Creating User Services
Create a Windows Form by using the Windows Forms Designer.
• Add and set properties on a Windows Form.
• Create a Windows Form by using visual inheritance.
• Build graphical interface elements by using the System.Drawing namespace.

Add controls to a Windows Form.
• Set properties on controls.
• Load controls dynamically.
• Write code to handle control events and add the code to a control.
• Instantiate and invoke an ActiveX control.
• Configure control licensing.
• Create menus and menu items.

Implement navigation for the user interface (UI).
• Configure the order of tabs.

Validate user input.
• Validate non-Latin user input.

Implement error handling in the UI.
• Implement online user assistance.
• Display and update data.
• Instantiate and invoke a Web service or component.
• Implement globalization.
• Create, implement, and handle events.
• Implement print capability.
• Implement accessibility features.

Creating and Managing Components and .NET Assemblies
• Create and modify a .NET assembly.
• Consuming and Manipulating Data
• Access and manipulate data from a Microsoft SQL Server database by creating and using ad hoc queries and stored procedures.
• Access and manipulate data from a data store. Data stores include relational databases, XML documents, and flat files. Methods include XML techniques and ADO .NET.
• Handle data errors.

Testing and Debugging
• Create a unit test plan
• Implement tracing
• Add trace listeners and trace switches to an application.
• Display trace output.
• Debug, rework, and resolve defects in code.
• Configure the debugging environment.
• Create and apply debugging code to components and applications.
• Provide multicultural test data to components and applications.
• Execute tests.
• Resolve errors and rework code.

Deploying a Windows-based Application
Plan the deployment of a Windows-based application.
• Plan a deployment that uses removable media.
• Plan a Web-based deployment.
• Plan a network-based deployment.
• Ensure that the application conforms to Windows Installer requirements and Windows Logo Program requirements.
• Create a setup program that installs an application and allows for the application to be uninstalled.
• Register components and assemblies.
• Perform an install-time compilation of a Windows-based application.

Deploy a Windows-based application.
• Use setup and deployment projects.
• Add assemblies to the Global Assembly Cache.
• Verify security policies for a deployed application.
• Launch a remote application (URL remoting).

Maintaining and Supporting a Windows-based Application
• Optimize the performance of a Windows-based application.
• Diagnose and resolve errors and issues.

Configuring and Securing a Windows-based Application
• Configure a Windows-based application.
• Configure security for a Windows-based application.
• Authentication types include Windows Authentication,
• None, forms-based, Microsoft Passport, and custom authentication.
• Specify the security level for an application.
• Use custom attributes to configure security.

Configure authorization.
• Configure role-based authorization.
• Implement identity management.