Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Course 4995A: Five days; Instructor-Led

Introduction

This five-day instructor-led 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 entry-level training and experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, to gain in-depth guidance on programming the Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005.

Audience

The target audience for this course includes both novice programmers who have a minimum of three months’ programming experience and intermediate-level programmers who are otherwise new to .NET Framework development, and want to learn how to use Visual Basic or C#.

Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

•         Describe the .NET Framework.

•         Create applications with Visual Studio 2005.

•         Describe Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# language and syntax features.

•         Use essential object-oriented programming features.

•         Use advanced object-oriented programming features.

•         Explain security in the .NET Framework.

•         Access data by using ADO.NET.

•         Build Windows Presentation Foundation applications.

•         Describe distributed applications, and create distributed applications with Windows Communication Foundation.

•         Monitor .NET Framework applications by using instrumentation.

•         Compile, test, and deploy .NET Framework applications.

•         Interoperate with unmanaged code (optional).

•         Describe software design and development (optional).
 

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 http://www.microsoft.com/net.

•         Familiarity with the .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.0 as described on the MSDN Developer Center site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/fundamentals/default.aspx.

Course Outline

Module 1: Getting Started

This module introduces the .NET Framework and the software development life cycle. It also describes the key features of Visual Studio 2005.

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 2005

This module introduces the key features of the Visual Studio 2005 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 2005 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 2005.

Module 4: Essentials of Object-Oriented Programming

This module introduces students to the essentials of object-oriented programming, defines important terminology, and shows the syntax for defining classes and creating instances.

Module 5: Advanced Object-Oriented 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 role-based 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 2005. 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.