Developing In Visual Studio 2008

4 Day Training Course London and UK Wide

Training formats available

• on-site at your company office UK wide (60 second quote)
• closed group at one of our London training venues (60 second quote)
• near-site at a location close to you
• bespoke one-to-one basis
• tailored training courses to your requirements

Who is this training course suitable for?

This 4 day course is intended for programmers who have some experience working with Visual Studio. They aim to extend their knowledge and learn some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008.

Benefits

This course will enable delegates to develop Windows and Web applications using Visual Studio 2008. The programming language used is C# and the course will cover the principles of object orientated programming. Delegates will be able to access data from a database using ADO.Net & LINQ. Delegates will progress to be able to access a remote application, by creating then calling a web service.

Course Syllabus

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

What is Microsoft Visual Studio?

Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.