WinForms - Getting Started
A short tutorial showing how to build your first winforms project
Winforms
Tutorial 1 - Choose a holiday!
This self-guided resource will enable you and your student's to build a simple C# winforms 'Holiday Selection App' which will recommend holidays to the user based on user inputs.
Tutorial 2...5 - coming soon!
These tutorials need a bit of refinement, they are coming soon!
Tutorial 6 - Object Orientation Part 1 of 3
This self-guided resource will enable you to build and work with classes in a C# winforms environment. It assumes that you are familiar with Winforms.
Tutorial 7 - Object Orientation Part 2 of 3
This self-guided resource focuses on more advanced OOP issues such as overloading and use of constructors.
Tutorial 8 - Object Orientation Part 3 of 3
This self-guided resource focuses on the use of Polymorphism, what it is, why it is useful and how to write polymorphic functions.
Tutorial 9 - Hashing - A Practical Guide
This self-guided resource allows you to see hashing in action, various hashing algorithms are used from SHA256 through to B-Crypt with salt!
Tutorial 10. - String Handling
This self-guided resource allows you work with strings, string handling is a very common requirement in a lot of programs, it is used on almost all programs where the user has to enter text. Learning these functions will enable you to write a much wider variety of applications.
Tutorial 11 - Access Database and Winforms
This self-guided resource will walk you through the steps to access an Access database from a Winforms project. It is worth noting that this is one of many techniques available to do this. It uses an engine called JET or ACE (depending on your PC setup) and is fairly simple to follow. You will end up with a separate database which you can access and alter from your winforms applications