Event Driven Programming

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ARSI UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Chapter one
Introduction

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 Objectives
 Course Overview

 What is an event driven system?

 What is event driven programming?

– Visual basic .NET

– .NET framework(Dot net framework)

• Visual Studio 2010

• Defining and working with :-

– Controls, properties, methods and Namespace.

• Building Your First Application

• Console applications
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 What are event driven programs?
 The logic flow of the program is controlled by events.

 What the program does depends on what evens have taken place.
 Before Defining event drive programming, we must first know what events
are?

What does Events mean ?

 The events acts as a ‘trigger’ to make the program do something.
 Events are the actions that are performed by the user during the application usage.

 Examples
• A user Clicking a mouse button or selecting a menu option.
• Moving the mouse
• Pressing a Key down/up
• Encountering messages from other programs or threads

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 Event driver programming…?
 Event driver programming is:-

– also called event-based programming.

– any programming language, which uses these events to run a specific

portion of the program.
 Other definitions

– It is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is

determined by events.
– Event-driven programming is an application architecture technique in
which the application has a main loop which is clearly divided into two
sections:
• the first is event selection (or event detection), and

• the second is event handling

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 Event driver programming…
• Most programs are Event Driven programs :-

– GUI operating systems such as Windows, Spreadsheets, Word

processors etc.

– Games are the biggest example of these kinds of applications.

– The GUI based programs are all developed using event driven

programming.
• The other technology used in contrast to event driver programs is command driven
programs, where using the command driven interface a user does each and every
task.
– But this programming paradigm is difficult to operate and is not user friendly.
• The commands must be remembered in order to work it possible .
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Event driver programming…
• The event driven programs are very user friendly and highly

interactive systems.

• Event-driven programs can be written in any language, although the

task is easier in languages that provide high-level abstractions.

• The entire object based languages and visual languages supports

the event driver programming. Examples of these languages are:-

o Visual Basic,
o Visual FoxPro,
o JavaScript,
o Visual C++ ,
o visual basic.NET and
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o Java.
 C#

• C# is :-
– an object-oriented language and fully supports the object oriented

programming concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and

abstraction.

– also supports component-oriented programming, which enables you to

specify units of functionality (components) that are self-contained and self

documenting by presenting a model with properties, methods, events, and

metadata about the component.

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 Types of C# Programs

 Console applications-Console applications run from the command line which

are primarily character- or text-based.

 Window forms applications-that take advantage of the graphical user

interface (GUI) provided by Microsoft Windows.

 Web Services-Web Services are routines that can be called across the Web

 Web form/ASP.NET applications-ASP.NET applications are executed on a

Web server and generate dynamic Web pages.

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 About C#
 We can use C# for developing console and
windows app.
 Can download form Microsoft as java is
downloaded from oracle.
 Microsoft premium tool for software
development.
 Programming language developed by
Microsoft since 2000.
 Similar to , and a direct competitor to Java.
 If you want to make Microsoft only applications or
work for Microsoft shops, then C# is for you.
 If you want to work in finance or other major
industry and write the big apps for big iron UNIX
servers or cross platform tools then Java is for
you.
 C# is best suitable for Windows
applications and video game
development. It is often used for web
applications and enterprise software too.
While Java performs great for web apps
and Android apps

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 Con’t….
• An integrated development environment (IDE) (also
known as integrated design environment or
integrated debugging environment) is a software
application that provides comprehensive facilities to
computer programmers for software development.
An IDE normally consists of:
 a source code editor
 a compiler and/or an interpreter
 build automation tools
 a debugger
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 Cont…
• Visual basic to is a tool that allows you to
develop window (Graphic user interface
application.
• •Visual basic is an implement of Microsoft
event-driven programming language.
• • The visual basic IDE has three distinct states:
 Design,
 Run
 and debug.
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The IDE is composed of these parts:
 The menu bar
 The toolbar
 The Project explorer
 The Properties window
 The Form Layout window
 The toolbox
 Form designers
 Code windows
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 Visual Basic . NET

 Visual Basic . Net is one of even driven programming languages.

– It is used to develop
• windows based,
• console based and
• web based applications.
 VB.NET extends best features of VB 6.0 and consists of the following additional
features
– true object-oriented inheritance
– overloading
– free threading
– strict type checking
– elegant error handling
– a new shared development environment.
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 What is .NET framework
• The .NET framework is a software development and execution environment

designed by Microsoft as a direct competitor to Java.

• It provides a controlled programming environment where software can be

developed, installed and executed on Windows-based operating systems.

• The principal design features are:

– Interoperability: This allows for .NET-developed programs to access

functionalities in programs developed outside .NET.
– Common Runtime Engine: Also known as the common language
runtime, this allows programs developed in .NET to exhibit common
behaviors in memory usage, exception handling and security.
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 What is .NET framework
– Language Independence: Common language infrastructure
specifications (CLI) allow for the exchange of data types between two
programs developed in different languages.
– Base Class Library: A library of code for most common functions--used
by programmers to avoid repetitive rewriting of code.
– Ease of Deployment: There are tools to ensure the ease of installing
programs without interfering with previously installed applications.
– Security: Programs developed in .NET are based on a common security
model.

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 The .NET Framework

Visual Studio.NET
VB C++ C# JScript …

Common Language Specification

ASP.NET: Web Services Windows

Windows
and Web Forms Forms
Forms

ADO.NET: Data and XML

Base Class Library

Common Language Runtime

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 Visual Studio
• Visual Studio .NET is Microsoft’s Integrated Development Environment

(IDE) for creating, running and debugging programs (also called

applications) written in a variety of .NET programming languages.
• This IDE is a powerful and sophisticated tool for creating business critical
and mission-critical applications.
• Prior to beginning Visual Basic .NET installation, you should make some
preliminary checks first.
– You must verify that you meet the system requirements for installation.
(free hard disk space, RAM size and etc).
– Platform In running process actually what is happening?
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 Basic Event Driven Programming Model

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 The Main Windows of the Visual Studio IDE

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 Building Your First Application…
• You have to create a project first to work on VB.NET programming.
• To create a project you have three options once you are in main
window
– Click File  New Project
– Click on New Project button on the tool bar
– Press CTRL + New Keys
• From the window displayed choose windows Form applications
template.
– Using VB.NET different kinds of templates such as, applications or
libraries or even empty project can be created.
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 VB.NET design time environment

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 Cont.….

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 Visual Basic .NET Forms
• A Big square in the top left corner of the design environment is called
Form.
– All the controls for an application are assembled on forms .

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 Properties of Controls…
• Some of the properties of controls
are : Name, BackColor, Font,
Image, Text, etc.
• Just to the right of these
properties are the values for them
- These values are the default
values, and can be changed.
• The list of properties can be
displayed in a more accessible
form i.e. alphabetically or in
category.
• To display the list properties
alphabetically, click the Alphabetic
icon at the top of the Properties
box, as shown here in the diagram.

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 Methods
• A Method is a procedure built into the class.
• They are a series of statements that are
executed when called.
• Methods allow us to handle code in a simple
and organized fashion.
• There are two types of methods in VB .NET:
– those that return a value (Functions) and
– those that do not return a value (Sub Procedures).

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 Event Handling

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