MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows® Applications Using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4

Objective 2.4: Design Data Presentation and Input

Most of what your Presentation layer is doing in a distributed application is either presenting or receiving data. Your Presentation layer will be responsible for validating data, binding data and presenting it to the user, and presenting media to the user. In this section, you will learn how to handle data in the Presentation layer.

This objective covers how to:

• Design data validation.

• Design a data binding strategy.

• Manage data shared between forms.

• Choose media services.

Designing Data Validation

An important part of designing any UI is how to handle data input. Users can be error-prone, and to ensure the integrity of your database, it is vital that data be validated for correctness. You might need ...