Introducing User Controls And Managing

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Pre-Assessment Questions
1. Consider the following statements:
• Statement A: Timer is an in-built component.
• Statement B: ServiceController is an in-built components.
Which of the following is correct with respect to the above statements?
a. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are False.
b. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are True.
c. Statement A is True and Statement B is False.
d. Statement A is False and Statement B is True.

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Pre-Assessment Questions (Contd.)

2. Consider the following statements:
• Statement A. The wrapper that allows interaction between COM and
.NET is called RCW.
• Statement B. Implementation of component is called ActiveX.
Which of the following is correct with respect to the above statements?
a. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are False.
b. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are True.
c. Statement A is True and Statement B is False.
d. Statement A is False and Statement B is True

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Pre-Assessment Questions (Contd.)

3. The assemblies that are required during the execution of an assembly are
called:
a. Metadata
b. Portable executable
c. Manifest
d. Dependencies

4. Using COM+, the business logic can be placed in: 

a. First tier
b. Middle tier
c. Third tier
d. Any tier

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Pre-Assessment Questions (Contd.)

5. Consider the following statements:
• Statement A. Friend constructor can be used if you want to use a
component inside an assembly but not outside it.
• Statement B. Private constructor can be used in a component if you
want to use it outside the component class.
Which of the following is correct with respect to the above statements?
a. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are False.
b. Both, Statement A and Statement B, are True.
c. Statement A is True and Statement B is False.
d. Statement A is False and Statement B is True.

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Solutions to Pre-Assessment
Questions
1. b.
2. b.
3. d. Dependencies
4. d. Any tier
5. c.

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Objectives
In this lesson, you will learn to:
• Create customized user controls
• Add existing components and controls to a user control
• Declare and raise events in a user control
• Create a user control
• Identify the need for Web services
• Identify the enabling technologies in Web services
• Add and remove Web references

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Understanding User Controls

• In Visual Basic .NET, you use controls such as list boxes, text boxes, menus,
check boxes, and buttons to add user interaction capability to the graphical
applications.
• These controls are visual components that can be used across applications.

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User Controls
• You can create composite reusable controls and selectively expose the
properties of these controls.
• The UserControl class can be used to combine the functionality of different
controls into one unit that can be reused.
• The UserControl class can contain multiple child controls.
• The UserControl class presents a single and unified interface.

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Customized User Controls

• While creating a user control the class inherits from the UserControl class by
default.
• To inherit the user control from another existing control, the Inherits
System.Windows.Forms. UserControl statement needs to be changed to the
class from which you want to inherit the control.

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Adding Properties And Functions

• To add functionalities to a control, code has to be added for the property by
viewing the code for the control.
• The code will consist of the get and set methods of the property.

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Testing a Control
• A control is always used in a container.
• To test a control, you must host it in a Windows Form.

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Creating Custom Controls from the

Control Class
• To build a control from scratch, you can inherit from the Control class.
• The Control class defines input from the mouse and the keyboard.
• The Control class also defines the bounds and size of controls.

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Inheriting from a User Control

• User control can be used to build other controls.
• Parent methods of the base class can be overridden to provide extended
functionality in the inherited control.

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Rendering Graphical Interface of

Custom Controls
• To provide a graphical interface to your custom controls you need to override
the OnPaint() method of the control class.
• The OnPaint() method is executed when a control is first drawn and when a
control is resized.

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Raising Events
• To use event handling, you should be able to:
• Declare events.
• Raise events.
• handle the events raised by your control.

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Declaring Events
• You can declare events within:
• Classes.
• Structures.
• Interfaces.
• To declare an event, you need to use the Event keyword.
• In Visual Basic .NET, you need to use the RaiseEvent keyword to raise an
event.
• Any object capable of raising an event is an event sender.
• Event handlers are special types of procedures that are called when an event
occurs.

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Delegates
• In Visual Basic .NET, you use delegates to call event procedures.
• Delegates are objects that you use to call the methods of other objects.
• Delegates in Visual Basic .NET can reference both shared and instance
methods.

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Delegates and AddressOf Operator

• The AddressOf operator implicitly creates an instance of a delegate.
• Event handlers can be removed dynamically by using the RemoveHandler
keyword.

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Demo
Creating a User Control

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Problem Statement
• Build a user Control named ‘MyClock’ that will display the current time and
will also perform the function of an alarm. Test this user control in a VB.NET
application.

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Solution
• To build and use the ‘MyClock’ user control in an application, you need to
perform the following steps:
1. Create the User Control.
2. Add Windows Controls to the User Controls.
3. Create the Inherited Control.
4. Add Properties to the User Control.
5. Test the User Control.

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Understanding Web Services

• The evolution of the Internet has resulted in a gradual shift from desktop to
distributed applications.
• The development of distributed applications involves ensuring that components
hosted in heterogeneous environments are interoperable.
• To address these issues, Web Services have been introduced.

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Introduction to Web Services

• A Web service exposes a number of methods that provide functionality that
can be used by one or more applications, regardless of the programming
languages, operating systems, and hardware platforms used to develop them.
• The methods that provide such functionality are called Web methods.
• An application that uses a Web service is called a Web service client.

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Enabling Technologies used in Web

Services
• Enabling technologies used in Web Services are:
• XML
• XML is a plain-text format that can be understood by any platform.
• SOAP
• SOAP is a standard communication protocol for interchanging
information in a structured format in a distributed environment.
• WSDL
• WSDL is a markup language that describes a Web service.
• UDDI
• UDDI provides a standard mechanism to register and discover a Web
service.

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Adding and Removing Web references

from a Project
• A Web Reference can be added and removed by using Solution Explorer.
• A Web Service can be called programmatically.

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Summary
In this lesson, you learned that:

• User controls are visual components.

• You can create a reusable unit of controls and selectively expose their
properties by inheriting from the UserControl class.
• You can create a customized user control by inheriting from an existing
control.
• You can override the OnPaint() method to customize the drawing of a
control.
• You can declare, raise, and handle events.
• Delegates are objects that you use to call the methods of other objects.

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Summary (Contd.)
• A Web service exposes functionality that can be used by one or more
applications, regardless of the programming languages, operating systems,
and hardware platforms used to develop them.
• The functionality exposed by a Web service can be accessed by applications
by using Internet standards, such as HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and
eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
• To be able to communicate with each other, a Web service and a client
application must agree upon a common protocol. SOAP is a standard
communications protocol for interchanging information in a structured format
in a distributed environment.
• To be able to use a Web service, the developers of a client application need
to know the methods exposed by the Web service and the parameters to be
passed to these methods. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is a
markup language, which is used to describe a Web service.
• The Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) initiative is used
to allow client applications to discover the Web services provided by various
Web service providers.
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