General Information for COP4226

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FAQ
- MVC
  - GUI Architectures
  - Passive View
  - MVC Example
  - Advanced Example
- 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
- Disposing Forms
- Disposing Components
- Accessing Serial Ports
- Garbage Collection
  - Garbage Collection in .NET
  - MSDN Garbage Collection Reference
- IDisposable Pattern
- Dispose Method
- Testing for Toggled Keys in .NET
- Writing an Unmanaged DLL
- Virtual Address Space
- Scope of Allocated Memory
- File Mapping
- Memory Protection
- MemberWise Cloning
- Copying, Cloning and Marshalling
- Semaphore Example
Assignments will be posted here
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- HW1
- HW2
- HW3
- HW4

General course info

Syllabus
- Section 01
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Class Notes
- Information
- The password for the slides is windows.
- List of lectures
  - Lectures for Exam 3: 10/15 - 11/10.
Mind Map. Right-click the link and select Save Link As. You will need to donwload FreeMind in order to read this file: download.
- Graphic for Chapter 1 Mind Map
- Graphic for Chapter 2 Mind Map
Exam Information will be posted here prior to exams. Check the syllabus for exam dates.
- Exam Dates are on the syllabus.
- Exam 1 Topics
- Exam 2 Topics
- Topics Final .

Final Exam Breakdown. Some topics are covered in Chapter 1 and other chapters. In those cases, the other chapter is credited with the percentage.

Chapter/Topic	Percent
1	6.25
2	15.00
3	5.00
4	5.00
5	17.50
6	7.50
8	7.50
14	8.75
16	7.50
17	2.50
18	6.25
C# and Extra Lectures	11.25

Book Info
- Source Code from the book.
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Additional pages from lectures
Modified examples from class
- Chapter 1 Zip
- MySecondApp Zip from Chapter 1
- Chapter 2 Zip
- Keyed Collection Example
- Dialogs from Chapter 3
- CausesValidation from Chapter 3
- C# Examples of casting, testing a type and virtual functions
- Pen Example from Chapter 5
- Drawing Basics from Chapter 5
- 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
- Chapter 7 Advanced Drawing. You will also need this application to run Chapter 7: HelpLibrary
- Double Buffer from Chapter 7
- Data Binding from Chapter 16
- Application from Chapter 14
- Single Instance from Chapter 14
- Multi-SDI Application from Chapter 14
- 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.
- 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.
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