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Geetanjali Arora
Balasubramaniam
Aiaswamy
Nitin Pandey
C#
Professional Projects
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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 areas using stand-up training, video-aided instruction, computer-based training (CBT), and Internet-based training (IBT). NIIT has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for 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 innovative 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 certified. 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 companies 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 instructorled 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 scheduling. 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 Microsof t Visual InterDev 6.0, Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, Microsoft Windows CE, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), networking concepts, the installation and administration of a Layer 3 network, and Web 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, Microsoft Visual 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 content developed on Microsoft technologies. Nitin has been involved in the development of WBTs and seminars for NIIT Online Ltd. and Microsoft. Nitin provides technical support to the development teams, develops sample applications, and provides technical reviews of learning content.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Part I |
Introduction to C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Overview of the .NET Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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C# Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Handling Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Components of C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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More about Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Attributes and Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Windows Forms and Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Validations and Exception Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Database Interaction Using ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Crystal Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Deploying a Windows Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Project Case Study and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Implementing the Business Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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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
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Professional Project 4:
Creating an Airline Reservation Portal. . . . . 395
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Designing the Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Securing the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Deploying the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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ExploringEASP.NET Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Developing Web Service Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Professional Project 6:
Creating a Mobile Application . . . . . . . . . . . 713
31 Project Case Study and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 32 Basics of Mobile Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727 33 Implementing the Business Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
Beyond the Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
34 Advanced C# Concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795
Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
A Unsafe Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
B Introduction to Visual Basic .NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843
CVisual Studio.NET Integrated
Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897
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