Review

Review

The following review questions are intended to reinforce key concepts and information presented in this chapter. If you are unable to answer a question, return to the appropriate lesson and review, and then try the lesson again. Answers to the questions can be found in Appendix A.

1. You are creating an application for a major bank. The application should integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office XP, be easy to learn, and instill a sense of corporate pride in users. Name two ways you might approach these goals in the user interface.

2. You are writing an application that needs to display a common set of controls on several different forms. What is the fastest way to approach this problem?

3. If you wanted to prompt a user for input every time a form received the focus, what would be the best strategy for implementing this functionality?

4. Describe two ways to set the tab order of controls on your form.

5. What is an extender provider, and what does it do?

6. Explain when you might implement a context menu instead of a main menu.

7. Describe what is meant by field-level validation and form-level validation.

8. Describe how to retrieve the ASCII key code from a keystroke. How would you retrieve key combinations for non-ASCII keys?

9. Describe in general terms how to add a control to a form at run time.