.NET Overview Course

Topics covered on the 1 day .NET Overview course

What Is Microsoft .NET?

• What is .NET?
• Open Standards and Interoperability
• Windows Development Problems
• Common Language Runtime
• Attribute-Based Programming
• Metadata
• Types
• .NET Framework Class Library
• Interface-Based Programming
• Everything is an Object
• Common Type System
• Language Interoperability
• Managed Code
• Assemblies
• JIT Compilation
• ASP.NET and Web Services
• The Role of XML
• Performance

Visual Studio 2008

• Overview of .NET Framework 3.0
• .NET 3.0 Block Diagram
• Visual Studio 2008
• Visual Studio 2008 Versions
• Visual Studio 2008 Team System
• A Tour of Visual Studio 2008
• Project Templates
• A New Windows Form Application
• Windows Form Designer
• Completed Form
• Solutions with Multiple Projects
• Referencing the Class Library
• Windows Forms Event Handling
• Add Event Handlers for a Control
• Code for Event Handler
• Running the Application
• New Web Project Templates
• Reporting Project Tamplates
• WCF Project Templates
• Other Project Templates
• Other Designers

.NET Languages

• Visual C#
• C# Overview
• Namespaces
• Program Structure
• Classes
• Properties
• Using a Property
• Static Members
• Inheritance in C#
• Class Diagrams
• Access Control and Assemblies
• Types in C#
• Reference Types
• Boxing and Unboxing
• Exceptions
• Interfaces
• Using an Interface
• as Operator
• .NET and COM
• Windows Forms
• Events in Windows Forms
• Delegates
• Implicitly Typed Variables
• C# Advantages and Disadvantages
• Visual Basic (.NET)
• Program Structure
• Visual Basic and C#
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Visual Basic
• Visual C++ (.NET)
• C++/CLI Advantages and Disadvantages
• JScript .NET
• JScript .NET Advantages and Disadvantages
• Building .NET Programs
• What Happened to Visual J#?
• Dynamic Language Runtime
• Mixing .NET Languages
• A List of Contacts
• Generic Collection in Visual Basic

Data Access

• ADO.NET
• ADO.NET Architecture
• .NET Data Providers
• ADO.NET Interfaces
• Connected Data Access
• Contacts Database
• Creating a Connection
• Using Server Explorer
• Performing Queries
• Connecting to a Database
• Using Commands
• Using a Data Reader
• Executing Commands
• DataSet
• DataSet Architecture
• Why DataSet?
• DataSet Components
• DataAdapter
• Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
• Bridging Objects and Data
• Object Relational Designer
• IntelliSense
• Basic LINQ Query Operators
• Obtaining a Data Source
• Deferred Execution
• XML in .NET
• LINQ to XML
• Querying an XML Document

Windows Development

• Creating Windows Forms App
• Partial Classes
• Windows Forms Event Handling
• Add Events for a Control
• Events Documentation
• Closing a Form
• ListBox Control
• Windows Presentation Framework
• Why WPF?
• When Should I Use WPF?
• WPF and .NET Framework 3.5
• Core Types and Infrastructures
• XAML
• Controls
• Data Binding
• Appearance
• Layout and Panels
• Graphics
• Media
• Documents and Printing
• Windows1.xaml
• Windows1.xaml.cs

Web and Distributed Development

• Anonymous Access
• Multiple Versions of .NET
• Server Side Web Application
• Web Forms
• Visual Web Developer
• Web Form Source
• Page Layout
• Default.aspx File
• ASP.NET Development Server
• Server-Side Code
• Running under IIS
• Collaborative Web Applications
• Collaborative Web Technologies
• SOAP
• Web Services
• An .asmx File
• Code-Behind File
• A Web Service Client
• What is WCF?
• WCF Services
• Service Orientation
• WCF and Web Services
• What is Workflow?
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Workflow Designer
• Client-Side Web Technologies
• Dynamic Pages
• Efficient Page Redraws
• AJAX
• Google Maps
• ASP.NET AJAX
• What is Silverlight?
• Silverlight and AJAX
• Silverlight and Flash