2415 Programming With The Microsoft .Net Framework (Microsoft Visual Basic .Net)

Overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Overview of Namespaces

Describing the .NET Framework and its components.

Explaining the relationship between the .NET Framework class library and namespaces.

Writing a .NET Framework Application

Compiling and Running a .NET Framework Application

Creating simple console applications in Visual Basic .NET.

Explaining how code is compiled and executed in a managed environment.

Explaining the concept of garbage collection.

An Introduction to Key .NET Framework Development Technologies

Creating a Simple .NET Framework Component

Creating a Simple Console Client

Creating an ASP.NET Client

Creating a simple .NET Framework component in Visual Basic.

Implementing structured exception handling.

Creating a simple .NET Framework console application that calls a component.

Creating a .NET Framework client application by using the Windows Forms library.

Creating an .ASP.NET page that uses the previously developed .NET Framework component to create an ASP.NET application.

Introduction to Application Deployment

Application Deployment Scenarios

Related Topics and Tools

Packaging and deploying simple and componentized applications.

Creating strong-named assemblies.

Installing and removing assemblies in the global assembly cache.

Configuring applications to control binding based on assembly location and version data.

Introduction to the Common Type System

Elements of the Common Type System

Object-Oriented Characteristics

Describing the difference between value types and reference types.

Explaining the purpose of each element in the type system, including values, objects, and interfaces.

Explaining how the object-oriented programming concepts such as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, are implemented in the common type system.

System.Object Class Functionality

Specialized Constructors

Type Operations

Interfaces

Managing External Types

Applying attributes to control visibility and inheritance in classes and interfaces.

Creating and using interfaces that define methods and properties.

Explaining how boxing and unboxing work and when boxing and unboxing occur.

Using operators to determine types at run time and to cast values to different types.

Explaining what features are available to work with unmanaged types, such as COM types.

Strings

Collections Defined

.NET Framework Arrays

.NET Framework Collections

Parsing, formatting, manipulating, and comparing strings.

Using the classes in the System.Array and System.Collections namespaces.

Improving the type safety and performance of collections by using specialized collections and class-specific code.

Delegates

Multicast Delegates

Events

When to Use Delegates, Events, and Interfaces

Using the delegate class to create type-safe callback functions and event-handling methods.

Using the Event keyword to simplify and improve the implementation of a class that raises events.

Implementing events that conform to the .NET Framework guidelines.

Memory Management Basics

Non-Memory Resource Management

Implicit Resource Management

Explicit Resource Management

Optimizing Garbage Collection

Describing how garbage collection manages object memory.

Implicitly managing non-memory resources by using a destructor's finalize code.

Explicitly managing non-memory resources by using client-controlled deterministic release of resources.

Writing code by using the temporary resource usage design pattern.

Programmatically controlling the behavior of the garbage collection.

Describing advanced garbage collection features.

Streams

Readers and Writers

Basic File IO

Using Stream objects to read and write bytes to backing stores, such as strings and files.

Using BinaryReader and BinaryWrite objects to read and write primitive types as binary values.

Using StreamReader and StreamWriter objects to read and write characters to a stream.

Using StringReader and StringWriter objects to read and write characters to strings.

Using Directory and DirectoryInfo objects to create, move, and enumerate through directories and subdirectories.

Using the FileSystemWatcher objects to monitor and react to changes in the file system.

Explaining the key features of the .NET Framework's isolated storage mechanism.

Internet Application Scenarios

The WebRequest and WebResponse Model

Application Protocols

Handling Errors

Security

Best Practices

Using the basic request/response model to send and receive data over the Internet.

Using the System.Net classes to communicate with other applications by using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Socket Internet protocols.

Serialization Scenarios

Serialization Attributes

Object Graph

Serialization Process

Serialization Example

Deserialization Example

Custom Serialization

Custom Serialization Example

Security Issues

Writing an application that serializes an object graph by using either a binary or a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) XML format.

Remoting

Remoting Configuration Files

XML Web Services

Writing and configuring distributed applications that use .NET Remoting.

Creating an XML Web service by using Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET.

Consuming an XML Web service by using the Web Services Description Language tool (Wsdl.exe).