Introduction
This fiveday instructorled course enables developers who are migrating from a different development language an earlier version of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# or who have completed entrylevel training and experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to gain indepth guidance on programming the Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008.
Audience
The target audience for this course is developers who already have professional programming experience in C C++ earlier versions of Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# Java or another programming language and who plan to use Visual Studio 2008 to develop enterprise business solutions.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course students must have
Professional experience with programming in C C++ earlier versions of Visual Basic or C# Java or another programming language.
Familiarity with the Microsoft .NET Framework strategy as described on the Microsoft .NET Homepage at httpwww.microsoft.comnet.
Familiarity with the .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0 as described on the MSDN Developer Center site at httpmsdn.microsoft.comnetframeworkprogrammingfundamentalsdefault.aspx.
Course Outline
Module 1 Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework
This module introduces the key features and components of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The module also provides an overview of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 technologies and describes how they relate to version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
Module 2 Creating Applications with Visual Studio 2008
This module introduces the key features of the Visual Studio 2008 integrated development environment IDE and describes how to create and manage solutions projects and other resources. The module highlights many of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 that help to simplify and accelerate application development.
Module 3 Examining Language and Syntax Features
This module introduces fundamental language features in C# and Visual Basic including variable declarations control flow constructs and exception handling. The module also describes new language features introduced in Visual Studio 2008.
Module 4 Essentials of ObjectOriented Programming
This module introduces students to the essentials of objectoriented programming defines important terminology and shows the syntax for defining classes and creating instances.
Module 5 Advanced ObjectOriented Programming
This module describes how to use inheritance and interfaces. The module also introduces delegates and events and describes how to use them in .NET Framework applications.
Module 6 Security in the .NET Framework
This module introduces the concept of security and describes how to use code access security and rolebased security. The module also introduces the cryptographic services available in the .NET Framework.
Module 7 Accessing Data by Using ADO.NET
This module describes how to access data programmatically in a relational database by using ADO.NET. The module also describes how to read and write XML data and introduces the classes in the XML Document Object Model DOM.
Module 8 Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications
This module describes the key features of Windows Presentation Foundation and introduces Extensible Application Markup Language XAML the declarative language that can be used to define user interfaces. The module also introduces the Application object model and describes how to program a Windows Presentation Foundation application.
Module 9 Creating Distributed Applications
This module introduces the concept of distributed applications and shows how to create and consume XML Web services by using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008. The module also covers the key features of Windows Communication Foundation and explains how to build Windows Communication Foundation services and clients.
Module 10 Monitoring .NET Framework Applications by Using Instrumentation
This module describes what instrumentation is and shows how to perform instrumentation in .NET Framework applications by using code tracing and debugging performance counters and event logs.
Module 11 Compiling Testing and Deploying .NET Framework Applications
This module describes activities that take place in the final stages of application development when building testing and deploying an application. The module describes how to use Microsoft tools to perform each of these activities.
Module 12 Interoperating with Unmanaged Code Optional
This module introduces the concept of interoperability with unmanaged code and then describes how to access unmanaged functions and COM objects from managed code in a .NET Framework application.
Module 13 Software Design and Development Optional
This module introduces software design and development and explains some of the most commonly used models and tools.