Marks INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT COURSE WORK ASSESSMENT (Session: JUNE 2012) Code & Course

: F5227 VISUAL BASIC .NET PROGRAMMING Lecturer Assessment Instruction(s): Answer All Questions. Total mark is 50. Question 1 The new Visual Studio.NET is such an IDE. VS.NET is a powerful and flexible IDE that makes developing .NET applications a breeze. Explain some of the features of VS.NET that make application development more productive. [10 marks] Question 2 Visual Studio.NET comes in different editions. You can select edition appropriate for the kind of development you are doing. Explain the editions in VS.NET. [10 marks] Question 3 Today there are many vendors making CPUs and development tools for mobile devices. However, their standards are much varying. For example devices running Windows CE will have different tools and standards of development than Palm OS. Also, programming model for such devices is an issue of debate. For example, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) was considered a standard for mobile devices but it introduced disadvantages of its own such as requirement of continuous connectivity, lack in rich user interface and failure to utilize client side resources effectively. Mobile devices can be broadly divided into two categories: 1) Mobile Devices that have certain client-side resources like PDAs, Smartphones and Handheld PCs. They can run stand-alone application with rich user interface. 2) Mobile Devices that lack even these client-side resources such as mobile phones. They can not run stand alone applications having rich and more interactive user interface. In order to encompass all possible devices from above categories Microsoft has developed two distinct technologies namely: - Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) - Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (MMIT) Give an explanation on 2 distinct technologies as mentioned above. [20 marks] Question 4 List out the hardware and software requirements for installing .NET Framework. [10 marks] Prepare your assignment in a Microsoft Power Point presentation slides and please submit in both hardcopy (in comb binding) and softcopy (upload in CIDOS). Submission Due Date : 17th August 2012 (FRIDAY) * Penalty for late submission : Miss Nurul Afifah Binti Razali : Assignment 1 Programme Week (Date) Duration : OPEN : Week 4 : 1 Week