Description
This course focuses on design and development skills for the Microsoft Windows 95 environment. It emphasizes programming of consistent user interfaces in forms-based and multi-window applications. Exercises reinforce programming interface and concepts.

Audience
Windows NT developers seeking to acquire the skills necessary to utilize the Win32 API.

Prerequisites
C programming experience or attendance at Arkoa’s C Programming course is required.

Hardware and Software
Windows 95/98/ME/NT needs to be installed, with a 32-bit compiler suitable for that platform. The systems should be able to load a 3.5” solution disk.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Hands-on
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Design and build a complete Windows 95 application
• Describe the concepts behind and implications of developing user-driven applications
• Use and program Windows 95
• Design standard user interfaces
• Use Windows 95 tools

Windows Concepts

• Windows system architecture
• Programming concepts
• System management

Building Windows 32 Applications

• Build steps and settings
• Make files

Basic Windows Programming

• Program layout
• The window procedure
• Registering classes
• Creating windows

Messages

• Message concepts
• Message loop and common messages

Unicode

• Internationalization
• Unicode and the Win32 API

Painting and Text Output

• Display contexts
• WM_PAINT processing
• Message Boxes

Menus and Accelerators

• Menu and accelerator concepts
• Design guidelines
• Command processing

The Button Class

• Button styles
• Buttons as child windows

Resources

• Icons and cursor
• Loading resources

Model Dialog Boxes

• Dialog box types
• Dialog procedure

The Edit Class

Windows File I/O

The Listbox Class

Common Dialogs

Modeless Dialog Boxes

Drag and Drop

Memory Management

Processes and Threads

• DLLs