Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Exercise 1: Managing a Software Development Process

Exercise 2: Recommend an Architecture

Exercise 3: Discussion

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe software design and development.

Describe Microsoft .NET Framework Applications.

Describe n-tier development.

This module helps students to design and develop software by using Visual Studio 2008.

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

Defining a Class

Creating a Class Instance

Introduction to Inheritance

Defining and Implementing Interfaces

Creating and Using Delegates and Events

Generics

Exercise 1: Create a Customer and Person Class Using the Class Designer

Exercise 2: Create a BasicProduct and FullProduct in the Code Editor Window

Exercise 3: Extend the DAL to Use the Class to Pass Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe object-oriented programming concepts.

Define a class.

Explain how to create a class instance.

Explain how to implement inheritance.

Explain how to define and implement interfaces.

Explain how to create and use delegates and events.

Explain how to create and use generics.

This module introduces data validation, and explains how to validate Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications.

Introduction to Data Validation

Validating Windows Forms Applications

Validating ASP.NET Applications

Exercise 1: Adding Data Validation to the ASP.NET Application

Exercise 2: Adding Data Validation to the Sales Interface

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the general concepts of data validation.

Describe the technologies and techniques for validating Windows Forms applications.

Describe the technologies and techniques for validating ASP.NET applications.

This module helps students debug and profile applications by using Visual Studio 2008.

Code Tracing and Debugging

Application Profiling

Exercise 1: Add Tracing to a Windows Forms Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Add trace and debug statements to applications to use for debugging.

Use the common language runtime (CLR) Profiler to optimize applications.

Use the Performance Explorer to analyze performance bottlenecks in applications.

This module introduces the concept of instrumentation, as well an instrumentation method.

Introduction to Instrumentation

Event Logs

Exercise: Writing to a Custom Event Log

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Discuss the basics of instrumentation.

Name the various technologies that are available for instrumentation.

Explain what event logs are.

Use event logs to instrument an application.

This module helps students to implement software testing by using Visual Studio 2008.

Introduction to Software Testing

Using Visual Studio 2008 Testing Tools

Exercise 1: Using the object test bench

Exercise 2: Creating and running a unit test

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the basic concepts behind software testing.

Implement software testing by using the tools available in Visual Studio 2008.

This module introduces new language features and LINQ concepts.

What Is New in VB.NET and C#

Introduction to LINQ

LINQ Data Providers

Exercise 1: Define variables using local type inference

Exercise 2: Define objects using the new object initializers

Exercise 3: Define an anonymous type

Exercise 4: Create an extension method for a string

Exercise 5: Use a Lambda expression

Exercise 1: Extract a subset of objects from a collection

Exercise 2: Order the objects according to a specific field

Exercise 1: Filter the rows of a dataset according to a specific customer code

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe new language features in Microsoft C# 3.0 and Microsoft VB.NET 9.0.

Describe LINQ.

Describe the basic LINQ architecture.

Describe the various LINQ constructs.

Write a basic LINQ query.

List the various LINQ Data Providers that Microsoft provides.

Use the LINQ to Objects provider.

Use the LINQ to Datasets provider.

This module introduces new language features and LINQ concepts.

LINQ to XML

LINQ to Entities

LINQ to SQL

Exercise 1: Replace a XSLT Solution with LINQ to XML

Exercise 2: Build a Data Access Layer around a New Entity Framework Model of the AdventureWorksLT Database

Exercise 3: Build a Tool to Update Product Information in the AdventureWorks Database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe LINQ to XML.

Use LINQ to XML to create new XML trees.

Use LINQ to XML to query XML trees.

Describe the Entity Framework.

Describe LINQ to Entities.

Create an Entity Framework Model.

Use the Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities to query a database.

Use the Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities to modify a database.

Describe LINQ to SQL.

Create a LINQ to SQL model.

Use LINQ to SQL to query a database.

Use LINQ to SQL to modify a database.

This module explains important security concepts and how to apply them in .NET Framework applications.

Security Overview

Implementing Code Access Security

Implementing Role-Based Security

Using Cryptography Services

Exercise 1: Use Code Access Security to Lock Down File Permissions

Exercise 2: Use Role-Based Security to Implement Security Requirements

Exercise 3: Encrypting Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe security in the .NET Framework.

Implement code access security.

Implement role-based security.

Use the cryptographic services in the .NET Framework.

This module explains how to extend applications onto the network to access resources and send e-mail.

Introduction to Network Programming

Setting Credentials

Sending Mail

Exercise 1: Use Code Access Security to Lock Down File Permissions

Exercise 2: Sending Email on Receipt of an Order

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the basics of network programming.

Create and send a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mail message.

Create and set network credentials.

This module introduces the concept of distributed applications, and shows you how to create and consume XML Web services by using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008. It also covers the key features of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and explains how to build WCF services and clients.

Introduction to Distributed Applications

Creating and Consuming XML Web Services

Building Windows Communication Foundation Services and Clients

Exercise 1: Expose the DAL by Using Web Services

Exercise 2: Adding Windows Communication Foundation to the Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the options for creating distributed .NET Framework applications and the key features of WCF.

Create and consume XML Web services.

Build WCF services and clients.

This module helps students configure applications by using Visual Studio 2008.

Introduction to Configuring Applications

Using .NET Configuration Files

Exercise 1: Set the connectionstring in the web.config File

Exercise 2: Reading an Application Setting from a Configuration File

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe .NET Framework configuration files.

Name the most common configuration files.

Explain how the various configuration files interact.

Configure applications using .NET Framework configuration files.

This module introduces many of the features and options that Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework provide to help you build, test, and deploy applications.

Introduction to Assemblies

Overview of MSBuild

Deploying .NET Framework Applications by Using ClickOnce

Deploying .NET Framework Applications by Using Windows Installer

Exercise 1: Publish the MiddleTierWS Web Service and Secure It

Exercise 2: Create a Windows Installer Package for the SalesInterface Application

Exercise 3: Deploy the SalesInterface Application Using Click-Once Deployment Technologies

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe assemblies, and explain features of assemblies that relate to deployment.

Explain how to use MSBuild to build an application.

Deploy applications by using ClickOnce.

Deploy applications by using Windows Installer.

This module introduces the concepts of using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications to extend the range and flexibility of the applications that you can develop by using the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

Introduction to XAML

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation Applications

Exercise 1: Creating a Windows Presentation Foundation Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Discuss the basic concepts behind WPF applications.

Explain the basic concepts behind Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

Create a simple WPF application.