Exam 98-361: Software Development Fundamentals/Understanding Desktop Applications

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Software Development Fundamentals
  1. Understanding Core Programming
  2. Understanding Object-Oriented Programming
  3. Understanding General Software Development
  4. Understanding Web Applications
  5. Understanding Desktop Applications
  6. Understanding Databases

This lesson covers Understanding Desktop Applications. It looks at Windows Forms applications, console-based applications, and Windows Services.

Activity 1 - Understand Windows Store apps[edit | edit source]

UI design guideline categories, characteristics and capabilities of Store Apps, identify gestures. This section was updated in late 2014 to focus on Windows Store apps and not on Windows Forms. There may be some minimal visual inheritance but no MDI.

  1. Read Creating a User Interface.
  2. Read Create your first Windows Runtime app using C# or Visual Basic

Activity 2 - Understand Console-based Applications[edit | edit source]

This objective may include but is not limited to: characteristics and capabilities of console-based applications.

  1. Read How to: Create a C# Console Application.

Activity 3 - Understand Windows Services[edit | edit source]

This objective may include but is not limited to: characteristics and capabilities of Windows Services.

  1. Read Introduction to Windows Service Applications.
  2. Read Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer.

References[edit | edit source]

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