Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

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Exam 70-511 - Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Skills measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

Building a user interface by using basic techniques (23%)

  • Choose the most appropriate control class
    • Evaluating design requirements and then selecting the most appropriate control based on those requirements; recognizing when none of the standard controls meet requirements; item controls, menu controls, content controls
    • This objective does not include: designing a custom control
  • Implement screen layout by using nested control hierarchies
    • Using panel-derived controls, attaching properties
    • This objective does not include: items controls, control customization
  • Create and apply styles and theming
    • Application-level styles, overriding styles, style inheritance, Generic.xaml, theming attributes
    • This objective does not include: data-grid view style sharing
  • Manage reusable resources
    • Fonts, styles, data sources, images, resource dictionaries, resource-only DLLs
  • Implement an animation in WPF
    • Creating a storyboard; controlling timelines; controlling the behavior when the animation completes; double, color, and point animations; starting an animation from code and from XAML
    • This objective does not include: direct rendering updates, implementing key frame animations

Enhancing a user interface by using advanced techniques (21%)

  • Manage routed events in WPF
    • Tunneling vs. bubbling events, handling and cancelling events
    • This objective does not include: simple event handling; creating custom events
  • Configure WPF commanding
    • Defining WPF commands based on RoutedCommand; associating commands to controls; handling commands; command bindings; input gestures
    • This objective does not include: creating custom commands by implementing ICommand
  • Modify the visual interface at run time
    • Adding/removing controls at run time; manipulating the visual tree; control life cycle; generating a template dynamically
    • This objective does not include: instantiating forms and simple modification of control properties at runtime
  • Implement user-defined controls
    • Deciding whether to use a user/composite, extended, or custom control ; creating a user/composite control; extending from an existing control
    • This objective does not include: creating a custom control by inheriting directly from the control class and writing code
  • Create and display graphics
    • Creating and displaying graphics by using geometric transformation; brushes; drawing shapes; clipping; double buffering; overriding render (WPF) and OnPaint (WinForms); differentiating between retained and non-retained graphics
    • This objective does not include: creating and displaying three-dimensional graphics; hit testing; creating images
  • Add multimedia content to an application in WPF
    • Media player vs. media element; adding a sound player; images
    • This objective does not include: buffering
  • Create and apply control templates in WPF
    • Template binding
    • This objective does not include: styling and theming; data templating
  • Create data, event, and property triggers in WPF

Managing data at the user interface layer (23%)

  • Implement data binding
    • Binding options, static and dynamic resources, element bindings, setting the correct binding mode and update mode; binding to nullable values
    • This objective does not include: binding to a specific data source
  • Implement value converters in WPF
    • Implementing custom value converters, implementing multivalue converters
  • Implement data validation
    • Handling validation and providing user feedback via the error provider (WinForms) or data templates (WPF), IDataErrorInfo, validation control, form validation and control validation
  • Implement and consume change notification interfaces
    • Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged; using INotifyCollectionChanged (ObservableCollection)
  • Prepare collections of data for display
    • Filtering, sorting, and grouping data; LINQ; CollectionView (WPF), BindingSource object (WinForms)
  • Bind to hierarchical data
    • TreeView; MenuControl
  • Implement data-bound controls
    • Using the DataGridView (WinForms) or DataGrid (WPF) control to display and update the data contained in a data source, implementing complex data binding to integrate data from multiple sources; ItemsControl-derived controls (WPF)
  • Create a data template in WPF
    • Implementing a data template selector; using templates with ItemsControl

Enhancing the functionality and usability of a solution (17%)

  • Integrate WinForms and WPF within an application
    • Using ElementHosts within WinForms and ControlHosts within WPF; using the PropertyMap property
  • Implement asynchronous processes and threading
    • Implementing asynchronous programming patterns; marshalling between threads; freezing UI elements; using timers; task parallel library; parallel LINQ; using the dispatcher; BackgroundWorker component
  • Incorporate globalization and localization features
    • Loading resources by locale; marking localizable elements; using culture settings in validators and converters; using language properties and rendering direction properties; working with resource files for localization; determining installed locales; regional settings
  • Implement drag and drop operations within and across applications
    • This objective does not include: Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
  • Implement security features of an application
    • Configuring Software Restriction Policy (SRP); full trust and partially trusted security; interoperability with legacy CAS policy; User Account Control (UAC)
  • Manage user and application settings
    • Creating application settings; creating user settings; loading and saving settings
    • This objective does not include: persisting to database
  • Implement dependency properties
    • Enabling data binding and animation, property metadata, property change callbacks

Stabilizing and releasing a solution (16%)

  • Implement a WPF test strategy
    • Automation peer, UI automation, IntelliTrace
  • Debug XAML by using the WPF visualizer
    • Accessing the visualizer, drilling down into the visual tree, viewing and changing properties
    • This objective does not include: setting a breakpoint and stepping through code
  • Debug WPF issues by using PresentationTraceSources
    • Animation, data binding, dependency properties
  • Configure a ClickOnce deployment
    • Configuring the installation of a WinForms, WPF, or XBAP application by using ClickOnce technology; choosing appropriate settings to manage upgrades
  • Create and configure a Windows installer project
    • Configuring a setup project to add icons during setup, setting deployment project properties, configuring conditional installation based on operating system versions, setting appropriate launch conditions based on the .NET framework version, adding custom actions to a setup project, adding error-handling code to a setup project
  • Configure deployment security settings
    • Configuring and integrating UAC by using ClickOnce deployments; setting appropriate security permissions to deploy the application

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