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

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

Activity 1 - Understand Windows Store apps
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
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
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.