Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics Online Training Course
Course Topics: 7
Estimated Time Needed: 28 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone who is interested in learning how to develop applications using Visual Studio .NET.
Course Description: This online course shows developers how to create more powerful applications using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. The online course focuses heavily on creating and deploying Web-based applications. Users explore ASP.NET Web server controls in greater detail, and also learn how to implement data binding to pull data into a Web page from external data sources. Users will also learn how Visual Studio.NET facilitates XML development, and how to use Visual Studio to build and configure an XML-based Web application or a Web service client. Additionally, users will learn about what happens after the code is written - debugging, deployment, and security for Web based applications, as well as the process for upgrading existing ASP-based Web sites to ASP.NET. This online course uses the Enterprise Architect edition of Visual Studio 2002.
Course Tutorials Include:
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 1 Using Rich Web Controls and Debugging Applications
Description
This course explains how to use the AdRotator, Calendar, and Xml Web server controls. The course also provides an overview of ASP.NET Web application debugging, covering page-level and application-level tracing, error handling, and using Visual Studio .NET's built-in debugger.
Objectives
- Describe and use AdRotator control properties and events
- Describe and use Calendar control properties and events
- Use the Xml Web Server control
- Implement page-level and application-level tracing
- Display and log error messages
- Attach the debugger to an application at runtime
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 2 Data Binding and Working with Control Templates
Description
This course explains data binding with various server controls and data sources. The course also explains how to tailor the look and feel of Web forms by using Web Server Control templates, and explains how to use templates with the Repeater, DataList and DataGrid controls.
Objectives
- Explain the function of data binding
- Bind page and control properties
- Describe various binding methods and expressions
- Bind to an ArrayList, HashTable, and DataView
- Bind to an ArrayList, HashTable, and DataView
- Create Web Server control templates
- Use templates with various controls
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 3 Creating Mobile Applications and Using ADO.NET
Description
This course provides an overview of how to use Visual Studio .NET to create applications for mobile devices such as cell phones and personal data assistants (PDAs). The course also introduces ADO.NET, explains the improvements made over ADO, and shows how to use ADO.NET to access a database.
Objectives
- Explain what the Wireless Application Protocol is and how it's used
- Describe the Mobile Internet Toolkit
- Create a mobile Web application project
- Use validation and list controls in a mobile Web application project
- Describe the ADO.NET Object Model
- Create a Data Aware application
- Connection an application with a SQL Server database
- Access and manipulate the data, and display the results
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 4 Working with XML, Configuration, and HTTP Handlers
Description
This course provides an overview of the use of XML with Visual Studio .NET. The course also provides an in-depth discussion of how to code various ASP.NET configuration settings to make Web applications run properly. Finally, the course shows how to build HTTP handlers to process user requests.
Objectives
- Describe XML and the Document Type Definition
- Explain namespaces and schemas
- Convert data to XML
- Bind data with XML documents
- Describe the ASP.NET configuration system
- Explain the various configuration settings in ASP.NET
- Describe HTTP handlers
- Create HTTP handlers
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 5 Caching, Security, and Migration
Description
This course shows users how to employ caching in the applications they design using Visual Studio .NET. The course also provides an overview of the various ASP.NET, IIS and Windows security mechanisms available to Visual Studio .NET programmers. The course concludes with an in-depth discussion of how to upgrade older ASP-based Web sites to ASP.NET technology.
Objectives
- Explain how caching functions in Visual Studio .NET
- Implement various types of caching
- Describe how dependency impacts caching
- Describe IIS and ASP.NET security mechanisms
- Implement Forms and Windows authentication in an ASP.NET application
- Retrieve and validate user information from an ASP.NET application
- Migrate from ASP to ASP.NET, optimizing your Web site during the migration
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 6 Working with Web Services
Description
This course shows users how to create Web services with Visual Studio .NET, then how to add data controls and functions and test the Web service. The course explains how Web service clients work and how to create a Web service client. The course also covers various techniques for implementing security within a Web service.
Objectives
- Describe various Web service templates
- Create a Web service and add functionality to it
- Finalize a Web service project
- Create a Web service client project
- Add Web references and implement Web methods to a Web service client project
- Restrict access, and grant access to IP addresses, for a Web service client project
- Manage the Web Service directory
Visual Studio .NET Advanced Topics: 7 Deploying Applications
Description
This course shows users how to get the programs they\'ve developed in Visual Studio .NET up and running in the real world. The course presents detailed information on deployment of Windows applications as well as Web-based applications.
Objectives
- Create a Windows deployment project
- Add files, icons, screens, and an installer bootstrapper to a deployment project
- Test a Windows deployment project
- Create a Web deployment project
- Test an installation
- Configure merge module projects and CAB files
Features
- Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.