sharp Introduction - 6

• Multimedia Graphs
• Debugging
• Run-time placement
• Threads
• Internet communication
• Databases introduction
• Databases GUI Displaying
• Databases Accessing from code 1
• Plotting
• Plus assignments, revision tests
• Others? DLL, Web services hardware interfacing

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• Software Visual C 2008
• Download from Microsoft
• http//www.microsoft.com/express/download/default.
  aspx
• Free but slightly limited version
• Also install SQL 2008 used for databases
• Register the product

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• Development environment
• We will create Windows applications

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• Design environment

Solution explorer
Menus
Form
Code editor
Toolbar
Properties/events window
messages
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• The Form Most important - place controls the
  GUI.
• Display by clicking Design tab

Form Textbox Button Label Listbox
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• The Toolbox
• Grouped by task
• Contains controls
• Controls are
• Buttons,
• Textboxes,
• Labels,
• Radio buttons
• etc.

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• The Properties / Events window
• For the controls
• Properties
• Name, height, top, position, text
• Description

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• The Properties / Events window - for the controls
• Events Happen to an object
• e.g. Button click
• KeyPress
• MouseMove
• Others Form load

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• The Code Editor enter your code
• Double-click object to enter code
• Some added for you do not delete

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• Your First C Program
• Run C, start a new Project, gt Windows
  Application and call it Hello world
• Save the project. Select FilegtSave All.
• Display the form (click form1.csDesign tab).
• Add button from Toolbox to form

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• Change the buttons text display (a property).
• Display the properties window,
• Scroll to the Text property, type in Hello
  world

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• Place TextBox and label to form
• Change label caption to My First C Program.
• Form

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• Run program not much happens. Close it.
• Double-click button to add code for button click
• Add textBox1.Text"Hello world"
• Run code, click button.
• Hello World is displayed
• Your first C program !
• Note dot notation used to access property
• C is case sensitive

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• Summary
• Free software from Microsoft
• IDE environment
• Main parts Form, Code editor Toolbox and
  properties/event window
• Drag/drop controls (buttons) to form
• Double-click to add code
• Run it!
• Do week 1 tasks and watch video at
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb964631.
  aspx
• Follow link in getting started in main C window