Build Windows Forms App with Visual Studio - Land a job! - 1

Learn how to download Visual Studio Community 2015 for free, activate it with a Microsoft account, and install it on your machine by following the download and setup steps.

Install Visual Studio 2013 Professional to build Windows Forms apps and boost your job prospects.

Obtain SQL Server 2014 for free with your school email, verify and sign in, download with the download manager, enter the installation key, and launch from the C drive.

Demonstrate denormalization by showing how lumping customer data in one place leads to deletion risks and poor design, and highlight normalization's approach of separating data into related tables.

Learn how normalization breaks data into separate tables to reduce redundancy and improve data integrity, using a customer and zip code design linked by keys, with denormalization trade-offs discussed.

Launch SQL Server Management Studio 2014 from the start menu, navigate to the green icon, and connect using your installation password to access your local server.

Learn to create and manage a database for a Windows forms app using code or the SQL Server Management Studio interface, including executing commands, refreshing folders, and deleting databases.

Learn to create database tables for the Bacchae databases using code or script, then create them without code, including the customer and logging tables with their key fields.

Learn to create relationships between tables by defining primary keys and foreign keys, enabling normalization and identity settings across customer, sales production, and inventory tables.

Learn how to populate database tables in a Windows Forms app using Visual Studio, both manually and with code, including inserting into the customer maintenance table and generating SQL scripts.

Develop good naming conventions for forms and variables to ensure maintainable code. Use Carmel notation for forms and Pascal notation for others, with clear names like interest rates.

Create six Windows Forms for a small business app in Visual Studio, including login, main, customer maintenance, sales production, expense maintenance, and inventory maintenance, after mapping business needs.

Design the login form in a Windows forms app using Visual Studio; set the background to white, add a label for the app name, and center a picture box.

Design the login form in Visual Studio by adding labels and text boxes for user id and password, and enable password masking while adjusting fonts, colors, and alignment.

Rename and name login form controls, set tab indices for keyboard navigation, and wire submit and clear events to design a functional login page.

Design the main form as the parent container by enabling MDI, adding menus, toolbars, labeled controls, and a bottom status bar with images.

Continue to design the main form in a Windows Forms app using Visual Studio. Verify and rename forms and tabs, set maximize options, import images, and separate tab spacing.

Design the sales production form in Windows Forms with Visual Studio, adjust colors, add picture box, image, labels, and text boxes for product code, customer id, and production description.

Design the sales production form in a Windows Forms app, using Palatino 12 font, read-only product and customer fields, a custom date time picker, and a product code combo box.

Design the sales production form in a Windows Forms app by configuring fonts to 12, midnight blue colors, and standard styles, aligning and naming buttons like save, cancel, and invoice.

Design and implement the expense maintenance form in a Windows Forms app, configuring binding navigator controls, labels, text boxes, and images with precise naming, colors, fonts, and layout.

design and lay out the expense maintenance form using drag-and-drop controls, label text boxes for expense id, date, description, and amount, and align panels and buttons.

Design the expense maintenance form by arranging controls, labeling inputs, and wiring calculations for total profit, then connect the form to a SQL Server database and import the expenses table.

Design the customer maintenance form in a Windows Forms app using a data grid and binding navigator, configure control names and fixed dialog borders, and enable adding or updating customers.

Design and implement a customer maintenance form in a Windows Forms app with Visual Studio. Align fields for customer id, name, address, and phone; add, search, update, delete, clear buttons.

Design the inventory maintenance form in a Windows Forms app, using a date time picker, a toolstrip, and labeled inputs with a picture box and proper size modes.

Design the inventory maintenance form in a Windows Forms app by arranging labeled text boxes, buttons, and a data grid view.