Windows Forms Best Practices
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course demonstrates several best practices for Windows Forms application development by gradually improving a demo application. Topics covered include resizing, layout, accessibility, maintainable code, localization, usability, testability, threading, exception handling, custom control creation, and interoperability.
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Course Description
This course demonstrates several best practices for Windows Forms development by taking a demo application and gradually improving it to improve the user experience and code quality. We'll see how you can improve the layout and resizing of your application, and how you can make it more accessible, usable, and navigable from the keyboard. We'll explore how to approach localization, exception handling, and threading. We'll also devote time to various patterns that will help you write more maintainable and testable code. Finally, we'll provide guidelines for creating your own custom controls, and see how you can interoperate other technologies such as hosting web and WPF content within a Windows Forms application.
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Course Syllabus
Creating Excellent Windows Forms Applications- 27m 0s
—Module Introduction 0m 57s
—Is Windows Forms Dead? 1m 36s
—Why Use Windows Forms? 1m 27s
—Building Great Windows Forms Applications 1m 59s
—Moving Away From Windows Forms 1m 21s
—Course Prerequisites and Contents 2m 40s
—Introducing the Demo Application 1m 48s
—Naming Controls 2m 17s
—Using Data Binding 5m 12s
—Setting Default Properties on Forms 4m 44s
—Module Summary 2m 54sResizing and Layout- 43m 12s
—Module Introduction 1m 57s
—Resizing 2m 46s
—Demo - Anchoring Controls 3m 2s
—Demo - Resizing Labels 2m 20s
—Demo - Split Container 5m 32s
—Demo - Table Layout Panel 2m 41s
—Demo - Minimum Sizes 1m 13s
—Demo - Flow Layout Panel 4m 44s
—Layouts 7m 9s
—Demo - Explorer Style Layout 6m 30s
—Demo - Creating the Podcasts View 2m 57s
—Module Summary 2m 18sUsability, Accessibility, and Localization- 46m 59sExceptions and Threading- 37m 37sPatterns for Maintainable Code- 44m 5sCreating Custom Controls- 42m 29sInteroperability- 24m 22sConclusion- 10m 13s