Customizing and Managing Multithreaded Applications with Visual Basic 2010

Overview/Description
This course examines how .NET allows you to customize the look and feel of an application based on user culture. It also demonstrates how applications can manage multiple tasks through the use of asynchronous programming patterns and the Task Parallel Library, or TPL. Specific areas covered include UI customization, animation, localization, various application multithreading options, and Parallel LINQ Queries or PLINQ. 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)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Customizing and Managing Multithreaded Applications with Visual Basic 2010

use styles to design the look and feel of UI controls

use templates to change the appearance of controls

create triggers

use animation in a WPF application

recognize the process for globalizing a Windows application

localize Windows forms using Visual Studio

localize elements in a WPF application

customize the UI of a WPF application

localize a WPF application

localize a Windows Form

use animation in a WPF application

recognize how to program with timer callbacks

describe the concept of multithreading and recognize how to make thread safe calls

recognize characteristics of the event-based asynchronous pattern

recognize how to perform data parallelism

implement the task class and task parallelism

run and cancel PLINQ queries

perform a drag and drop operation in Windows forms

implement drag and drop in WPF

recognize multithreading in Windows applications and describe asynchronous programming patterns

describe parallel programming

perform drag and drop operations