Manage a software development process

Create classes in Visual Studio 2008

Add data validation to ASP.NET and Windows Form applications

Debug and profile applications

Monitor and log .NET Framework applications

Test .NET Framework applications

Use the new language features in VB.NET and C# that support Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)

Use LINQ to Datasets, LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to SQL

Implement security in .NET applications

Create and send a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mail message

Create and set network credentials

Configure .NET Framework applications

Deploy a .NET Framework application

Introduction to Software Design and Development

Introduction to Software Development Frameworks and Methodologies

Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework Applications

N-Tier Application Development

Exercise 1: Managing a Software Development Process

Exercise 2: Recommend an Architecture

Exercise 3: Discussion

Describe software design and development.

Describe Microsoft .NET Framework Applications.

Describe n-tier development.

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

Defining a Class

Creating a Class Instance

Introduction to Inheritance

Defining and Implementing Interfaces

Creating and Using Delegates and Events

Generics

Exercise 1: Create a Customer and Person Class Using the Class Designer

Exercise 2: Create a BasicProduct and FullProduct in the Code Editor Window

Exercise 3: Extend the DAL to Use the Class to Pass Data

Describe object-oriented programming concepts.

Define a class.

Explain how to create a class instance.

Explain how to implement inheritance.

Explain how to define and implement interfaces.

Explain how to create and use delegates and events.

Explain how to create and use generics.

Introduction to Data Validation

Validating Windows Forms Applications

Validating ASP.NET Applications

Exercise 1: Adding Data Validation to the ASP.NET Application

Exercise 2: Adding Data Validation to the Sales Interface

Describe the general concepts of data validation.

Describe the technologies and techniques for validating Windows Forms applications.

Describe the technologies and techniques for validating ASP.NET applications.

Code Tracing and Debugging

Application Profiling

Exercise 1: Add Tracing to a Windows Forms Application

Introduction to Instrumentation

Event Logs

Exercise: Writing to a Custom Event Log

Introduction to Software Testing

Using Visual Studio 2008 Testing Tools

Exercise 1: Using the object test bench

Exercise 2: Creating and running a unit test

Describe the basic concepts behind software testing.

Implement software testing by using the tools available in Visual Studio 2008.

What Is New in VB.NET and C#

Introduction to LINQ

LINQ Data Providers

Exercise 1: Define variables using local type inference

Exercise 2: Define objects using the new object initializers

Exercise 3: Define an anonymous type

Exercise 4: Create an extension method for a string

Exercise 5: Use a Lambda expression

Exercise 1: Extract a subset of objects from a collection

Exercise 2: Order the objects according to a specific field

Exercise 1: Filter the rows of a dataset according to a specific customer code

LINQ to XML

LINQ to Entities

LINQ to SQL

Exercise 1: Replace a XSLT Solution with LINQ to XML

Exercise 2: Build a Data Access Layer around a New Entity Framework Model of the AdventureWorksLT Database

Exercise 3: Build a Tool to Update Product Information in the AdventureWorks Database

Describe LINQ to XML.

Use LINQ to XML to create new XML trees.

Use LINQ to XML to query XML trees.

Describe the Entity Framework.

Describe LINQ to Entities.

Create an Entity Framework Model.

Use the Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities to query a database.

Use the Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities to modify a database.

Describe LINQ to SQL.

Create a LINQ to SQL model.

Use LINQ to SQL to query a database.

Use LINQ to SQL to modify a database.

Security Overview

Implementing Code Access Security

Implementing Role-Based Security

Using Cryptography Services

Exercise 1: Use Code Access Security to Lock Down File Permissions

Exercise 2: Use Role-Based Security to Implement Security Requirements

Exercise 3: Encrypting Data

Describe security in the .NET Framework.

Implement code access security.

Implement role-based security.

Use the cryptographic services in the .NET Framework.

Introduction to Network Programming

Setting Credentials

Sending Mail

Exercise 1: Use Code Access Security to Lock Down File Permissions

Exercise 2: Sending Email on Receipt of an Order

Introduction to Distributed Applications

Creating and Consuming XML Web Services

Building Windows Communication Foundation Services and Clients

Exercise 1: Expose the DAL by Using Web Services

Exercise 2: Adding Windows Communication Foundation to the Solution

Describe the options for creating distributed .NET Framework applications and the key features of WCF.

Create and consume XML Web services.

Build WCF services and clients.

Introduction to Configuring Applications

Using .NET Configuration Files

Exercise 1: Set the connectionstring in the web.config File

Exercise 2: Reading an Application Setting from a Configuration File

Introduction to Assemblies

Overview of MSBuild

Deploying .NET Framework Applications by Using ClickOnce

Deploying .NET Framework Applications by Using Windows Installer

Exercise 1: Publish the MiddleTierWS Web Service and Secure It

Exercise 2: Create a Windows Installer Package for the SalesInterface Application

Exercise 3: Deploy the SalesInterface Application Using Click-Once Deployment Technologies

Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

Introduction to XAML

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation Applications

Exercise 1: Creating a Windows Presentation Foundation Application