On completion of this course students will have the ability to: Comprehend the concepts of OOP, Visual C++, and C# languages; comprehend a programming problem and design a solution; finally Code a solution to a problem for both desktop and web based programs using visual tools. | In a way, these three approaches form a progression from the most programming-intensive to the least programming-intensive. With the Windows API, you are writing code throughout all the elements that make up the GUI for your application must be created programmatically. With MFC applications there’s some help with GUI build in that you can assemble controls on a dialog form graphically and just program the interactions with the user; however, you still are involved in a lot of coding. With a Windows Forms application, you can build the complete GUI, including the primary application window, by assembling the controls that the user interacts with graphically. You just place the controls wherever you want them in a form window, and the code to create them is generated automatically. Using Windows Forms is by far the fastest and easiest mechanism for generating an application because the amount of code that you have to write is greatly reduced compared with the other two possibilities. The code for a Windows Forms application also gains all the benefi ts of executing with the CLR.
