Customizing and Managing Multithreaded Applications with Visual Basic New Horizons Lebanon
Price: TBA
  • Duration: 4 Hours

Course details

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.

  • 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
Updated on 09 November, 2015

About New Horizons Lebanon

As changes in technology have accelerated, it’s become even more essential for people to master technology to be productive, invaluable employees who optimize, program and invent solutions—and even grow companies of their own. With over 300 centers in 60 countries, New Horizons is the world’s largest independent IT and Business training company. Over the past 35 years, New Horizons has delivered a full range of IT and business skills/Management training through innovative learning methods that have transformed businesses and helped over 35 million students reach their goals. New Horizons Lebanon branch was established in 1996.

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