CS 446: Day 8 Class Agenda for User Interface Design and Development

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Agenda for Day 8

Announcements
- CS and University Announcements
Assignments
- Peer Reviews due Wednesday (see Student Groups)
- Program 1 due on Thursday
- Revised Project Proposal and Portfolio Binder due Friday
Readings
- For today's Lab: Basic File I/O
- For next lecture/discussion: Chapter 3 & 4 of textbook
Hands-on Lab 4 learning objectives
After completion of today's lab, you should be able to
- Use .NET's predefined dialog boxes
- Read in a input from a text stream
- Use menus
- Add a toolbar to your project
References

MSDN's Dialog-Box Controls and Components

Microsoft's collection of links to their documentation on the standard dialog boxes available with .NET.

MSDN's Menus

From Chapter 8 of Microsoft's Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers: Menus display a list of commands available to the user. Because menus make commands visible and discoverable, you can use them to leverage the greater capacity people have for recognizing commands than for remembering them.

MSDN's Controls You Can Use on Windows Forms

Includes links to MSDN documentation on Main Menu, Context Menu, and Toolbar controls