1. Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005: An Overview
Name: Mike Henderlight
Title: Program Manager

2. Agenda Goals Deployment New Feature Demonstrations Questions Run time
Design Time, Layout and Configuration
Data
Questions

3. Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005: Design Goals
Bring the ease and reliability of Web application deployment to client apps
Professional Look and Feel
New controls and enhancements
Simplify client application development
Simplify working with data
Fewer lines of code
Fewer clicks
When you develop a client app, there are a lot of advantages. You get to take advantage of the cpu, video card and the hard rive. You shouldn’t have to make a decision about deployment. It shouldn’t be easier to deploy a web app than a client app.
So we made this a key goal and we’ve done a lot of work to make it as easy to deploy a client app as a web app. I’m going to show a demo of this.
We took a look to find where we had deficiencies in our control set. We added a few new controls and I’ll demo those also.
Also, we’ve made improvements in databinding. We’ve done a lot of work to make it easier to build data bound applications in the IDE. This will also be demos

4. Deployment with ClickOnce
Smart Client Deploy meets Web Deploy
Run an application by clicking on a URL
Update an application by updating a server
Robust Downloader & Installer
File & HTTP server support
Flexible updates – optional, required, etc..
Start Menu & Add/Remove Programs integration
Extensibility via an API
Deep Visual Studio Integration
Rich Security Model
CLR CAS sandboxing
Permission elevation prompting w/ Authenticode

5. Demo: Deployment using ClickOnce

6. New Windows Forms Components
NewToolBars and Menus (ToolStrip)
DataGridView
SplitContainer
WebBrowser
MaskedEdit
TableLayout, FlowLayout
BackgroundWorker
BindingSource (manages bindings)

7. More New Windows Forms Features
Client Configuration
Read/Write User Settings
Read Only Application Settings
Asynchronous Component
Sound API
XP control and OS features
Enhanced Existing Controls

8. New Windows Forms Designer Features
Smart Tags
Snap Lines
RAD Data
Simplified Data Binding
Partial Classes

9. Demo: Developing Applications using Windows Forms and Visual Studio 2005

10. Visual Studio 2005 Tools For Office
Leverage existing Office experience
Strategic tool for developing Office solutions
Supports Excel 2003, Word 2003 and InfoPath 2003
Designed for professional developers:
Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET
Office development approachable
Provides all the productivity of Visual Studio
Provides all the power of the .NET Framework
Secure and easy to deploy
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2003
Benefits
Enables the development of document-centric solutions with managed code
Access to the .NET Framework (e.g. support for Web Services, ADO.NET, etc)
Advantages with regard to VBA
Professional developer tool : Visual Studio .NET 2003
Security model: .NET Code Access Security
Deployment model: No-touch deployment
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2005
Major focus on developer productivity
Integrated design-time experience
Support for managed controls
“View” controls
Managed Document Actions task pane
Schema-based programming model
New data caching capabilities
Data island accessible in a server environment
Improved deployment model
Online ClickOnce deployment model

11. Demo: Visual Studio Tools for Office

12. Resources: ClickOnce Introduction to ClickOnce: ClickOnce Articles:
ClickOnce Articles:
FAQ:
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2003
Benefits
Enables the development of document-centric solutions with managed code
Access to the .NET Framework (e.g. support for Web Services, ADO.NET, etc)
Advantages with regard to VBA
Professional developer tool : Visual Studio .NET 2003
Security model: .NET Code Access Security
Deployment model: No-touch deployment
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2005
Major focus on developer productivity
Integrated design-time experience
Support for managed controls
“View” controls
Managed Document Actions task pane
Schema-based programming model
New data caching capabilities
Data island accessible in a server environment
Improved deployment model
Online ClickOnce deployment model

13. Resources: Windows Forms
Smart Client on MSDN:
Windows Forms web site:
Beta 1 Samples:
Online Discussion Forums:
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2003
Benefits
Enables the development of document-centric solutions with managed code
Access to the .NET Framework (e.g. support for Web Services, ADO.NET, etc)
Advantages with regard to VBA
Professional developer tool : Visual Studio .NET 2003
Security model: .NET Code Access Security
Deployment model: No-touch deployment
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2005
Major focus on developer productivity
Integrated design-time experience
Support for managed controls
“View” controls
Managed Document Actions task pane
Schema-based programming model
New data caching capabilities
Data island accessible in a server environment
Improved deployment model
Online ClickOnce deployment model

14. Resources: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
VSTO on MSDN:
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2003
Benefits
Enables the development of document-centric solutions with managed code
Access to the .NET Framework (e.g. support for Web Services, ADO.NET, etc)
Advantages with regard to VBA
Professional developer tool : Visual Studio .NET 2003
Security model: .NET Code Access Security
Deployment model: No-touch deployment
Visual Studio Tools for Office Version 2005
Major focus on developer productivity
Integrated design-time experience
Support for managed controls
“View” controls
Managed Document Actions task pane
Schema-based programming model
New data caching capabilities
Data island accessible in a server environment
Improved deployment model
Online ClickOnce deployment model

15. Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
Summary
ClickOnce
Bring the ease and reliability of Web application deployment to client apps
Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
Easier to build professional looking applications
The designer simplifies application development
Download and Install Visual Studio 2005 Today
When you develop a client app, there are a lot of advantages. You get to take advantage of the cpu, video card and the hard rive. You shouldn’t have to make a decision about deployment. It shouldn’t be easier to deploy a web app than a client app.
So we made this a key goal and we’ve done a lot of work to make it as easy to deploy a client app as a web app. I’m going to show a demo of this.
We took a look to find where we had deficiencies in our control set. We added a few new controls and I’ll demo those also.
Also, we’ve made improvements in databinding. We’ve done a lot of work to make it easier to build data bound applications in the IDE. This will also be demos

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