DT offers a core set of courses aimed at covering the Application Lifecycle, from requirements gathering, analysis and design to development, testing, process and project management.

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Programming the Microsoft .Net Framework with Visual Basic .Net (MS2415)

Course Overview
The goal of this course is to help application developers understand the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to offering an overview of the .NET Framework and an introduction to key concepts and terminology, the course provides a series of labs, which introduce and explain .NET Framework features that are used to code, debug, tune, and deploy applications.

This course is intended for experienced, professional software developers, including those employed by software companies or working on corporate development teams. Most students will be Microsoft Visual Basic® developers

What will I learn?
After completing this course, students will be able to:

List the major elements of the .NET Framework and explain how they fit into the .NET platform.

Explain the main concepts behind the common language runtime and use the features of the .NET Framework to create a simple application.

Create and use components in Microsoft Windows® Forms-based and ASP.NET-based applications.

Use the deployment and versioning features of the .NET runtime to deploy multiple versions of a component.

Create, use, and extend types by understanding the common type system architecture.

Create classes and interfaces that are functionally efficient and appropriate for given programming scenarios.

Use the .NET Framework class library to efficiently create and manage strings, arrays, collections, and enumerators.

Use delegates and events to make an event sender signal the occurrence of an action to an event receiver.

Describe and control how memory and other resources are managed in the .NET Framework.

Read from and write to data streams and files.

Use the basic request/response model to send and receive data over the Internet.

Serialize and deserialize an object graph.

Create distributed applications using XML Web services and object remoting.

Course Style
This course is hands-on with practical exercises throughout. We provide you with individual PC's so that you are able to work alone. You will take away extensive printed course material, which will be of on going use to you in your work.

Course Contents

Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Describing the .NET Framework and its components

Introduction to a Managed Execution Environment

Writing a .NET Framework Application

Compiling and Running a .NET Framework Application

Creating simple console applications in Visual Basic .NET.

Working with Components

Creating an ASP.NET Client

Deployment and Versioning

Common Type System

Working with Types

Strings, Arrays, and Collections

.NET Framework Arrays

.NET Framework Collections

Delegates and Events

Memory and Resource Management

Data Streams and Files

Internet Access

Serialization

Remoting and XML Web Services

Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must be proficient in the Microsoft Visual Basic programming language and have been exposed to the Visual Basic .NET language. Students can meet these prerequisites by taking Course MS2559: Introduction to Visual Basic .NET programming.

Recommended Follow-On Courses
There are no recommended follow-on courses at the present time

Duration
5 days

Cost
£1,500 plus VAT

Recommended reading & follow on courses

VB.Net Comprehensive and Microsoft Software,
ISBN-10: 0619239239, ISBN-13: 978-0619239237

Beginning VB.NET (Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN-10: 0764556584

Professional VB.NET
ISBN-10: 0764559923

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