Introduction to Programming with .NET + Development Tool
- Modern applications with .NET

• .NET application and language choices
• Overview of the programming process

- Basic language fundamentals

• Programming logic and concepts
• Working with data types and conversions
• Modularizing code with functions
• Repeating statements with loops
• Testing and debugging

- Analyzing user requirements and designing applications

• Mapping application features to programming code
• Constructing the three logical layers

- Simplifying application development with visual studio .NET

• Managing business solutions
• Exploiting Visual Studio .NET tools

- Crafting custom data types and business classes

• Coding classes
• The role of the business class

- Programming the Windows user interface

• Windows application basics
• Displaying data on a Windows Form
• Saving data on the file system

- Programming the Web user interface

• Creating the Web site
• Processing Web Forms

- Incorporating relational databases

• Relational database concepts
• Creating a SQL Server database
• Accessing the database with ADO.NET

• Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
• The .NET Framework class library
• The Common Language Runtime (CLR)

- Object-oriented programming

• Encapsulation, Inheritance & Polymorphism

• Working with events and delegates
• Structured exception handling
• Threading and synchronization

- Assemblies and versioning
- Migration and integration

• Migrating VB 6 code to VB .NET
• Integrating VB .NET code with COM

- Data manipulation with ADO.NET

• The ADO.NET model
• Programming the ADO.NET objects
• XML

• The evolution of C#
• C# and the .NET infrastructure

- Language fundamentals

• Data types and control constructs
• Defining and calling methods
• Employing .NET library classes

- Developing C# classes

• Defining classes
• Creating and using objects

- Using namespaces in XML

• The role of namespaces
• Namespaces for individual elements
• Namespaces, DTDs, and valid documents

- Namespaces, schemas, and validation

• Schemas and namespaces
• Namespaces and validating XML
• Indicating where a schema is
• Schemas in multiple files

- Communicating with databases using XML

• Relational database technologies
• XML in the enterprise

• Overview of database concepts
• SQL Server components
• SQL Server editions
• Client tools

- Constructing a database schema with enterprise manager

• Using the Create Database Wizard
• Designing tables

- Developing database applications

• Retrieving data
• Modifying data
• Storing query definitions

- Administering databases

• Setting up security
• Maintaining the database
• Automating administration procedures

- Transferring data

• Migrating data with DTS
• Replicating databases

- Publishing data on the Web

• Web Assistant Wizard
• Streamlining Web development with XML

• Analysis Services
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

• Associating classes
• Exposing interfaces

• Component features of .NET
• Writing .NET components in C#
• Interfacing to ActiveX components
• Integrating VB .NET, C++ and C#

- Implementing and enhancing C# solutions

• Building multitier applications
• Standards and versions
• Advanced techniques

ASP with Jscript + IIS 6 Administration
- Overview of JScript and ASP architecture
- JScript fundamentals
- IIS fundamentals
- The WWW service
- IIS Security
- Processing forms with ASP
- Basic validations with ASP
- Working with ASP components
- ASP state management strategies
- Database access with ADO (Active Data Objects)
- The future of ASP and how it compares with ASP.NET
- Error handling strategies
- Advanced form and data validation with regular expressions
- File IO
- Working with XML in ASP

XML Introduction
- Introduction and overview

• Xml in the real world
• Xml compared to HTML

- Writing XML documents

• Xml components
• The rules of well-formed documents
• The objectives of namespaces
• XML in the enterprise

- DTD (Document Type Definition) fundamentals

• Role of DTDs
• Entities and notations

• Validation in XML
• XML schemas
• Modeling with XML schemas

UML Introduction
- Introduction to UML

• Speaking a common language
• Elements of UML
• Object-oriented concepts

- Modeling the behavior of a system

• Use case diagrams: describing user requirements
• Sequence and collaboration diagrams: depicting typical event scenarios
• Expressing real-time aspects
• Specifying actions

- Modeling the structure of a system

• Specifying classes
• Identifying relationships between classes
• Object and class diagrams: the core of UML
• Extending UML

• Statechart diagrams: capturing state-dependent behavior
• Activity diagrams: specifying behavioral logic

- Architectural modeling

• Packages and interfaces
• Component and deployment diagrams
• Design patterns

• Model Drive Architecture (MDA)
• Life cycle stages

Enterprise ASP.NET Web Development
- Introduction to ASP.NET

• Developing Web applications
• The .NET Framework

• Object-oriented concepts
• Programming objects with C# and VB .NET

- Building web pages with the ASP.NET objects

• The ASP.NET object model
• Enhancing the user interface with Web Forms and Web controls
• Web Form security and reliability

- ADO.NET for web applications

• The ADO.NET fundamentals
• Presenting data
• Issuing commands to databases
• Minimizing connection times with client-side cursors

• Producing distributed applications
• Converting objects into Web services
• Scaling .NET Web applications
• Scaling applications with Enterprise Services

• Integrating ASP with ASP.NET • Migrating components to ASP.NET