Advanced Foundations of .NET 2.0 Development

Who is this course for?

The audience for this 3 day course consists of Application Developers with the skills to develop business applications by using Visual Studio 2005 with either Visual Basic .NET or Visual C#.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, delegates must have:

• Understand the purpose and components of the .NET 2.0 Framework and the Common Language Runtime.
  
• Understand the components of typical .NET 2.0 applications.
  
• Understand and use .NET Framework 2.0 Common Type System (CTS) and how to use variable types including dates/times, numbers, strings, objects and arrays.
  
• Use basic file IO classes from the Framework such as StreamReader, StreamWriter, Directory, DirectoryInfo, File and FileInfo.
  
• Use basic Framework provided type conversions.
  
• Use basic Framework provided text conversion and manipulations including StringBuilder.
  
• Use classes with the System.Collections namespace.
  
• Use the System.Math class.
  
• Basic language syntax for decision structures, loop structures, declaring and using variables.
  
• Write code using language specific functionality such as the My. classes for Visual Basic.
  
• Understand classes and objects, methods, properties and functions.
  
• Write code to implement overridden methods.
  
• Understand the class hierarchy present in the .NET Framework 2.0.
  
• Write code to declare a class.
  
• Write code to create an instance of a class.
  
• Write code to compare if an object is equal to another object.
  
• Write code to dispose of an object.
  
• Understand the lifecycle of an object.
  
• Write code to handle exceptions via a try-catch block
  
• Write code to implement static methods and properties.
  
• Opening and closing solutions.
  
• Opening and closing projects.
  
• Adding projects to a solution.
  
• Removing projects from a solution.
  
• Creating new project types.
  
• Adding new and existing files to a project.
  
• Compile a project.
  
• Carry out basic project debugging.
  
• Use the object browser.
  
• Use the help system especially provided to help VB6.0 developers migrate to .NET.
  
• Understand assemblies and how they relate to deployment.
  
• Understand and create a deployment project.
  
• Be able to create deployment wizards using the Deployment Setup wizard.
  
• Select an appropriate deployment project based on the application.
  

Benefits

• Improve the security of .NET Framework applications by using the .NET Framework 2.0 security features.
  
• Implement interoperability, reflection, and mailing functionality in a .NET Framework application.
  
• Implement globalization, drawing, and text manipulation functionality in a .NET Framework application.