In the previous lessons, we dealt with the steps required to plan, design and research all the elements of our first complex application, and in this lesson we are going to start the first practical step of it: designing the user interface.… Read more
Posts Tagged ‘GUI’
XAML: Writing the GUI of our application
Sunday, December 23rd, 2018GUI Controls
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017Since we already learned about visual controls, their properties, events, and so on, it is time to learn the list of available controls for designing our graphical user interfaces. Note that the list is presented in alphabetical order, not by the importance of the controls, nor by the frequency of which they are used.… Read more
Control Events
Sunday, September 3rd, 2017In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the execution of a program is determined by events such as user actions (mouse clicks, key presses), sensor outputs, or messages from other programs/threads.
Because C# is also an event-driven programming language, today we will learn about events.… Read more
Control Properties
Sunday, August 20th, 2017At some point in my lessons, I was discussing how a class (object) can have properties and methods. I was also saying that the Controls that we are adding to our GUI’s are actually also objects (classes). Therefor, as you might have guessed, the graphical controls of our interfaces have control properties, through which we can customize their parameters.… Read more
XAML
Sunday, August 13th, 2017XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) is the language behind the visual presentation of an application that you develop in Microsoft Expression Blend, just as HTML is the language behind the visual presentation of a Web page. Though it is not this website’s purpose to teach XAML, and though programmers can develop a program’s interface almost entirely without knowing XAML, in this lesson I will talk briefly about what XAML is, what does it look like, what it does and how we can use it.… Read more
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Thursday, August 10th, 2017As explained in this lesson, we will create a new project, but this time we will not be using a console application template, but rather a WPF one, for the purpose of creating a graphical user interface (GUI) program. As explained in the yesterday lesson, there are more than one ways in which we can create GUI programs, but some of them are harder, or obsolete.… Read more
WPF
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017Back in the day, in the golden days of prehistoric programming (~’80’s), programmers were writing programs that would only display text. Graphics were rare and hideous, and the majority of computer programs were as basics as it gets. Here is a screenshot of Lotus 123, which was a spreadsheet program used for financial jobs:
Up to this point, all the lessons I have taught you were exemplified using the same command line interface (CLI).… Read more