Introduction

In this chapter, the first step toward passing Exam 70-316, you will complete a lot of the groundwork required to build the foundation for the rest of this book.

This chapter starts with an overview of the .NET Framework and various development tools for developing applications for the .NET Framework. This overview will be enough to get you started; I'll continually cover advanced features as they become important for meeting exam objectives.

Next, this chapter talks about designing Windows forms, both by using a visual designer and by manually writing code. The visual designer that is built inside Visual Studio .NET helps you rapidly develop forms. As you design forms, you will also learn about many useful classes that are available ...

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