COP 4226

General

• Syllabus
  • Section 01
• Canvas site for course
• Piazza Forum I have not enrolled any students in the Piazza forum. I like the forum and will support it over the semester. Please enroll.
• Zips of Class Notes
  • Section uha
• Class Notes
  • Information
  • The password for the slides is windows.
  • List of lectures
    • syllabus
    • week1-applications
    • week2
    • week3-net
    • week3-net-basics
    • week4
    • face5-sdi
    • week6-apps
    • week7-apps
  • Lecture notes for videos
    • ch1
    • ch2
    • csharp-pass-poly-type
    • ch3
    • ch4
    • serialization
    • colors
    • fonts-intro
    • ch14-intro
    • toggled-keys
    • key-processing
    • drag-n-drop
    • ch5-part1-intro
    • ch5-align-graphics-path
  • List of lectures from previous semester If the notes for a video are not listed above, check the notes for another semester. The password for that semester's lectures is also windows.
    • ch14-applications
    • ch5-part1
    • ch5-part2
    • ch16-data-binding
• Mind Map. Right-click the link and select Save Link As. You will need to download FreeMind in order to read this file: download.
  • Graphic for Chapter 1 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 2 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 3 Mind Map
  • Graphic for Chapter 4 Mind Map
• Book Info
  • Source Code from the book.
• Mailing List
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Module Videos

• GitHub Introduction Video
• These videos explain the different file areas in Git and the commands that move files among them.
  • Commit and Push in Git
  • Fetch, Merge and Pull in Git
  • Resolving conflicts in Git
  • Working with Branches in Git
Videos for Module 7.
• Week 1 available 10/3 - 10/12.
• Week 2 available 10/10 - 10/19.
• Homework 7 on shapes and data binding is available on 10/3 and due on 10/18 at 6 AM.
• Week 1: Graphics and Paint
• Week 1: Invalidate and Brushes
  • Optional: Colors (repeat of previous video) - time index 3:25-9:14
• Week 1: Brushes
• Pens
  • Week 2: Moving Center of Path Gradient Brush - time index 0:00-3:43
  • Week 1: Pens - time index 3:43-end
• Pen Alignment and Shapes
  • Week 2: Pen Alignment and Joins - time index 0:00-4:42
  • Week 1: Basic Shapes - time index 4:42-7:43
  • Week 2: Curves and Antialiasing - time index 7:43-end
• Restore Graphics and Graphics Path
  • Week 2: Saving Graphics State - time index 0:00-4:00
  • Week 1: Graphics Path - time index 4:00-9:17
  • Week 2: Fill Patterns - time index 9:17-end
• Week 1: Data Binding
• Week 1: Binding Manager
• Week 2: Data Binding Problems
• Week 2: Garbage Collection
• Week 2: Weak References
• Week 2: Generations
• Week 2: IDisposable
Videos for Friday, September 4.
• Size properties
• Non-rectangular form
• MDI Application
Videos for Friday, September 11.
• Reference, Polymorphism, Casting
• Toolips, Info Providers, Help Information
• Dialogs - Common Dialogs and Validation
• Dialogs - Help
Videos for Friday, September 18.
• Colors and Brushes
• Path Gradient Brush and Brush Examples
• Pens
Videos for Friday, September 25.
• Drawing, Clipping, Scaling, Panning, Coloring Images
• Icons and Drawing on Images
• Cursors, Animated Cursors, Wind32 Methods, Image Examples
Videos for Friday, October 2.
• Garbage Collection
• Weak references and finalization
• Generational Garbage Collection
• IDisposable with Garbage Collection
Videos for Friday, October 9.
• Fonts
• Measuring and Drawing Strings
• String Format
Videos for Friday, October 16.
• Page Units
• Transforms
• Regions and Optimized Drawing
Videos for Friday, October 23.
• SDI
• MultiSDI
• Window Menu for MultiSDI
• Single Instance Demo
Videos for Friday, October 30.
• Drag and Drop (and Clipboard)
• Toggled Keys and Inherited Menus
• Data Binding
• Data Binding Problems
Videos for Friday, November 6.
• Intro to Threading
• Threading with Delegates
• Threading with BackgroundWorker
Videos for Friday, November 13.
• Cancelling Threads
• Passing Data
• Threading Examples
Videos for Friday, November 20.
• Printing
• Printing Boundaries
• Printing Margins

Assignments

• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Homework 3 - Part A
  1. HW2 Screencast
• Homework 3 - Part B
• Homework 5
• Homework 6 - Shapes
• Homework 7 - Drawing Text
• Homework 8 - Drawing Text Continued
• Homework 9 - Choice
• Homework 4
• Homework 5
• Homework 6
• Homework 9 - Choice
• Homework 10 - Final

Lectures

• Chapter 1 Videos
  • running c# programs from the command line
  • creating a project in Visual Studio
  • SuspendLayout
• Chapter 2 Videos
  • Owned Forms
  • Notify Icon
  • Form Location
  • Opacity and Region
  • MDI Example
  • Layout and Menus
• Chapter 3 Videos
  • Dialogs - Common Dialogs and Validation
  • Dialogs - Help
• C-Sharp
  • C-Charp Polymorphism, pass by reference, and type testing
• Ch5 - Colors
  • Colors
• Ch6 - Fonts
  • Fonts
• Appendix F - Serialization
  • Serializable
  • ISerializable

• CausesValidation CausesProblems
• Inherited Menus
• .NET Serialization
• Handling Arrow Keys
• Toggled Keys
• Drag and Drop
• Accesssing the Clipboard
• Scrolling Panel

Examples

• Command Line Source Code
• Chapter 1 Zip
• MySecondApp Zip from Chapter 1
• Exploring Suspend Layout from Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 Zip
• Keyed Collection Example
• Chapter 3 Zip
• CausesValidation from Chapter 3
• C# Examples of casting, testing a type and virtual functions
• All Examples from Chapter 5. Make Ch05_All the start up project. You will get a lot of warnings about bad references: build the project, open the References for Ch05_All and click on each reference that has a warning. All the warnings should disappear.
• Chapter 6 Drawing Text
• MouseEnter Example. Allowing parent to handle mouse events.
• Chapter 7 Advanced Drawing. You will also need this application to run Chapter 7: HelpLibrary
• Double Buffer from Chapter 7
• Optimized Painting Example
• Transformations Example
• Serialization
• Process Keys
• Application from Chapter 14
• Single Instance from Chapter 14
• Multi-SDI Application from Chapter 14
• Simple Data Binding example from class
• Data Sources Example
• Data Binding from Chapter 16
• Long-Running Application from Chapter 18
• Background Worker from Chapter 18. Includes do work, report progress, work completed, generating and catching an error.
• Background Worker from Chapter 18, with cancellation.
• Background Worker from Chapter 18. Includes passing state and close on exit.
• Cloning
• Chapter 8 Printing
• Help Library Some of the examples use a help library. Be sure not to modify the structure of the zip, since the reference to the help DB is a relative link.
• Utils4226 A utility class for converting between scales.
• Delegate, Action, Lambda
• Multiple Drag-and-drop
• Multiple Drag-and-drop with cloning.
• MVC Example
• Components Examples
• Controls Examples

FAQ

• MVC - Passive View
  • Passive View
  • Passive View Implementation
  • MVC Example ZIP file
  • Presentation Model Skip the last section about the data grid view.
• What is an assembly?
• What are the access modifiers in C#?
• What do the Build Action options mean?
• Why do I have to use the STAThread attribute for my main method in my app? Also STAThread no longer needed. It is mandatory to give [STAThread] for the main method in ver 1.0 of the .Net Framework. This is no longer mandatory for .Net Framework 1.1.
• How is a base class member called?
• Virtual Method Overriding and Hiding.
• Boxing a value-type to a reference-type.
• Unboxing a reference-type to a value-type.
• What is the ref modifier on a parameter?
• Observer Pattern is the pattern that delegates and events follow.
• Differences between struct and class
• Summary of System.ValueType
• Why is there an @ at the start of a string?
  The advantage of @-quoting is that escape sequences are not processed, which makes it easy to write, for example, a fully qualified file name:
  @"c:\Docs\Source\a.txt" rather than "c:\\Docs\\Source\\a.txt"
• What does the boolean variable in ResumeLayout control?
• Calculating the Winding Number of a Graph
• FillMode Enumeration
• Why does the last opened modal dialog remain in the OwnedForms list?
  • Memory Leak
  • Modal Dispose
• Replacing try/catch with using for IDisposable objects.
• Problem with Visual Inheritance: Be sure that the name of the namespace is different from the name of the class.
• How is the origin of a brush determined?
• How can the origin of a hatch brush be changed?
• What is Enum?
• Is it string or String?
• Why are my icons causing an error?
• How can variables be embedded in a string?
• How can debugging statements be written?
• What is the difference between GDI and GDI+?
• Type Conversions, Operators and Object Types
• Accessing Serial Ports
• Garbage Collection
  • Garbage Collection in .NET
  • MSDN Garbage Collection Reference
• Dispose Pattern
• Dispose Method
• Testing for Toggled Keys in .NET
• Custom Clipboard Format
• Setting up xUnit testing
• Writing an Unmanaged DLL
• Virtual Address Space
• Scope of Allocated Memory
• File Mapping
• Memory Protection
• Cloning
  • MemberWise Cloning
  • Copying, Cloning and Marshalling
  • C# Object Clone Wars
  • Base class for cloning an object in C# using reflection
• Semaphore Example

MSDN

• MSDN
• Northwind Data Source
  Download Northwind
• Data Binding to a NumericUpDown Control
• Filter in File Dialog
• TextReader
• Variable length parameter list
• Keyed Collection
• Selecting a Collection Class
• System Information
• Screen
• AddString to Path
• Mutex Constructor
• Design-Time Features
• Safe Handle Example

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