Windows Applications Databinding with Visual Basic 2010


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Windows applications allow you to incorporate data from multiple sources into the user interface. This course details how to not only bind controls to data, but also how to convert, validate, and format data in a variety of ways. Specific areas covered include binding to elements, using multiple bindings, utilizing ADO.NET data objects, formatting the display of data, and also data conversion, validation, filtering, sorting, and grouping. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Technology Specialist (TS): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 exam (70-511). Passing this exam will earn the learner the MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Windows Applications certification.

Target Audience
All organizations or individual consultants who are using or intend to use the .NET Framework 4 with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to develop Windows applications; corporate employees, consultants, and university or college students who are preparing for the associated Technology Specialist (TS): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 exam (70-511).

Prerequisites
A good knowledge of Visual Basic 2010 and familiarity with Visual Studio, having a minimum one year's experience working with these technologies.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Windows Applications Databinding with Visual Basic 2010

  • configure single and multiple bindings
  • configure OneWayToSource binding and update the data source
  • bind data to objects that are not elements
  • display and manage collection data
  • bind data to ADO.NET objects
  • use LINQ in databinding
  • implement change notification in WPF data binding
  • recognize how to use the DataGridView to display and update the data contained in a data source
  • recognize how to use DataGrid controls to display and update the data contained in a data source
  • perform data binding to objects
  • perform data binding to object collections
  • customize the way that data is grouped and displayed in a DataGrid control
  • create value converters for data conversion
  • validate data
  • validate windows forms and recognize how to use the ErrorProvider class
  • recognize how data templates are used with bound data
  • implement filtering on collections
  • implement the sorting and grouping of data
  • create value converters
  • validate data
  • implement filtering on collections
  • implement the sorting and grouping of data

    • Course Number:
    sd_wdvb_a04_it_enus