This five-day course will help you, as an application developer, understand the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to offering an overview of the .NET Framework and an introduction to key concepts and terminology, you will participate in a series of labs, which introduce and explain .NET Framework features that are used to code, debug, tune, and deploy applications.

This course incorporates materials from the Official Microsoft Learning Products (OMLP):

• 2349 - Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual C# .NET)

What You'll Learn

• List the major elements of the .NET Framework and explain how they fit into the .NET platform
• Explain the main concepts behind the common language runtime and use the features of the .NET Framework to create a simple application
• Create and use components in Windows Forms-based and ASP.NET-based applications
• Use the deployment and versioning features of the .NET runtime to deploy multiple versions of a component
• Create, use, and extend types by understanding the Common Type System architecture
• Create classes and interfaces that are functionally efficient and appropriate for given programming scenarios
• Use the .NET Framework class library to efficiently create and manage strings, arrays, collections, and enumerators
• Use delegates and events to make an event-sender object signal the occurrence of an action to an event-receiver object
• Describe and control how memory and other resources are managed in the .NET Framework
• Read from and write to data streams and files
• Use the basic request/response model to send and receive data over the Internet
• Serialize and deserialize an object graph
• Create distributed applications by means of XML Web services and Object Remoting

Who Needs to Attend

Experienced, professional software developers, including those employed by independent software vendors or those who work on corporate enterprise development teams; most students will be Microsoft Visual C++ (or C++) and Java developers

Prerequisites

Experienced professional software developers who have a basic understanding of the C# language

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework

• Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework
• Overview of Namespaces

2. Introduction to a Managed Execution Environment

• Writing a .NET Application
• Compiling and Running a .NET Application

3. Working with Components

• An Introduction to Key .NET Framework Development Technologies
• Creating a Simple .NET Framework Component
• Creating a Simple Console Client
• Creating an ASP.NET Client

4. Deployment and Versioning

• Introduction to Application Deployment
• Application Deployment Scenarios
• Related Topics and Tools

5. Common Type System

• An Introduction to the Common Type System
• Elements of the Common Type System
• Object-Oriented Characteristics

6. Working with Types

• System.Object Class Functionality
• Specialized Constructors
• Type Operations
• Interfaces
• Managing External Types

7. Strings, Arrays, and Collections

• Strings
• Terminology - Collections
• .NET Framework Arrays
• .NET Framework Collections

8. Delegates and Events

• Delegates
• Multicast Delegates
• Events
• When to Use Delegates, Events, and Interfaces

9. Memory and resource Management

• Memory Management Basics
• Non-Memory Resource Management
• Implicit Resource Management
• Explicit Resource Management
• Optimizing Garbage Collection

10. Data Streams and Files

• Streams
• Readers and Writers
• Basic File I/O

11. Internet Access

• Internet Application Scenarios
• The WebRequest and WebResponse Model
• Application Protocols
• Handling Errors
• Security
• Best Practices

12. Serialization

• Serialization Scenarios
• Serialization Attributes
• Object Graph
• Serialization Process
• Serialization Example
• Deserialization Example
• Custom Serialization
• Custom Serialization Example
• Security Issues

13. Remoting and XML Web Services

• Remoting
• Remoting Configuration Files
• XML Web Services