Developing In Visual Studio 2008

Introduction to Visual Studio 2008

.NET and Visual Studio 2008 concepts
.NET projects and files
The Framework Class Library
Common Language Runtime
A tour of Visual Studio 2008

C# Language Fundamentals

Why C# and not VB
Data types
Value and reference types
Branching and looping statements
Delegates and event handling

Create Reusable Objects

Define classes
Create and use objects in client code
Create classes that use inheritance
Define interfaces and use polymorphism
Create shared members
Create class events and handle them from a client application

Newer Language Features

Anonymous types
Object and collection initialisers
Partial classes and methods
Lambda expressions
Extension methods

Exception Handling

What is exception handling
Using try, catch and finally statements
Creating custom exceptions
Best practices

Scalable Application Development

The advantages of multi-tier applications
Creating presentation, business and data access tiers
Passing data between tiers

Accessing Databases with ADO.NET

List the benefits of ADO.NET
Create applications by using ADO.NET
List the main ADO.NET objects and their functions
Use Visual Studio NET data designers and data binding
Explain how XML integrates with ADO.NET

Creating the Business Tier

Analysis and design
Creating business classes
Creating classe relationships
Using collections to hold objects

Windows Presentation Layer Applications

Why use windows forms
Structure of windows forms
Windows forms class hierarchy
Using windows forms
Using controls
New controls in Visual Studio 2008
Click-once deployment

Web Presentation Layer Applications

Creating web forms applications
Understanding the page life cycle
Adding server controls
Page and control events
Binding controls to data

Creating Distributed Services

What are distributed services
The architecture of distributed services
Call an XML Web service directly from a browser by using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Create a Web reference proxy for an XML Web service Web method and call the method from a Web Form
Use the templates in Visual Studio NET to create an XML Web service

Versioning and Deployment

What are assemblies
Private and shared assemblies
The Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
The ways of deploying windows and web applications
Using setup projects

Create Rich Client Applications with WPF

Creating an application using WPF
Using XAML to create the user interface
Handling control events
Binding to data to controls

Accessing Data With LINQ

Why use LINQ
Querying data directly from C#
How to write LINQ queries
LINQ to objects
LINQ to SQL
LINQ to XML