Welcome to the CISP 242: Visual Basic Programming II Course Weblog!

Welcome to the CISP 242: Visual Basic Programming II Course Weblog! This site will serve as a repository for course information, including course slides, assignments and resources.

Please send me an email (nicole.ryan@davenport.edu) if you have any suggestions regarding the weblog.

Last Class!! / Final Projects, etc.

Sadly, the Final Exam Project (Exercise 15.8 on page 792) is due today, and this will be the last day of our class. I have truly enjoyed having all of you in class over the course of this semester and last. I will definitely miss this class and the fun we have had!  : )

I wish you all the best if you are not continuing on to segment III... Have a wonderful Summer. Hopefully I will see you all in and around Davenport.

Best Regards,
-Nicole

..Don't forget to upload your Final Exam Project to Blackboard today. Grades will be posted in Blackboard by next Tuesday. Feel free to email me with questions or if you would like to see the breakdown of points for assignments.

Chapter 15: GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation Final Project

This week we will explore creating GUIs using Windows Presentation Foundation and we will discuss the Final Exam Project due in class next week.

The Final Exam Project is exercise 15.8 on page 792 of your text.

This program is modeled after the XAML Painter application shown in Figures 15.13 and 15.16 on pages 746 - 753. For this program you should allow the user to select the brush color using the color chooser instead of radio buttons. You will also need to use a style to maintain a standard appearance for each of the sliders. How to apply styles and the color chooser are covered in Chapter 15 in Figure 15.23 and 15.24 on pages 763 - 765.

Before beginning the project you should review pages 742 - 745 on creating WPF applications and the principles of flow-based layouts. It is important that you choose the WPF application type when creating your application in Visual Studio.

Remember that you can grab the example code seen in Figures 15.13, 15.16, 15.23 and 15.24 on my blog. This should serve as a good starting point for your project.

The Final Exam Project is due in class next week. Please upload your project and all of the corresponding files to Blackboard by the end of class next Thursday, April 21, 2011.

Rebecca Black Is Kind of Awesome — No April Fooling

I know you guys will appreciate this (:

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Chapter 14: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms

To wrap up Chapter 14 we will work on putting together one of the exercises on page 723. Please choose one of the following exercises below and complete it for next week.

• Exercise 14.12 - File Browser
• Exercise 14.13 - Multiple form text editor
• Exercise 14.15 - Bill Calculator
• Exercise 14.16 - Tab Pages

Please upload your program in Blackboard by next Thursday, April 14, 2011.

Exception Handling (Chapter 13)

This week we will cover Exception Handling (Chapter 13). Please read through and review the end of Chapter 12 on Interfaces beginning on page 553.

We will test what we have learned by creating a program that demonstrates a method with its own Try / Catch block as detailed in exercise 13.8 on page 610.

This exercise is due in class next Thursday, March 31, 2011.

Don't Forget::

How do I keep the Console from closing after I build my program?
Add Console.ReadLine() at the end of Main.