Microsoft C# Professional Projects

957 Pages·2002·6.93 MB·English

by  Geetanjali Arora

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C#
Geetanjali Arora
Balasubramaniam Professional Projects
Aiaswamy
Nitin Pandey
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About NIIT
NIIT is a global IT solutions corporation with a presence in 38 countries. With its
unique business model and technology-creation capabilities, NIIT delivers software
and learning solutions to more than 1,000 clients across the world.
The success of NIIT’s training solutions lies in its unique approach to education.
NIIT’s Knowledge Solutions Business conceives, researches, and develops all of its
course material. A rigorous instructional design methodology is followed to create
engaging and compelling course content.
NIIT trains over 200,000 executives and learners each year in information technology
a reas using stand-up tra i n i n g, video-aided instruc t i o n, c omputer-based tra i n i n g
(CBT), and Internet-based training (IBT). NIIT has been featured in the Guinness
Book ofWorld Recordsfor the largest number of learners trained in one year!
NIIT has developed over 10,000 hours of instructor-led training (ILT) and over 3,000
hours of Internet-based training and computer-based training. IDC ranked NIIT
among the Top 15 IT training providers globally for the year 2000. Through the inno-
vative use of training methods and its commitment to research and development,NIIT
has been in the forefront of computer education and training for the past 20 years.
Quality has been the prime focus at NIIT.Most of the processes are ISO-9001 certi-
fied. It was the 12th company in the world to be assessed at Level 5 of SEI-CMM.
NIIT’s Content (Learning Material) Development facility is the first in the world to
be assessed at this highest maturity level.NIIT has strategic partnerships with compa-
nies such as Computer Associates,IBM,Microsoft,Oracle,and Sun Microsystems.
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About the Authors
Geetanjali Arora is an instructional designer who has worked with the NIIT for
almost two years.She has done several projects with the NIIT that include instructor-
led training (ILT),computer-based training (CBT),and Web-based training (WBT).
She has written on both technical and non-technical subjects. At the NIIT,
Geentanjali’s responsibilities include scripting, construction, planning, and schedul-
ing.She has also provided training on NexGen and Dreamweaver.
Balasubramaniam Aiaswamy is a technical trainer and writer, an instructional
designer,a subject matter expert (SME),and an ID reviewer with NIIT’s Knowledge
Solutions Business division,which develops and reviews instructor-led training (ILT)
products for various software and technologies.These technologies include Microsoft
Visual InterDev 6.0, Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition,Microsoft Win-
dows CE, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME),networking concepts,the installation and
administration of a Layer 3 network,andWeb security.He is both an MCSD and an
MCP in Windows NT.Balasubramaniam has experience in teaching career programs
at NIIT’s Career Education Group division.He has taught various technical subject
areas including networking essentials, SQL Server 7.0, Microsoft Windows NT
Server 4.0, MicrosoftVisual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Windows 32 API
programming,HTML,Java,Unix,C,and C++.He has also set up and managed labs
for students and administered Novell 3.11 and UNIX (SCO)–based networks.
Nitin Pandey works with NIIT as a subject matter expert (SME) for learning con-
tent developed on Microsoft technologies. Nitin has been involved in the develop-
ment of WBTs and seminars for NIIT Online Ltd. and Microsoft. Nitin provides
technical support to the development teams, develops sample applications,and pro-
vides technical reviews of learning content.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Part I Introduction to C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Overview of the .NET Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 C# Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Part II Handling Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3 Components of C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4 More about Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5 Attributes and Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6 Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Part III Professional Project 1:
Creating a Customer Maintenance Project. . 109
7 Project Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
8 Windows Forms and Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9 Validations and Exception Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
10 Database Interaction Using ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
11 Crystal Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
12 Deploying a Windows Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Part IV Professional Project 2: Creating the
Employee Records System (ERS) Project. . . 293
13 Project Case Study and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
14 Implementing the Business Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Part V Professional Project 3:
Creating a Creative Learning Project. . . . . . 329
15 Project Case Study and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
16 Implementing the Programming Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
17 Interacting with a Microsoft Word
Document and Event Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365